The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-03-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.

DURING the year 1892 lodgings were
given free at the Bowery Branch of the
Young Mems Christian Association;
2lO garments were given away, 33,47O
meals were furnished, and 25, AL meals
were sold. The meal-tickets given to
business men amounted to 1O,75O.
There were 623 applications for en-
ployment, 119 of which were success
full. The aggregate attendance at all
the meetings was 66,574, and 149 hope
full conversions were reported.
OLD JOHN BERRY, that used to live
up Lake Champlain. liked to tell big
story. One evening, sitting in the vii
lage store, he said he once drove a
horse seventy-two miles in one day on
the ice, when the ice was so thin that
the water spurted up through the holes
cut through it by the horses corks.
One of the bystanders remarked that
seventy-two miles was n pretty good
drive for one day. Yes said Uncle
John, "but it was long day in june"
GERMANY is troubled because of the
near-sightedness of it's children. In
Magdeburg, in the Dom-Gymnasium--
cathedral school-Dr. Niemann has
just examined the eyes OF $50 pupils,
and found in the sixth class %, in the
fifth %, in the fourth 80, in the third
63, in the second 50, and in the first IS,
per cent. of children whose eyes were
myopic. In the Kloster-Padagogium,
of 776 eyes % per cent. were short
sighted in the sixth class. q in the fifth,
~ in the fourth, ~ in the third, Sc in
the second and 80 in the first. The great
increase in the number of myopic pu-
pills in the upper classes, to which at
tention was called in the Chamber of
Deputies last year, is therefore well au-
thenticated
THERE were 14S suicides in New
York City in 1877. BY far the larger
number of persons who took their lives
were in the prime of manhood or wom-
anhood, between the ages of twenty
and forty. Only two persons under
twenty welcomed self-destruction; the
period between thirty and forty was
the most prolific of suicides. The ma
tivity Of the suicides was as follows:
United States, A; England, 6; Ireland,
II; Scotland, l; France, 2; Austria, 2;
Germany, SO! There is no preponder-
ance in the German-born population of
New York that will wholly account for
these astonishing figures. 1t will be
seen that the German suicides were
thrice as many as the Irish, and nearly
as many as the American and Irish
combined.
A GERMAN resident of Sitka, in Alas
ka, writes in very hopeful style about
the Capital of Alaska. Sitka has $50
white inhabitants, of whom 275 belong
to the Greek-Russian Church; seventy
inhabitants are Americana Germans. En-
glish, etc. 1t is not true that the Rus
slams or their priests have left the place.
They are still there. The climate of
Sitka is mild and healthy; the waters
are full of fish of all kinds; the whole
year through there are wild geese and
ducks, and the woods abound with
game. The mountains contain gold and
silver. A company from Portland, Ore,
has opened a quartz vein which yields
gold in an astonishing quantity. There
are at least dozen quartz-veins in the
neighborhood of Sitka, rich in silver
and gold. 1t needs but capital to de-
velop them. There are immense for
ests of cedar. Potatoes and other veg
etables can be raised all the year. The
habor of Sitka, after that of San Fran
cisco, is the best on the Pacific Coast.
The steamer brings, every month, some
$4,000 of dutiab1e merchandise. Fiji
teen thousand dollars worth of skins
are yearly exported from Sitka. The
Indians are bold and troublesome since
the departure of the troops. Their re-
turn, however, is not desired on account
of the decentralization they produced
among the settlers. The forests of
Alaska, its mineral productions and its
fishy sea and streams, are becoming
better appreciated as they are more
| known.