Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-02-05
FACTS AND FIGURES.

SILK was cultivated in South Carolina
as early as 1893. e
THE Mechanics Society in Detroit has
a library Of 1000 volumes.
THE coal production of the world is
174,O00,000 tons per annum.
Boston is to have a horticultural and
Agricultural school for women.
STUDENTS live at Cornell University for
03 cents day, payable monthly in adj
vance.
A ST. Louis reporter was robbed the
other day of the savings ofa lifetime-$25
currency.
THE Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has 50,750 miles of line, and 1881
offices.
On the $4,000 miles of railway in the
United States, there are $500 locomotives
in daily use.
AN insurance agent in New York has
$125,0O0 worth of policies on his life,
chiefly of the endowment style.
THE State election of New Hampshire
will occur on the first Tuesday of March,
and will be the first of the year 1869.
A CHILD in Buffalo, N. Y, the other
day, while playing with a screw, swallow
ed it, and was choked to death. ..-
In the city of Boston women are taxed
upon $23 3,000,0 900 of real estate, and $10,-
100000 of personal property. hoo q -t.
GENERAL MAeRUDER asserts as a fact
that Carlotta's insanity is caused by the
poison administered to her by Mexican
woman. ., -.. -
IT cost 8 young fellow twelve dollars in
Bridgeport, Conn.,, the other day, to kiss
a girl whom he was escorting across a
bridge. ..... ,.....- -,..., ......,.,. .:..-.,.
;, NEW York has only 5000 tenement
houses, occupied by over 100000 people,
the cellar. population alone being over
10000 souls. ~
ONE of the editors Of the Cleveland
Leader has fallen heir to fortune The
amount is the one one hundred and forty
fourth part of $4,000.
: ONE London coroner held twelve
inquests the day after Christmas, most
of the deaths resulting from "holiday ex-
ercises." 81. ''' 1l0'Is1a gHa ita23a ~ 5H
JOSEPH GEE, of Luzerne county, Pa,
was burned to death few days ago by
rushing into his house, which was on fire,
to save his papers and money a cn-
THE London Times, with full supple
ment, contains about twenty thousand
lines, or two hundred thousand words,
equal to a five hundred page octave. s4e
FIVE cities in New Hampshire have a
population exceeding 10000 Manches-
ter leads with $4,000; Concord has $4,000 ;
Nashua, 1900; Portsmouth, 1900, and
Dover about 10000.
OF the 218.9S6 emigrants who arrived
in New York last year, 65,714 remained
in that State, 1926 went to Illinois, 3,115
to Utah, 5 to New Mexico, and 2, 311 to
Southern States. 80 .3if1t i' -'.~r
ANNA GARGATsIN isthe wealthiest heir
ess in Russia We may cay for the infor-
nation of enterprising young men that
her address is Moscow, and that her pa is
merchant with 100,000,000 roubles.
ONE hundred and thirty mine new jour
nails were started in Paris in 1868. OF
this number only two have survived the
sea of troubles into which such enter.
prises almost invariably are plunged.
Four daughters of a wealthy Berlin
| banker were recently married to as many
| brothers. The wedding festivities were
simple, the principals having agreed thai
the necessary sum for stylish wedding
should be given to the poor.
NORTH GERMANY has twenty cities
with a population of upwards of fifty
thousand each. Seven of them exceed
| one hundred thousand. Berlin is, o
course, the largest, with 100000, the mex
being Hamburg with 218,oo0.
/ PROFESSOR L1EB1e assures US that 1 ,46t
quarts of the best Bavarian beer con
tains exactly the nourishment of a TIVE
and half pound loaf of bread. Thi
beer is similar to the famous English AL
sop's, and our more popular American
beer '"a ,.5jeE >ila53 tsa
IT is stated that there are over ninet
students in attendance at the Massachr
setts Agricultural College, over one
third Of whom have already expresse
I their intentions to become farmers. Abou
three-fourths of the students are fror
; farms. Is3.g Ht
4 ORQUIzA, Ex-Dictator Of the Argentin
J Confederation, is one of the richest me
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