The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-06-10
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The first postoffice in America was
established in New York in 17l9, under
the auspices of the Colonial Govern
ment.
"A. L. Pierson of Frio County,
Texas has clipped this year 10000
pounds of Merino wool, for which he
will probably receive forty cents per
pound.
t-Nearly 900, 900, 900 worth of silk
was imported into this country during
the past year. This is thirty per cent
In excess of the amount imported the
previous year. The United States
revenue was enriched to the extent of
SIS. 100000.
The Maine Beet Sugar Company
have sold the product of the seasons
operations at $4,000, and their ex-
penses for beets, labor, etc., not in
Guiding machinery, were S1O7, 900, leav-
inga net profit ofonly $1,000. They are
not discouraged, but will continue the
experiment another y ear.
The United States is furnishing
MEXICO with vast quantities of material
for railroad and telegraph building, and
there are great many American en-
gmeers and telegraph men employed.
In former times England shipped the
larger share of materials. but has now
to be rated second on the list. The co.,
dial feeling existing between the United
States and Mexico for some time past
has done q good deal toward diverting
trade to the United States.
Basic successfully holds her own
against all competition in the ribbon
trade. This supremacy dates from the
Edict of Nantes, in common with the
English silk trade. As far back as 1910
there were some 600 ribbon looms at
work in the canton. producing annually
material valued at 81, 25O.OO In 1872
there were Z, 900 looms, employing 5000
weavers and helpers and sixty design
ers, and consuming annually 400 tons
of silk, out of which over $50, 600, 900
yards of ribbon were manufactured,
valued at $12, SOC, 900.
The Uranium of Descartes is often
adduced as an exception to the general
rule that o great mind requires large
BRAIN. This statement seems to have
rested on no exact measurement, and
DR.. De Bon resolved to test its accu-
racy. The result is that he finds the
cubic capacity of Descartes' skull to be
LOO centinleters, or $50 centimeters
above the mean of Partisan skulls of
the present time. At the same time,
De Border has recently found the aver
age capacity of the skulls of thirty-six
guillOtined murderers to be 1,547. 81
'cyc., the largest reaching the high fig
ure Of 2.076 G. G.
"A party Of United States engineers
recently sounded Niagara River below
the falls. The approach to the falls in
. small boat was made with great diff
Guilty. Great jets of water were thrown
out from the falls far into the streAan,
and the, roar was so terrible that no
other sound could be heard. The leads
man cast the line. which told Oft 81
feet. This was quite near the shore.
Passing down stream, tho next cast of
the lead told off 100 feet, deepening to
1872 feet at the inclined railway. The
average depth of the Swift Drift, where
the river suddenly becomes narrow,
with velocity too great to be measured,
was 153 feet. just under the lower
bridge the whirlpool rapids set in. and
so violently are the waters moved that
they rise like ocean waves to the height
Of 20 feet. Here the depth was COM
puted to be 2lO feet.