The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
FACTS AND FIGURES.

taken out in England for railroad car
wheels.
MAINE had 500 divorces last year, an
increase of 100 since 1874, and about
one to every twelve marriages.
RICHMOND, Va, has sixty-six cigar
and cigarette factories, which manufac-
ture 4,599,655 cigars and 22.487, 900
Cigarettes.
The receipts at the New York Post
Office during the quarter ending March
80 were $741, 347.64; the disbursements,
S2O2. 1852.
SOME temperance statistician has
footed up 89,O25 names which the Ia
bors of Francis Murphy in New En-
gland have put upon the temperance
pledges.
In Rhode Island there are lat sin
gle women who pay taxes, and their
average property is $3.50 each. The
largest amount on which any one of
them is taxed is 1856, 700, owned by a
Providence woman.
DURING the last six months of 1877
the importation into England of salmon
in tins from the North Pacific coast
amounted to 1862 cases, or about
5000 more than during the correspond
ing period of 1876.
The japanese are growing fonder of
beef. In 1871 the number of cattle
slaughtered in Toxic averaged only
forty month. In 1874 the monthly
average was 400, which rose last year
to nearly double that figure.
ABOUT $4,000 families are on the list
for assistance from the City of Boston,
and draw from 81 to 90 per month each.
The city expends for this purpose about
$64O, 900, an average of about $35 to
each family, and private charities prob
ably disburse about as much more.
AN acre of soil one foot deep con-
tains 4,0OO,O 900 pounds. An average
acre of American soil, six inches deep,
is estimated to contain 1888 pounds
potash, 1880 pounds lime, 10000
pounds magnesia, 5000 pounds soda,
2,730 pounds sulphuric acid, 1000
pounds phosphoric acid and 500 pounds
chlorine. Farmer.
NOTWITHSTANDING the depression in
trade, English railroads tell much
more cheerful tale than ours. Only one
of the fourteen principal companies has
during the past half year suffered a
positive reduction Of gross revenue,
while, on the other hand, one company
obtained an expansion of $4OO, 900, and
as regards three others there were in
creases exceeding $15O,OOO each. On
the average, an increased dividend has
been paid, Notwithstanding an outlay
of capital which raises that capital en-
ployed upon the construction of En-.
glish railroads Down to the 31st of
December to about 1880, 100000.
The Deutsche Zeitung guarantees the
accuracy of the following particulars
respecting the new situation in the
Balkan Peninsula: Servia is to get 1874
geographical square miles, containing
PIG, 900 inhabitants, of whom $4,000
are Mussulmans. Montenegro is in
creased by fifty-eight square miles,
containing $4,000 inhabitants, includ-
ing $1,000 Mussulmans. The Do
brudscha, comprising 1879 square
miles, and $4,000 Inhabitants, of
whom 100, 900 are Mussulmans, is des-
tined for Roumania. The new Bulga-
rian State extends over 1862
square miles, with 3,822,OOO inhab-
itants, of whom l, 43O, 900 are Mussul-
mans. Turkey thus loses 1888, 900
square miles and LAST 900 inhabitants.
THE average population to each ply
stefan is. in the Uuited States, 600; En-
gland, 1,672; France, 1874; Austria,
2 800; Germany, 5000. So, then, with
five times as many to dose us with
drugs as our German friends, we are
able to do about half the work. We
hear of German students who study
eighteen hours q day. Their Teutonic
blood may be too tonic for us, but we
are sure that Americans are not living
out half their days-not half the period
that they would live if living slower.
Why, even the animals that we domes-
ticate, like the horse and dog, only live
q dozen or twenty years, while crows
and their ilk live . century, and the
eagle 500 years, according to Tacitus.
To renew our youth like the eagles
we are to. 60 back to more primitive
"Modern conveniences''
are other words for disease and death.
Our food, attire and employments all
invite disease. Church Union.