Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1874 — FACTS AAD FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AAD FIGURES.

—Vermont collects $1 from each of her 18,939 dogs. —lt takes 3.500 silk worms to produce a pound of silk. —At least 3,000 dead shade trees lift their sapless limbs in Gotham. —The estimates of the New York Board of Education for 1875 amount to $3,683,000. —Vermont’s State debt is $360,000, having been reduced $153,000 in the past two years. —The Boston Board of Trade has spent $70,715 the past year, and received but $66,734. —lt is estimated that Walla Walla Valley, W. T., will produce 1,000,000 bushels of wheat nex,t year. —The Minnesota State tax for all purposes is two and one-lialf mills, producing a revenue of $500,000. —There are 715 prisoners now confined in the Kentucky Penitentiary, of w hich number there are thirty-seveu females. —The amount of domestic money orders during the last fiscal year w'as $?4,424,851, and the amount of international money orders $2,265,242.