Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1874 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—Smitliville, Conn., numbers 381 Smiths. —lt takes 260 rails to lay a mile of railroad track. —lowa put up 1,200 school-houses within the past year. —The highest temperature ever observed at sea was 86°. —The Boston Public Library contains 213,000 volumes and 49,000 in the branch establishment. —The School of Design connected with the Mechanics’ Institute in Cincinnati has given instruction to 3,243 pupils since 1863. —A man in Jasper County, Ga., gathered from one grain of wheat 2,370 grains. His corn will average forty-five bushels to the acre. ■

—The oyster openings in New York city amount to 550,000 stews, 250,000 fries, 175,000 raws, 75,000 roasts and 25,000 broils daily. —ln the twenty-five years —1840-’73 there were 262,563 new houses built in London, and 0,578 new streets* and seventy-one squares were formed. The length of these new streets and squares exceeded 1,158 miles. —The amount of lurnbdr surveyed inBangor, Me,, from Jan. 1 to Aug. 1, was 91,084,418 feet, being pver ten millions of feet more than was surveyed during the corresponding period of last year, while it is over eighteen million of ■ feet less than the amount for 1872. —Michigan has thirty-two charcoal blast furnaces, nearly all of which are in operation, three that run on bituminous coal and coke, and one on anthracite. It j has also four rolling mills for muck and ; merchant bas, and one rail mill. The ! blast furnaces have an aggregate daily ! capacity of about 1,000 tons. i ■. . j —The following are the number of let- j ters in the alphabets of different nations: English, 20; French, .25; Italian. 20; Spanish, 27;-.German. 26; Slavonic, 42; Russian, 30; Latin, 22; Greek. 24; Hebrew, 22; Arabic, 2S : Persian, 31; Turkish. 28; Sanscrit, 44: Chinese radical characters, 214. —lt is asserted that 500: pounds of frogs are daily consumed in New York. j They are chiefly caught in Canada, and are sent thfe’re in salt sacks laid fiat on the floor off the freight car, and contain- j ing each about one* hundred frogs. An • average of 5 per cent, die in the train. , Each female frog is said to spawn oveV a j thousand at a time, but .not more than fifty in that number live to attain full j growth. They are often eaten by their own species “or by birds and. snakfsJ They are flsually taken with the hook, j

I but bite at it only when their heads ariW j above water. A bait is often uwiecesj sarv. A frog-catcher frequently brings ; his hook, under the jaw of the frog wirb- ; out creating alarm, and jerks its poifft i into the flesh. He is then easily liftejl into the bout.