Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Canada ha* 90,000 Indiana, and they never quarrel or scalp. Thk bell-punch is going out of use on the Philadelphia street-car lines. California is to have a slaughterhouse 2,400 feet long, and all sheep who enter there will leave hope and their pelts behind. T uk Knights of Pythias are stronger in Pennsylvania than anywhere else in the Union*. They have 450 lodges and 40,000 members. Choc million five hundred and ninety thousand two hnndred and eighty dollars of greenbacks were destroyed last month, by the new Hecrctary of the United States Treasury. An English official report on the Chinese coolie traffic says that, of the more than one hundred and forty thousand Chinese who sailed for Cuba, upward of sixteen thousand died daring the voyage. Statistics show that more elderly marriages take place in Kentucky than in any other State of the Union. Nothing is tliought, on either side es the house, of tying the knot at three-score years and ton, and along there. In the year 1876 there were 1,154.627 births and 676,028 deaths registered in Great Britain and Ireland. These numbers are equal to a birth-rate of 84.8 and a death-rate of 20.4 per 1,000 (persons estimated to be living in the middle of the year. There are in Colorado oveY fifty peaks which rise more than 14,000 feet above sea level. Blanca Peak, in that State, the elevation of which was determined last year by Hayden’s survey, is probably the highest point within the limits of the United States,, being 14,464 feet above the level of the sea. According to the Almanack de Gotha, the number of towns in the world which contain MX),000 inhabitants or more amounts to 108. Of these, forty-eight are in the British Empire, fifteen in Germany, nine in France, seven in Russia and fifteen in the United States. The cities containing a million inhabitants or more are reckoned at nine in number, London, of course, leading the way, Paris coming second, and New York plot Brooklyn third, Berlin is fourth and Vienna fifth on the list, each of those capitals having rather more than a million of inhabitants. Four Chinese cities—Canton, Biangton (Hounan), Siangfou (Chensi), and Tchautcheoufou (Foukian) —complete the list of the millionaire cities, if the expression may be permitted. Pekin, by the way, which our fathers credited with a population of 4,000,000, is now understood to have about 500,000 inhabitants.