The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Turkey owes $3.50, 900, 900, main
in ENGLAND.

Turkey owes $s5o'ooo'ooo' mainly
"A company with q capital of $685.
600, 900 has been formed in Paris to buy
land in Canada.
electric lights in use in this country,
of which over 5000 are the Brush
lights.
"A return issued by the German
Postmaster-G General shows the number
of post cards used in Europe in the year
1873 to have been 342, 100000.
Three fourths of the Parisians are
poor. There are in the city 684, 1852
lodgings, of which 468, 651 are let for
less than $8Oa year.
The Japanese make a very curious
and handsome kind of copper by casting
it under water, the metal being highly
heated, and the water also being hot.
The result is beautiful rose-colored
tint, which is not affected by exposure
to the atmosphere.
"A firm in Leeds, England, has en-
gagged to furnish the State Prison at
San Quentin, Cal, 100 looms for the
manufacture of jute burlaps for grain
bags, the looms and machinery to cost
100000. 1t is expected that they
will be in working order by next
spring.
The Railway Age says that the ex-
aminations of railway employees as to
their ability. to distinguish colors has
failed, both in this country and in Eu-
rope, to discover a single one whose
"cOlor blindness was such as to unfit
him for his duties.
"A London paper speaks of the large
impOrtations from the Continent of veg
etable parchment now manufactured,
which has all the qualities of that pre-
pared from skins, and the advantage of
being much cheaper. As the dressing
OF skins for parchment has given EN-
ployment to large number Of people,
this new mode may revolutionize great
industry.
AT a recent meeting of German
doctors interested in the treatment of
insane persons, q paper was read by the
Director of the Brunswick State Lunatic
Asylum, in which he maintained that
much of the increase of insanity in Ger
many is attributable to the excessive
amount of work imposed upon the
pupils in the National schools.
"A long bridge over the Volga, in
Russia, has recently been completed.
The width of the river is nearly mile,
and as it is liable to heavy spring floods,
the piers, of which there are fourteen,
had to be built 100 feet above mean
water level, the depth of the river be-
ing more than so feet. The Orders,
364 feet long and 20 wide, were riveted
together on the right bank of the river,
and then tloated to their position.
In the construction of the 5000
miles of new railroad that will proba-
bly, be built the current year, $50, 900
tons of rails will be used, besides many
tons of plates, spikes, ETC., the cost of
which will not fall below $4,000, 900,
and 13, 100000 cross-ties, worth an az
gregate of $5,5OO.O0O more. To this
might be added many millions more for
locomotives, cars, lumber and miscel-
laneous tools and railroad supplies.
-Kinipple and Morris, London engi-
neers, have been appointed to build a
railroad in Newfoundland for the pur-
pose of developing the mineral and ag-
ricultural resources of the island. The
road is to be 800 miles in length. 1t
will commence at St. Johns and ter
inmate at Green's Bay, to the north of
of the island, and in the vicinity of the
principal mining districts, and will pass
also on its route through good agricult-
ural land for settlements.
The abolition of the tax on the
shawl manufacture of Cashmere will
perhaps lead to a renewal of that i'm
portant industry in the "happy val
ley" For some years back an increas-
ing tax has been levied, and latterly
the impost became prohibitive. It
was almost the only industry in Cash
mere, and when it was starved out
the once smiling valley became a will
derness. The few who remained were
needy cultivators, who have hardly
been able to keep themselves from
starvation.