Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1875 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—California has $140,000,000 banking capital. —The total permanent school fund of lowa is $3,204,272.83. —Albany has 25,000 does, and therefore claims 80,000 inhabitants. —Pennsylvania still produces $40,000,000 worth of lumber annually. —Spain’s debt, according to the latest official statistics, is $2,000,000,000. —San Francisco has 470 Browns, 266 Jones and 845 Smiths. Now what is the population of the city? —Next to the Mont Cenis tunnel the ■Hoosac is the longest in the world, being only 320 feet less than five miles in —Over 800,000 bales of cotton are consumed annually in New England factories, but only 150,000 bales are bought and sold in Boston. —The population of Brattleboro’, Vt., during the past year has decreased thirtyone, while the number of families has increased forty-two. —A statistical Bohemian has calculated that pencils enough have been consumed thus far in the Beecher trial to start a respectable lead mine. —Lake Harkness Js tt body of. water recently discovered in Plumas County, Cal., b>- Prof. Harkness 7,330 feet above the level of the sea. The outlet is into Warner Valley, over a declivity of some 2,000 feet.