The Brookhaven leader., 1884-04-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The valuation of the u cites q
Massachusetts is 81, l49, 9S2, 90, a gaja
IF SIS, 033, 22l on the valuation OF 1881.
The actual capital now invested in
Southern cotton mills is placed ut So
700, 600, giving emPlol ment to 10000
lands.
1t estimated that the annual iron
production of the word is ~. 49,, GlU
Ons, and of this Great Britain, the
Emitted States, Germany and France
contribute SO Ter cent the first two
i.34 per cent.
The work of draining Russian
marshes. activcy carried ON fer several
fearS past, has resulted in reelaiming
more than 10000 acres, Of which
$50, 600 are crown lands. The canals
which have been built to drain this great
domain are llkew Sc adapted for ..oat-
no lumber from the forests which they
oene rate, to market.
1t is estimate that from 450. coo 20
700. 900 tons of charcoal are annually
made in the Unite Sta'es. No better
way to get through forests. 1t was this
which, more II an anything else, de-
orived Ireland of hers. Few countries
ire now more barren of timber, a..
though tradition AYERS that Il 5 luirrel
you'd once travel from tree to tree rom
Antrim to Kerry.
The mines in the Wood River and
Saw Tooth districts o Idaho will, it is
estimated, yie.d $500 1000 in bullion
Turing the present year, which Is double
The yield o. the Territory OF idaho three
Fears ago, when these districts were
unknown. New discoveries OF value
are constantly beng made in these dis
r:ctS. The amount OF capital invested
n the Wood River district alone this
year will be over Sl,0O0,00O.
The first snow storms for the past
fourteen years sui cicnt to wh;ten the
ground. have been as follows: 1869, Oc-
.obcr %; 1870, October 81; 1871, No
vember II; 1872, November 20; 1873,
No ember Il; 1874. November 20; 1873,
November l; 1875, October Is; 1877,
November 20; 1878, Decem er 9; 1879,
November 3: 1887. November II; 1881,
November l5i 1852, November IN.
o. PcayHHt.
What is known rs the Royal Lin
tied Express ira n on The Pennsylvania
Railroad, as it is made up daily, repre-
sents over Sl20,O 900 in cost Of rolling
stock. The engine is put down at Sl2,-
90; the baggage car at $1,000; smoking
car. 5000; dining room Car, $l2. 900;
I've Pullman cars. SlS,O00 each. Crd!-
nary express trains are rated at 1888. 800,
as, engine and tender. so, 500; baggage
car, 8 600; postal car, 50, 900; smoking
car, 5000; two ordinary passenger
ears, $4,000 each, and three palace
ears. S15, 900 each.
Some interesting statistics of the
public obs rvator.es of the world have
just been published. Their NUM- er is
l18; 81 being in Europs, , IN Asia, in
africa. y in America and in Oceania
OF the European Observatores Prussia
has 90, Russia 10. England II, Italy 9,
Austria 8, France s. Sw tlerland !, and
Sweden ,. Span, Portugal. Holland
and Norway each possess ?, Will thei Q
IS only one in Greece. Belgium and
Denmark. The most ancient observa-
tory in Europe and in the world is that
OF Levden. hav'n g been founded in
1852; then co mes Copenhagen, founded
in 1887; Par 3. in 1867, and Greenwich.
in 1878. The Moscow observatory is
the oldest in Russia, da'ing from 1850.
Prussia. now the richest country in the
world in astronomical observatories,
had none before lS0J.