Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-15
FACTS AND FIGURES.

LAST year 10000 persons visited Girard
College, Philadelphia.
LAST year insects injured the crops in
France $105, 100000 worth. 1iI8
CALCUTTA has exported $35,O00,O00
worth of opium within year.
In France, to one person who reads
book, 100 go the theatre.
THERE are seven Jews in the new Brit
ish Parliament, and all are Liberals.
LAST year in Boston, over $S,000,O00
were expended in bulldog improvements.
THE New York Express says the He
| brews are the chief owners OF real estate
| in New York. &sa 7 aea SIS; ba7ir
s FIFTY families of Europeans were re-
Gently slaughtered by New Zealand saw
ages.
| Gov. BAKER, of Indiana, pardoned
forty two criminals during 1868. In 1867
he issued lis pardons. 2s~ o.r via
THE average weekly number of deaths
in London during the winter season is
about 1000. ..tar,.. .....f. 49,.
THE convention to organize Society
of the Army of the Potomac is to meet
in New York FEBRUARY %. 7nad ,a ri
THE Philadelphia Ledger dined 165 boys
on Christmas day and presented $4,000
to its employees.
| THERE are now in the Michigan State
Prison 632 eonvicts-the largest number
ever in the prison at one time. e az
THERE were 842, 1T baths taken in the
Boston free baths in 1868. at cost Of
S25, GOO. Thenumber in 1867 was 1911.
A MISSISSIPPI lady named Carr has OBJ
tanned ten thousand dollars verdict
against recusant lover for breach of
promise. o" "o E79ta la
| Coal in abundance, and of excellent
quality, has been discovered near Argenta
station, on the Central California; Pacific
Railroad. i% 2'
| QUEEN VICTORIA passed the 18th ultimo,
the anniversary of Prince Albert's death,
in weeping over his tomb in the royal
mausoleum. q cen oe
The New York Herald states the total
loss by fire in this country during the
year 1868 at 1914, 757, 900; during the last
thirteen years, $685., sos, 900.
| The Norwich Conn., Savings Society
has $6,0o0,000 of deposits, the maximum
allowance by it's charter, aud is going to
have it amended so that it can receive
more.
DURING the year just closed, there were
i 80 murders in Philadelphia, II more than
in 1867. The number of cases of infanti-
eide was SO, against sc in the previous
year.
4 THE receipts of customs at the port of
i Montreal, after increasing for several
wears, show a falling off for 1868, being
So, $4,000 for tina. year, against $4,S1S,-
876 for 1867.
DURING the past decade in England,
100000 gold sovereigns and 100000
: half sovereigns were coined, which piled
one on the other would make column
thirty-fve miles high.
i A MANUFACTURER in Berkshire county,
Mass, has offered to give to the ladies in
his town all the cotton cloth they will
make Mp for the poor of that town during
the winter.
AN old gentleman on the burning
! steamer United States, seeing all hope cut
/ off, went back to his stateroom, saying,
"Rere let me die" A young woman
dived straight into the flames to make
short work of it.
| Brazil has standing offer of a prize
of 5000 in gold to'any one who will in
4 vent mode of preserving beef so that 1t
will be suitable for expectation. -Four
hundred competitors have appeared Tor
the prize, and still it is not awarded. nHa
THE total number of arrests made by
the police of st. Louis during the past
year was 1880; males, 9,941 females,
2,S78. The money stolen and stray pro-
!. perty received and restored to owners
during the year amounted to $114,490. ~
FIVE libraries in this country contain
each over 100000 volumes, of which three
are in Boston and Cambridge. Boston
Public Library contains 145, 600 volumes,
and the Library Of Congress, 10000.
The others are the Aston, Harvard College
and Boston Athen@um. a'
THE franking privilege of the members
of the Russian Parliament, which the
| Government recently abolished as too
heavy burden for the Post Office Depart
ment, It has been ascertained, cost the
public exchequer only fifteen hundred
Prussian dollars year.
/ HoRATIo SEYMOUR announces that the
fourth annual meeting of the American
Dairymen,s Association will be held In
Utica, on Jan. 80 Cooling milk before
cheese is made therefrom has 1t received
it's due attention ?" is theI leading SUBJECT
announced for the consideration OF the
association. @
1 THE weight OF gross OF steel pens ID
but few ounces, and it is not difficult to
believe that it would take good many
boxes to make ton. The largest pen fac
tory in the world, on the French coast,
uses sixty tons of steel month In this
manufacture, and there are dozen other
houses whose product is not very much
smaller eft it p ft5@ H3tA
THE township of Newton, Mass, near
4 Boston, has seven villages, named respect
| lively as follows: Newton Center, Newton
Corner, West Newton, East Newton, New
| ton Upper Falls, Newton Lower Falls,
and Newtonyille. Visiting parties fire.
ouently find themselves in the wrong
IdNewton, while letters take their
chances, and pass back and forth indef-
nitely.
THERE are 1,113 miles of telegraph line
in South Australia. The rates are low and
more messages are sent than in any other
part of the globe. In England the annual
proportion is one message to every seven
of the population. In South Australia it
is one to every four. In England there
are 121 letters sent TO one telegram, in
South Australia only Is letters. The au-
thorities now possess postal telegraph
EDMUND ABOUT says, in his Old Time
Recollections," that, in 1849, he was so
poor that he was about to accept clerk
ship in Lyons silk house and bid fare
/ uail IN literature A timely loan of Two