Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-12-22
STATISTICAL SLIPS

TEE total consumption Of spirits In ire
land last year was 4, 954,428 gallons, or over
gallon per head for every man, woman
aud child.
Il has been computed by q Western statis-
tician that the people Of the United States
spend more than 81, 10000 every year for
chewing gum.
. TEE total wheat crop of Minnesota and
I Dakota for this year is placed at 38, 498, 600
bushels, for which the farmers will receive
s3o,7s 600, being $4,000 more than last
year.
IT is computed that this years corn crop,
= badea ss4 railroad shipment, would fill
2,S7S,57l curs, and make a train that would
reach 49, 40 miles, two-thirds of the ws.y
around the world.
IHE Agricultural Department estimates
the present crop Of wheat at Al, Oo0, GOO
bushels in round numbers. The Farmers
Reuie,c places the total at 419, OOO, 600 The
actual product in 1887 was 456, OOO, 600.
IT is estimated that there are 8, OOO, 900 men
IN America who get shaved three times a
week. That means an expenditure of thirty
cents week, or $3.50 a year, for each
man, or for the 5000, 600, $4,000, 900 an
nually.
The French national debt is stated to be
the largest in the worlds, 600, 600, 900; an
nual interest 264, 100000. Thus the interest
alone IS nearly $4,000, 900 more than the
total wants Of the United States Govern
ment. The per capita tax Of the French
people IS SIS, perhaps the largest Of any peo-
pie. The President receives salary of
1853, 000a year.
. The Farmers ReuteD estimates that the
yield Of corn in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa.
Missouri Kansas and Nebraska, the chief
corn-groWing States, will be 1886, 1S4,S53
bushels, an increase OF 6544, 77559 $50 Bushels
as compared with $50, 425OOO bushels, the
yield reported by the Department of Agri-
culture for 1887. The total corn crop Of 1888
IS estimated at 2, 11O, 800, $50 bushels
DURING the past year Great Britain has
paid out for cattle slaughtered on account
Of pleuro-p neumonia-fo diseased cattle,
s107, 600; for healthy cattle in contact, Sll4,-
600; on account of swine slaughtered owing
to swine fever, $40, 600 for diseased swine
and $4,000 for healthy swine in contact;
making total drain on the country caused
by these diseases amounting to .s332,OO0
THERE were 1922 patents issued last
year, and Of these but 1,0S3 were granted to
Southerners. Texas led the Southern
States, q patent being granted for every
b.OU6 texans. Florida came next. MiSsis-
slppi's ratio was one patent to every rs, 146
of her population. Alabama, III spite OF the
recent great mechanical development of the
State, was credited with but "a inventions
in the year.
TIE United States has more than SIX
times as many miles of railroads as Great
Britain, but the cost of construction was
only twice as much as Great Britain's. In
1887 the gross earnings of the roads of the
United States, with six times the length of
road, were about three times those OF Great
Britain. Our operating expenses were g. As
per cent. of the gross receipts, while in En-
gland they were but 1921 per cent.
TIE last bulletin of the American Geo
graphical Society quotes NJ. Ganeval as
showing that the world is not yet over
crowded. Allowing five acres to each in
habitant, he finds that Europe has room for
an additional population OF 115,00o,OoO,
Africa for 1,l26, 00O, 900, Asia for 400, 0o0,
600, Oceanica for 515,000,000 and America
for 2,009,000,0OO. The frozen regions OF
Asia and Europe are deducted from the
available space, but Arctic America is
/ sumed to be fit for cultivation.