Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1875 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—California has in operation several large woolen mills, which, in addition to supplying a great portion of the home trade, will this year fill orders from the East amounting to nearly $500,000. —Paris boasts of a standing army of something Jike 5;000,000 rats, and some one has computed that if the rodents were to array themselves ten abreast and march upon Berlin, the vanguard would enter the German capital while those in the rear were issuing from the gates of the French metropolis. —A gentleman in San Joaquin County, Cal., owns a flock of 2,000 ewe sheep, 1,300 of which had 2,400 lambs this Reason, thus increasing the flock 120 per cent. Nearly all of the sheep produced twins, and twenty of them produced triplets. —The copper industry promises to be prosperous this year. The price is remunerative, and the stock on hand no greater than last year, when it was 10,000,000 pounds. All that is not needed at home can be exported to Europe, which received most of the 9,000.000 pounds exported last year. —The New York World has set Its famous figurer at work and finds that in five years the offspring of a single cat will amount to 91,413,974 Individual cats. The moral it would adduce seems to be the desirability of forming a society for ' the suppression of Bergh and the encouragement of kitten-killers.

—There are 4,000,000 cats in- Great Britain, and It is estimated that each cat kills an average of twenty mice or rats every year. It is estimated, further, that every rat or mouse, if it lived, would injure property to the extent of £1 sterling. If all this is true, pussy saves to that country every year $400,000,000, and she might pay off the national debt if she chose. —The following are statistics of sheep killed by dogs in twenty-seven counties in Tennessee wi thin the last year; Rhea, 21; Coffee, 405; Giles, 1,750; Sullivan, 150; Perry, 500; Hancock, 100; Hardin, 100; Bradley, 33; Montgomery, 300; Jackson, 125; Haywood, 1,147; Smith, 150; Warren, 100; Monroe, 150; Carter, 75; Fentress, 107; Washington 400; Wayne, 500; Robertson, 1,115; Sequatchie, 600; Decatur, 1,695; Dickson, 300; Lauderdale, 312; Union, 75; Sumner. 800; Morgan, 70; total, 11,469. —Of the 28,667 teachers employed by the State of New York in 1874 at least 6,000 were entirely without experience in teaching. Of 7,880 teachers specially reported 2,666 had received only a com-mon-school education; 1,790 had been educated in a graded school and had pursued studies above the rudimentary ones; 937 had received more or less instruction in normal schools; 2,662 had attended academies and seminaries, and 138 had graduated from colleges.