Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1869 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

A grands->N of VanderbiHis* conductor on a Troy train. -z j . f There are more than 4,00(1000 Germans in the United States. ' Thu value of our railroad freight in 1887 was <10,473,380,800. The New Orleans gambling houses pay ■ a yearly license of <6,000. Th* ballet troup- at the Berlin Opera House consists of 488 persons. THHeditorof the South Orange (N. J> Budpet la 13 years of Bah Francisco is not yet a quarter cf a century old and has 150 000 inhabitants. The Pppe has two brothers older than himself Bud' a nephew sixty years of age. Thru* are forty two societies, with 1,700 missionaries, engaged in giving the GoSpel to the heathen. Although Paris returns only nine members, there were eleven hundred cafididatea [a the field.

hundred pounds, „ . A Bobbinhorse car conductdir has been given a Government bond by soma of hi* regular passengers. . .. r . d Bwttwrland has now 901*'ooiitfaaU papers, 468 German, 81 French, A-Italian, and 8 Romanit journal*,' ;h> i» . There are 50,000 commercial -travelers tntfor United BUt*M of Whom 30|W0 are sent by Ntfw York hoasear’ I ”<A dotting Will W held at Berlin thTtf ’st whidh about SOOO wWue'peesent. :i Ir/ti h voices to sing, the'incfdeptai mu«a • ‘ meat. , , ' • ,

A ooLomoj9iiM YOcently fell’ out of'h' ,third storOffidbw‘ih‘ Cincinnati,' struck it* head against the*,*toji4 p ave trial tantf escapedpJrtnjtfred. ; ™ X' On, an opening night at an opera house iR enthusiastic ajpairer iff Ah (actresgUre/csA ’ Hbaku» thrje tijpusawl duelj,, were NfenghdiaASOhAtAhm German ynb p bvrsitioa. Most ,qf< thyae were very bagmlwta * singers on the E iropmn conUneut. whose segregate income ameftnU tq four. Jsb Ron franes-snd Stheif Mi I hna - Anna Dwhinsox late lecture at 1 lew Yo*k;that fa»lw yearashe d . Vert i, and in ten be a member of Congress, f Th* 1 hnportrof wheat iftta great BritUn this yean, have averaged twenty, .per ’cent, less in amount than-during the corresponding mentha of 1868. , niityp i » ; There are twenty-four the,, are twenty-five (it the narne es Wtitfgts. The FrentA'MutusTOsWew.l-dtiHiwdMiyt of Ban Frandico, Mttpafcdrsdkitff' members. Their receipted* , togthetost Wff were <ST,I73W theft THu reeeipts of the JMMc S ty fur last year were £187,370. lately occupied a new *i>d elegant build* 'ng. The society, since 1804, teas issnsri 57,000,000 copies of the Bcripiurea. The Crown Princess of Prussia spends more than half her income in charities. The Queen, her mother in law,, spends a still larger portion of her income for the same purpose. The Rev. Samuel Nott, who died the--other day in Hartford at the age of 81, was the last survivor of a band of five missionaries sent io the E<st Indies by- the American Board in 1813. Syracuse, N. Y , has an ordinanoethat prohibits boys under eighteen yetes of age from going into a saloon; and *ning any saloon keeper <lO who sells them liquor in his establishment r During the last fiscal y ear the number of letters sent through the foreign depart 4 ment of the post office in New York city amounted to 5.900,807, and the number received was 5 238,235, making an segregate of 11,128,53 t. " ' Wmh jp Anson W. Williams has sued Ora*. Colby at Buffalo for the value ot horse killed by a collision of the idKff of the parties; and the case is still tied with <1,500 costs, already beajVW the original bill 'L * A piece of track on the Oil Aeuk Railroad, over a great bog, gave few days ago, allowing three cars toSK In two days they got.twelve feet Wow the surface. The bog has been soundem and found to be thirty-eight teet deep.' 'X' Tn door of a carriage in a fast on the Edinburg & Glasgow Railway s«mK denly burst open the other day, and * little girl five years of age, who was leas# ing against the door at the tim« was thrown ont and' killed instantaneously. Levi Snow 7 , of West Dover. Tt,-haf’ been feeding out his hay thia season UMf has been in his barn thirty font yeans. cameout bright and sound, the ate . itwpU, and it was as good-ia eray respect as hay grown last summer. A cup of coffee an 3 a sandwich invariably form the breakihsl of the King ’of Prussia. At 10 o'efbek iu the morrteighe takes a substantial lunch, and Stthe d<b ner table he eats very IwW' his last meal, generally, consisting of fi« d’h, between » and 10 ra ||b A girl at Bfombewt, 13 years old, the daughter of « Hghr’Prneshn dignitary, took her own life b». jumpiajL,jnfo U>r caaklagtfiS'frtal' Wap,she tefornwdher schorthnhUk thtt »bh wag abmis to die, •fed tnvmod them to.her funeral. t*h4ltaei<toary&>oimy «f Mto BralMlS W>rto,a» iavmgjL gW sesh fwnA in lndtadtotmh .am aEeraaniMWk, pet aanuoL atfo ries go eut-at hrst Chakwuß Tjraasua<Burke, djwfidrWWtlSffe silver Ittlvril and q'aarters. >lt ttißitlMedito have been ' deposited there by Pat Curran, who hung himsnie Sb Easi four*