Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1875 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—The municipal public service of New York coats the taj-payers of that devoted city S4O apiece per yehr for each inhabitant, or $40,000,000 in all. —The Khedive of Egypt wants to borrow $75,000,000, at 12 per cent, interest, payable monthly, just to get rid of a little floating debt he has of about the same amount. —The fences of the United States are said to be worth $1,800,000,000, and it is added that it costs $98,000,000 annually to keep them in repair. There is nothing more interesting than statistics. —A Maryland farmer killed 691 crows in four days, recently, with strychnined corn. He says that nearly all were blind in one eye, which he attributes to snowglare. —The total emigration from Germany in 1874 was 76,289, against 135,000 of the year before, which is partly owing to the depression in business of all kinds in this country. . —The total number of messages forwarded from postal-telegraph stations in Great Britain during the week ending Feb. 6, 1875, was 342,892, against 367,176 last year. —A citizen of Chattanooga has just invested in the stock of a Tennessee railway, purchasing shares which represent a par value of $367,000. He paid the enormous sum of twenty-five cents forthelot. . —lt appears that the last cotton crop was not a large one, after all, and that if the Southern planters had not marketed their staple so soon they would have got two cents a pound more, amounting to some millions of dollars. —According to a telegram received from Mecca the number of pilgrims in the holy towns of the Hedjas already amounts to 100,000. Of the number are several Indian princes and Mussulman notabilities from the different States in Central Asia.