Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1880 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

The Leadville Herald feels safe in predicting that from January, 1880, to January, 1881, there will be shipped from Leadville alone $50,000,000 worth of bullion. The quantity of coal raised in Germany in 1878 was 89,429,308 tons, and in 1877 it was 30,428,774 tons. In 1878 the quantity of lignites raised was 10,471,117 tons, as compared with 10,644,927 tons in 1877. A fact worth remembering in connection with sealskin is that after it has been exposed to rain or snow it should be first well shaken and then hung up to dry in a room where there is no artificial heat. If dried by a fire or furnace heat the fur becomes matted together and defaced. —Miss Corson. With regard to the degree of temperature at which men can work in tunneling high mountains, Professor Dubois Raymond says that it is possible that work can be carried on for a short time at sixty degrees centigrade if the atmosphere is dry, but not beyond forty degrees when the air is saturated with moisture. Up to noon on December 29th there were during 1879 in New York 28,821 deaths, 25,428 births and 8,402 marriages. Consumption carried off 8,954 victims. The Registrar of Vital Statistics says contagious and zymotic dis-

mam have been the moat fruitful canaaa of death during the year. Consumption is really the moat formidable disease that prevails in New York as re garde fatality. The improved drainage caused some reduction in the mortadity fron the disease. Pneumonia and bronchitis also contributed largely to the mortality. The disease of measles has recently become more prevalent than usual, and seems to be of a malignant type. The mortality has been more prevalent in tenements than in any other olass of dwellings; from small-pox there hare been more deaths than usual. The health of the city has not been better than in 1878, which was an exceptional year, but New Yorkers have had comparative immunity from contagious diseases of a malignant "Tuk following interesting table has been prepared at the Agricultural Department from estimated and reported crop returns for the season just closed: 1878. Product, VSml Wheat, bu 420,128,400 833ft.345.424 Com, bu.... 1488418,750 44UJH,406 Oats, bu. iiaamjoo M>],otMao Rye, bu .... 25.842,780 13482428 Barley, bu 42.246,50 24,483415 Buckwheat, bu 12.14ft.KJ0 ft,454,120 Cotton, bales 5418.009 . 1*1,864,041 Tobacco, Ibe .. 8924*8,700 22,187,428 Hay, tons w.oOftJss 285448,788 Potatoes, bu..... ..... 121,128,050 78,068,125 Total 81,488470400 1870. Prr diet. Value. Wheat, bu 448,755,000 24HH.00840 Com, bu 1444400,000 5*>.250,C00 Oats, bu 804458,000 120,865400 Rye, bu 28,648400 16,608,000 Barley, bu 40,184400 23,825400 Buckwheat, bu 18,146, fiso 7,800,488 Cotton, bales 6.020487 231,000400 Tobacco, lbs 884.06d.ft60 21415401 Hay, tons 85,848,000 325.851,280 Potatoes, bu 181400,000 78,971400 Total 81,904,480450 The statistician of the Agricultural Department is gathering material upon which to base a careful estimate of the total increase in certain other values during the year just closed. This will include the increased value of real estate and of mining property. He expresses the opinion, based upon material already gathered, that it will not fall below 91.000,000,000.