Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1874 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—There are now upward of 150 snv-! ings banks in the State of New York. —San Francisco has £0,000,000 worth oiTchurch nroim rtv7of which sum the Catholics owi} iSreihun half. —During themlst year thes,<o7 schoolteachers of Npir York gave instruction to 236,438 pupils. —The receipts rtf grain at the port of Erie, Pa., this season, have been greater than those of 1873 by 1,500,000 bushels. —Paris lias 300,000 loungers m the streets, 180 case-concerts, 238 public ballrooms, 20,000 wine-shops, and 7,226 billiard-rooms. —Steel pens are manufactured at Bir* ; mingham. England, at the rate of 14,112,600 a week, aau sold for three cents a gross. —Cincinnati is the most densely populated city in the Cn ll ed $ tates.having 36,000 people to the square mile, while Yew York lias only 23,000. ; —Seven hundred and twenty thousand bushels hf peanuts coining:’ Virginia, 350,000; Tennessee, 250,00 Q, and North Cfrolioa* —Porcine and bovine prosperity: Illinois' values it* bogs, at £14,840,660, and j irs cattle aC£*!h 74H.ff3,», making a grand ! total of4’Ysß4,liii * —lt ia esthulttiiri tliat there are 12,700.- ) 000 Christians in Turkov, of whom, j 1,200,000 are Latin Catholics, ,T,000,000 Armenian Cativojics, and 4.500,000 Bulgarians. —: —The Franklin Telegraph Company ! have leased their linex-to the Atlantic i and Pacific- Company Sfori niaoty-nine t jeatg, »t Jfiitrtl not exceeding ! -Herein' rariSofisJl sible has been | circulated in 271 languages—over 131,000.000 copies.. Last year every hour off each working day 1.300 Bibles were printed, over 16,000 every day, and in languages spoken Ivy of peo- j pie. —The iron establishments of the , United States, including furnaces, roll- ; ing mills, steel works, forges and hloom eries, are &f follows: Six hundred and i eighty-onV co£ip• eled blast furnaces, 343 ■ rolUng mills, of. sterl works, 37 forges &j»4 |7 |loomeiles. ; . :J .