The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-06-27
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THE total amount of coal mined this
year IN Pennsylvania will be Is, OOO, 900
tons, 1000, 600 less than the combina-
ton calculated upon. s
= HALF the tillable area of Scotland is
said to be used for growing oats, which,
in the form of pOrridge and cakes,
forms the principal diet of the people.
The receipts of cotton at the sea-
ports from September 1 to May "a ag-
gregated 4, III, 1884 bales, against 8, $685.
974 for the same period in 1867, and
1904, 1O4 in 1876. The stock on
hand amounts to 294, SOC bales, against
453, 1877 at the same time in 1877.
DAVENPORT, Iowa, has factory in
operation making sugar out of Indian
corn. The sugar is said to be of the
best quality, and much resembles
maple sugar, and as pleasing to the
taste as honey. Sirup made from corn
has been in the market for some time.
ODDLY enough, California leads all
the States of the Union in the matter of
newspapers in proportion to her pOpu-
lation; for, while she has but $50, 600 of
the European race, she ranks fourth,
New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois
beating her in the publication of daily
papers.
THE June dividends payable in Bos-
ton aggregate $1,7O8,7 1877. Several
manufacturing companies pay at this
time. The COcheco decreases from 4
to 3 per cent, Langdon to 2, Merri-
mack to 3 and Nashua to3. The
Amoskeag increases from to per
cent, Lancaster q to 10, and Stark 0 to
per cent.
One of the marvels of this age of
emigration and enterprise is the rapid
settlement of the Yellowstone Valley.
At the point on Tongue River where
Gen. Miles encamped in 1876, there is
now town with a population of 1000.
The battlefields of Custer and his men
are occupied by farmers, and the coun-
try from which Sitting Bull was driven
is in the peaceful possession of the pic:
neers of civilization.
The annual report of the Board of
Health of the District of Columbia
shows that while twenty-five years ago
Washington could scarcely enumerate
so, 900 persons, to-day it feckons 1885,
600, and ranks as twelfth in the list OF
great cities. The rate of mortality
among the negroes is positively alarm
ing when compared to the ratio among
the whites, the latter being 1927 per
cent. the former 44.5O. Unhealthy To-
calities and residences account for this
partially.
"LAsr year." says The Iron, " the
output of coal in Great Britain and Ire.
land was 132, 100000 tons. A cubic
mile is equal to la. 198, 100000 cubic
feet, and allowing 295 cubic feet of coal
in the solid to weigh a ton, we have
5, 900, OOO,O 900 tons of coal in. cubic
mile, and this is a greater weight thar
has yet been raised in the British ISL
ands. According to the most trust
worthy statistics, the end of 1873 will
| Just complete the first cubic mile OF
coal, exclusive of waste, in mining"
A SHORT general summary of thu
vital statistics of France for 1876 is pub
lished in the Journal Ofciel. Thu
births amounted to 966, 682, exclusive
of those stillborn, and the deaths t.
1874, O74; so that the increase of popu
lation was 132,6O8 persons. The still
born numbered 1850 and the mar
riages 291,366 These figures are to-
scanty to be very interesting, though
they are not without significance. The!
show that while France, with popula
ton of sc, 000, 900, that is, half as mucl
again as that CT England namely
1900, OO0-had an increase of popula
ton amounting to 1872, 900, the increas'
in the latter country reached POS, 600
half as much again as France. Will
in England there is one birth to twenty
eight Inhabitants, in France there i
not quite one birth to thirty-six. Tha
population does not increase in France
SO rapidly as in other countries familia
to us is nothing new, but it is well t.
know the latest record of the fact
London Times.