Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1869 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

At Vienna a “New York Hotel ’" is p«. cost the Emperor of China I*o,ooo. Im Ban Franctaoo, there have been retamed nlhety-two Incomes in exoeee of •*B,OOO. 7 Pirn rrmoeiTß are now nold in London at eixpence eech. Shoe* are made Tim number of real ertate mien in San Francisco daridg May waa 1,084, amount, ing to |4t*Sß,£H-

HanrroßD, Conn., ia to have 4 rink which will neat o,ooopersons, accommodate 800 skaters, and coat $30,000. A bot need IS haa been aent to prison for a week, in France, for a aediUona hurrah In the presence of the Empress. The Second Adventists, it is aaid, hare fixed upon the 10th of July as the day on which t)>e*eatd will ootne to an end. In Williamsburg, L. L, there U a man I*7 years old. He ia a Veaver by trade, and, though too feeble to work, is still lively. » ’ Thk number of immigrants arrived in New York (fori** the first five montha of this year was -50,630, against 84,577 for the same period last year. Dr Judson baptized the first Burman convert in 1819. Since then more than 40,000 Bormans, Karens and Shans, have believed and been baptised. Thb Queen of Madagascar has been received into the Church of England by baptism, and ordered her ministry to do likewise, under penalties. Mr. John K. Owens is, probably, the wealthiest actor on the American stage. His property is said to be considerably in excess of half s million dollars. The number of passengers over Prussian railroads in 1868 was 97,848,665. During the year 93 persons were killed by railway accidents, and I*4 were wounded. Hans Wachenhuken, the German feuilletonist, says, in a recent article, that a certain Miae Arabella sold, at a fair in New York, 8,000 kisses for s dollar each. A note was found in the pocket of a recent suicide in England, saying: “ Dear friends, don’t believe my wife it she says she has not money to pay for my coffin.” The cattle in Switzerland amount to 900,00QJu number, and an valued at $42,000,000, dr about $47 per head. The cows, 558.000 in number, yield $80,000,000 of milk every year. Ah ivory tuA, six feet three inches long and inches in circumference, has recently oeen exhumed in Montana. It was found buried in the sand, twenty-two feet below the surface. There are only twenty-two persons in Oregon mhQ pay Income tax on sums exceeding $10,060. The largest income is $255,388, returned by the agent of an estate, and the largest personal income is $48,014. r The Russian church at Sitka, Alaska Territory, was recently robbed of a copy of the vlble, richly studdled with valuable stones, cranes and other ornaments, altogether said to be Worth $20,000. The Mauafcilc Grand Lodge, New York city, haa purchased a lot on Sixth avenue, opposite Booth’s Theatre, at a cost of between $300,000 and $400,000. On this lot a large Masonic Hall is to be erected. THE’aHtfroritics of Dresden and Vienna set fred uHrigt number of singing birds which-had been brought to those places for sale In Saxony and Austria, the usefulness of birds as destroyers of insects is officially recognized. Aobbtussun residing In Lewiston, Maine, left his three little children at home while he attended church, and when he returned found them busily employed in cleaning the insideofa SBOO gold watch with soap and water.

Post Office not long since, and the president of the village had so-spread a barrel of coal tar over the street And then set fire to it, to destroy the smell of bad eggs. A wdOaKiG’fSafc £ Y., has produced a needleworked picture of Washington, containing nearly 700,000 stitches It was raffled off and won by Prot H. M. Coleman, of Vassar College. Three hundred tickets were sold at one dollar each, A New York lady recently ordered a trousseau "W Stewart’s for her daughter’s Ml, wbieh' received a complete outfit in under clothing, silk and lace. One of the articles ordered was an India shawl, miniature size, at S3O, and a lace handkerchief was valued at sl2. According to the figures presented at the Brewers’ Congress, nearly 6,000,000 barrels of beer were sold in 1868. The capital used to produce this quanitity is valued at one hundred and five million dollars, and the number of persons employed is stated at forty one thousand. Whube Pink, the silver-mining district in Nevada, received its name from the vast quantities of white pine timber covering the mountains in that neighborhood. A local paper notices boards twenty-two feet in length and twenty-one inches wide, cut from the white pine trees. One log yielded seven handred and sixty-six feet of lumber. Thr'’number of sheep in Ohio in 1868 was 7,689,845, producing not less than 30,000,000 pounds of wool. The farmers of Ohio in 1855-6 lost in killed and injured 96,251 sheep, by dogs, which were valued at $283,697.45. Tne number of dogs ia 4866 was 174-909, making the loss ‘. wo P« dog, $1.63, a sum snffldent to defray the expenses of nearly 300 families, at an annual eoet of SI,OOO

WoBgMKN repairing an old house in Hartford, Conn., lately, found beneath the kitchen floor a young butternut tree that, without sunlight, had grown to the size of a man’s wrist, running horizontally twenty feet. In its course it had picked up an old dinner-fork, and clasping it in a branch, hugged it to the main stem so as to bend it to the curve of the tree, and then adopted it as a pah of the butternut poking iu bark and wood all Th* number of children in the Bundav Schools of the United States has been esti- * about foßr mUlums, and of teachera, thousand. Ithasbeen erilmated Jturther, that the cost of maintaining me Sunday Schools of the country averages about sixty cents a scholar pm-year., This wouldssshsan aggregate of two millions fonr hundred tanwytud debars for Sunday Bchool expenses, which is only the one-eighth hundred psrt of the amount paid by the people of theuffilett States for intoxicating liquors. THBrnopulatfop of Paris proper, without is 1,700,000 inhabitants, of men, 700,000 women, rad 250,000 children. About 400,000 of them live on their rents, or are govern-1 . cm g^y t,d Dwyers, <£'££***l cUI Tber « are hosErr 1 . 2"° hundred thousaad are traders, etc. One million are soldiers of the army cf industry—m i n ItTmuo' ISiUTSTSS gjflgwg- There ire engines lMJjfl , .** PP "*t* I>g to * ett * r I ®> ooo