The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26
FACTS AND FIGURES.

GLASS melts at 1877 deg. F.
Essex, Mass, exports steel pens to
England.
THERE are 5,OOo,0O0 plows used in
this country.
THE bitter taste of quinine is well
concealed by milk.
THIS country manufactured 100. OOO,-
600 shoes last year.
HINDoo scientists claim that the earth
is 1000, 900 years old.
THERE are 1O2, 200 volumes in the
Public Library of Cincinnati.
The population of Japan is 81. $685.
504, an increase of 126, 391 since 1875.
THE sum of $50, ZOO, 900 is said to be
represented in the wine interests of CAL
ifornia-
The Dallas Commercial claim. tha.
Texas exports this year will bring back
$50, 900, 900.
MAINE has grown 1900, 900 bushels
of wheat the past year, against 27S,O
bushels in 1869.
NEW YORK STATE has 200, 900 militia
well equipped and thoroughly instruct
ed in rifle practice.
The tobacco manufacturers of Dur
ham, N. c., bought $4,000 worth of
stamps in one week.
The value of the coffee crop this year
in the District of Cordoba, Mex, is es-
timated at $500, 900.
ACCORDING to the last census, there
are in Austria 1873 men and 226 women
of 100 years old and over.
The trade between France and Italy
has been increased rs per cent. since
the opening of the Mont Gents Tunnel,
in September. 1871.
THE loss by the yellow fever, through
the destruction of crops by neglect,
stoppage of trade and minor causes, is
estimated at $2OO, OOO, 900.
The captive balloon at the Paris Ex-
position was great success. 1t cost
$4,000 The receipts were $16O, 900,
and the balloon is as good as new.
THE latest statistics of the Registrar
General in England prove that there
are in that country nearly q million
more females than males. Up to the
age of ten years the difference in the
number OF the two sexes is not marked.
GREAT BRITAIN last year imported
oranges to tho extent of {, 1888, Isl bush
els, with q money value of 81, 738, 1925.
This ia an increase since 1860 of 2, 49,
781 bushels, showing that the consump-
ton in eighteen years has multiplied
three-fold.
THERE are yearly raised in Vermont:
Corn, 1888, 1882 bushels; wheat, 454,
7O3 bushels. There are in the State
ESQ grist-mills, worth 81, 25O, 900. The
average price of corn now is fifty cents
per bushel, while from 1852 to 1877 il
averaged ninety cents per bushel.
DURING the last three years about
$3, 100000 have been collected for
charitable purposes by the Mayors Of
London. In 1876 the sum realized was
about $3.50, 900; in 1877, the Indian
famine fund helped to swell the total to
nearly %, 475, 600; this year the figures
are about $425, 200.
DURING the last war 594, 900 Russian
soldiers poured down through Rou.
mania into Turkey. Of these $500
were sent back by rail wounded and
81, $50 ill, $1,000 sick went home to
Odessa by sea, 5000 are still in hos.
pital, $1,000 laid their bones in Rou
mania and 80, 600 persisted in Bulgaria
The sales Of one of the largest firms
of hair merchants in Germany have
fallen off rs per cent. in bulk, and &C
to so per cent. in value, within the last
three years, entirely through the in
creased demand for Chinese, Japanese
and other cheap hairs. In 1871 the
exports of hair from the treaty ports
were 2S6 tons: in 1874, $50; in 1876, go.