Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1877 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

A Georgia sportsman claims to have killed 6,002 deer, but he probably lies. Two thousand American firms have announced their intention of contributing to the Paris Exposition. The City of Boston owes $43,657,333, its debt having increased to that amount from $8,500,000 in the past seventeen years.' During all that time there has been no reduction until last year, when the sum of $342,677 was paid off. A Russian work, by M. Bogolubsky, on “ Gold and Gold Mining in Piussia*” is worthy of notice, it contains very interesting information upon that industry in Russia and Siberia. We observe that the area of gold mines occupies in the Russian Empire about 2,100,000 square miles, and now yields yearly about'Bo,ooo pounds of gold, in value upward of £3,000,000 sterling. The total amount of gold produced in Russia since 1752 has been upward of 2,500,000 pounds. In the course of the United States Geological and Geographical Suivey of Colorado, 1.180 topographical stations have been established within an area of a’jout 70,000 square miles, and the surrounding country sketched from each station. One member of the Topographical Corps made over 1,000 orofile sketches during the field season of 1875; each page being six by ten inches. Mr. Wilson, the Director of the primary triangulation, made some 500 pages of drainage-sketches —taking himself the thousands of angles necessary to locate all the points. A pamphlet by M. Lasaowski, which has been issued from the Russian Ministry of the Interior, gives a formidable ac count of the ravages of wolves, from which it appears that in European Russia alone about 200,000 of these beasts are harbored, a number whieh shows an increase ratuer than a diminution during the last decade. In the three years ending in 1851, 125 persons were killed by the wolves, and in 1875 161 persons met their death from the same cause. Official reports show that every year about 180,000 head of large animals and 560,000 head of small fall victims to these marauders; but these numbers are inadequate, since much destruction is wrought which is not officially reported. The female wolves nourish their young on fowl, and in the one Governmentof Kasan they dispose of some 11,000 geese annually; beside this they kill at least 100,000 dogs in the same time, and altogether cost European Russia about 50,(MX),000 rubles per annum. The increase in the production of American wine has been very rapid during the last thirty-five years. Thus 4 in 1840, the total production was 124,734 gallons; n 1850 it was 221 249 gallons; in 1860 it was 1,860,008 gallons, and at present the annual supplv is probably at least 20,000,000 gallons. The relative d’mounts of wine furnished by the difierent States appear to have changed considerably since 1850. In 1850 the chief production was as follows, in gallons: California 58.055 Misspnri 10,568 Ohio ..48.2 7 New Tort;... 11.172 Pennsylvania..... 25 59 Kentucky 8,093 Indiana 14.056 Virginia 5,408 North Carolina ...U,058 In 1860 it was o lows, in gallons: Ohio .562.510 Illinois . 47.093 California 494.516 Connecticut 46.783 Kentucky 179.949, Virginia 411,'f18 Indiana 88.27 | Missouri 27.547 New York >...... 61.404,PennsjIvnnia 27.646 North Carolina.... M.omi.-outhCarelina.. .24,964 And at present it is approximately us follows, iu gallons: Ca1if0rnia.......5.0T >,OOO. Missouri SJJto.O 0 Ohio 3,50 , Ou, llinois ... .2,500 > O New York ..3,0J0.00 Pennßylvinla...2,'O ,000 lowa 4 o,ft» Kentucky 80',000 In the Btates east of tbe R >cky Mountains the amount of wine m>de from the various kinds of grapes is about as follows. in gallons: Catawba B.'O’.trm Delaware O.oon Coneord ..T.OOOJtOOCIiuton.... ~..l,:e).000 Norton nVirginia ,OUO,-Oilaabe la. . MIO. u) Ives 4« ,000'Herbemont.... 300,0 0 The total annual value ot tne wine and other product* obtained from grapes in I this country is more than twenty-two millions of dollars. — Chicago Times.