Facts And Figures

The Cornish mines have been workcd for over 1,000 years. There is one divorce for cvery ten weddings in Connecticut. Since the war 200,000 negroes have joined the Methodist Ohuroh. Water, when it becomes steam. is expanded 1,700 timos its original bulk. Out of 1,015 conviots in the Texas Penitentiary, 915 cannot read or write. The ironraíl tr tde has fallen ofï from 324 000 tons in 1873 to 21.000 tons in 1878. An exploration of Great Salt Lake shows that its greatest depth is thirtyaix fcet. The American Bible Society has distributed 3Ü.226 copies of the Scriptures in Texas. Oyer 40,000 pornds of glyeerine are nsert annually in tha United" States for mixing with beer. A wkiïer in the London Week estimates that no less than 2,000,000.000 of British capital are now invested in India. Between 1871 and 1878, both years inclusive, 3,860,000 persons were employed in Brttish mines, and 9,0.u of tbem lost their live?. The French an.t.oty beneflted 31,33 persons, and there are about 900 excluded from its bt-nefits, inoluding memberg of the Commune, of the Central Committee, and otbflrswho played a promiïient part in the insurrection - convicts who have lx;fn morisoned beforii, and persons conderumjá íor peculiarly grave oilenses ao;!iinstcoLumoii law. ÍT has been calculatcd that if a lina gle grain of wheat produces titv, grains in one year's erowth, and thts.and succeeding crops be plaated and yield proportionately, the product of twelve yeara would suffice to supply all the inhabitants of the earth for K lifetime. In twelve years the singl grain will have multiplied iUclf 244.. 140,625,000,000 times. A EüKorEAN contemporary saya 't may be interesling to meotioo thm there are in lreland nu lo-s thi 1 5,675 mud cabins, not one of whiub contains more than one apartment I hee 155,675 Cübins are occupied by '227,:-!7i families. There are, however, 307,1 2(J mud oabins of the bettor class, whioh aflbrd accommodation for 432,774 families. At the lowest estímate, there are a'uout 100,000 small farmers who occupy mud cabins of the worst class, in a vast number of whieh the cows iiftd pigs share the solitary apartment witb the f amily.