71 77 121⁄2 107 58 724 88 79 €7% 82 931⁄2 854 104 116 106 9% 28% 15% ing statement will exhibit the amount of the precious metals have been obtained from the surface and mines of the earth from mes to the close of 1879 : 1, in part, upon a work on "Gold and Silver," by the Russian Councillor Otreschkoff, published in 1856.] $ garding this and all other estimates of the aggregate amount of the is existing in the world at any period, it is only candid to state that se above the domain of conjecture. Statistical science, even now in as not born before the present century; and where no census even s of mankind existed, nothing could possibly be known regarding the precious metals.-EDITOR OF AMERICAN ALMANAC Miles of Railway Built in 1881. The following shows the railroad construction within the United 1881.-January 1, to December 31. New England States...... Middle States.... Southern States. Northwestern States, &c..... Southwestern States, &c..... Pacific States........ Total United States, miles................ es, under each class of expenditure, appropriations not localized in any ry. Thus, about one-half the $16,819,431, under Rivers and Harbors, was for the improvement of the Mississippi River, running through es on Public Buildings and Grounds. aval Academy at Annapolis. ilitary Academy at West Point, |