Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The bridal robe at recent Paris we'd,
ding cost $4,000.
ROCHESTER, IN. Y. ministers receive an
aggregate of $65,000 yearly. aa aon
A RESIDENT of Macon, Ca, made
$4,000 in two years by market gardening.
OVER $500, 900, 900 "watered stock. is
said to have been Issued by railroads with
in five years. ea1a as5e 134 sE&5E
A DIsREGARDED statute of Virginia inn
poses fine of eighty-three cents for each
oath uttered
THERE are thirty college papers pub
lished in the United States, and the rum-
bor is increasing. . ,-...
IT is said that SO, ,440 seeds of weeds, by
actual count, have been found in a pint Of
clover seed. 5.. M ls sCa 7 s2.sT}
A BELL weighing 5000 pounds has been
| swung in the steeple of the Newark IN.
J.) Presbyterian Church.
A NEW YORKER stepped on dogs tail,
was bitten by the animal, and had the
| owner fined $40 for the bite. -.s.4 3,
MARRIED Methodist Ministers in the
| Cincinnati Conference average 1925 year,
| and the bachelors $545. E7a'2'l zeo
THE sales of wool in Chicago during the
months of October and November amount
ed to 1,sS5,711 pounds. w
MONEY and securities valued at from
| $10,0C0,000 to $30,000,000 pass daily
through the New York city postofice., D
THE population ofBavaria, at the census
| taken December 8. 1867, which is just pub
lished, was 4,S24,425. <s5E 2'z5
A RECORD in an old family Bible reads
thus: October 30, 1877. The greatest
earthquake New England ever knew
A New ORLEANS Judge adjourns the
court precisely at O'clock, no matter how
| important the unfinished business, thathe
may go to dinner. b~ s-sa
WITHIN the past three years a sprightly
| widow Of rs, residing in Bush, N. Y, has
woven 5000 yards of carpet, besides doing
all her housework. sl9sea1q q; i-'e1a
ROBERT Hoe, the printing press invenr
tor, began life as q Leicestershire (Eug-
landl mechanic, and came to New York
in 1916. ssfi ..f
In Spain there are 81 Dukes, 746 Mar
q1ises, 557 Counts, "A Viscounts, and rs
Barons, beside So native Spaniards who
bear foreign titles. rs -n43t 97isss,
A CLEVELAND sharper, the other day,
gave German emigrant 800 counter
felt bill for his meerschaum pipe, receiving
in exchange $50 good money. ,4ss.
THE citizens of Morristown, n. j., are
complaining of their dog.taxes, which
amount to from two or three dollars
head. a cooperative sausage mill is the
remedy. - .4 g....t
SoUTH CAROLINA wages to blacks are:
800 year and " found" to farm work
ers; women, from $5to 81 month and
g found" Mechanics get more, masons
averaging So per day.
AN English court has separated q boy Of
Is from his wife, and sent him into the
country to learn trade before he can be
allowed to live with her. He had married
his nurse.
A FEW Sundays ago. banquet of 400
covers was given in honor of fireman,
who, at a fire in Paris, on August s, saved
the lives of ten persons at the imminent
risk of his own life. a silver medal &C
compared the honor.
IT is said that Chicago possesses the
largest bakery in the world. In the months
of October and November eight thousand
nine hundred and ninety eight barrels of
flour were converted into crackers in that
establishment.
In contrasting the Presidential votes of
1860 and 1868, it appears that whereas
the vote of Massachusetts and New Hamp-
shire respectively has increased but 10000
and 1000, that for New York has in
creased 171,000, Pennsylvania $4,000,
Ohio 77,000, Illinois 10000, and that of
Michigan 6S,000. u ss23d 7ieaS
X. A. WILLARD says that American
dairying noWrrepresents capital Of $780,
100000. The cheese product of 1867 sold
for $25, 900, 900, and the butter product of
New York alone was nearly 85,000,000
pounds, and the quantity of cheese made
73,000,000 pounds. The value of these
products, at a very moderate estimate, was
$50,0O0,O00. ., ..,...z -. i;
SECRETARY KLIPPART enumerates Ohio
farm stock as follows Horses, COS, ,909,
valued at $75 000, 900, average over $100a
head mules 25,272, valued at $2,500,000,
nearly 500 a head; cattle, 1,504,550,
valued at $60000,000; sheep, 1922, ,495,
valued at $14,750,000; swine, 1,807,594,
valued at $20,000,000; total value of live
stock, poultry omitted, $162,250000
HORACE GREELEY purposes to write,
during the year 1869, an elementary work
on Political economy, wherein the policy
of Protection to Home Industry will be
explained and vindicated This work will
first be g ven to the public Though sue
cessive Issues of THE New York
TRIBUNE, and will appear in all its edi-
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WEEKLY, So per annum. ~ s}Eizg