The Wilmingtonian

U. STATES STATISTICS.

Extracted from Mr. Ingersoll's Philosophical
Discourse.

There are half a million of scholars at
the public schools throughout the United
States; and more than three thousand
students at the colleges which confer de-
grees.

There are twelve hundred students at
the Medical schools, five hundred at the
Theological seminaries, and more than a
thousand students of law.

There are about ten thousand physi-
cians, and upwards of ten thousand law-
yers.

There are about nine thousand places of
worship, and about five thousand clergy-
men.

About four thousand and four hundred
patents have been taken out for new and
useful inventions, discoveries and improve-
ments in the arts.

Between two and three millions of dol-
lars worth of books are annually publish-
ed in the U. States.

A thousand newspapers are published.

There are more than one hundred steam
boats, comprising more than fourteen thou-
sand tons navigating the Mississippi.

The vessels of the United States, by sea
perform their voyages on an average in
one third less time than the English.

There are five thousand post offices, and
eighty thousand miles of post roads, and
twelve thousand miles of turnpike roads.

There are three thousand legislators.

There are two hundred printed volumes
of Law Reports.

The proportion of believers in the non
contagion of the yellow fever among the
physicians is as 567 to 28 who believe in
contagion.