Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1877 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

The dogs of New York City have paid (20,000 for licenses this year. San Francisco worries along with six hundred and twenty-six lawyers. Ten thousand sheep have lately died around Desert Springs, near Mojave, Cal. Cincinnati proposes to economize by lighting her public lamps a half hour later and extinguishing them a half hour earlier than heretofore. The estimated saving is (90,000 yearly, which is enough to make the change an object. The trade of the United States with Russia during the calendar year of 1876 was so small as to be positively absurd. The exports to Russia weye only (9,689,000, and (8,266,000 of that was raw cotton, and (956,000 more was petroleum. The imports were only. (626,000. It is not known what is the total area of waste lands in Scotland, but an example taken from the Highlands will convey some idea of it. In Sutherlandshire, out of 1.207,188 acres represented in the owners of lands’ returns, only 25,635 acres are under cultivation, being only a little over 2 per cent. Twelve States will hold elections during the present year, to-wit: Kentucky, Aug. 6; Vermont, Sept. 4; California, Sept. 5; Maine, Sept. 10; lowa and Ohio, Oct. 9; and Massachusetts, Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, Nov. 6. In four of these States Legislatures are to be chosen. The increase in the population of the City of Berlin, during the last 150 years, is very remarkable In 1721, the population was 65,300; in 1766,125,878; in 1831, 248,682; in 1858, 448,588, and, in 1875, the total population was only a fraction under 1,000,000. Thus, in point of population, the German Capital is the third of European cities. The average annual mortality from hydrophobia in England is one to about 500,000 inhabitants, or nearly the same as in New York City; in France and Germany it is somewhat higher; for the United States generally there are no satisfactory statistics, but the fatality is probably not greater than in New York. The disease is peculiarly one of the Temperate Zone, and is very rare in Turkey, Syria and Egypt, although it is said to occur in China and India. The potency of the contagion varies in different epidemics, in different dogs, and at different times in the same dog. On the authority of the Carriage Monthly, ' mo r e in j urv is done to carriages and wagons by greasing too much than the reverse. Tallow is the bestlubricantforwood axles, and castor oil for iron. Lard and common grease are apt to penetrate the hub, and work their way out around the tenons of the spokes and spoil the wheel. For common wood axles, just enough grease should be applied to tne spindle to give it a light coating. To oil an iron axle, first wipe clean with a cloth wet with turpentine, and then apply a few drops of cas-tor-oil near the shoulder and end. One teaspoonful is enough for the four wheels. Carriages are sometimes oiled so much that their appearance Is spoiled by having the grease spattered upon their varnished surfaces. When they are washed in that condition, the grease is sure to be transferred to the chamois from the wheel, and trom thence to the panels. ‘ —An interesting case of feminine constancy and devotion is noted in San Franciscol A short time since, in that city, a lady called upon Capt Douglas, of the police force, and made some inquiries concerning Harry Courtaine, a bibulous comedian. After a few moments’ conversation, the Captain recognized her as the wife of Courtaine, who left him seventeen years ago, and has since been living in England. She stated that recently she picked up a newspaper and saw a notice that Courtaine was lying ill in the hospital in that city, and she came all the way to see him once more. Bhe learned at the hospital that he had been discharged, and she desired to find him. With the Captain’s assistance the recreant husband was found and the couple reconciled.