Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-23
INTERESTING STATISTICS.

A MILLION cigarettes are smoked in London every day.
 VERMONT has TIPS pensioners, accord ing to the latest statistics.
 THE excess of women over men IT England and Wales is estimated at T6o, 900.
 DURING the year ending December 80, ,954, T73 persons crossed tho Brooklyn | bridge by railway and S,l95,GS7 on foot.
 IT is estimated that Santa Barbara County, Cal, contains thirty bco farms, with o,35O beehivcs. The output of honey this year was 10000 pounds.
 RECENTLY statistics show that during the last ten years to every forty-nino marriages performed in New Jersey there has been one divorce.
 DURING the past year $s,5G2,753 were embedded from corporations, private persons and tho United States Govern ment. Most of the money is being spent in Canada.
 GERMAN emigration to this country is diminishing. The number of departures from January to October was about g., 1000, against 99,00O for tho same time last year and 100, 900 in 1885. FOR the twelve months ending with November the exports of this country amounted to $S15, ,92O.077, against $679,- | 233, ,O11 last year, and the imports to S771, ,22o, ,167, against S716,935, 705 last year.
 TIE immigration to this country for the last eleven months has been esti- mated at 407,237, against A9S.59l in eleven months of 1888. Franco sent us tho most immigrants, viz, 92,027; Scot land, 59,17s; Germany, 59,6Oo; Russia, except Poland, 41,22G; Poland, 3l,61+; | Ireland, 27,6l0.
 TIE schedule for service by the great guns is thought to be as follows: Tho l l6O-ton gun, with good luck, can be fired | 95 times before becoming unfit for scrv-
 ice; the 67-ton gun 127 times and the 45- | ton gun 15O times. The cost of each | round for the big one Is G327; ELSA for tho | 67-tonner and EOS for tho 45-tonncr. TIE United States has an area of moro | than 44O, 1000 square miles of coal fields. | and more than 100, 1000, 900 tons of coal
 wcre mined in this country last year.
 enough to run a ring around the earth nt tho center 5ts feet wide and 5ia feet l thick. Competent scientists say that | there is enough coal in the United States
 to supply the world for the next 2,O0o years.
 TIE number of persons employed in
 1888 in and about mines in the United | Kingdom under the coal mines regula-
 tion act was 534, ,935, of whom 3,935 were
 women working above ground. In these
 mines there wcro S2l fatal accidents and | SSS deaths. There was ono fatal acci- dent for every 653 persons employed, | fnr
 ployed.
 A sTATIsTIC1AN gives the following
 table, showing what q comparatively
 small number of flowers are odorifcrous:
 Of the 4,2OO kinds of flowers which grow
 in Europe only 430 or 10 per cent.
 arc odorifcrous. Tho commoncst flow
 CTS are tho white ones, of which there
 are 1, ,104 kinds. Less than onc-lifth of these arc fragrant. Of tho 95l kinds of yellow flowers, v arc odorifcrous: of
 tho s23 red kinds, S4; of the 594 blue
 kinds, Sl; of the POS violct-blue kinds,
 l3. Of 24o kinds with combined colors, , 2S are fragrant.
 THERE were about 300 distinct cpl denies of influenza in Europe between
 1910, when the disease was first noted al , Malta, and 1S5O. In 1129 the whole ot Europe Suffered severely. According , to statistics published by the Novoe l Nrcmya, the disease caused sos death> in London in one week. and in Nicnn; . G0,0U0 persons were affected. In 113 | and l143 there were further outbreaks | and tho deaths in one week in Londol | amounted to l,000. In 1115 domestic an imals were first attacked by it. In IFS
 4O,O coo persons foll ill of it in St. Peters , | burg in twenty-four hours In St. Peters | burg quininc is now served out daily t, , the troops, mixed with vodka.