Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1879 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

. There are at least 2,000,000 gypsies in Europe. Of these Scotland has about 100,000, England 60,000, and Ireland perhaps half the latter number. Regent income-tax returns show that ninety persons in Great Britain exercising traaes and professions hftve incomes over #250,000, and 994 between $50,000 and $250,000. Philadelphia stands at the head of the morocco trade of the United States. During the busy season 1,080 dozen goat skins are daily tamed into mo rocco. This would require at the rate of 4,000,000 skins a .year. The Nominal strength of Russia’s army is 4,000,QQ0, but she \could not march mpre than 800,000, and, exclusive of the Cosgacks, not more .than 2,000,000 are to be regarded as trained soldiers. The army is tearfully addicted to drink. The capitoldome at Hartford, Conn., just gilded, has an area of 4,100 square feet, requiring 87,500 leaves of gold three and three-eighths inches square. The gold was twenty-three carats fine, and weighed three and * half pounds Pennsylvania is reported to have suffered to the extent of $5)00,000 from pleuro-pneumonia since its entrance into the State, and it was confined principally to the counties of Philadelphia. Bucks. Chester, Delaware and Montgomery. The area of British India, exclusive of native States, is 899,341 square miles, the number of inhaluted houses $7,048,524, and the population 101,096,608. The area oif the native States is stated at 575,265 square miles, and the population at 49,161,540.

The Japanese Government has in its service eighty Englishmen, thirty-one Americans, thirty Frenchmen, eighteen Germans, seven Dutchmen, four Italians, three Swiss, three Chinese, two Austrians, two Portuguese and one Russian, making 181 foreigners. It is estimated that the various cotton manufactories in and around Augusta, Ga., use $1,500,000 worth of raw cotton per annum. The annual sales from their product amount to about $2,000,000. The product from the Augusta flour and gTist mills yields $1,500,000 per annum.

Or the miles of telegraphic wire in use in the English colonies, India has 17,840 miles; Ceylon, 785 miles; New South Wales, 6,078 miles; Victoria, 2,886 miles; South Australia, 4,061 miles; Western Australia, 1,567 miles; Tasmania, 754 miles; .New Zealand, 8,807 miles; Queensland, 5,088 miles; and the Cape of Good Hope, 9,450 miles. On the continent of Europe, the land Is cultivated in mnch smAner parcels than is customary in England. According to M. Laverne, 50,000 proprietors in France possess each an average of 750 acres, 500,000 hare an avenge of 75 acres, and. 5,000,000 an average of 7$ acres,. In Belgium, where the land is even more minutely subdivided than in France, the average area of separate plots is given by Sir Henry Barron at 1.86 acres, r, - - In 1878 the acreage under wheat in the United States was 90,000,000 acres, or about ten times what it is inEngland, the increase since 1875 being estimated at 4,000,000 acres. The average yield per acre, however, is about kali the average yield per acre in the United Kingdom: Tt® •orwge under oa|s this country is now nearly 13,600,000 acres, and that tmder Indian oorn about 51,000,000 acres, the increase since 1870 being fifty and thirty-one per cent., re-