Facts and Figures.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3106, 31 July 1894, Page 4

Facts and Figures.

There are over 6000 postmistresses in the United States.

Of every 10,000 deaths in England 270 are from apoplexy. The liquor tax yields the best returns to the Government in Russia, and the poorest in Norway. The tax on coffee yields the best returns to France, £4,000,000 a year, and the poorest in Denmark. The people of Europe pay their respective Governments £10,000,000 every year in taxes on salt. To protect an invention all over the world sixty-four patents are required. They cost £3,500. A boy at Hull, England, had a diseased lung cut out. Within three months he was well. Of people aged thirty, 2 per cent are always sick ; of those aged seventy five, 10 per cent are always in bed. In 1882 poll tax was paid in Eussia by 693,000 land-owners and gentry, 1,347,000 Cossacks, and 23,542,000 serfs. The English income tax has been changed eighteen times since 1842, varying from 2 pence in the pound to 16 pence. In most parts of Syria, Palestine and Arabia, fig trees and date palms are counted, and a tax is levied on each tree. The people of Great Britain pay 120 pence per head ever year in liquor tax, 30 pence in coffee tax, and 60 pence in tobacco taxes. Washerwomen are treasures at Johannesburg, South Africa. The charges, says a lady writer, would almost appall a millionaire. Bishop Blythe of Jerusalem says that over 100,000 Jews have made homes for themselves in Palestine within the last few years. The Suez canal is 88 miles long and reduces the distance from England to India nearly 4000 miles for ships. There are, according to the latest registration, 4,895,112 voters in England and Wales, 625,628 in Scotland and 737,951 in Ireland. The descendants of Queen Victoria are either now in possession of or will, in the natural course of events, come to occupy seven thrones, those of the British Empire, the German Empire, the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Greece, the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen.