Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1877 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Prof, H. H. PALifßfi 1W tor "Europe April 11* inlhestefimer/,* Russia.’ There are ovep 60,000 short-horna in the United States reedrdea iff the American! hinWtaok, The total numter of Icelanders ,who have emigratea to "the ffieW , <sl)fony*' in North Ameflca hmouqts to >bqiUs> 1,400 men, women and cliijdten. The bridge'betwettr' New York and Brooklyn, now b#s.it?„foptpath completedr and jt is expected thht the who)e mructfire “ WilK be 1 finished 'during ,th« present y.ear. It wiR pe. 6,000 sept tong, the central span teing 1,593 feet long and 18$ feel high. It Will be eighty-tbss feet m> width, iacludipg n promepade thirteen reset Wide; twd railroad tricks, tma four Wfigon. d* stteetCM-trafcka.,,, approaches on the Brooklyn side from the terminus to the anchorage will bcffijfiffcet, .and on the New'York rsidq, 1,338 feet. The entire cost will be $10J)6o,000. The naval iieerolbgy , *fAr ' the qtast year shows 27 deaths, as follows: 8 Rear-Ad-mirals, 2 Commodores, 3 Captains, 4 ComWndbrs, l J!LM&tetiftirt Gommshfler, 1 Directors, 1 Assistant Paymaster;/k Past Assistant Engineer, 3 and 2 CaptaiW in the Atitine corps? During 187« ttese were 50 . rfepigpattofM r, ifi > the navy, and 15 dismissals, the latter ranging as follows:. 1 Lieutenant’’Commatider, 1 Ensign, J^sy 9CadetM|dshipmen, 1 Assistant Engineer, 1 Boatswain and 1 Acting Boatswain. '• <?? oJ £ ’ It appears that, taking the mean dpathrate of the whole population of England at 100, the feldtive dbtilhwateof Civil engineer? is'.Sfi;- of manufacturers, 89; carpenters and joiners, 91; sawyers, 93; musical tastrament makers, paner manufacturers and brassworkers, W;‘ fffajtksmiths Aiid gdhsmiths, 97 and cunuers, shpeniakeri and workers in iron an<lsteel, 98; and bakers, 99. Machinist ififl woolen workers die |at. the raeim rate.for Manufacturers in iron, copper, tin and lead exceed thb indaW taorfsility by.l I? witclurtlkers, 104; shipbuildbe» ! rope-makers, 107; workers m cotton, flax andwtlk - 109. iCatedn and ! gilders flax, by 16. Among glass ufiuinilfMttirers the death-rate rises to 119, and among prtfiffben< to!120 * ’ t&fl,’ ! Wafid sfcw-mak-ess, 121. lift (fopperpffitlte >ud6n>edleniakers, the rate rises to, 123; in manuFacbMng RfOffite fcfd 'dye fcWlcolor