The Iola register., 1882-12-29
FACTS AND FIGURES.


The statement is made that the
enormous sum of S2O2. 600. 600 is invest
ed in the submarine cables of the woyld,
supposed to aggregate $4,000 miles in
length. 81,
THE Isle of Man census shows that
on April the population numbered
53, 49z--a decrease, as compared with
1871, of go. The number of summer
and autumn visitors during 1871 was
about 70, 900; last year the number was
about l30. 600. 'i'ii''a .i't -iloG If
1.-THE new Pension Office will be one
of the most splendid buildings in Wash
ington. with frontage OF 400 and depth
of 200 feet. the height of the main corridor
being seventy-five feet. 1t will have
1885, 200 square feet OF flooring and
space for 1.5OO clerks. o Congress
enacted that the cost was not to ex-
ceed S40O. 900. ,.rs g,.fD..rrli
The railroad from Roumelia north
ward carried i'm its last fiscal year thou
sands of tons of essence of roses, valued
at about $50, 900 On another Turkish
line Angora goat hair and meerschaum
are important items. The number OF
passengers on the Roumelia line (501
miles) beyond the city line (13l milesl.
was but one seventh of the, whole num-
Der. which was 9I. 185. I)iHfsiB
The coal product for the Schuylkill
region for the week ended November
25 was 175, 73O tons, as against 17S. 4Sl
tons for the week previous, and 154.76S
tons for the corresponding week of last
year. The total product for the week
was 6S1. Ill tons. against SOC, ly5, tons
crease of Is. sic tons. The product for
the year so far is &c, 282, 637 tons,
against 25, ,295. IA tons for the CORES
ponding period of last year-an increase
of 997, 493 tons. ,...... .rtr..t.
KENTUCKY grows over one third (36
per cent. of the entire tobacco crop Oi
the country, and Is States supply 80
pounds out of every 100 pounds grown;
22 other states and Territories report a
small amount-together only per cent.
The Weld varies a., the way from Al
pounds per acre in North Carolina to
1920 pounds per acre in Connect cut.
in which State fertilizers are largely
used. r- .Hs.. ff...t H#. PA.
From the official report of the Ital-
ian census, taken on the last day of the
year 1881, it appears that the total pop
ulation of the peninsula is 2S,452, 639.
an increase since 1871 of 1. 651, 4S5:
while in that period, it is estimated
further. that fully i35C, 900, Italians have
emigrated. The edu ational exhibit of
these returns Is interesting because Sd
encouraging Thus. the henumber of per-
sons who could not read or write in lS7
was AZ per cent. of men and AZ of wom-
en-proportions of which. in the case Of
men. have decreased IL per cent. and
of women II. The greatest improve-
ment is found between the ages of 20
and %. o4r,-f-
The streets of Paris are lighted by
45.OS9 gas lamps and 429 lamps which
burn petroleum and COLA oil There
are in addition $4,000 Jets of gas in the
buildings which belong TO the munich
palitv, and the total cost of lighting
them is estimated for the year at f260.
600. An ordinary gas lamp burns
about six gallons of gas per hour, ant
the cost for year. supposing the gas to
be burning for about ten hours every
night. is almost exactly guineas. The
petroleum and oil lamps cost about 81
per cent. more. The gas company EN-.
p oys seventy-six men in looking after
The lamps and the mains. many of them
being tod off to inspect the meters and
the pipes in private houses, and see that
there is no escape. The lighting pow
er of the gas supplied by the company
is tested every evening in eleven labora-
tories situated in different parts of the
CITY.