The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-09-12
FACTS AND FIGURES.

lHE EtcctTaCt09, British journal
devoted to tclegraphic interests, states
that 1T the present time there exists in
working order over s., 900 miles Of sub
marine cable, in the hands Of eighteen
companies.
ABOUT 1000 men are employed on
the canals of England and w ales, aud on
the boats also live 10000 women, who,
with their husbands and children, make
up literally 6 floating'' population OF
nearly half 4 million.
PEOPLE who are SO unwisc us to risk
everything on the result of throwing
dice should bear in mind the fact that
the chances are thirty-tivc to one
against throwing any particular doub-
let, and six to one against throwing any
doublet. There are thirty-eight chances
upon two dice. 1t is seventeen to one
against throwing any two desired num-
bers.-Chicogo Journal.
IT is computed that in the year 1875
there were 1O,OOO,OUO cows kept for
dairy purposes in this country, which
at S45 per head were worth $3.50, OOO.-
900. The land needed for their sup
port represents 5000, 900, 900 more, and
the capital invested in teams, dairy i'm
plements, etc, 500, 200, 900, making a
grand total of Sl.45O, 100000 invested
in this single industry.
THERE are 100000 dead letters re-
ccivcd annually ut the Dcad-Lcttcr Of
flee. Three hundred thousand without
stamps; $4,000 partially adlrcsscd; g.
600 no address; $1,000, 600 of money
orders and drafts of money value; 49,
900 packages containing property;
$4,000 in money! of which
is returned, the balance remaining in
the Trcasury-subject to application
for four years; $1,000 photographs;
100000 European letters are returned
unopened; onc-tenth of all letters re-
ccived contain property; 10000 appli-
cations for letters reported lost, the
great proportion found and delivered.
"A. Y. Graphic.
STATISTICS show that for the present
year the value of the gold and silver
produced in California is $21, 200. 900,
while the agricultural produce of the
same State exceeds S9l, 100000. AS
compared with mining, agriculture
stands nearly FIVE to one in values pro-
duced. The wheat crop of California
for single year is valued ut $50, $780,
$50; barley at $4,000, 900; other cere-
ais, $4,5OO,OO0; products of the vine-
yards, S7,5OO,OOO; wool, $500, 1000;
fruit, S3,5OO,OOO; live stock, sold and
slaughtered, Sl7,5OO,OOO; dairy pro-
duce, 81 100000. Such are the achieve
ments of the agriculturists of State
originally peOpled by class of adven-
turous and enterprising men seeking
for gold!-Prairie Farmer.
The Pacific Rural Press doesn't be-
lieve that that ''big plow'' made in
Iowa for the Chicago, Milwaukee 4 st.
Paul Railroad Company is the largest
in the world, rs has been currently
stated. 1.-The fact isl says the Press,
''that California agriculture can SO far
Overlie this mOOted monster in the pillow
line, that if the Iowa pillow should fall
into the California furrow they would
have to get Il lantern to find it with. !"
And it goes on to say than few years
ago plow was built in that State, the
beam of which was Is feet long, and
Is inches deep and 10 inches thick.
The land side was IL feet long; the
mold-board II feet long and ) feet
high. The pillow weighs Il ton, and it
cuts u furrOw four feet wide and three
feet deep, and is drawn by eighty oxen
yoked to wire cable one inch thick.
The pillow certainly beats the Iowa inn
PIGMENT by big odds.