Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-12
FACTS AND FIGURES.


A NEWARK IN. J.) machinist has in
vented velocipede to carry two persons.
A NEWPORT (R I) firm made $150,O00
by the recent rise in sugar and molasses.
On the 9th of May next the railroad
from Mexico to Puebla is to be opened.
KIoYTE BAKIN has written 106 Japanese
novels. 1t has taken him thirty-eight
years.
THE Free churches of England raise
about e3, ,000, 900 per annum for religious
purposes.
SINCE 1899 three hundred and eighty
eight Protestant Missionaries have gone
out to China.
PRUSSIA expended $1t3,123035 in the
war of 1866, Of which half million were
for secret service.
In 1867 the mints of Paris, Strasbourg
and Bordeaux coined 113,000, 600 francs in
gold and silver.
APRovIDENT Texan considerably saved
$25 1000, and then inconsiderately died
without telling where it was deposited.
i SUSAN MEDBERRY is the name of a
Connecticut prodigy four years old, who
accurately plays hundreds of pieces on
the piano
REV. SIMEON PARMLEE, D. D., of West
| ford, VT, has preached 10000 sermons,
and attended about 1000 funerals.
| A New HAMPSHIRE Baptist pastor,
| Lowell by name, has-strange to relate
accepted "call at a less salary than his
present one. ~ oHrr e5FfF
| THERE are 55 Protestant Churches in
Turkey, besides rs other places of wor.
ship, with an average attendance OF
5000.
Two Houston (Texas) editors, one day
lately, shot at and missed each other, but
killed small boy who was standing near.
THE Seventh-day Baptists have seven
ty-fiye churches in the United States. VI
these the oldest is that in Newport, found
ed in 1871.
IT is said that the commissions and per-
ouisites of one real estate agency in New
York have amounted to 100000 since
January 1.
A MAN in London, having married two
wives, survived for twenty years without
letting either into the secret of the others
existence.
GENERAL KLAPKA, the great Hungarian
General, is living at Nice on small PEN
sion, which the Prussian Government is
| paying to him.
THE Church of England holds in fee
simple the right to property worth $14O,..
| 100000 in gold, the annual income of
which goes to support the clergy.
DIR. GRIER, SR, and DR.. Grier, Jr., OF
| the Presbyterian church at Brandywine,
Pa, have occupied the pastorate OF the
church for a combined period of eighty
years.
RUSSIA has granted permission for the
building of about 4,200 miles of railroad
in all, and the greater part of this dis
tance has been constructed and is in ope-
ration.
NINE. RossINI has decided that her hus-
bands remains shall not be transferred to
italy. nor will she herself leave France.
Over the maestro's grave the widow will
erect an humble tombstone.
THE average earnings of the boys who
sweep the crossings of the London streets
are from two to four shillings day, but
on some holidays they earn very much
more.
TIE Romanists claim in Pennsylvania
a population of 438,000, with colleges,
36 female seminaries, 26 select schools,
lis parochial schools, 8 asylums, 34S
churches, and 352 priests.
LYDIA r. BAILEY, who carried on
pri ting business in Philadelphia from
the time of her husbands death, in 1908,
until 1851, during which time she was for
many years city printer, died recently
in the 91st year of her age.
NEARLY all the velocipede makers have
agreed to pay SO on each machine to Gal
vim Witty, owner of the Lallemant pat
ents Two new patents for the Hanlon
brothers, including nearly all the devices
used in velocipedes, have appeared, and
there is much excitement among the max
ers in consequence.
A PETERSBURG, Va, paper, alludlng to
the recent death of the three-year- old plan
ist of that city, says: "The head OF this
little musical prodigy, according to medl-
cal prediction, burst open after its death,
caused by a severe enlargement OF the
BRAIN"
THE number of patients in the Bing-
hanton IN. " Asylum for Inebriates.
since May, 1867, has been 3lO. OF these,
147 were periodical drinkers, 16O constant
ones; 146 were married, and l64 were
single The number known to have re-
formed after the first trial was liz after
the second trial, II after the third, 4. VI
25 there is no hope. Owing to distance,
or other causes, SO have not been neara
from.
AN old beggar in Montgomery, Ala,
was arrested and searched. A bag was
found on his person containing $500 IN
silver, a roll of greenbacks amounting TO
$50, $50 in gold wrapped up In newspa-
paper, belt around his waist containing
over $1,000 in currency, and several nun
dred dollars in his shoes. The mayor
gave him twenty four hours to get out OF