Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Ok Ibe 650 conVictfe in the Tennessee Penitentiary there is mot one nek in the i Hospital. , The European city which has made tbe -greatest proportional progress of Into, yean is Hanover. In 1667'uie population was 74,000; in 1875, 107,000. or forty-four per cent, of increase. In the meantime Berlin gained thirty-eightpeT cent.; Antwerp, twenty-four; Vienna ayd Copenhagen, sixteen; Munich, JRqtterdam and Tne Hague, thirteen; Dresden, twenty-six; Edinburgh and Hamburg. twenty; Paris, two; Stockholm, aina; Amsterdam, eight; Leipsic, forty; Frankfort, thirty-orte. The openness of the featSeTS of fowls, whig! do not Throw oTßrVhe water well, like those of most birds, enables them i to cleanse’ themselves easier from insect* and dirt, by dusting their feathers findthen shaking off the dirt and these minute pests with the dust/ For thifc purpose one or more ample heaps of sifted ashes or very drv sand or earth for them to rollin' must be placed in the sun, and, if possible, under shelter, so as to be warm and perfectly dry- > The dust heap ip as necessary to fowls a& water for washing is to human beings. Ifo lßnnsee their feathers and skin from 'varßtin and impurities, promotes the eutfcuiar or skin secretions and is materially instrumental in preserving their heaMh. If they should be muoh. troubled with insects, mix in the heap Wood ashes and a little flour of sulphur. — N. T. Herald. The following table of comparative prices of farm produce ip New xerk at the epd of 1878 and - 1879 will be found of use to all who have followed the fun' of the articles under the head of Crop rd. Market Reports the past year. It hot expected generally, by dealers that prices will fall much below present rates for some time to come unless it Hjßf be for dairy products and cotton: , 1878. ,-—1879. Butter, creamery. 20 @ 28 29 ® 38 * dairy.. . 15 © 20 21 & 33 Cheese, factory... 8 (<t 9X 11 (ft 13M a dairy. ... 5 8 9 ® 12 a Cbttoq, middling. BH<ft 9\ 12*ift 13>i Wheat, spring ... 83 & 96 177 ©l4B “ . winter.... 1 00 «Klo9 I*3 ©15854 Rye.,,. 66 © 80 68 (ft 97 porii, western...... 45 @ 48 82 <& MX Oats, western 80 4t> -‘MM 60 664. Barley, State, 8-r’d 76 ft 80 70 & 80 “ “ 4-row'd 86 (& 96 75 & V 0 “ Canada.. 90@120 flo@lo7 Hops ;. . 6rm 15 83 A 1 40 Potatoes 200 (ft 2 87 1 00 (ft 2 12 Cattle 7 60 ©U 00 876 OH 60 “ average.. 860 & 925 48 Bboep Bk@ 64 4 (ft «% Lambs 4ii(ft 6 8 @ 71* Hogs, live, 34» ©3 16 475 600 •• dressed.. 3!* (ft 4M s«<ft 8H —lotva State Register. A report just issued by the municipality of Berlin gives some interesting information as to the growth .of the population of that city. At the end of the seventeenth century, when London and Paris each contained considerably more than 100,000 inhabitants, Berlin was an unimportant town, with a population of little over 10,000. It was enlarged and embellished under the great elector and the two first Prussian Kings; and inthe ’time of Frederick the Great, at the beginning of the present century, its population had already risen to about 150,000. It increased still further after the close of the war with Napoleon and during the long peace that followed, but at the end of 1860, though the municipal district of Berlin had Been considerably extended, it did not contain much more than 500,000 inhabitants. During the sixteen years that followed, however, its population was almost doubled. This has not been the case with any town of the same size except New York. N|ace 1877 the population of Berlin has been over 1,000,000, and it is. now the largest city in Europe after London and Paris.