Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1874 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—The average car horse endures four years. —The Boston Fire Department has cost for the past five months $340,664. —There are twenty-five Indian tribes in the Indian Territory with a population of 40,000. —A Troy workman lifted 600 pounds with his hands. It is said he can carry 1,000 on his shoulders. —About 300 houses have been erected in Salt Lake this year, notwithstanding the unprecedented dull times. —The amount of coal annually raised in the vicinity of Mauch Chunk, Pa., has grown from 360 tons in 1820 to 5,000,000 tons in 1873. ——Virginia has sent 25,000 pounds of chestnuts North this season in one con signment—the largest single exportation ever made. —During the year ending Oct. 31 the receipts at the Indiana State Treasury amounted to $3,072,195.46, and the disbursements to $2,829,991.28. —The shipments from the Saginaw River, Michigan, for the season to Nov. 1, are as follows: Lumber, 443,983,184 feet; lath, 39,404,440 pieces; shingles, 68,559,500. —A Nashville paper says that a certain life insurance company is “ out” nearly $36,000 on account of accurate pistol-practice in Tennessee within the last fifteen months. —The New York World asserts that the scum of Asia is floating to America, and that out of every 100 Mongolians who come to the United States twentyfive are deported criminals. —John L. French, of Burlington, Secretary of the Stateßoard of Education, says that there are 91,000 children between the ages of five and twenty, in Vermont, of whom only 72,000 attencl school. —lt is affirmed that 63 per cent, of all the persons who applied for assistance at the various benevolent institutions in Boston last year were impostors, while many were swindlers and professional burglars. —JSleven and'one-quarter millions of dollars are footed up, and the estimate is made that the sum of between $14,000,000 and $15,000,000 was willed and deeded, in 1873, to schools, libraries and foundations. —There are nearly 300 coal mines in Ohio whose annual production is over 5,000,000 tons, though it will fall short of that amount this year, every mine suffering from the panic. Only two-thirds of the mines are working at present, and they do not average three days a week. There are about 22,000 men and boys cmployed in the mines, and 4,800 above ground. —A curious Frenchman has recently made a calculation showing that a mantalks on an average three hours a day, or at the rate of about twenty-nine octavo pages ah hour. That would make about 600 a week, fifty-tw o good sized volumes a year, and in a lifetime of fifty years 2,600 volumes.' He does not state the number of volumes spoken by the other sex, but the statistical student can multiply the product by four. —r* — —r —-- ■

We turn to the right of the street rather than to the left, as is the English rule. Our custom leaves the two drivers on the outside, where they cannot well see whether their vehicle will collide or not, whereas under the English rule the two drivers come together on the inside, so they can see the danger of a collision. :—lt is said that milk diluted with onethird lime-water will not cause anyone billiousness or headache, and, if taken regularly, will so strengthen the system as to banish these disorders. • . 1 The Great Favorite!—The popular Chill Cure of the age!! Composed of pure and simple drugs, Wllhoft’s Tonic has long held the highest place in the long line of remedies for Chills and Fever. It is not only AntiPeriodic but is Anti-Panic, for it curtails the heavv expense of doctors’ visits, where friendly calls are all itemized in the account current. A penny saved is a penny gained, and saving it tn this way adds to health and comfort. Try Wllhoft’s Tonic as a certainty and you will never regret it Wheelock, Finlay& Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. Fob sale by all Druggists. It is so bard to get a linen collar washed and ironed so as to look well. We advise every gentlemen to buy the Improved Warwick. It looks better than any linen collar, fits splendidly, and keeps clean longer than any other. Try it * Under the new management of Mr. Frank W. Wentworth, the Sherman House, at Chicago, recognizing the popular demand for retrenchment has reduced its tariff of rates, and in a corresponding degree increased its merits.

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