The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-07-11
FACTS AND FIGURES.

SCHENECTADY IN. w has about
10, 900 inhabitants, and of these 543 are
widows.
The largest strawberry farm in the
world is probably that of John r.
Young, Jr., about two miles from Nor
folk, Va. 1t comprises about $50
acres.
In 1877, in England, 6O,0OO postage
stamps were found loose in letter-boxes
and bags, having been rubbed off
through insufficient /" licking and stick
ing" and 5000, 900 letters were con-
signed to the returned letter Office.
The CHILEAN and Peruvian Govern
ments intimate their willingness to
make the United States the center of
distribution for the guano and nitrate
industry. The trade that is thus offered
to American shippers amounts to $751;
0OO, 900 year.
IT has been calculated that about
loo, 900 boatmen are employed on the
canals of England and Wales; that TO-
600 women live in them, and the chill
dren found afioat make up total popu-
lation of nearly 500, 900. No women or
boats in either Scotland or Ireland.
The Correspondence de Espa,sa states
that from the beginning of the Cuban
instruction up to the month of Janua-
ry last 1855 soldiers died in the hos
pitfalls from wounds or disease, and 49,
500 on the fields of battle; 37,726 were
discharged, and about 100000 insur-
gents were either killed in battle or shot
after being made prisoners.
PHILADELPHIA has spent nearly ST.
SOC, 900 to prevent recurrence of the
water famine of 1869, and practically
nothing has been accomplished. All
there is to show for the money spent is
massive circular embankment on the
banks of the Schuylkill, nearly opposite
the Centennial Building, and broken
cistern, which will hold no water, and
is crumbling away.
THERE is strong evidence that the art
of printing was practiced in China long
before it was known in Europe. The
ancient Romans were very near to ar
irving at the discovery of printing.
They had engraved or stereotype plates,
with which they stamped pottery. etc.
When the art was first practiced in Eu-
rope only one side of the leaf was util-
lied. Afterward they came to paste
the two blank sides together. Caxton.
a wealthy merchant, having been sent
to make a commercial treaty with the
Duke Of Burgundy, returned to England
with this invaluable art in 1464. The
invention of the italic letter was made
by Aldus Manutius, Observing the in
convenience of using a vast number of
authorizations, he contrived the expedi-
ent of the italic letters, which was orig.
inally named after him, the Aldine.
THE actuarv of a life insurance COM
pany has prepared q table of statistics
full of matter, deep and dangerous, re-
garding the mortality and casualties
resulting from too assiduous attention
to mastering the National game. His
figures show that during the ball sea-
son in this country the monthly death
rate from ball playing is .O4; the num-
Der of cases of conclusion of the brain
is AZ; incipient heart disease, 5.1O3;
dislocation of the hip, .O1; fracture of
the shoulder blade, 1.O1; compound
fracture of the sternum, .OOO2; broken
ribs, 25.O12; dislocation of the spinal
column resulting in permanent disabil-
ity, .OOOO1; fracture of the arm, in
GLIDING forearm and above the elbow,
10 5; dislocation of the elbow, O5;
sprained wrist, 47.O7; broken fingers,
352 OF; fracture of the hip, .O3; dislo-
cation Of the knee, 1. COG; sprained ankle,
1903; injuries to the foot and toes,
necessitating surgical aid, but not
causing permanent injury, 225 90. In
addition to the above rather suggestive
array which recount injuries resulting
in death or the fracture of bones, in
GLIDING dislocation, he demonstrates
that there are 1877 OF noses broken and
473 O5 teeth knocked Utica Eerald.