Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
FACTS AND FIGURES.


all females
Nrv ZEALAND has yielded $11,00O,00O
in gold since 1865.
- CAIIFoRNIA has gained 10000 new in
habitarits by immigration this year.
THE finest public schoolhouse in Penn
sylvania is going up in Meadyille.
TOLEDO printer has fallen heir to
100000 worth of property in Canada.
A BARBER, at Knoxville, Tenn, has been
fined So for shaving man on Sunday.
WISCONSIN has a greater proportion OF
foreign-born citizens than any other state.
AT present there are 637 practitioners
of homeopathy in the United States.
COUNTERFEIT ten dollar bills on the Au-
burn City National Bank are IN circula-
ton.
ABOUT 5000 barrels of Irish moss is
collected annually along the Massachusetts
coast.
WASHINGTON owned at the time of
making his will, 53,ST6 acres OF land, IN
six States
ENGLAND recently had festival in hon
or of q village pump that did not get dry
during drouth.
A CoNNEcTIcUT minister lately married
two couples, and was married himself, the
same day.
THE census of 1870, it is said, will show
the population of the United States to be
100000.
POWERS, the sculptor, returns to the
United States this winter, after thlrty-one
years absence.
A. SWEET POTATO, two feet III length,
and weighing eight pounds, is exhibited
in Newbern, N. G.
THE whole number of slaves brought
into Charleston during 1904 and 1908
amounted to 39,776.
A POULTRY RAISER in Australia has a
pen of 1C 900 acres, in which he keeps
ostriches, for their feathers.
GREAT BRITAIN raised 120,000,000 bush
els of wheat this year, being 48,OO0,0O0
more than last year.
A PHLADELPHIAg garbage picker hooked
out $4,000 in currency the other day
But it was counterfeit.
THE armies of Europe are composed of
2,55T,426 soldiers in active service and
81, 1893 drilled reserves.
4 EIGHT of the most valuable presents
were stolen, at wedding reception, on
Madison avenue, New York, recently.
IT is stated that three hundred lady
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good practice in the United States.
THE Earl of Dudley is styled the Iron
Earl. His iron mines cover an area of ten
square miles, and are worked by 5000
miners
THE Council of State of the Canton of
Obwald, Switzerland, has published an
edict forbidding any youth under 18 years
of age to smoke under severe penalty.
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Haven (Ct) clergymen are as follows:
parsonage Congregational, $3,283; Meth
odist, 81, 800, with parsonage.
THE building statistics of Omaha for
the last year show that more than 1000
buildings have been erected, at a cost of
over $1,250,000 This is exclusive of the
Government barracks, costing $4,000.
A Rock ISLAND Tll) taxidermist lately
procured mallard duck for stuffing, and
on removing the skin found the flesh lit
orally filed with small, white worm, re-
sembling the trichina found in pork.
SOME years ago young man in Berlin
assisted an old man who had slipped on
the pavement A few days back he was
surprised by receiving $4,000 left him by
the person whom he had so slightly ben
Gifted.
KANSAS produces the finest apples to be
met with anywhere, says the Fort Scott
Monitor, and turnips, called the "Uncon-
ditonal Surrender" weigh from to ~
pounds each. One man has thousand
bushels of such.
THE amount of fractional currency daily
printed at the Treasury Department is be-
tween ninety and one hundred thousand
dollars, which is rapidly forwarded to the
various Assistant Treasures and Govern
ment repositories throughout the country,
to fill acquisitions made by them on the de-
partments.
APPEAR TREE on the estate of Mr.. Edwin
Smallwood, Newton Corner, Mass, which
was planted by Mr.. Jackson, one of the
frstsettlers, about the year 1850, is believed
to be the Oldest tree of the kind in New
England. 1t is still vigorous, bearing
large crops. The crop this year was good
IN quality and profuse in quantity.
THE head of one Of the largest concerns
In New York began his business career by
hammering out, for further use, bent nails
taken from packing cases in dry goods
establishment. He was green lad from
Connecticut, and in five years became one
of the managers of the establishment.
His store now contains $17,000,000 worth
of stock.
A MISSISSIPPI editor having given notice
that he would inform, free Of charge, en-
terprising young men how to make for
tune without capital, replies to several
anxious inquirers: EVERY one of you
pull OIL your coats, leave off your army
SKIES, quit whisky, go to work, make a
crop Of corn, cotton, peas, and potatoes
house them up, then marry an enterpris-
ing girl"
THE Boston Transcript says; "some
days since we copied paragraph, in
which experiments abroad in photograph
ing printed matter were spoken of as
something novel. We have seen TODAY
volume of over thousand pages, perfect
iy copied by a prominent photographer in
TINS city, IN the clearest and most distinct
manner. This undoubtedlyis the most ex.
tensive as well as the most successful at
tempt of the kind, and gives perfect fac
sSnaate of the original book"