Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1879 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

In 1878 the real and personal property taxed in the State of Nevada was valued at 828,246,009.89. This year the estimate is >28,786,047.27, an increase of >540,037.88. The values of the main crops of the United States for 1879 are estimated as follows: Corn, >525,000,000; beef, >270,000,000; wheat, >410,000,000; cotton, >270,000,000; rye, >15,000,000; oats. >150,000,000; barley, >25,000,000; buckwheat, >9,000,000; hay, >300,000,000; pork, >250,000,000. Forty-four and four-tenths per cent, of the white people who took the yellow fever during tne late epidemic in Memphis are said to have died; of the black people 16 6-10 per cent. died. There were altogether 1,537 cases of fever and 487 deaths, a total death percentage of 31 6-10. A famous English General says that in a British regiment of 1,000 men there are, in his experience, usually fifty men who, as a forlorn hope, will ao anything; that 900 men who would either gape or run wHI follow the fifty, and that the other fifty are curs who would cringe in a ditch u they could.

During the past season thirteen vessels have been engaged in codfishing in the North Pacific. Most of the fish were caught in the vicinity of the Choumagin Islands and the Ochotsk Sea. The total catch for the season was 1,499,000 fish, weighing about 3,000 tons. This was an increase over 1878 of more than 300,000 fish. Spain has 92 Dukes, 866 Marquises, 632 Counts, 92 Viscounts, 98 Barons. The whole number of persons bearing the titles of Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron and Lord in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is somewhere about 900, but of these only some 400 have seats in the House of Lords. Most of the rest bear merely courtesy titles. The actual returns of the present year’s crops in the South, as far as known, are interesting. The cotton yield is larger by half a million of bales than ever before in the days of slavery; The tobacco crop is greater by twelve million pounds than last year, and the E reduction of sugar exceeds by two undred thousand hogsheads that of 1878. During 1878 the Onondaga Salt Works produced, in the aggregate, 7,126,197 bushels. Up to a recent date this year, the yield is 7,276,062 bushels, .and there is no doubt that the production of the entire year will be very near 9,000,000 bushels, an increase of almost 2,000,000 over last year, and nearly equal to the largest yield in the histoiy of the trade. There has been a surprising development of the gold fields of Georgia. From a yield of >IOO,OOO in bullion four years ago the yield is now over >1,000,000 per annum, and is rapidly increasing. New mines are being opened and new veins discovered. The mining operations extend from Oglethorpe and Wilkes, on the right, to the Alabama line on the left, leaving little doubt that the whole of upper Georgia is rich with gold-bearing quartz. A German return which has been lately published gives the following particulars of the cost of building some of the leading continents theaters: The Stadt Theater, at Leipsic, built in 1868, cost altogether >420,000. The Court Theater, at Dresden, which was burnt down, and which was built between 1838 and 1841, cost >306,000; and the present theater, which took from 1871 to 1878 to build, cost >1,750,000. The Theater du Chatelet, in Paris, built between 1860 and 1862, cost >687,000. The Comic Opera House, in Vienna, built between 1872 and 1874, cost >418,000. The Theater Lyrique, in Paris, built between 1860 and 1862, cost >450,000. The Imperial Opera House, in Vienna, which took from 1861 to 1868 to build, cost altoS;ther >2,700,000. Finally, the Grand pera, in Paris, the building of which occupied from 1861 to 1875, cost >8,000,000. The troubled state of the relations between China and Japan gives interest to an estimate of the strength of the land forces of the former country, contributed to a German paper by a well-informed writer. He estimates the total strength of the army at 662,000 of all ranks. Of these 87,000, in round numbers, are cavalry; 195,000 form the field infantry and artillery, while the remaining 320,000 constitute the garrison of the two latter arms of the service. Although, however, the Chinese army may have this strength on paper, its actual numbers are much fewer. In making any calculation, also, of the armed strength of China, it must be remembered that such troops as really exist are dispersed over an immense area, embracing some 4,000,000 of English square miles, which is traversed by very few good roads; while there are no railways to facilitate the concentration of large masses of men.