Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1879 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

There are 600,000 land-holdings in Ireland, of which 10,000 only are £IOO a year, and only 80,000 above £SO a year, while there are 217,000 occupiers of land under £8 a year, of whom upward of 100,000 occupy mud cabins. The Russian navy now consists of 28 iron-clads, 4 frigates, 11 corvettes, 13 clippers, 21 steamers, 22 gunboats, 111 torpedo boats, 27 schooners and 117 sailing vessels. This armament is manned by 8,187 officers and 28,920 men. A locomotive can not be used continuously every day. It has to be laid off for rest, the same as a razor, after it has been used for a long time. The edge will come back to the razor. The engine will get rested and go off all right again. These curious statements are true. Paris has thirty-two theaters, properly so called, to which are attached 594 musicians and 3,290 actors and actresses; in addition, there are seventytwo cafes-chantants, with 483 musicians and 509 actors and actresses, and about 217 musical societies, with over 10,192 members. Total expenditures on the great bridge have been $10,860,570, and at the last meeting of the Trustees President H. C. Murphy said that if there was no delay in getting the necessary money the bridge would be completed in eighteen months, for an additional $1,700,000. Ex-Governor Hubbard, of Texas, estimates that the population of that State under the new census will reach three millions, and entitle the State, under the present ratio of representation, to twenty-two members of Congress, which exceeds that of any State at present except New York and Pennsylvania. Both in Norway and Sweden the women preponderate in number over the men. At the last census of Norway, in 1875, the total population was 1,817,000, of which 886,000 were males and 931,000 females, being at the rate of 488 males and 612 females to every 1,000 of the population. In Sweden the proportion of births is at the rate of 511 boys to 489 girls out of every 1,000; but the mortality is in favor of the females, for the census returns of 1876 showed 486 men to 514 women out of every 1,000 of the population. Dr. Fischer, of the Imperial German Post-office, has just published a pamphlet showing the comparative postal and telegraph statistics. The letter post of the whole world for 1878 amounted in round numbers to 3,300,000,000 letters, or about 9,250,000, daily; and the numbers have been increasing daily at an astonishing rate. Thus in Japan the number of postoffices in 1872 was 1,159, and in 1876 it had risen to 3,649. The number of separate articles which passed through the Japanese post in 1878 was 47,000,000, of which 25,000,000 were letters, 10,000,000 post cards, and 9,500,000 newspapers. Post cards were brought into use only in 1865, and now they are employed in almost every country of the world. The parcels post has, however, not yet got beyond the first stage of its development. The number of telegraphic aispatches 'sent in 1877 amounted for the whole globe to nearly 180,000,000, or an average of 863,°OO daily. —A Thanksgiving proclamation is interesting matter for the average turkey.