Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1879 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

The quantity of coal raised in Germany in 1878 was 39,429,308 tons, and in 1877 it was 30,433,774 tons. In 1878 the quantity of lignites raised was 10,-’ 971,117 tons, as compared with 427 tons in 1877. The Titusville Heralds report of the oil trade for October shows that there were 268 wells completed, 63 in the lower country and 205 above, giving a production of 5,108 barrels, with an average of 19 barrels to each well. In September there were 246 wells finished, producing 4,606 barrels, with an average of 18} each. Up to the present time the advances to Ireland by the Imperial Government of Great Britain, in the way of loans for public works, have amounted to £20,000,000 in round numbers, of which nearly £6,000,000 has been remitted, over £4,000,000 lent for the relief of the laboring poor, and above £1,000,000 more for river-drainage and navigation. The total repayments to the Treasury have been £10,&5,000. In 1816, the population of all the territory which now forms the German

Empire amounted to 24,831,396 souls. According to the last census, there were 42,727,360 inhabitants in the same districts; so that the population has increased at an average annual rate of 0.9 per cent. From 1816 to 1834, the average yearly increase was 1.16 per cent; from 1834 to 1852,0.88; from 1852 to 1867, 0.75; and from 1867 to 1875, 0.85 per cent. The Augusta (Ga.) CftromcZe and Constitutionalist says it is an encouraging fact that the cotton sold in that city the previous week, as compared with the corresponding week of last year, owing to the advance in prices,? makes a difference in favor of the f ' planter of about SIOO,OOO. The amount of cotton sold in October, this year, int. the Southern States, will net producers from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 more than the sales for October last year. This is not from the larger sales, but from the increased price of jeotton. ‘ v Five and a half millions of dollars are spent every year by the Russian Government upon the military schools. There are twenty sergeants’ schools, twenty-two military gymnasiums, two military teachers’ seminaries, seven officers’ schools, the institute of the Imperial pages, the military topographical school, the naval school, the naval academy, the naval artillery school, the naval engineer school, the military general academy, the military artillery academy, the military engineer academy, four military veterinary schools, the military medical academy, the military law school and academy—in short, there is only wanting a military theological academy.