Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1880 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Taxable fai Texas amounts t0t807.484.5M. Last year thirty-three duels were fought in France. Last year Colorado produced >2,310,000 worth of eoal. There b one cow to every four persons in this country. The Hooaac tunnel b stated to have cost over $19,600,000. There are 16S daily newspapers pubIbhed in Great Britain. In England. Scotland and Wales there are 2,211 Catholic priests. Over 1,000 cheese factories are operated in New York State. Guilford County, N. C., kills and selb 200,000 rabbits annually. Tn State of Kentucky paid 110,000 bounty for fox-scalps last year. . The School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia received >19,013 last year and expended >18,504. The reading room of the British Museum contains three miles of bookeases eight feet high. Camada had 1,903 failures, aggregating >29,847,937, last year, against 1,9>7 failures and >23,908,687 liabUities In 1878. About >1,000,000 are Invested and 2,000 persons engaged in the manufacture of shoes in Auburn, Me., and4,000,000 pairs of shoes were turned out last year. Since the discovery of petroleum in 1869, Pennsylvania produced up to the end of 1879 not less than 133,262,639 barrels of crude oil, valued at >340,709,672. There are a great many men in New York worth >6,000,000, a large number whose wealth will reach >8,000.000 or >10,000,000, and there a few whose possessions will overreach >10,000,000. The first bag of flour made in California was at Horner’s mills, Union City, in 1863. In 1863 he raised 22,000,000 pounds of potatoes, which he sold for three cents a pound. Mr. Horner still lives on-hb ranch in Alameda County. A London paper, in tracing the mode in which 122 of the titled families in Kngland have acquired land, states that scarcely a dozen of the number got them by professional or commercial pursuits. The writer asserts that not one-tenth of the 5,500,000 acres possessed by the 122 was acquired for value received. Recent experiments in Germany go to show that in feeding- potatoes to milch cows they should be fed raw if milk is wanted, and cooked if butter is the object. In these experiments raw Statoes added to the regular food gave 2} pounds of milk per week, yielding 6} pounds of butter; while with cooked potatoes the yield was 248 j pounds of milk, which make 9j pounds of butter.