Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1879 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Tiie farmers of Minnesota harvested this year a bushel of wheat for every inhabitant of the United States. The Paris Bon Marche was visited on October 6 by 64,921 persons, and the money taken amounted to 1,135.372 francs. The Sisters of Charity in the United States numbered at a recent enumeration 1,179, in charge of 106 establishments. The latest British emigration.returns show that 55,019 persons emigrated in the last quarter—36,llo were English, 6,727 Scotch, and 12,182 Irish. A curious calculation has been made by a continental statistician as to the amount drawn by various sovereigns from the civil list. According to this it appears that the Czar has $25,000 per day and the Sultan $18,000: The number of men drafted into the army and navy of Prussia in the military year 1878-9 was 86,489. Of this number there are only 2,265 who had not received a common school education, while 78,611 had been educated in elementary' German schools, and 5,613 in schools for Polish or other non-German-speakmg children. Disregarding the small Province of Hohenzoliern, the best educated Province, judging by this military test, was Schleswig-Hol-stein, where only two j and five-tenths per cent, were without elementary education. • The population of the globe may be roughly assumed at 1,421,000,000, divided thus: Europe, 309,000,000; Asia, 824,000,000; Africa, 199,000,000; Oceanica, 4,000,000; America, 85,000,000. It has been calculated from the mortality tables of known countries that the annual number of deaths throughr out the world is 35,693,350, or that, in other words, 97,790 persons die every day. On the other hand, the balance of population is more than kept up by births at the rate of 104,800 per day. Seventy new lives are ushered in every minute of the twenty-four hours. The value of the cab-horse in Paris which, from accident or age, is no longer useful for business purposes, is estimated at about $13.50, apportioned as follows: Skin, $2.72; hair, 20 cents; blood, $1.25; nails, 2 cents; shoes, 86 cents; viscera, 32 cents; tendons, 6 cents; intestines, 20 cents; grease, $1; bones, 46 cents; flesh, $7. The ultimate destination of.the skin is the tanpit, the tendons are use<t for glue, the feet for oil, the bones for animal black, the blood for Prussian blue, while the horseflesh finds its place as a piece (le resistance in the cheap restaurants. Persons apparently in connection with the German Government repeat in the German press that the Russian troops stationed in Poland and Lithuania have, within the last few months, been increased to something like 500,-' 000 men. One half of these, arc • stationed In the kingdom of Poland, Liking in flank the provinces of East Prussia, West Prussia, Silesia and Posen, the other half being distributed between Riga and Kieff. According to the Molva, the leading financial paper of Russia, the last Eastern campaign cost the Czar 1,600,000,000 roubles, and 200,000 lives. This is nearly' twice as much as has been hitherto assumed.

Whatever may have been the cause in past times, it is evident now that Brooklyn-has no legitimate right to the distinctive name of “The City of Churches.” Figures derived from the census of 1870 show that she is far behind other cities of this country in proportion of churches to population. Of prominent cities there are at least ten that go ahead of her. She has only one church for every 1,721 of population, while Washington, which deserves the name that Brooklyn wears, has one for every 982. Cleveland* has oiie for every 1,044; New Orleans one for every 1,345; Cincinnati one for every 1,350; Baltimore one for every 1,412, and Boston one for every 1,666. St. Louis is nearly as well ofl for churches as Brooklyn, having one for every 1,852 of population.