Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-18
FACTS AND FIGURES.

in the United States. t'4iJ%i9
THE value of our railroad freight in 1857
was SIC, ,472. 250,000 A.4'
THE New Orleans gambling houses pay
a yearly license of $4,000.
THE ballet troupe at the Berlin Opera
House consists of 4S6 persons.
THE editor of the South Orange IN. J.)
Budget is IL years of age.
SAN FRANCISCO is not,yet a. quarter of a
century old and has $50 600 Inhabitants.
THE Pope has two brothers older than
himself, and nephew sixty years of age.
THERE are forty-two societies, with
1,70O missionaries, engaged in giving the
| Gospel to the heather. .4f.f
ALTHOUGH Paris returns only nine
members, there were eleven hundred can
didates in the field ,t2a i1 ~
| A WOMAN died of corpulence a few days
ago, in Philadelphia, weighing nearly six
hundred pounds.
A BosToN horse car conductor has been
given a Government bond by some of his
regular passengers. go '
SWITZERLAND has now 201 political
papers, 1853 German, 81 French, Italian,
and Romantic journals. 81
THERE are $4,000 commercial travellers
In the United States, of whom 10000 are,
sent out by New York houses. F"4
A TEACHERS meeting will be held at.
Berlin this summer, at which about 5000
teachers will be present. s''''''
"THE Tempest" was lately read by Mrs
Sterling, in London, with chorus of 400
voices to sing the incidental music.
EIGHT horse -slaughtering establish
ments at Stettin, Prussia, turned out last
year 800 carcasses and 100000 pounds OF
meat f - s:r
A ooI.oRED child recently fell out of
third story window in Cincinnati, struck
it's head against the stone pavement and
escaped uninjured. hr aa
ON an opening night at!an opera house
in Nevada, an enthusiastic admirer OF an
actress threw an $50 silver brick at her. r
NEARLY three. thousand duels were
fought in 1868 at the various German uni.
versities. Most of these duels, however,
were very harmless affairs. - n#
b THERE are fifteen male and female opera
singers on the European continent, whose
aggregate income amounts 10 four mil
lion francs and half Il t 9U aa v
ANNA Dickinson said. in late lecture
at New York, that in five years she w9u
vote, and in ten be member OF Congress.
THE imports of wheat into great Brit
ian this year have averaged wv nty per
cent. less in amount than during the COR
responding months of 1868. ,4 II .sli
u, THERE, are twenty-four voters OF the
name of Ellis in Keene, N II, and in
Stratham, same State, in 215 voters there
are twenty five of the name of Wiggln.
THE French Mutual Benevolent Society,
of 4 San ,Francisco, numbers 1887 mem
bers. Their receipts during the last year
were $57, 172 and their expenses $40. .476
The receipts of the British Bible S ocie-
ty for last year were et87,97 1t has
lately occupied a new and elegant build
ing. The society, since 1904, has issued
81, 600, 900 copies of the Scriptures.
THE Crown Princess of Prussia spends
more than half her income in charities.
The Queen, her mother in.law, spends
still larger portion of her income for the
same purpose.
THE Rev Samuel Mott, who died the
other day in Hartford at the age of 81, was
the last survivor of band of five mission
aries sent to the East Indies by the
American Board in 1879.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, has an ordinance that
prohibits boys under eighteen years of
age from going into a saloon, and fining
any saloon keeper $40 who sells them
liquor IN his establishment.
DURING the last fiscal year the number
of letters sent through the foreign depart
ment of the post office in New York city
amounted to $500, ,307, and the number re-
ceived was 522S 225, making an aggre-
gate of II, 12S, ,532. ,ftegr;ata hursupl', 3.t
ANsoN w. WILLIAMS, has sued Jesse
Colby at Buffalo for the value OF $75
horse killed by collision of the wagons
of the parties; and the case is still unset
tied with 81 800 costs already heaped on
the original bill. +
A PIECE Of track on the Oil Greek
Railroad, over a great bog gave way 8
few days ago, allowing three cars to sink
In two days they got twelve feet below
the surface. The bog has been sounded,
and found to be thirty eight feet deep.
THE door of carriage in fast train
on the Edinburg & Glasgow Railway sud-
denly burst open the other day., and a
little girl five years of age, who was lean
ing against the door at the time, was
thrown out and killed instantaneously.
(. LEVI Snow, of West, Dover, VT, has
been feeding out his hay this season that
has been in his barn thirty four years 1t
came out bright and sound, the cattle ate
it well, and it was as good in every re-
spect as hay grown last summer.
se A CUP of coffee and sandwich invaria-
bly, form the breakfast of the King of
Prussia At 10 o'clock in the morning he
takes substantial lunch, and at the din
ner, table he eats very heartily. He takes
his last meal, generally consisting of fried
potatoes and fish, between 9and 10 il the
evening. sef tea
A GIRL at Brombere, 13 years old, the
daughter Of a high Prussian dignitary,
took her own life by jumping into the
river, in consequence of rebuke which
she received from her teacher. Before
making the fatal leap, she informed her
.schoolmates that she was about to die,
and invited them to her funeral,
The Missionary Society of the British
Baptists reports an income OF 930,556.
At lis recent session, an address was made
nv the Rev DR.. Landels. in which he
brought out the fact that each missionary
family in India cost ON an average E3S5
per annum, and urges that the missiona-
ries 90 out at first unmarried. 3sm
3 CHARLES E THURBER, of East Burke,
Vt, while building road on his farm, q
few DAYS ago, turned over fiat stone, un-
der which ne found $134 in silver halves
and quarters. 1t is supposed to have been
deposited there by Pat Curran, who hung
himself at East Burke some twelve or four
teen years ago. 5y
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