Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1869 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

California has raised a sun flower weighing 87 pounds. About 18,000 dead letters are opened'' and disposed of daily. > r '•VTTTr, Thb Leipzig publishers sold, In 1866,' $10,000,000 worth of books. Thb new French twenty-five franc gold pieces will be called JCmpereur*. , . One of the Austria u Archdukes is saM to be a kleptomaniao—in plain SngUete—a thief • , The French Post office cinfecatee nine out of ten newspapers sent ttom this conntry. Bpht Harrison, Private Secretary to Jeff. Davis during the war, is practising law in New York. - Thebe are said to be 15,00* ootMmuoieants to the various reliirtou* churches eta i ihe western coast or Africa ~ Thkkk are 820 * Protestant Band*y„ Schools in France, 160 in Germany, 250 in Switzerland and 250 in Holland. ' A widower went to Manchester, N. H , one day recently, burled Us with;and left town with a new made bride On the dtif following. / - hi;-. Thb C anadian Rifle Association win die-, tribute $4,500 worth of prizes, at the, annual tournament, at Halafax, in August. A servant girl at Newberg, N Y ,'was recently 100 much for a burglar. SfaeT 1 poured a gallon of hot water over- him, and he left the premises in a hurry. A London clergyman advertkos that he will “ lend his weekly sermons for halt acrown apiece, or four for 10a, warranted “original, earnest and evangelical.” Six cflnrche-i have been orffai&lfa in ’ Mexico on the basis of the Biro ih word of God—s spontaneous movkaueuti 1 without any foreign intervention, the sao- ; raments administered without any f^- ( darned minister. ( , Geobob Pbabodt has written to the town of Georgetown, Mass., stating that' it is his intention to supply all the fondk '■ needed to snstain the public library whidk • he has given to the town, and also prp-.j smiting $4,000 toward the, permanent fund. Thb New York Skpreet has heard of one American woman in Europe/ •* Who turned up her aristocratic nose at a pocket handkerchief costing 2,000 franca tie- i manding one which hud to be fhfufrvmd, and which waa not to cost less than 10,000.” , According to an estimate made,.'by' a Well-informed traveler, th« Chinese expend annually over $20,000,000 to iwm tpt • propitiate the sonla of the dead. About $80,000,000 are annually expended, in woiship of the F»o gods, and $100,000,600. in the worship of family ancestors. A tooth of 18, in New Bedford, who determined to marry against bin, father’s will, was recently complained of as a die- > obedient child, and the case continued sor 1 ■ sentence, so that he oonld be shut up, for want of bail till his father gets ready to take him on a whaling voyage. It was stated at the National Sunday School Convention that'the Sunday School Union has established 6,346 schOTta*. Iflfo which 398 503 children havobeea gatk*sfe<£ and 45,070 teachers in employed.-Niter anion has also aided 25,000 other schoqls, and over 400 churches have bean esfobliied as the results of its efforts. ’ •*:. vr mjDi. Wiboand, of Halle, Germany, after extensive investigation and collation of statistics, concludes that employment ’* on railway trains is ljotttore than usually dangerous or unhealthy. * Reports of thirty-eight companies showed that in 1868,1.072 per cent of the engineers, firemen and other employes on, the trains died, while of the employes not traveling the mortality was 0.981 per cent Thb report of Baptist progress in Great Britain for the last yehr shows that forty-nine churches have > been organized, making an aggregate of 2,447. The increase in -mombership has been 9,982, a larger accession than any since 1860, and bringing up the total to .251,506 member*. There age 267,396 scholars In the Sabbath Schools; and no doubt, over a million of the British population dependent on the Baptist* for religious instruction. At Rutland, Vt, which haa been scantily supplied with water for many years, the discovery has just been made the* in obstruction in a Joint in the main supply ■ reduced the calibre from three inches Is one and a half inches diameter. The obstruction consisted of lead, which was run into a Joint when the pipe was laid,.fifteen years ago. It cost them SB,OOO to make the discovery, besides the lose of many l building* by fire, which would have been saved but for the lack of water. FnoM an old advertisement published in the Georgia Journal, Milledgevilte, in 1819, it is found that the Hon, Wm. IL Seward, late Secretary of State, wa* at that time a Georgia schoolmaster He is therein announced as “ late from Union College, N. Y., from which instUu&m be comes highly recommended as a young gentleman of good moral character and . istinguished industry and literary acquirements.” He taught Latin, Greek, theoretical and practical mathematical logic, chemistry, geography, English grammas, and other brandies too numerous, to mention. » » _ ' Thb pews of the Centre Church, New Haven, Conn, 'ately rented for SIB,OOO. On a subsequent Sabbath the paste*, Rev, G L. Walker, took occasion to express, In decided terms, hte reg'tt at the result. The prices paid, he add, could not but be regarded as extravagant, and the frees amount received was larger than the exigencies of the church demanded. If the debt of the chur h Was alleged a* an excuse, the speaker thought thatiu a churcth embracing so much wealth, J®**? whose members were individually able 40 pay it without embarrassment, and who, unitedly, could expunge it ** without a twinge, the debt could not but be octeaidered as, in a measurer* disgrace. Thb Secretary of the Treaenry ls so much annoyed by the constant receipt of States aud who wish pey bonds, that he has found it necessary to request the publication of the fact that it t» not the potter of the Government to Issue bonds in soon cases. The only remedy is an appUcatiem to Congress, and that is not a 1W« ful remedy, as the Congressional Committee on Claims refoflsd to report the relief of several persons frbq had lout the test sessfam-Jhi baatTtur Chesses, it wm obliged lo»X an the bonds declared tojave been tort weft kltorwards preeented for payment. •■ ■ -