The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-02
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Recent experiments in the Royal
aquarium of London prove that $50
pounds of meat is only meal for q
shark, and that he is hungry again in
twenty minutes after eating. It's
worse than keeping COW in the city.
The amount Of money invested in
manufacturing enterprises in New Jer-
sey is about $89, OOO, 900, a capital
which employs $4,000 persons; $4,000
being engaged in the manufacture of
silk in Paterson. The horse power
which runs the machinery is estimated
at $4,000.
The promise of large crop of sugar
in Louisiana is excellent. Competent
authority estimates the present Weld
at 225, 900 hogsheads, against about
before. The work of haryestin9 Is
progressing favorably, and if the
weather holds fine until it is finished
the product will be of excellent quail
ity.
The records of the Labor Bureau
of Castle Garden. New York, show that
there has been. q greater demand for
all kinds of labor during the ten months
of this year than at any other time
since 1868. In the spring and summer
the demand for farm hands was great
through the year there have been appli-
cations for help in nearly every kind Of
American industry.
-Godin, q Paris iron-master, has
combined community of work and the
cooperative store in a palais social he
founded at Guise. near Compeigne, in
1860. Godin makes his workmen asso-
ciates in his business, giving them
twenty-five per cent. of the net profit.
and houses his whole community of
twelve hundred persons in large man
sion of three wings, each four stories
high. There are extensive grounds and
gardens, hospital and a store where
everything of the first quality can be
had ut nearly cost prices. The factory
also employs women, suiting the hours
to those caring for children; takes the
boys as apprentices when they leave
school, and boards and lodges the aged
and incapacitated for the good they
have done.
M. Paul Leroy Beaulieu calls atten-
ton to the increase of infant mortality
in France during the last thirty years.
Between 1910 and 1849 the number of
deaths of children below one year (of
every 1000 births) was 40; from 1861
50 it was liz; from 186O-69 it had in
creased to 175; and it rose during the
last decade to 178. A striking feature
in connection with this branch of social
politics is the increase in the number OF
stillborn children. and particularly in
the case of illigitimates. DR.. Darem-
burg, in an article in the journal dies
Debats, attributes this unsatisfactory
state of things in a great measure to the
increase of crime, and believes that in
FAINT mortality is largely affecting the
decrease of population.
Charles D. McGuffey, of Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn, has been endeavoring "to
get some idea" of the magnitude of the
National debt at the close Of the war.
He has made the calculation that if four
men were to sit down to pay the inter-
est, and count silver dollar a second,
and work every second of the year,
they could not keep down the interest
on the original debt; and if another
should sit down at two years of age to
count the principal at the same rate, he
would be over 1O7 years old by the time
he counted the last dollar, interest on
the principal having ceased from the
first moment. The pile of silver dol
lars, moreover, which he would make
in counting that principal would be
four feet square and fifteen times as
high as Lookout Mountain Il, 600 feet
above Chattanooga; and if the silver
were conveyed in a continuous wagon
train, each wagon carrying ton, and
each wagon and team occupying thirty
five feet, the train would stretch from
Chattanooga to Columbus.