Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1869 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Lamabtinb charged ten dollars to write his name in a set of his works. Thb editor of the Gettysburg Sentinel has filled that position fifty-one yean. Thbbb were 6,884 births, 4,694 marriages and 6,760 deaths in Boston last year. Six of the eight principal colleges of Indiana admit young ladies as students. Mr Bkrok has caused the arrest of a man in Yorkville for skinning a deg alive. Thru co-operative stores have foiled in Bt, Louis during ths pest eighteen months. Thbbb are abont sixty-five thousand students at the universities on ths continent of Europa Gov. Gbaby, of Pennsylvania, signed 1,696 bills during the recent session of the Legislature. Thbbb are nineteen bookstores in Constantinople, mostly kept by Germans and Frenchmen. A mam has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in England for stealing 60,000 feet of gas. Thb Boston Traveler says that “A Marblehead seedsman recently paid forty - six dollars for a single potato.” Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds of chickory have been imported into San Francisco within six months. Piiovbssob Eastman, of Poughkeepsie, has expended twenty thousand dollars in trying to invent a writing machine. Victor Hugo gets $40,000 for his story, “The Man who Laughs” This, some mathematical chap £as computed, is just SI.BO a line. A SBVBNTY-nVB-YBAB old goose is Still living in Kent county, Maryland. She has raised goslings annually until within three years. An English gentleman has bought between 3,000 and 4,010 acres of land 4n Nelson county, Va, on which he intends to settle 800 English fhmilies. A numbbr of Buffalo business establishments have signs in plain view: “No bey gars or insurance agents are allowed within these premises.” A hundbbd thousand herring were recently cast ashore by the tide in Kataya Bay, Martha’s Vineyard, and they were carried off and salted. In Brieg, Silesia, recently, a young married couple committed suicide because the doctor had decided that the young-hus-band’s leg must be amputated. Hados* Treatise on the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace, eta., has reached a Bale of 7,000 copies,—* hrjer sale than any book of the kind ever before had in this country.. A thousand acres of land in Wayne county, N. Y., have been planted in permint this year. The yield 1s abont twenty-five pounds to the acre, and the average price $4.50 per pound, so that farmers find it a paying crop. Thb best time ever made on a vetoed pede was accomplished at ths Cleveland rink a few days ago, Mr. Yred. Hawbw, of Rochester, N. Y., making fifty miles tn three hours, fourteen minutes and thirtynine seconds, actual running tima. ~ An echo in Woodstock park, Oxfordshire, England, repeats seventeen syllables by day, and twenty by night; but the most remarkable echo known is one on the north tide of Shipley Church, in Sussex, which distinctly repeats twenty-one syllables. Last wwtbb, Boston was visited W thirty two snow storms, and theaggragate depth of the fall of snow was « feet inches. In the past tweety-aix years, the Sdy winters during which the total Mlof snow was greater were those of 1846-4 and 1863-4. Ouvbb Daxjsymflb, of Minnesota, is said to be the largest wheat grower in the United States. In addition to Ma other crops, he has sown wheat this season. Last flfeaon Mr. Dalrymple employed 100 men WIOO horses in harvesting andtitreahingnlscrop. .

A toung lady of Jefferson, 0., mistook a bottle of violet ink for perfumery, in the darkness the other evening, and put home upon her handkerchief which she used to wipe her face, and, hastening to church immediately after, she created an Immense sensation. The ChronieU states that it is a very low estimate to calcuWethatttee peejJeof Ban Francisco spent t 2OO - o ®® ingMay-day. Upwards of 25,000 perrons wmit into the country, while the Cliff House, the sea beach and the country around the city were thronged. The famous maelstrom, on the coast of Norway is so little fearedthattbeltoher. men pass and repass it in their sail vessels at all states of the tide, except st certota times in the winter when the greatest rate of the tide does not exceed rix miles an hour. The Yale University crew avenge in weight 172 pounds each, the only one heavier than that being the stroke, George W. Drew, of New Haven, a native of Maine, who weighs 180. Thrir boat feof Spanish cedar. 51 feet long, 20 inches wide, and weighs 170 pounds. They row 42 strokes to the minute. To ascend a staircase eighteen feet high requires thirty-six times the force that la required to walk eighteen fort on level ground; and would, therefore, be equal so a level walk of three hundred and twenty four feet. So then, a person shut up in the house and in need of exercise, can walk his mile by going up these stairs say sixteen times* A man in San Joaquin, Cal,basin his poeaemion a surveyor's instrument, on the front lens of which there to plainly seen a beautifal landscape, withau the hues of nature. Some fifteen according to the owner s accou nftne fcstrument had been in nee, and wM toft standing for a time, on scorching mid-day s sun, land. When again brmtofrt correct picture of the frondng woodland, with all the various colors In DennievUto, and other plaree in Now Jersey, a heavy business to oonsta retotey cedar trees out of the marshes tawktoE they were buried many centuries ago. The wood raised from these buried forests is as sound as if recently fejtod, and to mnatty made into shingles. TOe after tree, from 200 to 1.000 «**“£** found one over another in themlt marshes on the “Jersey flats," showing the immense age of the lowest layers, and also one case a tree with 500 aMual rings tone found directly under the stump of another in which 1,000 wofsaonnted.

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