Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-11-27
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The debt OF Mexico is stated to be
$40, ASP 163.
Lake Erie is the home of thirty-fye
varieties OF fish.
The Police Department of New York
numbers z, 200 men.
Dubuque is paying annually between
$4,000 and $4,000 on its public debt
America consumes annually 100000
pounds of Turkish figs, in round fggers.
The six chief officers of the Erie
Railroad divide $50, GOO salary per annum.
-Oberlin College Ohio has catalogued
l,35O students this year-and more com
ing.
-Two-thirds of the patents issued by
the Canadian Government are to Amer
can citizens.
-Montpelier's vermont grand list
shows reduction ofpolls Of 303, and an
increase of dogs of 697.
In Ireland, with less than 100000
inhabitants, the two shillings license was
paid in 1872 on 1901 dogs,
Two and half million dollars is the
capital invested in Auburn Me, in the
manufacturing of boots and shoes.
The merchant navy of Great Britain
manned by $4,000 British sailors.
One Toledo fisherman took from his
nets the other day, $4,000 pounds of
white fish. The catch is the best for many
years.
The colored people of Washington
have twelve public schools, attended by
over 1000 pupils, and taught by eighty
four teachers.
Prussia has one physician for every
$3.50 inhabitants; Austria one in 1850
Hungary one in 5,492, while Russia has
but one for 14,l66 people.
The herring catch in England this
year represents a money value of a mill
ion and q half sterling and total of 760,-
100000 individual behring's.
kentucky has 24l, 1875 white voters
and ,l25 black voters within her limits,
making a total of 2SS,320 persons having
the privilege of the franchise.
The Indians of Red River, Wis, this
year have raised 1900 bushels of oats,
1000 of corn, 5000 of potatoes, 1000 of
rutabagas, and 800 tons of hay.
There are six savings banks in Lowell.
Their aggregate deposits amount to ten
millions of dollars, of which at least
three-quarters are owned by the opera
tives.
The east and west drifts in the Sutro
tunnel under the Comstock lode, Virginia,
Nevada, have come together and match to
a fraction of an inch-and now the tunnel
is in 1885 feet.
Patents may be secured by American
citizens in England, France, Belgium,
Austria, Prussia and Russia. The aggre-
,.,,nc
TO 219,000,O00.
A company has been formed to build
in Philadelphia hotel that will cost
$5,00O,000. 1t will be eight stories high,
and have an immense dome. 1t is to be
done before the centennial
The census of school children in
Florida for 1878 foots up 70,995. Last
year it was 62, 500. The increase from last
year is S,126. The basis of last years APP
po-tionment was the census Of 1871.
Its curious how inquisitive some are
about their own business. For instance,
here now are the Directors of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company wanting to
know what becomes Of its earnings, some
100000 annually.
The new Post Office at New York,
for the construction of which the Govern
ment has appropriated $1,000, 600, will be
ready for the occupants by the 4th of
July. No wood is to be used in its con
struction, granite, iron and brick being
the principal materials; 100000 brick
have already been used in it.
A great railway bridge is to be built
across the Firth of Forth (Scotland) at
Queens ferry, which will be the most stu
pendous work of the kind in the world
1t is to cost six and one-quarter millions
of dollars-about four times the estimated
cost of the great bridge now building over
the Tay. 1t will be $50 feet in height,
and will contain nearly 100 spans. The
central span will be 1850 feet and the
smallest spans 100 feet in width.
The almost incredible statement is
made by correspondent Of the London
Lancet, that in some of the manufacturing
districts of England where women are
largely employed, the death rate among
infants under one year old is from 90 to
80 per cent. The cause Of this fearful
mortality the writer ascribes to the fact
that the infants are left at home under the
care of ignorant elderly women, who feed
them with starch food, as boiled bread,
Cruel, ground rice, etc; substances which
the infantile stomach cannot digest, and
which prove their certain destruction if
given in sufficient quantity.
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