Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1869 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Sceantoe, Penn., has four perteffieea. Female barbers ere oomlag into ftefafcm in London. 1 . ;i si jl Tnna is an editor in Paris whe>,hea fought 00 duels. fvm Americans are on the Russian railroad staff jsjssfisysas?* —^ The great German oculist, Yon Grub, has a professional income Of f lQOjlNf a year. >- Tun emigration to Kansas this spring is said to be withoqfcpreoedaatin-the-his-tory of the State. „ . , In Tonltunne county, Cel, there has been laid an iron water pipe, 8,800 bet long and 11 inohes in diameter. A Bridgeport (Conn.) cartridge company has received an order from' Spain for ton millions of cartridges. Juarez, the Mexican President, is 88 years old, bat does not look to he over 40. He has one son and six daughters, The Empress of Austria kissed over 100 babies while journeying through Croatia, and smiled upon their mothers. ’ w ~ lx England clergymen may be trsnaported for fourteen years far marrying people after 18 u. without special lieemse. Texas has now within her borders more than 8.000,000 head of cattle, and can export annually 1,000,000 beeves, A company for the manufacture of artificial limbs has been formed at jPtttsburgh, and every member of theOrtftoizaiion has lost a leg. It is said that the trees pleated by one lowa firmer have raised the vAlue of adjoining lands from five to ten dollars par acre. A New York miller compelled his son, aged 14 years, to make the preliminary arrangements to his suicide, and then deliberately killed himself. j > Teortt-two thousand five hundred and eighty-six emigrants arrived at Mew York, from Jan. Ito April 7. Last year for the same time the number was 29,889. Tee value of Canadian cattle imported into the United States during the first throe months of 1888 was s2Bß,2Bß—nearly double the value of those Imported daring the same period of 1888. t.. . : ; a An English chemist, after a careful analysis of “ golden-hair fluids,” asserts that they are composed of diluted nitric and muriatic adds, with traces, in some instances, of sulphuric add. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that farmers who have their grain manufhotusd into floor, and then sell the flour in any manner, mkst pay * license to the Government. The Planter'e Banner earn that the planters of Louisiana will make as much again rice in 1889 as they made last year. The crop last year was 821,911,844 sacks. A sack contains 180 pounds.. The oldest house in the United States retaining its original form is to be found in Neponset, Maaa It was built by John Minot about the year 1840, and is still In good repair. The family still hold possession of it. A* Cornwall, Vt, recently, William Hurlbnt starved himself to death. He waa seventy yean of age, a bachelor, and wortheome #3,000; but having, lest f 180 through robbery, he became despondentafraid of coming to poverty. Mrs Beecher Stowe gives np her Florida plantation, as she bought it at a military tax sale, which holds not good, and the former owner makes successful claim—paying Mrs. Stowe the price she paid for the estate. Tee Clinton (La) Democrat that quantity of tea leaves from the Chinese toepiant grown in his garden to more than suffice for the requirement of his household. Ie Maine, daring the pert season jmice have done greet damage. Millions of young fruit trees have been killed, young forest trees injured, and grass rained. In a Dixfleld orchard containing 1,800 grafted frees, only about five hundred con be saved. A |2BO dzakohd ring wm lort from a lady’s frank, broken in banditti r, at the Cleveland depot, a few days sines On going to look for it, she found a party •weeping the floor, who had swept the ring some fifty feet without discovering It One of the Philadelphia papers sold 95,000 copies of the edition containing an account of the suicide of Twitehel! and the hanging of Eaton, and the demand for a morning journal was so great that it was reprinted on the following morning. Ruby valley, in Nevada, is so-celled on account of the immaiue number of rubies found in the sands of the mountain streams flowing through it These gems, though very beautiful and perfect, are too small to be merchantable, the largest only being of the size of a pin-head. Maem.ee, the German astronomer, has measured the heighth ofl,oßß mountains in the moon. Twenty-two of tbaae ere higher than Mount Blanc, which is within a few feet of being three miles high, and stE are above 19,000 feet The highest observed mountain ia the moon is 24,944 feft. Th*> number of bankruptcies in Bugland last year was 9.106, an increase of 201 over the year previous Daring the year dividends woe paid in 1,714, but ia 8,489 there were no dividends. The gross proceeds realized from bankrupt estates bankruptcy courts amountoS*tofiß7Rooß. A »ntE near the Cape ot Good Hops caused by the long continued heat rad drouth,devastatede ttsrt of <»*Wtty4oo os Uea long, end varvingin breadth from 15 to 180 mlk*. Tie me broke out on the 9th of February, when the heat UmEqjhohtt^^yj^B^^erae I: •*"*everprevlooalyknows. Severalperja Portsmouth, N. H, a scientific indiA CURIOUS case was *£???" York courts the other day. I«18»4>John rad Winalfred Ward wtra unhid barter lationship existing between them. Tip wife, after thirty yeeraof ertf .Eppori, has now recovered |BO,OOO from the estate of her husband. •>.i

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