Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-02
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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THE King of Burmah is building school
houses. itf
THE estimated cost of the Isthmus canal
| is $100,000,000.
PARIS is to have g new bank with cap
ital of $30,000,000. g.r...--
| Two hundred and sixty newspapers are
| published in London.
QUEEN VICTORIA is seven years the
senior of the Empress Eugenie.
| IT cost Sc, 900 to bury New York gen.
tleman who died recently.
THE Congressional library now contains
| 170965 bound volumes
THE National Bank circulation of the
United States is 1899 S54,04o
WnLARD's Hotel in Washington took in
| $4,000 day during inauguration week.
Ex-PosTMAsTER GENERAL RANDALL has
taken up his residence at Elmira, N. Y.
/ A NEW music hall, with a seating capa-
city of 2,500, is to be erected at Boston.
THE loss by the International Exhibi-
ton at Havre, last year, was 100000
francs.
IT is estimated that there are $2,600,-
600, 600 worth of horseflesh in the United
States.
CUBA's population, last year, was ,370,-
000-of whom 1854, 500 were whites and
605, 500 coIored.
ENGLISH papers speak of girl still liv-
ing in Wales who has not eaten anything
for 16 months. xxge
A FUNERAL in Brownstown, Pa, was
attended by five sisters, all of whom were
aged over eighty. 4&
AT his death, Eugene Sue was worth
only sixty thousand francs. He spent
$150,000 francs in eight years.
THE estate of the late Senator Guthrie
valued at about $1,000,0 ,000-has been
divided among his three daughters.
ARTEMUs WARDS works are to be re-
published in London, with thirty-f five Illus
trations from his panorama. s
HAMILTON FISH is the fourth Secretary
of State furnished by New York. The
others were Van Buren, Marcy and
Seward.
A MELANCHOLY news-vender in Eng
land committed suicide by pouring petru-
leum over himself and then lighting it
with match.
In Massachusetts, in 1867, there were
35,O62 births, nearly thousand increase
over 1855. There were LAS marriages,
more Jnan ever DeIOre.
AN ingenious citizen of New Albany,
Indiana, with too much time on his hands,
has been two years in making checker
board that contains 6,491 pieces.
The Kentucky University has an at
tendance of 730 students the present year.
The buildings are located on the old home
stead of Henry Clay, at Ashland.
THE Secretary of War is Rawlins, with
out "g;" the Secretary of the Navy Is
Adolph E. Borie; the Postmaster General
is Creswell, with only one "s," and there
is not q final "e" in the name of the At
torney General, Mr.. Hoar.
MILTON MERRYFIELD, of Sheffield,
| caught forty-two rats in one night, recent
| ly, by exchanging barrel of oats that
had often been visited by rates for bar
rel of water, covering the surface with
chaf. The varmints unsuspiciously
| pitched in and met a watery grave. al,
THERE are in France fifteen coins, as
follows: Gold pieces of one hundred,
fifty, twenty, ten and five francs silver
| pieces of five, two, one and One-half francs,
and the four sous piece; bronze pieces OF
ten, five, two, and one centime To
these we may add the Emperors, of twen-
| ty-five francs, soon to be coined.
| ACCORDING to recent reports On inebrie-
ty in this country, 1872 men out OF 300 never
drink intoxicating beverages, 100 drink
| moderately, so are ephemeral drinkers, 25
drink periodically, and 3 are habitual
drunkards. OF every 700 women, 600
never =" indulge" 80 take wine, II taste
ardent spirits, 36 drink beer habitually, II
drink periodically, and 3 are habitual ine-
| briates.
SAMUEL SEDGWICK, of New Lebanon,
N. Y, recently killed and dressed q hen
because she produced no eggs; but, upon
being dressed, fifteen eggs were found, six
of them with hard shells and full size, and
| two with soft shells, also full size. This
was one of ten fowls which produced / 200
eggs in four months-the one dressed
above having laid during that time ten
eggs measuring seven by eight inches.
Nc wonder she stopped.
| Mr.. WILLIAM CHURCH, of Seymour,
Conn, who cultivates trout on his farm,
estimates that he has five hundred trout
which will weigh from one and a quarter
to one and half pounds each five thou
sand which will weigh one pound twenty
| thousand which will weigh from eight to
1 ten ounces, and one hundred thousand
| from two to four ounces. In three years
/ time he expects to send to market yearly
i
THE experiments which have been
made over the telegraph lines between
Harvard College and San Francisco show
that the travelling time required by electri-
city is as follows, from Boston: To Buff
falo and back, 0.10seconds. To Chicago
and back, 020 seconds. To Omaha and
back, 0.33 seconds. To Salt Lake and
back 054 seconds. To Virginia City and
back, 70. 10 seconds. To San Francisco and
back, 0.74 seconds. a .;4 5.:gs
A QUEER bet was recently made in
Swansey, Mass. One man wagered that
no horse in town could pull four bushels
of corn 1.-TWO hundred and twenty-four
pounds) in bag or bags, four feet on q
barn floor, the bags being fastened, to- an
inch rope one hundred feet In length. The
novelty of the bet attracted quite crowd
to witness the performance, but the first
horse did the business easily. The princi-
i pie which induced the wager was that a
small anchor attached to q long cable, will
fasten q large vessel, even in very high
/ wind. ifA ii 7"a'31H ,ai n9331sif
By the annual report of the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue, the "great
centres appear to have paid taxes to the
Government for the year ending June 80,
1868, as follows: New York city, $22, III, )
i 004; Philadelphia, $9,038972: Boston,
$6,s17,457; Brooklyn, $5,315, ,Ao; San
Francisco, $5,145,256; Cincinnati, 81, ,498,-
1876; Chicago, $3,993,282; Baltimore, $3.-
= 509,907; st. Louis, $3, ,4S3,7SS; Newark,
2 n. j., $3,340,287; New Orleans; $2e4o,-