The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-30
FACTS AND FIGURES


The crown Of England is valued at
El34,OOO.
Farmers in Queensland are vsantlng
cotton this year.
Cotton was first planted in the
United States In 1859.
Bread made with yeast was first
used in England in 1850.
"A seat at the Boston Brokers' Board
is now valued at $4,000.
WI hen tea was first introduced into
England it sold for, SIS per pound.
An Austrian Count has had a rail-
way built on his domain which il pro-
PEELED by sails.
Bears are destroying the orchards
in Maine. In Kingield, in a single
young orchard. twenty three trees were
broken down in their efforts to get the
apples.
The English scissors trade in Amer.
lea has been rarely so brisk, two of the
principal houses in Sheffield having
more orders in hand than they have
ever had from the States.
in the last agricultural returns of
Great Britain the growth of woods and
forests is shown to be going on very
fast, and in the last five years has in
creased by half a million acres.
The manufacture of barbed-wire
fencing has increased from 10, 600 pounds
in 1874 to q, 337 600 pounds in 1879, and
it is estimated that this year produc-
ton will reach 0.00O, 900 pounds.
DIR. B. Joy Jeffries has tested the
scholars of the Chauncy Hall School,
Boston, for blindness, and found
that of 1879 boys II were color blind,
while of 81 girls none had defective
sight.
There has been an extraordinary
increase of suicide in Switzerland. In
1876 there were $40 suicides; in 1877,
500; in 1873, GAP; and in 1879, 7Ol.
This list gives one in every 4, 900 of the
population. The hard times are proba-
bly, the cause.
The Director of the Mint Is inquiries
into the annual production of the prec-
ious metals in this country have con-
vinced him that in arts and manufact-
ures the United States employ about
S1O,00O.OO0 worth of gold and about
SIS. Co., 900 worth of silver q year.
France absorbs about the same guam
tity, and the two counties employ the
half of what is used in this way in the
civilized world.
The average life of unimpregnated
railway ties on the German and Aus
trian roads has been found to be as fol-
lows: For oak ties, 1876 years; fir, ~;
pine, 81; beech, ). The average life
of ties impregnated in judicious man
ner with creOsote or chloride of zinc,
under powerful pressure, reaches: For
oak ties, 1875 years; fir, IA to Is; pine.
8 to 10; beech, Is to Is. The average
life of $751; pine ties, on thirteen
German railroads, impregnated accord
ing to various systems, is calculated at
some fourteen years, which may be con-
sidered very fair showing.
The carob bean is grown all over
the Mediterranean eabOard and islands,
and 5000 tons were imported from
Cyprus by England alone in 1879. 1t
forms an important ingredient in cat
tie foods, is now employed in France for
making brandy since the continued
failure of the vines, and is eaten by the
peasants in Russia and the East. Last
year was wonderful year for carobs.
The carob tree is handsome evergreen
with dark glossy foliage, which forms 8
grateful rest for the eye along the hot
slopes of the Limasol, Paphos anG
Kerynia hills. In the spring the long
| pods of the beans can scarcely b,
distinguished amid the leaves; but il
the early autumn they turn to a darl
chocolate color, and IN an abundant yea
bow the branches to the ground, pre-
senting striking contrast to the rest O
the tree. The carob tree is hardy, flour
ishes we'll with but little rain, and attain
q large size, much resembling the wal.
nut in its spread and habit. 1t grow.
sparsely in Cyprus, often not more thar
twenty or thirty to the acre, for there i
no regular planting.