The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-19
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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in South Africa, pound of that com
modify brought 9338.75
UNCLE SANS large family has licked
nearly ten billion postage stamps since
their introduction in 1847.
GERMANY turns out annually $50
doctors thoroughly educated, about one
hundred of whom emigrate to foreign
parts.
In 1870 public worship in France cost
49, 600, 900 francs. Last year the esti-
mates had increased to $500, 900
francs.
M. LEssEPs, of Suez Canal celebrity,
estimates that the mercantile marine
of the entire world consists of $1,000
vessels.
Two MEN, working at windlass at
right angles to each other, can raise
seventy pounds more easily than one
man can thirty pounds.
THERE are 226 counties in Texas; of
these Tom Green and Crockett are each
as large as Massachusetts,, Pecos as
Connecticut, and Harris as Rhode
Island.
In warming buildings with steam one
square foot Of plate or pipe surface will
heat seventy-five cubic feet of air in
outer or front rooms, and 100 in inner
rooms.
DURING October the mint coined 49,
600 double eagles, 80, 900 quarter eagles,
and l, 200, 900 standard dollars, making
a total of 1884, 600 pieces, valued at
SO, IA. 500.
VINELAND, N. j., is mainly support
ed by fruit-growing. Small fruits are
its chief abundance. The past season,
the money received from blackberries
was $43. 200; raspberries, $15, 800;
strawberries, $S, 8OO-making total of
$67. $50.
SHEEP HUSBANDRY in Western Texas
has grown at marvellous rate. In
1866 San Antonio received but 6OO, 900
pounds of wool, while in 1877 she re-
ceived 1000, 1000. In 1866 there were
shipped from Corpus Christi GOO, 600;
this year there will be shipped $780,
GOO.
THERE are in London 1923 archi-
tects, 971 surveyors, 5,657 builders.
81, 500 carpenters and joiners, 1888
bricklayers, 1853 marble-masons, 6,O29
mason paviors, and 27,719 plumbers,
painters and GLACIERS. The plasterers
and paper-hangers probably number
5000 more.
The value of tin ore exported from
New Zealand has increased from $685.
600 in 1873 to nearly 81, 200, 900 per
annum at the present time. This large
increase is chiefly owing to the discov-
cry of the l0des at Mount Bischoff, and
the more recent discovery of the metal
in vast quantities in Mount Hemskirk,
on the west coast.
The divorce statistics of Vermont for
1877 show an average of one divorce to
every fifteen marriages, against one to
every twenty-one (nearly) in 1862, the
increase in divorces in that period hav-
ing been pretty steady. Brutality
towards wives seems to be on the in
crease, or else is more easily proven as
a ground of divorce, the number Of
cases granted for this cause having
nearly quadrupled in sixteen years.
ID. SHERMAN, agent of the Six Ma
tons, at Forrestville, N. Y, has made
his annual report to the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs. They have 6,246
Indians at the agency, 1,763 of whom
can read and write. They have 20 day
and two manual labor schools, one Of
which is on the Allegany Reservation,
and in charge of the Society of Friends
in Philadelphia. Their expenses dur
ing the year were 500, $1,000, no part
of which was borne by the United
States. They raised during the veal
IL, 365 bushels of wheat, 76, 915 of oats
81, $50 of apples, 2,O35 If peaches and
4,730 tons of hay. They are advancing
in church discipline, growing in tenn
perance and making rapid progress.
toward a complete civilization.