The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05
FACTS AND FIGURES.

1HE REOSS earnings Oh oil INC TalI.
roads in the United States, reported for
1877, were $472, 909, 272, decrease of
$24, 34S.6 87 from 1876. This is the
smallest gross earning since 1862, when
there were some $4,000 less miles of
railroad.
The San Francisco Call states that
up to the close of September an even
hundred cargoes Of this years wheat
had passed out of the Golden Gate.
The aggregate is 178, 1856 tons, worth
Sc, O87, 497. This is the largest export
movement of the great staple during
the first quarter Of any harvest year in
the history of San Francisco.
T HE down from the "cat-tail' flag
which grows in marshy localities, is
found to be healing to wounds, partic-
ularly burns and scalds. The vesicles
are punctured and a layer of the down
applied and left until it drops off. The
plant is common, and the remedy can
be readily tested.-N. Y. Times.
The Larvae of beetles and other in
sects are used incidentally to give
strength to feeble children; dried toads
are taken to give tone to the system;
caterpillar sirup is specific for bron-
chitis; and for smallpox the skins of
snakes and scorpions, dried and pow
dered, are considered efficient reme-
LONDON has 3,577, 1904 inhabitants;
Paris, 1888, 806; New York, 1854, 1928;
Brooklyn, $40, 43S; Berlin, LOIS, 500;
Philadelphia, $40, 118; Vienna, 1921;
st. Petersburg, 669, 741; Bombay, 644.-
405; Glasgow, sec, $40; Liverpool, $780,
681; Manchester, with Stafford, $780,
765; Naples, 457, 4O7; Calcutta, 429,-
535; Madras, 397, 552; Hamburg (the
State), 400, 104; Birmingham, 1888, III;
Buda-Pesth, 319, $50; Dublin, 81, 666;
Leeds, 3O4,94S; Amsterdam. 500, 266;
Sheffield, 289, 537; Rome, 2,2l4, and
Breslau, 267, 900.
THE peanut crop is a subject of
widespread interest throughout the
country. According to the circular
statement of large firm which has ex-
tensive dealings in this toothsome edi-
BILE, the Tennessee crop for the year
ending September 80, 1873. was $685.
600 bushels, agains. 100000 for the
year previous; in Virginia the crop was
405, 600, against $50, 600 last year, and
in North Carolina it was only st, ZOO,
against 1851 in 1877. The growing
CROP. e., for 1878-79-is estimated
at 100000 bushels for Tennessee, $780,
600 for Virginia and 10000 for North
Carolina.
In Great Britain are published 1885
newspapers and 818 periodicals, which,
with Sc organs of learned and other
societies, make a total of 2,759 publ
cations, 1876 newspapers and 598 Pc
riodicals being contributed by London
alone. Of the newspapers 542 are Lib
eral, 331 Conservative, or Conservative
Liberal, and 941 neutral. Three hum
dred and ninety-eight of the periodi-
Gals deal exclusively with religious
questions. There are 287 illustrated
papers, of which 50 have colored illus
trations. Questions relating to labor
are treated of in IA newspapers, while
there are 104 prints representing trades
and trade socities.
FROM statistics compiled by the Bos-
ton Commercial Bulletin it appears that
10S, 500 bankruptcies occurred in the
United States during the period that
the last Bankrupt law was in force.
Relatively to population, Massachu.
sets had the most bankruptcies Zone
to every 1907, and Maryland had the
fewest Zone to every 9O4 of her popu.
lation). Virginia ranks next to Massa.
chusetts, and California is third. The
list of more than 100000 bankruptcies
looks immense, but there are at least
1000 business men in the country
and on the other hand there are among
the bankrupts at least 10 per cent. who
have failed more than once, and also 8
good many not in active business bank
rupt by Endorsement or other outside
connection. It is, therefore, about 8
fair conclusion that one in nine of the
business men of the country has failed
in the past.
DURING the last year, the output o
coal in the British Islands amounted
it is stated, to 1872, 900, 900 tons. In re
gard to the popular notion that b,
such prodigious mining operations ;
great part Of the crust of the earth i
becoming used up, and that if the sol
that has thus been dug out of tn
mines were piled up it would max
quite mountain range, the fOllowin,
figures are presented: A cubic mile
equal to 147, 1873, OOO cubic feet, and, al
lowing twenty-nine and a half cubi'
feet of coal in the solid to weigh
ton, the result is just 5000, 900, 600 tom
of coal in one cubic mile-this being
in fact greater weight than all tina
has yet been raised in the British Isl
ands; and, according to the most re
liable statistics, the end of the presen
year will just complete the first cubi
mile of coal, exclusive of waste, il
mining. If, therefore, this minera
fuel had been stored in mountain heap
on the surface, instead of being burie,
in the bowels of the earth, a yer,
small mountain range indeed wouli
have been equivalent to all the Goa
fields available to man in the who'll
earth.-N Y. Sun.