Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1879 — TACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

TACTS AND FIGURES.

Switzerland has been visited this year by 1,400,000 strangers, a number whiofcexefeed* by- several thousands the avenge of thq : last years. , pleasurb gi-ound' hk' the berth pirtof Nqw'Y@rk/Cjtvy afld*B Wpctrng a Cqm,svrvatory anp Zoological Gt^den. Chy ofiHeta York atm cost of $46^91 mgs over tHe number erected during thrprecedlftgyeiF’" of flonomoiiST 1 i «'rwwJoah))i-li*> Ifflnihg MteafißohbfeH Hungary. Begun siraw 16,638 tnabirs,Tthait of. (Jothasd wM&tw things considered, is tfire tbAtet exefWlFie «|fcfl.of ..fifpWiectiirai Jefy jwwauteear ing Commissioners want 1,250, 000 ap-

jirttJiJ *>i!3 |r; • fa-j .v.; a mig&WjW vpar. and the breeds, now Juibfe ST.OOb to the sipiaro-mohl'and the poaoJired mMimfita have from 40,000 to, 48,000 filaments to.the square v inch. fti, ** »< ii i"<a*L THE. magwtude of the business of raising sweet-scented flowejra fqr tpeir pbrfiOTfe tfionfe fs indicated by tnh •fact that Europe find' British India aKm* Consume about 160,000 gallons erf handkerchief perfume every year. There ift one great perfume distillery aft Quines, in France, which uses yearly fthont 100,900 pounds of acacia flowers, 140,Owjioun'ds of rare flowey leaves, 32,000 pbtmds of jasmin* blossoms‘and 20,60 p pdunds of blossoms, together with an immense quantity of other Yhm terial-iidedifffir perrmne. r • ’—t -«i i 1 ('fk&viAkuM da Greece. —The popntlonof .the Kingdom of Greece-was; in in 1*71,41, had ricen ftp t67?,7K, ahmying ant increase of , 221, T ?Br. ih 4?30. When* the first census was taken, the, bopulfitioh’Was returned at So it has almost'doubled Within forty years, hi 1870/ Athens had a population of 48,000, bnt in 1879, it. Is setidown aft 74,000; while the Pirtcus, wiveb,- in 187 Q, had 11,000, has now.^oQo.Aft the the kingdom, nearh’ halt a oenfury ago, Athens was little better, than a village, White thdpSrtbf Plttehs/soifrfrasitOTuld b 4 cbnsMered‘ deserving of the nan# of arfoWn; diataft ecctat.' ' ui * ill Js 'TrrU orftp of cotton of 1878 and 18fd was the largest ever raised. The ben eiWps of 1853-fto 1861 inclusive, being J#ft orpps raised ,hr; slaye labor, npjnlpered 34,9^5,440;ha1ea. Tha tqn crops of 18715 to ' 187$ inclusive,; being tne tdn last 1 crops raised by free rabor, riUmbeired 41,464,743 i bhles. The df>the«ta ytotffbf fhee labor aWotmts tty dj4S9,iU3 Bales. The valutfof fthd tcili lartllcropsw.of ;-which tffboofttotal less than s2,soo,ooo,pQQn*&d has probably amounted to $3,000,000,000. The increase is progressive, the excess of the five last crops' over the five crops immediately preceding the war has been 3,932,416 bales.; T