Facts And Figures

- The City of New York's consurnption of postngo stamps amounts to about $100,000 a week. - More people are killed every y car in the streets of London thandh all the niilroarls of Great Britain. - There are in Fhiladelphia 103 iron faetones etnployïnï lfc.000 men, not including those mployed at the Baldwin Locomotivo Works. - Raüway enterprises to the number of 287, and covering a contemplated mileage of 20,000 miles, have been reported dnring the first six months of this year as projeeted or in process of construction. - Nearly $5,000,000 worth oí lowa real estáte is exempt from taxation this year, under the provisions of acts to encourage tree culture. The State thereby loses about $10,000 of revenue, and counties lose over $100,000. - Massachnsetts, with her 7,800 square miles of territory, now supports a population of more than 228 to the square mile, which is nearly equal to the density of population in Italy, and inferior only to Belgium, (ireat Britain and Italy among the countries of the world. - l'arisis rapidly adopting the electric light, even in its present crude stage of development. Tvventy large establishments in the city are nightly illuminatedonthenew systeni, and the boulevards are dazzling to an uncomfortable deree. - Edison talks enthusiastically of the time when electrical engines will be employed on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and says he can readily obtain a sDeed of liftv to sixtv mile3 an hour with less danger of accident than occurs with steam; for the rails transmit the energ}' that moves the train, and the instant the engine leaves the track this energy ceases to be in communication with it. -At Syracuse, N. Y., they have a Milk Association, composed of farmers, for supplying the city with pure milk. They keep au agent and secretary to attend to the business, keep their own teams, employ their own men to distribute the milk, and board their own help. This assouiation receives the product of 1,600 cows; the amount of milk received is 3,808,000 quarts per year, an average of 2,380 quarts for each cow per year. These animáis represent all breeds and crosses. -_____