The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-09-19
FACTS AND FIGURES.

ABOUT 1900 varieties of grasses
grow within the limit: of the United
States. So says Prof. Collyer, of the
Agricultural Department 1T Washing
ton.
CAPT. KENNEDY, a resident of Neuces
County, Tex, owns attract Of land con-
tanning $50 square miles, on which are
pastured $4,000 cattle, 1900 horses
and mules and 1000 hogs.
THE District of Columbia authorities
have taken a census. which shows The
population to be 161, 784, an increase
of 10000 since 1870. The addition is
chiefly of colored persons.
ONE mineral-water company supplies
London with 1000, 600 bottles of the
liquid annually. 1t bought out the
spring in Germany from three or four
brothers, who got 100000 each and
salaried sinecures as managing Direct
Ors.
NOTWITHSTANDING all the talk about
the depression of the iron business, it
appears the production of pig-iron in
1877 exceeded that Of the previous year
225, 900 tons, while the production of
1876 was 1908, 236 tons, as against9S7,-
$50 tons in 1860.
DIR. SCHILEMANN's excavations at
Olympia in the last three years include
9O4 marble objects; 1874 bronzes; 9O4
terra-cottas; 429 inscriptions and 1870
coins. All the more important ruins
have been photographed, and the third
, volume of the official account is about
to appear. An exhibition OF all the
casts taken will shortly be opened at
Berlin.
THE Moffet register still runs its re-
morseless career in Virginia. 1t shows
that the good people of the Old Domin-
ions capital know full we'll how to
crook the pregnant hinges of the elbow,
for in the eleven months ending July
81 last, the register shows the consump-
ton of 1,443,945 alcoholic drinks and
1867, 12O malt drinks, netting total
tax of $43, 937.O6.
AN official statement of the public
debt of Great Britain on the 31st of
March gives the following figures:
Funded debt of the United Kingdom,
f71O,S43,OO7; and the unfunded debt,
EGO, GO3, 900; capital value of terminable
annulties in 3-per-cent. stock, f46, 1885,
$50, and the deficits due to the savings
banks and friendly societies on the Goth
of November, 1877, "a, 1886, 368.5s.
A TABLE has been prepared at the
General Land Office. showing the num-
Der of entries upon the public lands
made in each State and Territory, UNI
der the Homestead and Timber-C Culture
acts, since the passage of the original
Homestead act, May 20, 1862, to June
30, 1878. The aggregate number of
entries in each year were as follows: 1868,
1886; 1864, 1921; 1865, 12,96S; 1866,
1898; 1867, 1850; 1868, 1882; 1869,
3,O54; 1870, 34,443; 1871, 1864; 1872,
33,514; 1873, 34,67O; 1874, 25, l79; 1873,
%, 23O; 1876, II 1856; 1877, 23,O36; 1873,
24,Ol3; total, 3S4,S4S. The figures for
1873 include only half the year. from
Jan. I to June 30, inclusive. BY States,
the entries were as follows: Alabama,
10, 222; Arkansas, $500; Arizona, 147;
California, II. lag; Colorado, 5,493; Da-
kota, 1913; Florida, 1868; Indiana,
10; Illinois. CD; Iowa, 1896; Idaho,
1,161; Kansas, 81, O34; Louisiana, ,43S;
Missouri, 23,327; Michigan, 22,S2l;
Minnesota, 5l,575; Mississippi, 1886;
Montana, 1,l6O; Nevada, 632; New
Mexico. 319; Nebraska, 1882; Ohio,
1877; Oregon, S,O25; Utah, 1925; Wis
consin, q, 437; Washington, 6, Alb; Wy
oming, 1874; total, 3S4, 84S.