Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1874 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—Boston’s August was the coldest for fifty years, barring 183$. —Not one man in 10,000 ever admitted that his shirts fitted him. —There is a big gold bar on the counter of a Denver bank, weighing 1,346 (jjances, and valued, in coin, at $22,694.94. —The sale of waste paper from the different departments of the English Government produces an annual revenue of $50,000. —lt will cost $1,650 for gold leaf with which to gild the dome of the State House, in Boston. The work will commence forthwith. * —The annual cost of schooling for the Boston cuildren is $49 a head, while it was only $lB ten years ago, and sl2 twenty years' ago. —The export trade of Philadelphia for the first six months of the present year shows an increase of $8,000,000 over that for the same time in 1873. —The Canadian banks boast of SIOO-, 000,000 deposits, of which $34,000,000 is on call, $30,000,000 after notice, and the balance permanently invested. —New York has eighteen lines of transatlantic steamships, employing from 170 to 180 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage measurement of over 5001)00 tons. —A farmer near Des Moines, lowa, is said to have recently sold his corn in the field for $1 an acre more than he offered his entire farm and buildings for in the spring. i>. 1..: «. —The liquor licenses at New Haven have paid for the last two years all the expenses of the town poor, including insane poor and everything, leaving a balance in the treasury of $20,500. —The tot:# length of water-pipe in feet laid in the - principal cities of the United States is as follows: New York, 2,102,983; Chicago, 1,858,714; Brooklyn, 1,535,239; Boston, 1,255,166; Baltimore, 1,199,739; Detroit, 860,409; St. Louis, 756,018. —Since July 1, last, 2,849 patents for inventions have been issued by the Patent Office against 3,061 for the correspondingperiod 1 ast year. The whole number for the nine m.ouths of the present year is 9,488, a slight gain on the similar time of. the two preceding years. —Mr. George Jerome, one of the Fish Commissioners of Michigan, declares that every acre of water, if properly cultivated, is equal in food-producing value to an acre of land, and that thepresent food supply from water is equal to 5,750,000 cattle of an average weight of 700 pounds. —The granite soldier that is to surmount the national monument at the battle-ground of Antietam lias been completed and is the largest figure in sculpture out of Egypt. He weighs over thirty tons and is twenty-one and a half feet high. The gun he* holds is eighteen feet long and his shoe three feet in length. The face is clean shaved, except a heavy mustache, and is that of a resolute man. —There is an old Indian in Kansas who is as good a weather prophet as Old Probs. When asked the other day what the weather would be during the next week, he replied: “Mebbe sno w : mebbe heap hot. Better wait a little while, you bet.”