Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-09
FACTS AND FIGURES.

CINCINNATI has SOS1 registered dogs.
BosToN has about dozen good female
| velocipedists. hs @ 5 t.e.
ONE hundred and sixty-eight twins
were born in Philadelphia last year.
THERE are 100000 Norwegians in the
! Northwestern States.
FIFTEEN members of the new Spanish
Cortes were saloon-keepers.
Tag memorandum book of Frederick
the Great has recently been sold for
$240. ..4.ss r.
THERE are over $2,O00,000 invested in
circuses and menagerles in this country.
THERE are only 5000 Gentiles IN Salt
LAX City, out of q population OF $4,000.
1T is stated that there are always about
| five thousand well-to-do Americans in
Paris. s.e
THERE are 1910 indians in Massachu
setts, comprising representatives OF more
than twenty tribes.
THE average length of the session of
the Massachusetts, Legislature for forty
years has been lit days.
NEVADA is becoming deeply interested
in silk culture. There are 1885, GOO null
berry trees in the State.
A RETIRED wealthy New Y FORK merchant
lately paid $4,000 for landscape paint
ing at q private sale.
HENRY Ward BEECHER is to be sent
abroad by his congregation, $4,000 being
raised for that purpose. @
THE Pacific mills, Lawrence, Mass,
with a capital of $2,650, 900, paid twenty
fo11r nor cent dividend in 1858 ft
In 1868 the ten Southern States pro-
duced 222,000,000 bushels of corn, being
40 000, ,OC0 more than in 1867. 81e -H.
PAT MURPHY, aged 10, and his wife
aged so, of Westmoreland county, are the
oldest married couple in Pennsylvania.
THE product of the fisheries of Cape
Cod the past year, it is said, amount to
about a million and half of dollars
TIE Iowa Agricultural College is five
stories high, and contains over one hum
dred rooms the farm is 648 acres.
ACCORDING to the report of the Secre-
tary of State, the total valuation of Mas
sachusetts at the present time is 81, $780,
498,939
THIRTY years ago, A. T. Stewart was
rated on the mercantile reports: Said
to be worth $4,000; credit A l, cautious
THE Buffalo Elevator Association, dur
ing the season Of 1858, handled Al ,3S3, 1868
bushels of grain, being 240,980 bushels
more than was handled in 1867
A FARMER in Dooly county, Ga, last
season, made 272 gallons of good thick
syrup from half an acre of sugar cane.
! SIX hundred and seventy-four persons
trio nd tod in tho criminal
courts Of New York city during 1868, and
ninety-eight were acquitted during the
same period.
to pay $3.50 damages to a couple of ladies
who were knocked down and their fine
clothes spoiled by asnow-slide off his store
root. u'... "a. .lf
TIE Cincinnati Gazette estimates that
the population of Ohio in 1870 will num-
Der 100000. It bases its opinion on
the vote of 1868, when 519 .254 votes were
cast.
ST. PETERsBURG is frequently called
Pianopolis because even the humblest
families possess instruments, while 500
men and 5000 women live by teaching
the use of the piano. z@e@
DURING the year 1868, nearly 10000
bushels OF apples were used In orange
county, New York, in manufacturing
32,S70 gallons of apple whisky, valued at
about $115,000. cS
A BOY II years old was recently fined
SIS or wenty days imprisonment, for
pitching two guilds of tobacco at the cler-
gyman during revival meeting at West
Berne, N. Y. aa l9saa
In the Michigan State Prison, at Jack
son, during 1868, twenty seven convicts
were punished with whips, thirty-four
with the paddle, forty-eight by being put
into dark cell, and six by being placed
on bread and water diet.
SUBsTRACTION.-
e'e7 . From six take nine, x"
From nine take ten,
> From forty take fifty, 4I
t And six will remain"
From-SIX, TX, XII, e
a. Take TX, x, L, sot