Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-20
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Great Things Expressed in Very Little
Space.

Great Things Expressed in Very Little
Space.
The corn crop of 1889 is estimated at
2,26S, ,299, ,0S3 bushels.
The total amount of educational gifts in
this country last year was $5,0o0,000.
One hundred and seventy-fve out of the
355 colleges in this country publish papers.
A handkerchief in the possession of the
Empress of Russia is said to have cost
81, 500. 1t took seven years to make it.
The new United States cruiser which
will be constructed at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard will be limited in cost to S1,100,000.
The registered State militia of the
States is 99,201. The number of men
available for military duty in case of war
is S,331 ,227.
During a period of five days recently
Kansas City shipped forty-eight cars of
1--we hogs to the City of Mexico, in addition
to the large shipments of packing-house
products.
The total number of guns in the British
navy is 2,494, exceeding the combined
totals of Germany, Italy, Russia and Aus
tria. The total number of guns of the
French navy is 1,7O5.
Taking the consumption of meat in
Great Britain as basis, this country con-
sumes 100000 tons of dressed meat a
year, or nearly half as much as all Europe,
whose consumption is nearly $4,000 tons
annually.
During the nine months ending Septem-
L. .r-o- b,,nJra1 hucipacc outar-
prises of Importance were started in
Southern States. The amount invested
was $154, ,S49, 900, or S33, 100000 more than
during the same period in 1888.
The people of Japan are learning to en-
iov other kinds of food besides fish and rice.
According to statistics issued short time
ago, the number of cattle slaughtered in
Japan in 1879 was 10000. In 1855 this
number had increased to 10000, in 1886
to 130,5O0, and in 1888 to 100000.
According to one authority, the wheat
production in a number of countries, among
them the United States, increased 154,-
100000 bushels in 1889, while there was a
decrease in other countries amounting to
l66,000,000 bushels. Russia's share of the
decline is 100000 bushels, while the
United States is credited with an increase
of 81 100000.
The prominent items required for max
ing 735, ,737 $3.50 pounds of tin-plate brought
to the United States last year are. in round
numbers: 100000 tons of ore, 325, 900 tons
limestone, 1,750. 900 tons coal, 317 900 tons
pig iron, 5,250,000 bushels charcoal, $780,
600 pounds lead, 26,250,000 pounds tin,
10,500,000 pounds tallow, 3,250,000 pounds
sulphuric acid, and about 100000 feet
of lumber.
The number Of students of Wesleyan
College this year is larger than ever before
-225 persons being enrolled. The total
number of students at Harvard this year
is more than 2,100, During the past year
nearly S15l, 900 have been given to Will
Jams College. Denver University has
lately been the recipient of gifts amount
ing to $4,000. Twelve hundred vol
umes were added to the Harvard library
last year.
Germany has $4,000 miles of railroad
Austria and Hungary, 1890; Great Brit
ain and ireland, 1900; France, q 400
Russia, 17,S00 Italy, 1900; Belgium,
5000; Netherlands, 1900; Switzerland,
1900; S ,ain, $500 Portugal, 1,1OO; Den
mark, 1900; Norway, 1000; Sweden,
1900; Servia, 800; Roumania, 1900;
Greece, $50 Turkey, etc, 900; total Eu-
rope, 129, 1900. The total for the world is
342, 400 miles.
Professor Presenius, of Wiesbaden, after
a long series of chemical analysis, declares
that an egg contains as much nourishment
as pound and an ounce of cherries, a
pound and quarter of grapes, pound and
half of russet apple, two pounds of goose
berries or four pounds of pears, and that
ia pounds of grapes, 127 pounds of russet
apples, 1872 pounds of pears and 327 pounds
of plums are equal in nourishment to 100
pounds of potatoes.
The Royal George, which was launched
from the Royal Dockyards of England in
1899, and which was the most fornid-
able war-ship at that time, cost in round
numbers 1888, 900, and this sum included
the expense of coppering and copper bolt
ing, of masts, yards, rigging, sails, anchors,
cables and all other boatswains' and car
penters' stores. The Royal George was
the then terror of England's enemies; she
carried 100 guns, was 100 feet long, %
broad, and was of 2,2S6 tons. The ship
which at the present time corresponds with
I her at the head of the British navy is the
Trafalgar, the original cost of which, ex-
elusive of armament, was in round num-
bers S4313,970, or nearly s, 100000 more
than that of the first English man-of-war
of 1889. This formidable engine OF naval
warfare is 342 feet long and 73 broad, hay-
ing tonnage of 1l,940.
Economy is Wealth.