Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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to one clergyman.
MoPHERsoN's Life of Thaddeus Ste
vens " will fill 1000 pages. ~ 10 a2 2s =
THERE are 1901 dram shops in New
| York and Brooklyn. .3s3s49. E.fo
| NEW York canals last year yielded 9
surplus of $3,293,301.
LAST year SS2 marriages were solsm
nized in Milwaukee. ~ A3t.9.@a
ONLY one paper is printed in the Turk
ish language, in London. ,9+z. 3e. bla 9i
THE Troy postmaster prohibited the
letter-carriers of that city from circulating
New Years address, I2 2. 1851 Y!
THE receipts for license to sell LIQUOR in
New York, last year, were 81 ,431, ,172.
THE Baptists have ninety Sabbath
schools, with 14,851 scholars, in Phila-
delphia.
MONTREAL citizens have subscribed
$4,000 to erect statue of Queen Victoria
in that city.
TT costs a Calcutta Hindoo about one
dollar and half to have his body burned
in good style. aie- ee 3.aifR .4g :
IT is now stated that the loss by the
earthquake in San Francisco will reach
$3,000,000. % s'''S1 t'."is ie i4
A BALD eagle that measured seven feet
across the wings, was killed, recently, in
Titus county, Texas .st ,.e3sr
IN Holland the Chambers have voted
for the maintenance of capital punish
ment by majority of forty.five. 9fIl go g9i
NEM PORT, r. l., during the year 1868,
has lost by death fifty weight persons over
seventy years of age.
A FRENCH menagerie proprietor keeps
his money in the cage of his most fero-
cious animals. He never lost any.
A HOG weighing 1900 pounds, that
stood three feet six inches high, was lately
shipped from Columbia county, Va, to
New York. s'Jre zei@ ,iG 3g5.ad slr0I
THE number of insane Z persons in
Indiana is from 1900 to 1000, the ratio
being but one to each 324 of the popula-
ton. .faa@lG8 ~ p39a1i asa ~ [sDas
Mr.. JOEL TAYLOR, of Cromwell, Conn.,,
has, during the last fifty years. rescued
100 drowning persons from the Connect
cut river t.ah s1H9e39T 10 f99aili
FRANCE owes So, 2,2se, 900, 600, keeps 75O,.
600 soldiers and annually expends $685.
100000 in running the. government in
peace times. 7li ''I8A9a3 p y
Next to Gov. Seward, Gov. Hoffman is
the youngest Chief Magistrate the State of
New York l4s ever had He is 80; Sew.
ard was 81 when elected.
THERE are 100000 cotton spindles now
in operation in the United States, of which
over 100000 are running on cloths for
printing, and produce 10000, 900 yards
per annum.
THE State Treasurer of Wisconsin re-
ports that the revenue for the past year
amounted to 1892, $40 90, and the expenses,
$946, 1886; balance in the General Fund,
September 80, $44, ,94630. - as 90,
q NASHVILLE mechanic has invented
shooting machine, which he calls a "iPoly-
fer" which will destroy regiment of
soldiers, distant mile and half, in four
minutes. 3 @2tI3 sH3 81
y THERE were / ,110 cases of small pox in
San Francisco during the six months end
ing on the 11th of December last; 399wer g
fatal. The proportion of cases to the Who'll
population was / to 1856. mal .9H sea Ia
THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts
has decided that a life insurance policy
on which a note has been given for the
first premium, was not valil, the first in
stallment on it not being due when the
pdlty ul6O. -5-rfrfrr tr5et ,E5 itHrFtrsf~ bad i
THE Empress Eugene has given 1000
francs to the convict ,Dumain, of Algeria,
for swimming with a rope to q sinking
vessel, amid violent storm, and saving
the lives of those on board. The Emperor
is urged to pardon the man. ,.g -
ONE boot and shoe factory at North
Brookfeld Mass, can turn out more than
one million pairs Of boots and shoes per
year, and is now producing 1900 pairs
per day. 1t was started half a century
ago by two brothers, one of whom has
survived to see his business grow from
little shop to the present gigantic factory.
I THE gold medals offered by the New
York USpper to the nine base allplayers
making the best average during the season
of 1858, have been awarded to Messrs.
Radcliffe, Mcbride, Foster, Roach and
Sensenderfer of the Philadelphia Athlet-
les, Waterman and Johnson of the Gin
cinnatis and Wright of the Unions of
Morrisania .. s 1.
MANY people think the true value of q
greenback is found by deducting the pre-
MUM on gold from 100. This, of course,
is an error. Take the price of gold as the
divisor, par, or 100, as the dividend, and
the quotient will give the gold value of
the greenback. For example, gold is about
135 Divide 100 by this, and we find that
dollar greenback is worth about "a cents
in gold.
THE first case under the Massachusetts
statute of 1857, relating to the schooling
and hours of children employed in manu-
factories, was tried in Salem recently.
Two complaints were made against the
overseers of the Naumkeag cotton mills
for employing a boy and girl, between the
ages of 10 and Is years, who had not at
tended school during the year. Judgment
of guilty was rendered in both cases but
the defendants appealed the matter TO the
Superior Court s5 8~;.
THE New York Society for the Proven
ton Of Gambling received, during the
year 1868, $23,975, and expended $23, 1896.
The number of employees reported as hav.
ing frequented gambling houses is 1,034.
The number of public gambling houses
claimed to have been closed during the
year through the workings of the associa.
tion is 317. The object Of the association
get forth in the report, is to moderate
and place check upon the, great and
growing evil of gambling, while it con
fesses its inability to put stop to the
practice, per Sc. itnsy gqfa,2 ,f.r-i
MANY persons suppose that, rock sal
| is dug out Of the mines in substantially
the same condition that it is put into the
| market; but this Is not SO. The masses
| Of salt are broken up and dissolved in
| water The solution is then evaporated
and the salt removed as it crystalizes. By
| this means, the impurities, consisting, fol
the most part, Of oxide ofsiren and Vari