Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1874 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—The cost per scholar on total expenditures in the Richmond (Vd ? .) public schools is $16.58,, English railway companies killed forty passengers last year out of 455,000,000, and one employe of every 323. There were two accidents to every three days, and more than half of those were collisions. Only five of the accidents resulted from unavoidable causes. T —The- German Emigrant Society’ reports that 31,779 Germans have arrived in New York since the Ist of January last. The number for the first eight -months -of-ritß73—was 73,-724;’-slrowing a falling off this year of more than 50 per cent. —Four thousand four hundred and j seventy-four new depositors have entered thtir names on the books of the Boston Fivc-C'ents Savings Bank within the last five months, making- Hie whole number of accounts iiow:_opeii..66.4oo-and i the amount on deposit $11,866,280.54. : —Tlie linnifal supply~oT copper from the whole of the civilized world is estimated at between 127,000 and 130,000 tons. The annual tin supply is stated at from 25,000 to 28,000 tons. These estimates are made by a leading English house engaged in the tin and copper trades. —The number of horses in lowa by the enumeration of 1874 is 561,263—a gain since 1873 of 10,211. Mules, 33,325 —a gain since 1873 of 1,325. Sheep, 470,074 —a loss since 1873 of 53,115. The total value of live stock of all kind sthis year is $39,061,286—a gain since 1873 of $2,530,932. The banner county as to horses is Linn, 13,392; next, Clinton, 13,254; Jasper, 11,777; Benton, 11,726; Johnson, 11,057; l)ubTßjggr~ro‘Bßsr 'Tlie banner county for sheep is Van Buren, 24,736; Mahaska, 21,535; and ten other counties have between 10,600 and 20,000. —We get some idea of the vastness of our country from the statistics furnished by Mr. Dodge, of the Department of Agriculture. Less than one-fifth of the entire area of the United States is mapped into farms, and only ojie-fourth of this farm area is tilled or mowed. Heavy as our wheat crop is, it occupies a surface less than the. area of South Carolina. Our national crop, maize, covers a territory’ not larger than Vir- ! ginia, and the potato crop could glow in less than the area of Delaware. The country is capable of producing food for the support of a population almost without number. There seems to be no danger of our being overcrowded for •centuries. —An able statistician has, with intinite labor, compiled a table whereby the changes and chances which may occur in a game of poker may be told at a glance. For instance, 2,598,960 different hands can be dealt with a pack of cards; 1,302,540 will contain less than a pair, and 1,296,420 one pair or more. The latter hands divide into 1,098,240 of one T>air, 34,912 of threes, 125,532 of two pairs, 10,200 straights, 5,105 flushes, 3,774 fulls, 624 fours, and forty straight flushes. With this table in one’ hand and your cards in the other it will take a very smart man to get the best of you in a little game of draw. If in the "course of 64,974 deals your adversary holds two straight flushes, a look at the table will convince you that something is wrong, and if fours are played on you more than once in 4,162, instead of drawing .your cards, “draw” your revolver and “call” for the police, and when they take hiyi you take the pool.—A”. K. <Si*n. I