Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1869 — FACTO AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTO AND FIGURES.

Foubtuk incomes in Hartford, Conn., exceed SBOO,OOO each. Ex-Sbmator Dixon, of Connecticut, returns an income SIOO,OOO. The area of Minnesota is largsr than the six New England States. The English railroads earn on an average £57 17s per mile per week. Hans Christian Andebsbh speaks four languages fluently, and reads four more. Thb highest store rent paid la New York is $60,000; the highest la Chicago SB2OOO. * Thebe are 107 esses of divorce pending in the Supreme Judicial Court for Middlesex, Maas. Thb number of persons who died from drunkenness in Russia, last year, was B,74B—seven s day. Smoking pipes to the aggregate value of fifty-two million franca were maau/kotured in France last year. All the sons of the Harpers brothers have bean admitted to the firm since the death of James Harper. A OREAT aquarium ia being constructed at Berlin, for which 8,000 living varieties of marine life have been collected. Moan than $330,000 has been spent since 1866 in decorating the Capitol at Washington with works oi art. ▲ big blast was recently made ia California. Twelve hundred kegs of powder wi re used and a mountain was blown up. I n Vienna last year seventy-one Roman Ca< holies were admitted to the Lathams churches, and eleven Lutherans turned Roman Catholics. Mas. Rachel Vbhtbocs died ia New Haven, Conn., a few days ngS, aged $6 yean—leaving 34 grandchildren, 49 greatgrandchildren, and 3 great-great grandchildren. Thb Tuckers, of Monson, Mass, are a long-lived family. Two died lately aged 96 and 100; ana there are fourstill living, of whom the oldest is 89 and the youngest 79. In California, four locust trees Isas then twenty years old were lately cut, and twenty-nine wagon hubs having been made from them the remainder mam more than four cords of firewood. Thb Houses of Parliament ia London cost $16,000,000 in gold, and it to now said that people of taste have a moat noble monument, and people of business a moat inconvenient house. Toads are sold in Paris at the ntte of fifty cents a dozen. The animal to used for the protection of vineyards and gardens from the ravages of insects that escape the pursuit of the birds. Taa average winnings of the gambling tobies at Erne, Baden, Wiesbaden, Hamburg and Manheim have, for the last ten years, amounted to an annual grand total of three and a half million doQara. No lbm than fourteen railway locosaotivee have exploded within tbs past seven months in the United States, killing twenty-nine persons outright, sad severely wounding a much, larger number. Mb. A. T. Stewart's property on Broadway aloae to worth about $5,000,000. Mr. W. B. Astoria real estate on Broadway to worth about $8,000,000. The Lorillard estate has $8,000,000 Invested la that thorough fore. A labgb sperm whale was recently harpooned on the coast of Madagascar. From it was obtained 286 pounds of ambergris, worth about $26,600. Sailors say that ambergris to produced by dtopepsia in the wham. A Boston merchant is the possimor of a business ledger 190 yean old. It was . formerly the property of Lieut Gov. Usher, of New Hampshire, and contains accounts dating back to 1678 which are aa legible as when written. saloons on a recent Sunday, and on tin following Monday lodged information against the dealers for selling liquor on the Sabbath, and received SIOO as the Informer's fee.

Colossi. Robbs* Jomraos, who has recently died, vu the second, hot eldest surviving, eon of the ex President He serred during the greeter portion of the late war, ana, when hie Esther became President he aasnmed the position of hie Private Secretary. Thb canary bird has been an object of traffic for flee centuries. Five handled years ago there was bat (me kind of ear nary bird, bat the original stock has been so mixed and adulterated that the varieties now number at least 50. Nbxt year is the centenary of American UniversaUam, and is to be duly celebrated by the payment of all debts and obligations resting on the various organisations of the denomination. A memorial monument at Washington, to oast SIOO,000, Is talked of Ik California, there is made, on an avertgv, from 550 to 550 gallons of wine to the acre. The four most productive of the winegrowing districts of Europe are: Italy, giving to the sere 441 W gallons; Austria auditor provinces, MS 5 5 gallons; France, 175 5-7 gallons; Nassau, M 7J4 gallons. Thb two Astor Library buildings cost $200,000, and the 187,000 volumes they contain cost $825,000. The revenue of the library from invested funds is $16,885 s year. This pays its expenses and leaves little or nothing for new books. Beast it is very poor in current literature., Path. d» Camaghac, n Parisian editor, has been branded a* a liar more than flve hundred times; has been spit upon in the street seven times, end suffered four t weeks of the nose and four public horsewhippings. He has fought nearly s hundred dub, for which offence he has been several times imprisoned, end now has sixteen challenges outstanding. Dumms last year tbq* %e?e tu.the United Kingdom of Grsrfßrttnlr«,6tt--000 acres under cultivation, of which 11,: 550,000 were devoted to cereals; 4,866,000 to vegetables; 5,500,000 to clover and roUticn rrasees; and 88,154,000 to permanent pasturage. England atone possessed 3,179,M0 cattle and 21.980,000 sheep. In •very 100 scree in England, 48 are urntnet la Wales, 56; in Scotland, 23; and in Ireland, 04. Ouru Dm, in Packard?tMeniHf tat K-fj^ss^ara ssst young man in Gotham—underwear ouly being enumerated: 1 pair of wvMtas smemUsw » awteEgal ItreSOsc pems*hea4heteMsf...», ~,^dS Tetal wsMtaf eaierweer W