The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-09
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THERE were 4,5OO,OOO registered
letters in this country last year.
IT is estimated that over one hundred
thousand persons in New England have
signed the total abstinence pledge since
Dec. 1.
ACCORDING to Turkish official re-
turns, there are at present 1,73O,OOO
Mussulmans in Bulgaria, and !, 800, 100
Bulgarians.
AMONG wheat growing States Iowa
stands first, Minnesota second, Illinois
third and Wisconsin fourth. Ohio
raises the most winter wheat and Illi-
nois the most corn and oats. Pennsyl-
vania raises the most rye-one-fifth of
the whole crop, and California the most
barley.
Gov. JOE BROWN, of Georgia, has
made a contract with that State by
which he has hired the Penitentiary
convicts for twenty years at 1925. 600
per annuin. The Nashville american
claims that Tennessee does much better.
She receives for her Penitentiary lease
over $4,000 per year-$7O,OOO for
rental and about $4,000 for expense
of transportation of convicts from
place of conviction to the prison.
The latest result of reading the pop
ular boy literature of the day is report
ed from Vermont. Two boys, aged
about fifteen, started out from Benning-
ton on an expedition last Thursday.
They first took some goods in 4 drug
store and when opposed drew pistols.
Nnvf fhnVy 0v1tn,sod vs,I,i0h hoL
been left for time with crippled
boy, whom they shot at, and made off
with quantity of goods. A few hours
after they attacked farmhouse in the
county, shooting freely, but wounding
no one. The authorities at last found
them in Rownal, VT, where they were
arrested after exchanging shots with
the officers. Y. EUeni'sg Post.
The locomotive engine might fairly
be our National emblem; for Of 1871, 1864
miles of rail track on the lobe at the
close of 1876, no fewer than 73,5O8 were
in the United States. while all Europe
contained but 1929. These, be it
noted, are figures, not of American,
but of French statisticians. Next after
our country came Germany, with to-
tai of II, 1888 miles; then Great Britain,
with 1869; France, 1880; Russia,
12,121; Austria, 1O,76S: India, 6,475;
Italy 4,764; Canada, 1907; Sweden and
Norway, 2,769; Belgium, 2,169; Aus
tralasia, 1,748; Switzerland, 1880;
Turkey, 1901, and Holland, LIZA.
Among Old World countries having
fewer than a thousand miles of railroad
were: Roumania, 764; Portugal, 591;
Denmark, ISL; Greece, Z; Java, 1862;
Japan, 80; Ceylon, 80; Algeria, 1888;
Egypt, 947;Tunis, 81; Mauritius, 66; and
Natal, 2. In the Gulf of Mexico we
note Costa RIGA, 20 miles of railroad;
Cuba, 1917; Honduras, 60; Jamaica, ~.
South America shows an aggregate of
1888 miles, well distributed along both
seaboards. The enterprising Argen-
tine Republic leads, with 982 miles:
Peru follows, with 96O; Brazil has $50,
hut will, no doubt, surpass all when
existing contracts and plans are finish
ed; Chilli has GA; Colombia, 66; Para
quay, 45; Uruguay. 1879; Venezuela, 8.
Taking the mileage to each 100, 200 in
habitants-a fairer test of railway en-
terprise-we find the United States
still ahead, with 1913 to the 100, 900; but
readers might not easily guess the
country next highest on the list, which
is Canada, with 1879; still less the third
and fourth, which are Uruguay, 100,
and Costa RIGA, 20. The Argentine
Republic comes fifth, with Ga, so that
decidedly we begin to reckon the rail-
way a western world favorite. Then
follow in succession Great Britain with
so; Chill, 40; Belgium, Al; Switzer-
land, 33; Germany, 80; Peru, 80;
France, 81; Cuba, %; Sweden and
Norway, "a; Denmark, "a, and so
downward to Colombia, 2, and Vene-
zuela, 9.--E1chGngc.