The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-03
FACTS AND FIGURES,

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died from starvation in Asia.
COLORADO will have surplus of over
10000 bushels of wheat to export this
year.
SEVENTY MILLION bushels of grain is
annually converted into spirituous liq-
uors in the United States.
THERE are 10000 acres of agricul-
tural land on Long Island that are un-
cultivated and un0ccupied. :
IHE population of Berlin is at least
1000, 900, and it is said there are only
5000 persons who regularly attend
church.
THE Federal Government has go, 900, :
600 acres of lands open to presumption
in California, including 20, 600, 600 acres
of tillable soil.
THE population of England and
Wales, on the 3Oth of June, was "a, 1884,
1877; of Scotland, 1888, 929, and of Ire
land, 5, 433, $40. -
The Annales cleS Points ct Chamssees
has just published some statistics which
show that a person had in France, in
time of the diligences, chance of be-
ing killed in making 100000 journeys,
and q chance of being hurt once in
making $4,000. On the railways, from
1872 to 1875, the chances were reduced
to one death in IS, 600, 900 of journeys,
and injury in 100000.
FROM the 1st of January, 1873. to
the 31st of August last 5.438 passports
were issued by the State Department.
For the same period in 1877, 8, $50 pass
ports were issued. The revenue ac-
cruing to the Government from the sale
of passports for the eight months first
specified was S27,l9O. Five dollars
apiece is charged by the Government.
The difference between the number of
passports issued to summer travellers
this year and last is not at all common
surate with the very great increase of
foreign travel in 1873, caused by the
French Exhibition. The supposition
is that many travellers who simply
jOurneved to the principal cities of Eu-
rope and were not absent from home
longer than two or three months neg
lected to provide themselves with pass
ports.
The following contains a curious
summary of the English version of the
Bible. The Old Testament contains 80
books, 929 chapters, 1924 verses,
592, 493 words and 2,728, 100 letters.
The New Testament contains ~ books,
26O chapters, 1859 verses, 1S1, 253
words and 1873, $50 letters. Total, 66
books, 1,189 chapters, 31,173 verses,
779 TAG x,,orIo or.1 SCG AQn 1o<%orc
The middle chapter and the shortest in
the Bible is the hundred and seven
teenth Psalm; the middle verse is the
eighth of the hundred and eighteenth
Psalm. The twenty-first verse of the
seventh chapter of Ezra, in the English
version, has all the letters of the alpha
bet in it. The nineteenth chapter of
the Second Book of Kings and the thir-
ty-seventh chapter of Isaiah are alike.
ACCORDING to the latest statistics
that have been gathered, there are, in
round numbers, 5000, 600 of Jews in
the world, who are thus divided:
United States, 1896; Great Britain
and Ireland, $4,000; Italy, $4,000;
France, As, 439; German Empire. 512,-
1853; Netherlands (HoAand), 68,OO3;
Austria, 1000, 900; Russia in Europe,
1872, 179; Turkey, $50, 900; Roumania,
pa, 424; Morocco, $4,000; Denmark,
Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland and
Canada have comparatively few Jews
they number there from 1900 to
7,OOO-while Asia has 2, 1873, 900. Most
persons will be surprised at the state
ment that there are less than IS, 800
Jews in this country, which is generally
supposed to contain q great many
more. Some reports make the number
as high as 150, 900; but this is probably
an exaggeration. The statistics given
here are said to be as trustworthy as
can be had ut present, though no pub
lished figures can be wholly depended
on, as the Jews are scattered all over
the globe, and in many places where
such thing as census has never been
taken. The Jewish population of the
world is loosely reckoned at from
$500, 900 to 5000, OOO-a very broad
margin, surely-but there is reason to
believe that 5000, 900 is pretty near the
truth. The two countries where Jews
are scarcest are Spain and Scotland.