Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Nearly 125,000 bushels of red clover seed are exported from this continent to Europe every year. The population of Maine has decreased 16,000 since the census of 1870. The falling off is largely due to emigration to the West. North Carolina has fifty-four mountains over 6,000 feet high. The highest is the Black Dome, or Mitchell’s High Peak, whose altitude is 6,707 feet. In the course of a recent lecture in Paris, regarding the uses of birds, an es“mate was formed of the damage to crops by the robberv of a nest containing five eggs. During the first month each voung bird eats an average of about fifty-eight flies or other insects in a day. The aggregate, multiplied by thirty, for the month, makes 7,500 insects to every nest. Every insect eats daily from blossoms and leaves an amount equaling its weight until it reaches maturity. It was calculated that in thirty days each insect would damage thirty blossoms, and thereby destroy thirty fruits, and that 7,500 insects would kill 225,000 fruits. Ah eminent cotton firm, in an annual report of the cotton trade during 1875-76, gives the following as the number of spindles in Europe and America, and the average annual consumption of cotton :

1 CoCTiTBTEB. spindle*. J - ... I 1

Colton, per upkulle, lb*.

Annual estimated : cotunntption.

United States..... 9,600,000 63 600,000,000 Grant Britain 39.000, 1*397,000,000 Gannanj ... Basria and Poland. 2,600,000 ® Switzerland 1,850,0009® Spain 1,750,000146 Itely 800,000)66 Sweden and Norway 300,000166 Holland 280,000)60 Total spindles .l6B,o6o.Pooh... 2,006,000/MQ Or upward of 6,000,000 bale* of the average weight of aa America? bale.

Cox** SET to general expectation, the number of fullurm in the United Bute* for the Aral thiee months of the present year show a alight inureaae over those of the corresponding quarter of 1876, though the amount of liabilities is somewhat ieaa. The quarterly circular of R. Q. Dun A Co. furnishes the following comparisons:

—.t. ■ - Finl Quarter. Years. Jfp. <f .1 mount of Average failure*. HaMUtle*. liabilitle*. 1875,.........1 1,888 1878 2,806 64,644,166 28,038 1877 | 2,869 64,688,074 10,040