Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1880 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

houses” were burned in were built of pine boards. The Norman revived round dances in the twelfth century; the Behemians invented the redown, the Poles the polka and the Hungarians the maxourka and galop. The cotillon is as old as the time of Louis XIV. Three HUXDREt) and ninety-one soldiers’ orphans, now under the care of Pennsylvania, are to be discharged from Xrious soldiers’ orphan schools during e present year, as they reach the age al sixteen, yeans. About 15,000 varieties of colon are employed by the mosaic workers of Rome,* and each of these varieties has about fifty shades; so that in «dl 750,(XX) tints are afforded, which the artist can distinguish with the greatest facility. An elm tree at Wyoming, N. Y.» is said to be the largest in Western NewYork. The trunk at the base measures twenty-four feet fa circumference, and the spread of the branches, thirty-four feet from the ground, is one hundred feet in diameter. The number of suicides in France is at the rate of 628 per million for widowers, 273 for bachelors, and 240 for married men, and that of offenses against the person is fifty per cent., and against property forty-five per cent, less on the part of married than unmarried men. From statistics just published it appears that there areabout 75,000 houses in Paris, exclusive of public buildings. Their total value is estimated at £23,000,000. The superficies of the capital is put down at 20,000 acres. There are 600,000 yards of sewers. The population numbers 1,990,000, or about 100 inhabitants per acre, DuaiNO the year 1879 the deaths in New Hampshire of persons who attained the age of 90 years or over were 124, divided by sex into 45 men and 79 women. The ratio was one in about 2,566 of the population of the State. The average age of the men was 92 years 7 months and 26 days, and that of the women 93 years 6 months and 16 days. In the Whole number the average was 93 years 1 month and 20 days. The highest inhabited houses in the world are. says the Scientific American, in the Western Hemisphere; one, a miner's house on Mount Lincoln, Colorado, is 14,157 feet high. Another, in Peru, a railway. village, called Galera, is 15,645 feet high. Near this place is the celebrated railway tunnel of La Cima, which is being bored through the peak of the mountain. This tunnel is 3,847 feet long, and is 600 feet above the level of perpetual snow. The production of cider in France attains the very respectable annual value of 820,000,000. Much stress is being laid upon the importance of improving the quality as a substitute for the failing supply of wine and also as an article of export. Consignments of eider from France to South America have been made with profits, the article arriving in good condition, and finding a ready sale. Does this not suggest an opportunity for our American farmers?— Farmers' Review.

The following tabular statement, prepared by Sharon Turner with great research and labor, will present a proximate idea of the growth of Christianity through all the centuries. The number of believers at the close of each century was as follows: Century. About. ’Century. About. First . 500 000,Tenth.< 50.C00.000 Second 2 OXI,OOO Eleventh 70.000.0 IX) Third..!.... 5,000,000 Twelfth>o,o.o,ooo Fourth 10,000.0X1 Thirteenth... 75,000,000 Fifth 15.000,000 Fourteenth... 80,000,000 Sixth;.. 20,(0) OX) Fifteenthloo,ooo,ooo Seventh2t.an.UM Sixteenth .... 125.000.00) Eight h. :»,000.000 Sevent eent h .155,an.an Ninth 49,000,0 X) Eighteenth . .200,000,000