Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1877 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

According to returns to the United States Bureau of Statistics, six hundred emigrants sailed from this port for Sydney, New South Wales, between February 8 and April 14, 1877.— N. Y. Payer. In Italy there are sixty-five elementary schools of agriculture and twelve normal schools. During 1875, there were held among agriculturists 601 conference meetings, or “ Institutes,” as we term them, with an attendance of 2,500 persons. Thb ages of some of the leading men in Europe are as follows: Prince Gortschakoff, 79; Lord Beaconsfieid, 72; Mr. Gladstone, 68; Prince Bismarck, 63; Lord Granville, 61; Marshal MacMahon, 69; M. Thiers, 80; Entperor William, 80; Victor Hugo, 75; Thomas Carlyle, 81; Alfred Tennyson, 67; Bishop Dupanloup, 75; Pius IX., 84; Garibaldi, 70: Earl Russell, 84; Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, 89; and Jules Simon, 62. Somb interesting statistics are furnished by the European press respecting the draining of the Znyder Zee. A dam forty kilometers (twenty-four and three-quar-ter miies) long, Any meters broad at its base and one and one-half meters above the usual level of high water, is to be carried across the gulf. Upon this will be erected pumping engines capable of discharging 1,716,000,000 gallons a day. Estimating the average depth of the gulf at about four and one-half meters, it will take steady pumping for sixteen yean to empty the 'inclosure. The cost of reclaiming the 500,000 acres now under water is estimated at about $87,000,000. •It is confidentally expected that about 480,000 acres will be suitable for agriculture, and can be sold at an average price of SBOO an acre. Thb 28th of April marked the close of what may roughly be called the first onethird of the present year. That one-third embraced some of the coldest weather of the twelvemonth, the most trying winds for consumptive invalids, and the sudden changes ana treacherous storms which induce diphtheria and Us kindred diseases; it may be fairly taken, therefore, as a representative period in the preparation of mortality statistics. Reports received for the seventeen weeks immediately preceding that date give to some of the leading cities of the world the following deathrates respectively: Alexandria 41.4 Edinburg 20.7 Amsterdam 28.2 liibon 34.9 Athena. 20.8 Liverpool 28.2 Berlin.. 27.1 London.. 28.0 Bombay. 56.4 Madina .146.4 805t0n,.... 20.8 Munich... 36.1 Brussels. 27.3 New York 23.8 Calcutta 27.91 Paris 29.4 Christiana 16.4 Philadelphia 22.5 Copenhagen....... 24.98 an Francisco.... 20.4 Dresden... 33.2 Stockholm 30.4 Dublin 29.0 Vienna 86.7 The palm for general bealthfulness, if these figures are worth anything as signs, must be given to Christiana, with its sixteen and four-tenths; and among the twenties, which come next in order, we are glad to see San Francisco leading Edinburgh, and the modern Athens on an equality with the ancient seat of learning and the arts.— N. Y. Evening Pott.