Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1874 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—The Utica (N. Y.) Herald'll summary of the cheese business, shows that 330 factories have- made 439,990, boxvszQ*:. cheese this year, against 416,083'boxes last year, a gain of 4 per cent. —Nothing like leather. Chicago has twelve "firms engaged in the tanning of hides, which employ nearly 1,000 men, use 25.900 cords of bark, and produce $4 ,325,000 worth of leather per annum, —There are in West Virginia 171,793 children of school age, of whom 81.100 attend school, and consequently 90.693 receive no education whatever, save such as they can avail themselves of at home. The number of schools in the State is 2,857. —The Commissioner of Customs denounces the fashionable European tourist, male or female, as a high-toned and very costly smuggler. lie estimates the Value of dutiable goods brought to this country by these tourists and whisked unceremoniously through the CustomHouse as wearing apparel at $128,000,000 annually. —The whole number of Postmasters iri the United Mutes is 34,294, of which 1,408 are appointed t>y the President, The number of employes of the postal railway service is 2,173, and their compensation $2,351,809. The whole number of persons in the employ of the Postoffice service is 49.000. —Alaska is fast paying for herself. Since the acquisition of that territory the Government has derived an income therefrom a> follows: Taxes on sealskins. sl,l-50.219.75; rent forfur-seal islands, $170,180 72-. sale of seal-skins taken by Government agents, under Section 6. act July 1, 1870, $29,529.17; total income, $1,330,229.67. —The Atlanta A’rav- says that gold ore ria.. is said to be v-ieltT-"" ing the enormous amount of sso,ooo a ton. The mines are owned by capitalists, one of them, the Aqueduct, having been sold to Mr. Hand, of Ohio, for $500,000. It is expected that by next J sumtm-r^2.(k'o-persunswill 4)c employed in the ore mills