Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1875 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—The highest average net produce per oow reported by the New York factories this season! Mas $58.45, and the lowest $26. This was for six months. The first means jwq/Jt and the last loss. The difference is "attributable to kind of stock and the care given them. —The census of the Delaware Indians now in the Indian Nation has just been taken, and the tribe numbers but 758 persons, all told. Five years ago, when the Delawares moved to the-Nation, their number was 985—a decrease of 227. At this rate it will not take many years for the tribe to become extinct. — Paola (Kan.) Spirit. —The losses of the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing squadron for the last .year sum up as follows: Vessels, 9; value, $59,100; insurance, $45,175; lives, 68. The loss is the smallest in the number of vessels and tonnage of any year since 1868, and the loss of property valuation and life is considerably below the average of the last ten years. —Maine has over SBOO,OOO invested in her canning establishments. The total value of last year’s product is placed at about $1,500,000. One Portland company last year put up 2,400,000 pounds of corn, 2,250,000 pounds of lobsters, salmon and mackerel, 50,000 pounds of clams and 50,000 cans of blueberries. The total number of hands employed, including fishermen, is 3,315. —The bonded debt of Idaho Territory, principal and interest, is $69,625.46; the outstanding warrant debt, less cash in the Treasury, is $60,642.74. The Governor, in his message to the Legislature, advises that the warrant debt be let alone, but recommends the issue of new bonds for the bonded indebtedness, payable ten years after date, bearing interest at the rate of 10 per cent. —No library in the United States contains over 200”000 volumes. The largest is the Congressional Library, the second is that of Harvard University, and third the Public Library of Boston. But how insignificant these seem beside the National Library at Paris, which, according to the recent report of the Director, contains no less than 2,075,871 volumes. In addition to these there are 200,000 manuscripts, 8,000 maps and 120,000 pamphlets. The wood-work of the shelves alone, w r ere it placed end to end, would reach from Paris to Naples, whilst the books piled one upon the other would reach almost out of sight. From the city of Paris alone the Bibliotique National received 31,000 books and papers in the last five months, of which only 1,200 were retained, the rest being sent to the paper mill. Four thousand three hundred readers a month visit the read-ing-room, and the inner alcove devoted to men of letters has a monthly attendance of 1‘,150.