The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-06-03
FACTS AND FIGURES.

New Orleans has shipped to France
and Italy within a year 2, 4O0, 900 gallons
of cotton-seed oil.
Mr.. Sharb, of California, in 1873
received 8,21O for seven acres of or
anges. He says the profit that year
was over 81, 900 per acre.
The pear trees of the old Mission
gardens Of Santa Cruz, Cal, planted
by the Spanish priests ninety years ago,
yielded an immense crop last year.
-Philadelphia contains 1O3 distinct
iron factories, giving employment to
nearly 1000 hands, without including
those employed at the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Works.
There are in the United States $50
theaters and 12O concert halls, $50 reg
uiar travelling companies, fifty variety
companies, sixty-eight companies formed
10 support stars and seven resident stock
companies.
1.-Two years ago not more than 800
nead OF cattle were owned along the en-
tire valley of the Upper ella River.
To-day there are at least $4,000 head
grazing over the same ground, and
'"enty-slx good ranches being farmed.
The estimated value of the prop
cry OF the United Kingdom of Great
britain and Ireland is $4,000, OOO, 900;
that of France and the United States.
each 81, OOO. DOC, 900; that of Germany.
W, 90. 900, 600; that of Austria Hunoa-
~, SO, 600, 900, 900, and that of Russia.
81, 500, 10000
There are $4,000, 900 acres of land
in California fit for cultivation, but not
over 5000, 900 are in actual use for that
purpose, and not over 5000, 900 are in.
closed. Over 10000, 900 acres are held
by land rings or individual monopolists
Tor speculative purposes, in tracts of
$4,000 to 300, 900 acres.
According to an official statement,
the effective strength of the Swiss
Federal Army Oh the 1st of January,
1880, amounted to 119,947 men, as
against 1878 in the previous year.
The numbers required by the existing
law are 105, 1888 men in the regular
army, and 97.O12 in the Landwehr: or
altogether 212,4 The actual total at
present is 215,O63.
According to lie Technologiste, the
churches in Europe which will contain
the largest number of persons are as
follows: ST. Peters, ut Rome, $4,000;
Milan Cathedral, $4,000; St. Paul's, at
Rome, %, 900; st. Sophia, at Constanti-
nople, $4,000; Notre Dame, at Paris,
1000; Cathedral of Pisa, 10000; St.
Marks, at Venice. 1000. Evidently
Italy is the country of the largest
churches.
If all the heart-beats of one per-
son in good health during twenty-four
hours could be concentrated and weld
ed into one great impulse, it would be
powerful enough to raise q ton of iron
12O feet in the air. A healthy heart
keeps steadily at work without weary
ing; but this it is enabled to do because
it takes a rest after each beat; or to ex-
press it more clearly, if the contraction
(emptying) and expansion (refilline)
occupy two-thirds of a .second of time,
the period of rest takes third of Sec
ond before contraction again occurs.
1t seems that oysters may be arti-
ficially propagated by chopping up the
male and female oysters together DR..
w. j. Brace says that the young oysters
thereupon Immediately begin forming.
In a few hours the embryo can swim in
the water. Its shells, at first small and
apart, soon grow down over the edges
and finally form the hinge. In twenty
four hours it is able to take food, and
it grows to size sufficient for food in
about three years. An average oyster
contains from six to nine million eggs.
A large oyster contains fifty million
eggs!