Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-11-20
FACTS AND FIGURES.

New DIRK has three million dollars
in canal boats
The annual catch of Goldfish is valued
at $15 100000.
Iowa contains a Roman Catholic pop
ulation Of 1000
The British railroads carried 1873, co.,
900 passengers in 1872.
The loss of property on the lakes
during October footed up 100000.
Portland, Me, has a population of
10000 to the square mile.
Great Britain has 1896 paper mills,
France, 634, and Spain 139.
The annual value of the New York
oyster trade is estimated at $30,000,000.
The city of St. Paul, Mimi, claims
35,210 population, and Minneapolis 81
264
"A Virginia City, Montana, lunch fiend
has bet $3.50 that he can eat 900 eggs in
1000 hours.
The Erie road loses 100000 per year
from employees and others who steal from
the freight cars.
Of the 10, 40 arrests in Boston last
year, 1904 were for drunkenness, and one
for burglary.
"A chunk of gold weighing 100 ounces
and a chunk Of coal weighing $500
pounds are on exhibition in Salt Lake
City.
The papers Of Pensacola, Florida, re
port sixty deaths from yellow fever in that
little town since the appearance Of the dis
ease there.
"A firm in Montreal has this season
shipped 80, 100000 feet of lumber to Mon
tevideo, Buenos Ayres, and 20,0O0,000 feet
to the United States.
1t is said that bar Of iron worth five
dollars is worth, when manufactured into
horse-shoes, $1,000; tableknives, $3.50;
buttons and buckles, $4,035; springs Of
watches, $250,0O0.
Cholera ragged to a terrible extent in
Northern India in 1872. The registered
deaths due to it were 165, 45S. Among the
British soldiers stationed there the deaths
were 615 in number.
Montana people are rejoicing. Not
only do they boast of silver mining dis
coveries bringing $4,000 to the ton, but
they think they have one of the best agri-
cultural countries under the sun.
One hundred years ago England pro
duced only 100000 bushels of wheat,
two-thirds of the crop of Minnesota. Now,
having established good farming she pro
duces 100, 900, 600, four times as much as
Minnesota.
Ink is one of the things in which
modern science seems to have made very
little improvement. A recent analysis of
the ink found on a manuscript OF the year
910 showed that its composition was sim
liar to that of the inks now IN general
use.
American corn is now largely used in
the manufacture of alcohol IN Germany
and Italy, the exports to ports connecting
with Germany during the last five months
having reached 100000 bushels, and, with
in few weeks, about 100000 bushels oil
rect to Naples, and 10000 bushels to Leg
horn.
An English firm recently purchased
tract Of coal land in Washington County,
Iowa, for which they paid 100000. 1t IS
designed to mine this coal and ship 1t to
England by way Of New Orleans, where
it is expected to be delivered for eighteen
cents per bushel. This is a superior qual,
ity of coal and will sell readily in England
for thirty cents bHshel.
Mansfield, the celebrated statisticlan,
has demonstrated that within the last
twelve years the money value OF the an
nual yield of farm products in Ohio has
increased fifty millions of dollars, ana
that the producing capacity of the farms
has increased The inference is that the
farmers of Ohio have made great progress
in business management, and have, WINE
realizing good profits, kept their farms
up to the standard Of fertility.
THE sweetest words in our language IL
health. At the first indication of disease, use
well-known and approved remedies FOR oys
pepsia or indigestion, use Parsons P'r9asme
Pills. For coughs, colds, sore OF ialio
stomach, use Johnsor's dnodyrae Lahan'e'''
A CASE of chronic rheumatism Oh unuSua
severity cured by Johnson's Anodg1e L,'''n.sm r
is noticed by one of our exchanges. Id