Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-01
FACTS AND FIGURES.

CANADA mas Oh, LOU mlHtfamen. ~
NEW YORK contains 100000 Spaniards.
THERE has not been an execution in
Maine since 1882.
A HORSE in Coventry, VT, recently died
at the ripe age of thirty.
RoTHscHILD commenced his will, an
enormous parchment volume, in 1S4o.
On recent Sunday 2,21S children at
tended the Bethel Sunday School, in Gin
cinnati.
MERIDEN Conn, has only four police
men. The chief gets $1,000 a year, and
the others 1926 3G
TWICE as many people pay income tax
In Massachusetts, as in all the rest OF New
England.
Four Vermont clergymen recently killed
six deer in four days hunt in the Adiron-
dacks .s3 la tv i5
SOME clocks recently imported into New
York contained $500, 900 worth OF shawls
concealed inside.
THE other evening Bishop Keller told a
Boston audience that he Travelled two years
in Europe on $50.
HARVARD COLLEGE was named after
John Harvard, who, in 1888, left to the
College e579 and library of over 300
books. .-.s aas-l, saf et1
THE other day, four young Philadel-
phians were imprisoned for beating q
father for ioggipg his son, their compan-
ion. 03ae
GENERAL MCCLELLAN holds positions
at present which give him from fifteen to
eighteen thousand dollars a year income.
A Mr.. Brown, an old peddler of apples
on st. Louis ferry boats, has had e3O, 600
left him by a deceased relative in Ireland.
THE tower in the Circular church in
Charleston, SC, has been haunted by
ghosts for three years past. They proved
to be owls.
VEDocIPEDEs are so common in Paris,
in the evening, that the police compel the
riders to affix lamps to them to prevent &C
cidents.,
A DRUGGIST in Worcester has received
from Sacramento an order for medicine
from numbered prescription of several
years ago. 9 q 5t1
THE Mississippi river was navigable to
st. Paul, this year, two hundred and fifty
eight days, the longest period known in
one year. ! t ,s, i.,,. ss.s.....
THE New Jersey Insane Asylum at
Trenton, has $40 inmates. One-sixth are
paying patients, and five-sixths .1e sup
ported by taxation. 800
AUSTRIA pays its diplomatic agents at
Paris, $1,000; at London, $4,000; ST.
Petersburg, $32 900; Rome, $4,000 !. and
so gradually down to Washington, $4,000.
RABBITS are 80 numerous in Australia
that they are killed as vermin. One farm
er calculates that it will cost him e10,-
900 to expel them from his grounds.
PHILADELPHIA largest Protestant Sun
day School is the Fifth Baptist, the Beth
any Mission alone excepted It was or
gained in 1915, and numbers ], 200 schol-
ars. sF
A FEW nights ago Kansas City SOM
nambulist. walked abroad in his night
shirt, until, stepping into a snow drift, the
sudden cold awoke him.
THE Mormons, in twenty years, have
built up SO towns, 100 churches, and 100
school houses. During that period the
emigration from Europe has been $4,000,
and from the old States. $4,000.
ELEVEN young thieves were surprised
and captured by the police in their den
no larger than a good sized hog pen, and
little better--on Keene street. Milwaukee,
few nights since. They were recounting
their exploits when captured.
FROM the Lutheran Almanac, for 1859,
recently issued, we learn that this demon
nation now has 1890 ministers, 3,182
houses of worship, 81 synods, and nearly
400 900 COMMITMENTS There are "a re-
ligious periodicals. II English, 10 German,
2 Swedish, and 1 Norwegian; Is theo-
logical seminaries, II colleges, s schools
for females, IL academies, 10 orphan
houses, besides other eleemosynary and
benevolent institutions. In the Lutheran
Church the Gospel is preached in English,
German, Swedish, Norwegian, Bohemian,
and in several Sclavish dialects.