Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-05-07
FACTS AND FIGURES.

oAAO OLA A\OW otdtSS.
THE English railroads earn on an aver.
age e57 It's per mile per week.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN speaks four
languages fuently, and reads four more.
THE highest store rent paid in New
York is $4,000; the highest in Chicago. /.
$52 1000.
THERE are 169 cases of divorce pending
in the Supreme Judicial Court for Middle.
sex, Mass.
drunkenness in Russia, last year, was
2,748 seven day. +
SMOKING pipes to the aggregate value
of f1fty-two million francs were manufac-
tured in France last year.
ALL the sons of the Harpers brothers
have been admitted to the firm since the
death of James Harper
A GREAT aquarium is being constructed
at Berlin, for which 5000 living varieties
of marine life have been collected.
MORE than $3S0,00O has been spent
since 1866 in decorating the Capitol ut
Washington with works Of art. epy
A BIG blast was recently made in Cali
fornia. Twelve hundred kegs of powder
were used and mountain was blown up.
IN Vienna last year seventy one Roman
Ca holics were admitted to the Lutheran
churches, and eleven butherans turned
Roman Catholics a..s
MRS. RACHEL VENTRoUs died in New
Haven, Conn, a few days ago, aged %
years--leaving 81 grandchildren, 40 great
grandchildren, and 3 at,great grand
children.
THE fuckers, of Monson, Mass, are a
long-lived family. Two died lately aged
SO and 100; and there are four still living,
of whom the Oldest is SO and the youngest
70.
In California, four locust trees less than
twenty years old were lately cut, and
twenty-nine wagon hubs having been
made from them the remainder made more
than four cords of firewood.
THE Houses of Parliament in London
cost $4,000, 900 in gold, and it is now said
that people of taste have most noble
monument, and people Of business most
inconvenient house.
ToADs are sold in Paris at the rate of
fifty cents dozen. The animal is used
for the protection Of vineyards and gar
dens from the ravages of insects that
escape the pursuit of the birds. t
THE average winnings of the gambling
tables at Ems, Baden, Wiesbaden, Ham
burg and Mannheim have, for the last ten
years, amounted to an annual grand total
of three and half million dollars. sAf
No LESS than fourteen railway locomo-
tives have exploded within tbs past seven
months in the United States, killing
twenty nine persons outright, and severely
wounding much larger number. 1i
Mr.. A. T. STEWARDS property on
Broadway alone is worth about S., 100000.
Mr.. w. B. Astor's real estate on Broad
way is worth about $3,000,000. The Loril-
lard estate has $4,000, 900 invested in that
thoroughfare.
A LARGE sperm whale was recently
harpooned on the coast of Madagascar.
From it was obtained 285 pounds of am
bergris, worth about $25, Sailors say
that ambergris is produced by dyspepsia
in the whale.
A BosToN merchant is the possessor of
formerly the property of Lieut.. Gov.
Usher, Of New Hampshire, and contains
accounts dating back 10 1878 which are as
legible as when written. A sG
AN enterprising youth of Is, resi-
dent of Pittsburgh, bought liquor in four
saloons on recent Sunday, and on the
following Monday lodged information
against the dealers for selling liquor on
the Sabbath, and received 800 as the in
formers fee.
COLONEL ROBERT JOHNSON, who has
recently died, was the second, but eldest
surviving, son of the ex President He
ser ged during the greater portion of the
late war, and, when his father became
President, he assumed the position of his
Private Secretary.
THE canary bird has been an object of
traffic for five centuries. Five hundred
years ago there was but one kind of ca
nary bird, but the original stock has been
80 mixed and adulterated that the varieties
now number at least 80. .. io ,aaoI
NEXT year is the centenary of Ameri-
can Universalism, and is to be duly cele-
brated by the payment OF all debts and
obligations resting on the various organi-
cations of the denomination. A memorial
monument at Washington, to cost $780,
600, is talked Of ,.,.-...~. .f.,.
In California, there is made, on an aver
age, from $50 to $50 gallons of wine to the
acre. The four most productive of the
wine-growing districts of Europe are:
Italy, giving to the acre AIN gallons;
Austria and her provinces, 265 6 gallons;
France, 176 81 gallons; Nassau, 237H
gallons. G
THE two Astor Library buildings cost
$290,000, and the $4,000 volumes they
contain cost $225,00O The revenue of
the library from invested funds is $15.500
year. This pays its expenses and leaves
little or nothing for new books Hence
it is very poor in current literature.
PAUL DE CAssAaNAc, a Partisan editor,
has been branded as liar more than five
hundred times; has been spit upon in the
street seven times, and suffered four tweaks
of the nose and four public horsewhip-
pings. He has fought nearly q hundred
dueis, for which offence he has been sew
eral times imprisoned, and now has six
teen challenges outstanding va
DURING last year there were in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain 1862
600 acres under cultivation, of which H.
$50, 900 were devoted to cereals; 1866, 900
to vegetables; 5,690,000 to clover and ro-
tation grasses; and 20, 164 900 to perma-
nent pasturage. England alone possessed
3,179,oOo cattle and 81 930, 900 sheep. In
every 100 acres in England, AZ are pasture;
in Wales, 56; in Scotland, %; and In Ire
land, g. 8aE
OLIVER DYER, in Packnrds Montilly for
Nav. gives the following figures as the cost
of a wedding outfit" for fashlonapie
voung man in Gotham underwear only
being enumerated: d, ID, t..4e..-
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