Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1869 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

■ 4 ProymvxmwohftvcbtMn organising in *ll the Turkish towns. Eabthquakm and small-po* coat Ban Francisco <200"806 last year. A cautcn bell has recently been heard for the first time in Cheyenne. In one of the Paris garden* to a camelia with |hlm-*ey*n hundred buds. Thk Bojitoa,Trotting Association offer prizes to the amount of <20,000 thia. year. Gen. Lame, co candidate with Breotanridge in 1860, has become a Roman Catholic. • l.iml.i: i.” Tbbbr are eight tunnela on the Penn syL/mtauffeilnonid, ringing frcta 209 to 3,612 feet.-.i-.-LH /S .-..I:" 1 MourirAtN troutover two feet long hare been found, in the inland streams of California. ~ ■7- ..I' The Dubuque Herald says that a census tween,, f4O «id <SO per week. A lady died at Columbia. Me., a few dayyagp,AM>® ( ««e of 104, who had Men four times,married, and yet died a widow. A Kott of female hair, measuring atx feet long; and weighing twelve ounces,, to owuedrby a Loudon hair Beecher say* he' receives about t <2sj--000 a year, and. gives one-thitd of it in charity and to applicants for aid. The Homan Catholic* of New, York have subscribed <44,500 toward the support of the American College In Rome. The 2,447 chinches of Great Britain last year gave 444,380 to foreign mis sions-ran average of about <75 each in gold. In the Island of Hawaii, there me two lakes, side by side, one of fresh water and the other salt Both are for above the level of these*. > ;i .. . f Ninete>m<wen»j»tms of the rice raised in (gfe United States to grown within a narfqw limit upon the seaboard of the Carolinas and Georgia After An expense of <19,000. and many tronthst work, the artesian well at Col us armory, in Hartford, Conn, has found rater. A Pittsfield I*4 recently sold *M muskrat skins of his own trapping, and with the avails thereof paid his last wlnt at school Th*-great. Australian nrcget of gold, “Welcome'Stranger,” founu by the despairing miners of Donolly, netted the finders <48,000. If you go, into a store and find the clerk lying on the counter asleep, you may know that thwfirm don’t advertise. thing for a> quiet Hfer-. '-•a,'.-, ,w In Lomkm, fifteen diamonds, weighing one carat, each, are worth about <1,500; one diamond, weighing fifteen caraft, brings from <12,080 to <15,000. A man in Kiizabeth, N. J., recently sent to a drug store for some medtaiue forhto hone, and the clerk, by mistake, nut up somethhig which killed fofir horses, valued When Prince Alfred was ** touring ” in Australia he made presents which coat him about <IB,OOO. When he returned home he brought In a bill for this item of expense, and the Government allowed ft. In removing the dsto-w of the Pacific House, m Bt. Joseph, Mo., a few days since, tbo dlsoovery was made that the fire was Still oundita. Nearly five months had elapsed &e house Was,burned. During the past winter not a flake o? snow fell m Portland, Oregon^Galy thraeor four nighfodlddce form, and the* only of the thickness of window glasa. Bowing and planting were going on all winter. The soßfary'system haa been nartiaity dispensed wfth In the' Pittsburgh (Pa) State Prison; and convicta have been allo wed to coma into, the corridors and have the chaplain preach to them, instead of being locked ra their cells: D. Richardson the building of the arch! tecteral portion of the monumant for <136,550. ... ■ All male-children bora in Prance this ’ear on Adfittot Ufc tMrbilrthday of Napoleon E, Whose parents wflj consent to their bearing the namebf Napoleon, are tube taken qnder the special protection of the Government.’ . A THREE-STORY brick house, eighteen by forty feet, and in the construction cP which 42,350 bricks wire unci, was re-' cently built,in Lancaster, Pa.,,in nineteen and a half hours, and persons were living in it wtthih three days from the time it was commenced. ■ !

At Dunstable, Mass, In 1851, dancing at weddinrs was forbidden, ana in IMO, " William Walker was Imprisoned a month for courting a maid without the leave of her parents." In 1633 toe wearing of tong hair, and superstitious ribbons to tie U up, were prohibited by severe penalties. On the Ist of May the New York truckmen reaped a rich harvest Their charges were as follows: One hone truck, one mile,sß; two miles, $10; these miles, $18; Two-horse trucks,4ncluding loading, unloading and housing, from $lO to SBO, according to distance; to Jersey City, Newark and Brooklyn, sl2 to S3O and S4O. Tbavelkbb oh the planet Man can go to any part of it on the element—land er water—on which they have commenced traveling, so complex is the arrangement of the continents and oceans on that planet In this respect it differs very much from the earth where the oceans are three times as extensive as the land, which is divided into two great insular continents Dbsp sea soundings have demonstrated, it is stated,'b*t the bottom of the sea, at great depths, is covered by a continuous mass, extending over miles in extent, of what may be considered as one single animal:. It is thought to form the lowest stage of animal life on ths globe, and to supposed to derive Its nourishment dibaptized by the euphonious name of t ’ « i,». ’ An eld building in Hartford, Ct, recentiy torn .fiewn,>t was originally erected, some sixty years agey for the were produced At a targe expense, the matter, all set uu was brought from London in forty or fifty "chases.” The finest minion type was used Sa choice were these "forms” that a fireproof building waS erected, in which they were stortd, ogethet with the presses used, Thousands of fitaee Bibles were U h--it.'. V* *

printed and bound, and furnlsW to the Connecticut Bible MoCiety. CoMrs are •till in existence iv» 411 parts eftte State. In-addition to tbto business, Webster’s Book W** issued m toxga ediAdoonpiireto Wilton’t flretbyterian Hittrrifial Altnarum, with a pOjMMMfon of 81. 448,881, tbetw-are ta this eountey 54,009 churches, distributed; as fo<owae .■ iSSSSaw-tSfMte!’::: 71 AsMtegsUoual... «,*Bi idAaoata-wU1.... to Frisaes.-.m;....!, nUlttaevaacSa.4.'..... M Garman Raformad. ffjs] .... Thw churches c;»t WtMfld gtte seats to 18$f,tn persons; population in United States bVeF fifteen years elfl-to M,708,39* j th* average cost of eMk cLurch,..<3,lXß, 'mwOMrches called union were commonl*. used by ntttted congregations of PresoyteriaDS, Methodtote and Baptista - average was one churnb, for tev*v'«B2 nermunity for which church sittings are need-