The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-27
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The total loss of life among sailors
in British ships from accidents in
1875 to 1873 inclusive, was 1O.638.
There will be 100000 head of cat
tie, valued at $3.50, OOO, 900, driven east
from Oregon and Washington Territory
the coming season
The daily capacity of the Minneap-
oils mills now running and soon to be
completed will be $1,000 bushels, or
5l5 carloads of wheat.
The vines grown on forty-eight
acres in Sonoma County. CAL, produced
grapes from which $1,000 gallons of
merchantable wine was made last sea-
son.
The pin manufacturers of the United
States nave very strong combination,
and have quadrupled the price of their
product during the past year.
The capital invested in the sugar
interest in twenty-four Louisiana par
ishes amounts to $SO,OOO,OOO. The
product of sugar and molasses in these
counties in 1879 amounted to $22, OOO,-
600.
According to statistical table pub
lished lately Toxic contains 237, 1897
houses with 1,O42, 1888 inhabitants, con-
sisting of $40, O16 male and 5OO,872 fe-
male members. The population Of Yo-
kohama is given as consisting of 2l, 546
males and 20,O1O females.
During the year 1879, 10, 281 horses,
529 asses and 26 mules, giving 4.135.-
700 pounds of meat, were sold for con-
sumption in Paris; and on the LIST of
January last seventy-eight butchers
shops for the sale of that article of food
were in full operation.
"A Norwich botanist, amazed the
other day at the rapid growth of fun
gus, calculated that it had developed
10000, 900 cells in one day, or 116 cells
q second. Prof. Gray, however, cites an
instance where q century plant formed
or 231, 481 second.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Compa-
ny employs about $4,000 men; the New
York Central about the same; the Chi
cagO Il Northwestern Railroad, Chica-
go, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad,
Chicago & Alton, Grand Trunk, Balti-
more & Ohio and Lake Shore & Michi-
gan Southern Railroads about 10, 900 to
$4,000 each. and some idea may be
formed of the grand army of railway
employees when we add that there are
not less than 1900 railroads in the
United States and Canada.
The fastest long distance voyage on
record was made by the steamer Dur
bin with kilograms from Zululand to
England. She left Table Bay q little
before eight p. M, and averaged 298
miles . day to Madeira. where she
stopped on April IA for four and half
hours. She made Plymouth at six p.
m. on April 20. The entire distance,
about 6, 900 miles, was run at an aver
age Of thirteen and 0ne-tenth knots.
Faster speed has been made acrOss tho
Atlantic, but this is the best for 80 long
. distance.
One teacher records, with seeming
pride, that during his fifty-one years
Of superintendent of q large school he
had given Oil 500 canings, 121, 900 So
we're floggihgs, 209, 900 custodes or inn
raised 1876, 900 blisters on
the hands and other parts of tbs body
with the ruler or ferrule and given TO-.
200 severe boxes on the ears and head,
made 700 boys stand barefcoted on peas,
5000 kneel ON sharp edges of wood,
5000 wear the fools cap and LOO hold
q heavy ferrule in their mouths from
two to six hours.-Co2per's History Of
the Rnl