Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.


M Ru1JNeAMEs two balls in Paris
Loot the Emperor of China $4,000.
IN San Francisco, there have been re-
turned ninety-two incomes in excess OF
$4,000.
PAPER PETTICoATs are now sold In
London at sixpence each. Shoes are made
of the same material.
THE number of real estate sales in San
Francisco during May was 1,O34, amount
ing to $4,222,237.
HARTFORD, Conn, is to have a rink
which will seat 5000 persons, accommodate
800 skaters, and cost $4,000.
A BOY aged 10 has been sent to prison
for week, in France, for seditious hurran
in the presence of the Empress.
THE Second Adventists, it is said, have
fixed upon the 10th of July as the day on
which the werld will come to an end.
IN williamsburg, L. l., there is man
1877 years old. He is a weaver by trade,
and, though too feeble to work, is still
lively. .--. .-~ -~-.
THE number of immigrants arrived in
New York during the first five months OF
this year was $3.50, against "a ,577 for the
same period last year. '~
DR. JUDsoN baptized the first Burman
convert in 1919 Since then more than
10000 Burmans, Ksrens and Shans, have
believed and been baptized. v =
THE Queen of Madagascar has been re-
ceived into the Church of England by
baptism, and ordered her ministry to DO
likewise under penalties.
Mr. JOHN e. OWENS is, probably, the
wealthiest actor on the American stage
:. krxh o
excess of half million dollars.
THE number of passengers over Prus-
sian railroads in 1858 was 81, S4S, $50. Dur
ing the year SO persons were killed by
railway accidents, and 1874 were wound
ed.
HANS WACHENHUsEN, the German
feuilletOnist, says, in recent article, That
certain Miss Arabells sold, at fair in
New York, 5000 kisses for dollar each.
A NOTE was found in the pocket Of
recent suicide in England, saying: Dear
friends, don't believe my wife If she says
she has not money to pay for my coffin"
THE cattle in Switzerland amount to
100000 in number, and are valued at $42,-
100000, or about SAT per head. The cows,
$4,000 in number, yield $3O,00O,0OO OF
milk every year.
AN ivory tusk six feet three inches long
and 22M inches in circumference, has re-
Gently been exhumed in Montana. 1t was
found buried in the sand, twenty-five feet
below the surface.
THERE are only twenty-five persons in
Oregon who pay income tax on sums ex-
ceeding $4,000. The largest income is
1886, 1888, returned by the agent of an es-
tate and the largest personal income is
$48,014
THE Russian church at Sitka, Alaska
Territory, was recently robbed of copy
of the Bible, richly studded with valua-
BILE stones, crosses and other ornaments,
altogether said to be worth 100000
THE Masonic Grand Lodge, New York
city, has purchased lot on Sixth ave-
nue., opposite Booths Theatre, at a cost
of between 100000 and 100000. On
this lot a large Masonic Hall is to be
erected.
THE authorities of Dresden and Vienna
set free q large number of singing birds
which had been brought to those places
for sale. In Saxony and Austria, the use
fulness of birds as destroyers of insects is
officially recognized.
A GENTLEMAN residing In Lewiston,
Maine, left his three little children at
home while he attended church, and when
he returned found them busily employed
in cleaning the inside of $500 gold watch
with soap and water.
FIFTEEN hundred eggs were accidentally
broken in front pf the Batavia IN. W
Post Office not long since, and the presi-
dent of the village had to spread barrel
OF coal tar over the street and then set fire
to it, to destroy the smell of bad eggs.
A WOMAN in Troy, N. Y, has produced
needleworked picture of Washington,
containing nearly 100000 stitches Ii was
ratified off and won by Prof. FL. M. Cole.
man, of Vassar College Three hundred
tickets were sold at one dollar each.
A NEW YORK lady recently ordered a
trousseau at Stewards for her daughters
Doll, which received a complete outfit in
under clothing, silk and lace. One of the
articles ordered was an India shawl, NINA
ture size, at $50, and a lace handkerchief
was valued at $12
ACCORDING to the figures presented at
the Brewers Congress, nearly 100000
barrels of beer were sold in 1868. The
capital used to produce this quantity is
valued at one hundred and five million
dollars, and the number of persons en-
ployed is stated at forty one thousand.
WHITE PINE, the silver mining district
In Nevada, received its name from the
vast quantities of white pine timber GOV
ering the mountains in that neighborhood
A local paper notices boards twenty two
feet in length and twenty one inches wide
cut from the white pine trees. One 10,
yielded seven hundred and sixty six fee
of lumber.
THE number of sheep in Ohio in
1868 was 7,6S9,S45. producing not less thar
100000 pounds of wool. The farmer,
of Ohio in 1865 lost in killed and in
jured 96,251 sheep, by dogs, which were
valued at $685. 97.45. The number o.
dogs in 1866 was TIA, 900, making the loss
for the two years per dog, $1.62, sum
sufficient to defray the expenses of nearly
800 families, at an annual cost of ST. OC
each.
WoRKMEN repairing an old house in
Hartford, Conn, lately, found beneath the
Kitchen floor young butternut tree that
without sunlight, had grown to the size
OF mans wrist, running horizontally
twenty feet. In its course it had picked
up an old dinner-fork, and clasping it in
branch, Rugged it to the main stem so
as to bend 1t to the curve of the tree, and
then adopted it as a part of the butternut
family by growing its bark and wood all
around 1t.
The number of children in the SUNDAY
Schools of the United States has been esti.
mated at about four millions, and of teach
ers, TOUR hundred thousand. It has been