Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1895 — Facts About Our Country. [ARTICLE]

Facts About Our Country.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Less than one-half our farms are mortgaged. We produced in 1893 2,619,496,130 bushels of cornIn 1894 7,527,211 bales of cotton wereraised and packed. The parents of this country are blessed with 22,447,382 children. We raised in the Carolinas and Georgia 128:580,434 pounds of rice. We export $972,861,378 worth of goods, and import only $746,736,293. American sheep last year grew wool to the extent of 307,100,000 pounds. , The farmlands of this country are estimated to be worth $13,279,252,649. The real and personal property in this country is assessed at $17,139,903,495. Only about one-fifth of our country is straight up and down, like Switzerland. There are only 71,8 )5 divorced women in this country; there might have been more; We have not a debt of $6,000,000,000, like France, nor yet of £587,600,000, like England. The farmers and stock raisers of this country have live stock valued at $2,208,767,573. There are only 107,475 Chinamen in this country instead of 400,000,000,006, as thev have in China. Our 451 colleges have an income of $14,601,034, and fOnds vested or available of $94,500,758. Our coal mines procuce . 113,227,845 tons of bituminous coal and 46,i 850,450 tons of anthracite. I The. fishermen on our coasts and in our waters catch $45,060,000 worth of fish every year. Wo have not had thirty-one ad ministrations in twenty-four years, like the people of France. No nation save Great Britain coins ! a greater amount of gold every year than the United States.