Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1877 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

The snow along the line of the New York Central furnished employment to 8,000 people. England has 140 daily papers, 84 of them morning jounals, 19 of which are published at London. Paris has 51 dailies.. Only one person in ten in Rhode Island is engaged in agriculture; fifty-six out of every hundred are engaged in manufacturing. Connecticut gets most ot revenues ite from the savings banks—half a million dollars—and from the mutual life insurance companies $400,000, while from all other sources there is but $350,000. The exports of manufactured cotton from New York to Europe was, last year, 74,456 packages, against 41,007 in 1875, and an average of about 16,000 packages before that. TRx submarine and land telegraph lines now in operation measure a distance of more than 400,000 miles, and employ 1,000,000 miles of wire. At present there are 31,000 telegraph stations, sending, in the aggregate, 80,000,000 messages per annum. Cigars, which in 1863, according to the revenue returns, were reported only t o the extent of 199,288,285, have now become a staple necessity, almost touching the twobillionite figure, the exact number being 1,908,141,857! The following is an official table of production from 1863 to 1876: 1868 190,288,2851870..... 1,143.756,0 8 1864 492,780,700 1871... 1,882,844,357 1865 1198,280,969 1872 1.627,7. 5,972 1866 847,443,894 1878 1,807,084,646 1867 483,806.45611874.. 1,886,697,498 1868 690,385.062 1875 1.967.959,662 1869 991,535,93411876 1,1)06,141,067 There are 40,000,000 people in the country, men, women and children. Of these it is estimated 8,000,000 are men, of whom, probably, 2,000,000 are regular smokers. According to this every man smokes 1,000 cigars a year.— N. Y. Sun.

From the annual report of the Board of Education of Chicago, it appears that the number of pupils enrolled in the public schools during last year was 51,128, being 2,007 more than the enrollment of the preceding year. For the accommodation of this army of infantry, the city provides sittings to the number of 39,950. If the whole force should turn out some .day aqd call for their rations of learning at once, 11,178 would have to receive their allowance in the hallways or the school-yards. The average cost of instruction is a fraction less than nineteen dollars per head of the average attendance. The last school census showed the population of the city to be 407,661. The number of passengers landed at Castle Garden during 1875 was 75,035. Of these 60,308 were aliens, 2,357 were bora in the United States, and 12,376 had previously landed at New York or other ports in'the United States. Of tbe whole number of aliens who arrived, 21,095 were from Germany, 13,314 Ireland, 8,447 England, 2,240 Scotland, 5,636 Russia, 2,618 Italy, 3,693 Sweden, 2,114 Norway, 1,218 Denmark, 2,168 France, 4,210 Austria, 2,721 Bohemia, 496 Hungary, 1,292 Switzerland, 588 Holland, 292 Belgium, 451 Wales, 83 Luxemburg, 465 West Indies, 260 Spain, 136 South America, 106 Central America, 154 Canada, 29 Australia, 31 Africa, 192 China, 33 East Indies, 21 Greece, 43 Mexico, 87 Nova Scotia, 32 Portugal, 24 Turkey, and 36 from various countries.