The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-07-15
FACTS AND FIGURES.

-Pennsylvania has forty-two flint,
twenty-three window, and thirteen bot
tie glass factories.
of the 500, 986, 900 acres of land in
our territories, exclusive of Alaska,
489, 538, 600 have never been surveyed.
More persons lost their lives by the
burning of hotels in this country in 1879
than by all accidents on the rail, rivers
and lakes combined.
Attempts to introduce the district
telegraph system in London have not
yet met with success; probably in about
twenty years they will, just as the street
railroads did.
Indian papers report the loss of
thirty divers, engaged in the pearl fish
cry in the Persian Gulf, most of them
being victims of sea monsters. The
value of the pearls taken in 1879 from
the Persian Gulf was estimated at 81
SOC, GOO.
notwithstanding the direful re-
ports of the destruction of tobacco
plants and the statements that not half
a crop could'be set, the accounts from
the principal tobacco-raising sections of
Virginia now are that plants are plenti-
full and fourishing, and that full aver
age crop has been set.
"A new kind of steam canal boat
with upright engine and compact ma
chinery, has just been built in Buffalo.
1t is 81 feet long and II feet 81 inches
wide. with a capacity of 1880 bushels
of wheat, and with wheel six feet in
diameter. 1t will be Immediately load
ed and put in service.
The annual production of honey in
this country is estimated at about 3d.
600. 900 pounds, and the business of
Bookkeeping is being rapidly systema-
tized. One firm of wholesale groccrs
in New York keeps as many as $4,000
swarms; other keepers have often from
$500 to 5000 swarms.
AT the Industrial Exhibition of Mi
Ian, in 1881, the leather industry will
be especially represented by products
from all parts of the country. Prof.
Guido Susovy offers a prize of 600 lire
($15O) for the best upper-leather. The
Office of the Executive Committee of
the Exhibition is located in Milan.
There are now 42,677 post-oflices
in the United States, an increase of
], 1888 in the past year. The number of
Offices paying more than $1,000 each,
and therefore called Presidential post
offices, is 1854. New York heads tho
list. with 1879; Illinois comes next, with
1853; then Pennsylvania, with 1872, and
Ohio. with 112.
One curious item in the statistics of
Japan shows that of the total number
of newspapers sold. amounting to over
5000, 900, 1857 were purchased by
foreigners. Taking all the year round,
an average of 91,5O7 papers are sold
daily, and taking into consideration the
population of the country, on the aver
age over 10000 persons purchased
twenty-six newspapers. The Japan
book-publishers are very Industrious
class. The number of new books pub.
lished during the year was 5,317; of
these. 1,495 were copyrighted.
The accounts of last years vintage
in France. as they drop in with more
and more lugubrious detail, are very
bad. In the claret district no vintage
in this century is remembered to have
yielded so little; in the haut medoc
country report shows that the yield
has been only one-third of the vintage
of 1875 and half that of 1873. The
falling off is attributed mostly to the
wet spring of 1879, and partly to the
fact that the phyloxera has certainly
taken hold of the claret vineyards. Of
course the wine merchants are making
their profit from it. ytE