The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The wholesale oyster business of
New York amounts to $4,000, 900
yearly. =
Nearly 100000 persons die an
nually in France, which gives $500
deaths per diem in round numbers.
Taking the number of deaths as it is
observed in France, we obtain "a the
total of the annual deaths for the whole
world 1888, 350-that is, 1880 per-
sons die daily. As compensation, the
number of births is estimated at seventy
per minute, or 104, 800 per diem.
On the first of February there were
luz furnaces in blast in Scotland, the
average weekly capacity of each fur
mace being 204 tons. This would make
their total weekly capacity 22,032 tons,
equal to LAG, 1854 tons per year. At
the same date last year only SO furnaces
were IN blast, and allowing the weekly
capacity OF each to be the same as that
OF those now in blast their total yearly
production would be 964,912 tons-a
difference of $50, 752 tons.
France now possesses, besides troops
specially assigned to Algeria, COG bat
tallons OF the line and chasseurs, and
BIG depot companies, equivalent to 80
battalions, besides 80 battalions dou-
aniers and Is battalions of chasseurs
foresters. The number of battalions
available for service in Europe is 72O.
VI cavalry, leaving ont the spahis and
chasseurs dAfrique, France has now
379 squadrons, and 10 squadrons of
volunteer scouts. Of artillery she nos
sesses 2,622guns. Of engineers she has
100 companies.
Silk culture is much more widely
difused industry than most people sup
pose, and yet in all the continent Of
America, on which are some of the
greatest silk-wearing population of the
world, it is almost entirely neglected.
In 1876 the number of pounds of raw
silk raised in America-probably in
Mexico, Brazil and California-was but
10000. The Chinese Empire, in the
same year, furnished more than %, OOO,-
600 pounds, India nearly $4,000, 900,
Italy about 7,5OO,OOO, Japan about
100000, France 100000, and Asia
Minor, Turkey, Persia, Austria, Spain
Portugal, Greece and Morocco, together,
and in lessening quantities, according
to the order in which they are named,
raised over $4,000 pounds. Of the
total production of the world, amount
ing to nearly Sc, 900, 600 pounds, Amer
lea contributed but 16, 600 pounds.
The tide of immigration to Mani
toba and the Northwest for the year 1880
has already set in, with the almost GER
tain prospect that it will constantly in
crease in volume and value as the sea-
son advances. Last years business in
Dominion lands may be- thus stated:
Winnepeg; So, 423 acres; Emerson, 49,
545 acres; Pembina mountains, 1913, 211
acres; Little Saskatchewan, 298, POI
acres; total, 1,O28.386 acres. The
above statement does not include the
half-breed allotment lands covering
l, 400, 900 acres, all of which have now
practically passed into the hands of
claimants, and many of them again into
the hands of actual settlers; nor does it
include the settlement belt lands, or
those disposed of under the Manitoba
act, the business in which has been con-
siderable during the year. but the exact
figures of which we have not at hand
Wimnepeg Tribune.
The return of the number of wolves
and other wild animals killed last
winter in France has just been published,
and shows the following results:
Wolves, 4O2; young wolves, 1853; foxes,
6,771; badgers, 5,O36; wild bears, 5, 1923.
1t is supposed that the returns for the
past winter will show a vast in.
crease in the number of slaughtered
wolves, in consequence of the excep-
tional severity of the weather. Most
of the wolves which perish in France
are slain by the louveterie, a special
body charged with that duty. Under
the ancient regime the Grand Louvetier
of France was an officer of the King
household, and the Office, after having
been abolished during the revolution,
was re-established by Napoleon 1.
There are now in France 1872 Lieuten-
ants of Louveterie, who keep up at
their own expense a considerable staff
of heaters and 1906 hounds.