The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-05

PIOSp0CIlVc, ne commences 10 Dang ana
tootle sweet music until the heart of
the tender creature within is softened
and they let him in.-L0,ad0n Globe.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
WEST VIRGINIA has, out of 442,O14
population, 81, 400 illiterates.''
1T is estimated that 5000 miles of
new railways will be built in 1880,
much Of which will be laid with steel
rails.
FEvER-sTR1cKEN Memphis is happy
at Its business revival. Its cotton re-
celpts were 10, LIP bales in one day re-
Gently, the largest ever known.
WELLS, FARGO & Co.'s circular an
nouncing the production of precious
metals during the past year fixes the
amount at little more than 81, OOO.-
600.
1T is computed that in Paris there
are LOO women of letters and 2,15O
women artists. One thousand of the
former write goodish stories for chill
dren.
NEW JERSEY, at present, contains a
population of a little over a million.
Fifty incorporated towns contain over
six hundred thousand inhabitants.
About one-third of the inhabitants of
the State are collected within an area
of seventy miles.
OVER $4,000 men in the Lehigh Val
ley are employed at the furnaces, of
which there are ffty-four, with an an
nual capacity of $4,000 tons. These
furnaces produce one-fifth of the pig
iron made in the United States, and
consume 1,4OC, 900 tons of iron ore an
nually.
M. HENRI DE PA1RvLLE, a French
author, after protracted investigation
OF the subject, finds that smokers smoke
the most in cold weather. The sales of
tobacco during the period and at the
places covered by his examination
amounted to $184, 900 day in Decem-
Der and January, but only $164, 900 a
day in July.
PROVISIONS were never so dear be-
fore as at present in Naples, and the
Mayor and his agents are Investigating
the charges of the grocers, butchers,
bakers and candlestick-makers. Milan
is also suffering from exorbitant prices
in meats. Every large city in Italy is,
in fact, complaining over the cost of the
prime necessaries Of life to the poorer
citizens.
SOME idea of the amount expended
annually in patent medicines in En-
gland may be drawn from the accounts
published of the last financial year,
which show that no less than 16, ri, $3.50
stamps were affixed to these medicines,
the duty amounting to f122,38 19s.
AID. AS the duty at its highest rate is
only lid. in the shilling, lit follows that
more than a million pounds must have
been paid by the public for patent pills
and other compounds.
SPEAKING of pork packing in the
West the Cincinnati Price Current of
January says: The information fur
nished indicates an increase of 200, 200
hogs in interior points, and a decrease
of 700, 900 at the six large packing cities
making total of about $3.50, 900 to
March 1, against 7,48O,OOO last year.
The average weight to date is about
nine and half pounds lighter than a
year ago, and the yield OF lard four to
five pounds less per hog. The future
of the season is expected to depend
largely on the weather. which of late
has been unfavorable for slaughtering,
it being understood that there is an am
pie supply of hogs to reach the esti-
mates given and probably to exceed
them. The total packing to date at all
points is 4,O68, 900, against 4,OS6. 900
last year.
A MINERS inch of water is quantity
that will flow through an inch aperture
with free discharge-and under con-
slant pressure of six inches above the
top of the opening. An aperture twelve
and one. quarter by fifteen and three
quarter inches, under pressure of six
inches above the top of the opening,
will discharge 200 inches, and is the
basis of all measurements where water
is retailed in small quantities in the
States of California and Nevada. A
miners inch will discharge a quantity
of water equal to $3.50 cubic feet, or
about 1900 gallons, weighing $4,000
pounds, in twenty-four hours. Water
will hold in suspension or solution 1870
of its entire volume-i. e., an inch of
water (miner's inch) having grade Of
four inches to the rod, will carry off, in
twenty -four hours, q distance of ten
miles, ten tons of heavy quartz, sand
and iron. At one gravel mine in Ne
vada county, California, twenty-five
cubic yards, or forty tons of detritus or
tailings, as the washed material is
called, are moved from three to fifteen
miles every twenty-four hours. One
hundred miners inches of water, con-
Quoted through iron pipes and falling
means of a nozzle against = hurdy-
gurdy wheel sixteen feet in diameter,
will furnish sufficient power to run an
8O-stamp mill, besides carrying off all
the ore which it has furnished the
power to crush.-DeGdaO0od Times.
A Paris Cab Drivers Insolence.