Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1877 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

The “ big tree,” as it is called, which rfsaw.. ieu, Calaveras County, tained half a million feet of inch Rimher, and was felled by five men working twenty-two and a half days, mak. ing 112# days’ labor. The sixth annual Directory of David R. Gould was issued on the 31st of March. It shows a considerable increase of names, and, computed by the usual rule, makes the population of the city 501.489. It also gives official mortality statistics of all the large cities of the country, which shows Bt. Louis to be the healthiest city, according to population, in the Union, the deaths here last year being only 7,890. —St. Louit Ditpatch. According to some statistics on serf emancipation which have been published in the Goto*, there are still 2,000,000 serfs in Russia, their emancipation not having been effected, either in consequence of the high price of land or their own unwillingness to accept the new state of things. In the Eastern Provinces of the Empire the annual number of the serfs emancipated is rapidly diminishing. From 1861 to 1865 it was over 500,000; from 1865 to 1870, 350,000, and in 1876 it was only 110,810. The “ Yankee” still retains his prominence as an inventor. One patent was granted for every 730 persons in Connecticut, 914 in Rhode Island and 918 in Massachusetts, last year, while oat West the proportion sinks to one in 1,957 for Illinois, and one in 4,498 for Kansas. .Oddly enough, however, there is a wide gap between Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and the three northern New England States, the figures for Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine being one to 2,973,3,000 and 3,522 respectively.—Batton Transcript. t . The wisdom of many peoples, and of all ages, ordains for the - punishment of the time act various degrees of severity, according to the influence of circumstances, or the guilt of the offenders. Urns, homicide may be only killing by misadventure, or wilful murder, or high treason, according as the case may be. It is, therefore, strictly on principle that the act of converting to one’s own use the

money of another’s exhibits, Tn the light of our lofty civilization, various gradations of guilt which, after the manner of criminal statutes, are signified by appropriate name*, the amount of the spoliation being in this case the principal criterion. Thus: Taking $1,000,000 Is called....A ess* of Genius. 100,000 « .... “ Shortage. “ 60.000 *• .... “ Litigation. 86.000 “ .... " Insolvency. KOor " .... ** Irregularity. 5.100 “ .... “ Defalcation. “ 1,000 “■ .... “ Corruption. “ 500 “ “ Kiube in'nt. “ 100 " .... ** DUhoneetj. “ 50 “ .... “ Thievery. “ 85 “ .... “ To'l Dep'ty. “ One Hat » “ .... “ WsronSo’y. — N. J'. Graphic.