The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-07-01
FACTS AND FIGURES.

"A man on the Peninsula Railroad.
III Florida, gathered ten thousand
oranges from one tree last fall.
a tract of fifty thousand acres ON
the Northern Pacific Railroad has been
bought for colony from Belfast, Ire
land.
"A rare fossil bird, the Archaeop-
teryx, of which but thee specimens are
known to exist, has Just been secured
for the Berlin University at an expense
of nearly $4,000.
1t is estimated that Missouri has
1900 acres of the vine in cultivation,
producing last year $4,000 gallons of
wine; Sandusky, Ohio. and vicinity, in
GLIDING the Lake Erie islands, 1000
acres. producing 10, OOO, 900 pounds of
fruit; California, $4,000 acres in grapes,
representing in money, including land,
$50, 900, 900.
Within the past few months *, 900
catalpa trees have been planted on the
line of the Evansville and Terre Haute
Road in Indiana. President Martin
states that in ten years, SO rapid Is the
growth Of this tree, those now planted
will furnish fence posts for the road,
and in fifteen years will be large enough
for cross-ties.
The quantity of vapor present in
the air about us during the hot days of
summer has a very considerable influ-
encc upon our ply steal comfort. In a
dry atmosphere evaporation from our
bodies takes place very rapidly, and a
large amount of heat being conducted
away by the exhaled moisture. an
agreeable sensation of GOODNESS is main
tanned ut . temperature which would
seem oppressively hot in an atmosphere
already surcharged with moist vapor.
The depth attained by the Nevada
mines is as follows: The Utah 1880
feet, the Sierra Nevada $500, the
Union Consolidated, Mexican and Ophir,
each $500, Consolidated Virginia and
California 800 each. Best and Belchcr
1000, Gould and Curry 1900, Hale
and Norcross and Savage 2, 400, Chollar
2.4OO, Ward vertical shaft, 2,168, Com
bination shaft 2,44O, Yellow Jacket g.
600, Belcher 5000, Crown Point $500,
Overman and Caledonia each 1900,
Alta and Benton each 1850, Silver Hill
1890, Consolidated Imperial 1850,
Bullion $500 feet
I'm some interesting geographical
Investigations, made and published by
Prof. Reade, Of England. the River
Thames is credited with washing away
ii tons of solid matter per square mile
every year; the Rhine, about 90; the
Rhone, 232; the Danube, about 73; the
Garonne, 142; the Seine. 81. He thinks
that probably throughout the world 100
tons of rock material arc dissolved per
square mile every year; aud, taking the
solids removed mechanically at six
times those in solution, the total dcnu-
dation on the globe would be 600 tons a
year per square mile, to which may also
be added one-third for dcnudation effect
cd by the sea on its coasts and for what
volcanic eruptions add to given
stratum.
The suns temperature, according
to Newton, Ericsson, Senchi and others,
cannot be less than from 1000, 900 to
1900, 900 degrees-that is, 1900, 900 TO
100000 Fahrenheit; but Pouillet,
Vicairc, Wolfe and many others main
tain that the temperature cannot exceed
200 to $500 Fahrenheit. Not long
since the French Academy offered an
important prize for the solution of the
question, which resulted in reward to
Wolfe, certificates of honorable men,
ton to Vicairc and Crova, and with
drawal of the prize, in consequence OF
the difficulty and uncertainty involved
in the problem. Senchi obtained more
than 100000 degrees by Ncwton's
formula, while Wolfe obtained only
1900 degrees by the formula of Dulong
and Petit, from the same set of observa-
tions. M. Rosctti concludes that the
temperature cannot be less than 18, 900,
or much more than $1,000 degrees
Fahrenheit