Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1879 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Dr. Drysdale said lately that, where- * as the death rate among English in-, fants of the comfortable class is 80 per 1,000, in cities such as Liverpool and Manchester it is ,240 per 1,000, in some places even 300, and in Berlin it actually readies 500. Indigence is the main cause, he thinks. Ten years ago the imports of stationery into the United States were valued at $527,465, while we exported > but $3,777 in this line. For the fiscal year ending JuneUO, 1879, our imports of stationery were $126,862, ana our exports during the same period were $1,298,312. Dreadful times are at hand. In 542 100,000,000 people perished because three planets were in perihelion, according to Gibbon, and in 1665 a similar perihelion produced the London plague, and the dfcath of millions in Europe, Asia and Africa. In 1881 five planets will be in perihelion. What will become of us? In the official year terminating September 30, 1879, the Kingdom of Spain, exclusive of colonies beyond the seas, could boast of ninety-two Dukes, 200,000 horses, 866 marquesses, 2,500,000 of asses and mules, 632 Counts, 3,000,000 of horned cattle, ninety-two Viscounts, 23,000,000 of sheep, ninety-eight Bar-, ons, 4,500,000 of goats, 16,889 university students and 1,500,000 of hogs. The following is the annual death rate per 1,000 in the principal cities of the ■hid, compiled from the latest reMadras, 38; Paris, 22; Geneva, 25; .Brussels, 27; Amsterdam, 23; Rotterdam, 21; The Hague, 23; Copenhagen, 26; Stockholm, 18; Christiana, 15; St. Petersburg, 31; Berlin, 26; Hamburg, 26; Dresden, 21; Breslau, 28; Munich, 34; Vienna, 24; Buda-Pesth, 30; Rome, 35; Naples, 23; Turin, 27; Alexandria, 40; Brooklyn, 21; Philadelphia, 15; London, 22, and Baltimore 19. During the twenty-two years, from, March, 1857, to March, 1879, New York has received 5,732,183 immigrants. Of these, 2,165,232 were German, 2,02C»,071 were Irish, 742,271 were English or Welsh, 161,537 were Scotch, 124,703 were Swedes, 110,853 were French, 85,946 were Swiss, 50,581 were Italian,, and 49,097 were Norwegians. There were also 40,103 Dutch, 36,993 Danes, 28,086 Russians, 10,496 Belgians, and 8,952 Spaniards included in total. In 1879, the total number of immigrants who landed in New York was about 80,000.

The following figures, compiled from the returhs of twenty-nine important show the average life in years of certain items of material and equipment: Locomotives 16.91 Passenger cars 13.88 Stock ears....'. 9.00 Freight cars 10.8 Q Iron rails .-. 7JKkSteel rails ...14.67 Oak ties 6.77 Pine ties 3.75 Hemlock ties ' 5.41 Cedar ties 4.75 Truss bridges... :. 9.20 Trestle bridges 7.78 Pile bridges ...I 8.45 Joint fastenings 7.62 Telegraph poles r. 9.50 Fencing. ..... 8.65