Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1875 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—Under the n'm deplume of “ Theophilus Jones” Prof. Swing is writing for this paper, the Chicago Alliance , a series of sketches, entitled “ The Recollections of Dr. Heinrich.” —Whatever its faults the “Hub” is not niggardly. It has given over $276,000 in.response to calls for aid during the past year, besides nearly $300,000 for private charities. —The Enterprise, of Virginia City, Nev., says: “Theyield of gold and silver on the Pacific slope during the past twenty-five years amounts to $1,583,644,934. Of this sum California produced $1,004,919,098; Nevada, $221,402,412; Utah, $18,527,197; Montana, $119,308,147; Idaho, $57,249,197; Colorado, $3,000,000; and Oregon and Washington Territory together, $25,504,250.” —Some idea of the extent of the subscription book trade may be formed from the following figures, which show the circulation of different works: “ Ten Years in Washington,” by Mary C. Ames, 20,000; “ Tell It All; or, A Life’s Experience in •Mormonism,” by Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse, 25,000; “Kit Carson’s Life and Adventures,” 20,000; “ Lives and Deeds of our Self-Made Men," by Harriet Beecher Stowe,” 30,000; “Inside Life in Wall Street,” 20,000; “Fighting Fire,” 10,000; “ Gilded Age,” by Mark Twain and Dudley Warner, 58,000. —lt is estimated that, out of 1,000,000 inhabitants, 14 commit suicide in Spain, 32 in the United States, 43 in Belgium, 66 in Sweden, 69 in Great Britain, 73 in Bavaria, 94 in Norway, 196 in the Grand Duchy of Baden, 110 in France, 123 in Prussia, 128 in Hanover, 155 in Oldenburg, 156 in Lauenburg, 159 in Mecklenburg, 173 in Holstein, 209 in Schleswig, 251 in Saxony, 288 in Denmark and 383 in Saxe-Altenburg. Of the occupations of these suicides, it is observed that 9 per cent, belong to the agricultural classes, 13 per cent, to the tradesmen, 15 per cent, to the merchants, 22 per cent, to the. professions, and the remaining 41 per cent, are without a settled occupation. It is remarked, in the same connection, that warm and dry seasons are regarded as particularly favorable to the development of the mania for suicide.