The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.

FACTS AND FIGURES.
In many parts of Germany taxes now
amount to from II to 20 per cent. of as
certained value.
AN English musical journal says that
Is per cent. of the inmates of lunatic
asylums are musicians and singers.
The United States utilities in agricul-
ture 10 per cent. of its area; Great
Britain, SO per cent, and Holland, 20.
The seasons catch of salmon in
Oregon has been over 10000, and
5000 cases have been put up for the
market.
CONsTANTINOPLE contains 10000
inhabitants. The old. Eastern Empire
Walls, twenty-one miles in circuit, still
surround it.
The amount of sugar annually con-
sumed in Great Britain is 900, 900 tons,
being about sixty pounds for every one
of the population.
The Napa Valley (Cal.) wine-mak-
ers have shipped $4,000 gallons of last
years vintage, which commands a
higher price than the previous year.
1T is stated that during the past sea-
son of navigation the loss by accident
in the st. Lawrence River, to ocean ves-
sells and cargoes, amounts to $685., $50.
THE receipts of hides at the port of
New York for the nine months from
Jan. 1 to Oct. l were 2,324,815; the
Same time last year, 1858, 1868; increase,
63O,952.
DURING 1876, 1O8,771 Italians emf
grated to America. According to the
statistics, $1,000 of this grand total are
set down as temporary tourists, the rest
as permanent settlers.
THE largest mass of gold yet discov-
cred in Nevada was found near OsceOla.
1t weighed twenty-four pounds and fif-
teen ounces, and, as it contained very
little quartz, its coin value was not far
from $4,000.
The largest bell in the world is in the
Temple of Glars, in Kiatoe, Japan. 1t
has no clapper, but is struck by a
wooden battering ram. 1t is twenty
four feet high, and sixteen inches thick
at the rim.
COMPLETE returns of the business of
the canals of New York for the season
just closed under the low toll system
permits the following comparisons:
Tolls. ...s, 5000 sss,as
Ions. Observation-Disclosures. 4.I72,l9 4,679,OlS
Gain in tonnage about II per cent.
Loss in tolls about "a per cent.
The total number of licensed saloons
or drinking places in the United States
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1877,
was 164, 1893, or, calculating from a pop.
ulation of 1000, 900, one for every $50
persons. The total number of whole
sale liquor dealers is 1904; brewers,
2,758; rectiiiers, 1,13O; distillers, 1892.
SINCE the 1st of January, 1877, the
American Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals has prosecuted 525
cases of cruelty in New York and
Brooklyn. Of these 487 resulted in the
conviction and punishment of the of.
tenders. Special agents, or street pa
troll, turned out of harness 1861 horses
that were lame and sick. The agents
destroyed 1902 horses and
400 small animals
In India last year 1928 persons and
"a, $50 cattle were destroyed by wild
animals and poisonous snakes, a con-
siderable increase that, however, may
be accounted for in part by the greater
accuracy of the later set of statistics.
Over $4,000 have been spent during
the year in rewards for the destruction
of noxious animals and reptiles. The
complete figures for the last season
were 22,357 wild animals and 27O, 1856
poisonous snakes killed.
AN aggregate of the Federal, State,
and local debts of the country occur
ring since 1860, those incurred by rail-
roads, the discounts and loans of banks
and mortgages, and the total liabilities
of the people of the United States,
amounts to the enormous sum of ST.
375, OOO,O 900. The burden imposed upon
the people by the interest due on this
vast sum is a heavy one. Even at the
low rate of 5 per cent, the interest on
that amount would be 1868, $50, 900 per
AN eminent New-England critic says:
IS st. Nicholas is exactly suited to the
little folk, and yet its high artistic ex-
cellence will be fully appreciated by
older people only. But that is no objec-
ton to 1t, and we don't believe that the
best is ever thrown away upon children,
if Gas in this case) tits ri Chilly presented
1t is not necessary that the young
should know exactly how their artistic
sense is educated, and their love of
beauty cultivated, if the result is at
tained."
Gov. IRw1N's message to the Cali
fornia Legislature states that the taxa
BILE property of the State is 1886, O73,-
600, decrease of 1923, OOO,O 900 from
1876. The State tax rate is seventy
three and one-half cents on the 800,
an increase of thirteen cents. caused by
the decrease in valuation and the ne
cessity of providing for augmented ap-
preparations. The estimated expendi-
lures for the two fiscal years ending
June 80, 1880, are $5, 699, 900. or about
SO, 10000 a year.