Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1875 — Interesting Figures. [ARTICLE]

Interesting Figures.

A man walks 3 miles in an hour; a horse trots 7; steamboats run 18; sailingvessels 10; slow rivers flow 4; rapid rivers 7; moderate wind blows 7; storm moves 36; hurricane, 80; a rifle-ball, 1,000; sound, 743; light, 190,000; electricity, 280,000. A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds; a barrel of pork, 200; barrel of rice, 600; barrel of powder, 25; firkin of butter, 56; tub of butter, 84; wheat, beans and clover-seed, 60 pounds to the bushel; corn, rye and flaxseed, 56; bucxwheat, 62; barley, 48; oats, 35; bran, 20; timothy seed, 48; coarse salt, 85. Sixty drops make a dram, 8 drams an ounce, 4 ounces a gill, 4 gills a pint; 60 drops a tablespoonful, 4 teaspoonfuls a tablespoonful or half an ounce, 2 tablespoonfuls an ounce, 8 tablespoonful a gill, 2 gills a cof-fee-cup or tumbler, 6 fluid ounces a teacupful. Four thonsand eight hundred and forty square yards an acre; a square mile, 640 acres. To measure an acre: 209 feet on each side make a square acre within an inch. There are 2,750 languages. Two persons die every second. A generation rs 15 vears; average of life 31 years. The standing army in Prussia, war times, 1,200,000; France, 1,360,000; Russia, 1,000,000; Austria, 825,000; Italy, 200,000; Spain, 100,000; Belgium, 94,1)00; England, 75,000; United States, 24,000. Roman Catholics in the United Btates, 5,000,000. Mails in New York city are 100 tons per day; New York consumes 600 beeves daily, 700 calves, 20,000 sheep and 20,000 swine in winter.— American Journal of Health.