Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-17

st. Paul, Mimi, by directory census,
has 27,023.
Michigan City now claims to be the
second city on Lake Michigan in the lum-
Der trade.
The estimated expense of the Vienna
Exhibition is eight and a-half million
dollars.
The United States produced over
sixty millions of the precious metals IN
1S72-ihree millions more than in 1871.
There were sold in the United States
last year S51 1873 sewing machines. 1wen-
ty-one different styles of manufacture
were represented
According to the best-founded data,
there are burnt in the course OF year, IN
the city of Manchester, England, two mil
lion tons Of coal.
-Langley's new directory shows the
population of San Francisco to be 1928,
an increass in Il year OF about 10000
Chinese 10000 negroes, and 1850 whites.
The California wine crop of 1872 is
nearly 100000 gallons. OF this it is eX-
pected that two-thirds will be exported,
yielding an average price Of seventy five
cents gallon.
Some idea of the extent Of thenew Chi
cago Pacific Hotel may be formed from the
cost of washing the floors preparatory to the
opening The expense for soap, sand, and
labor was $1,000, exclusive Of the cost OF
sweeping.
English coal-veins are usually from
two feet four inches to two feet eight
inches thick, while the thickness of Amer
lean bituminOus coal-veins varies from
four to eight feet and the anthracite veins
from twenty to fifty feet.
An official statement shows that the
total number of persons in the United
States who were assessed for income
during the years 1871 and 1872, under the
act of July IA, 1870, were 14,715 and "A ,333 !
respectively.
According to the last statistics, the
aggregate number of failures during 1872
throughout the United States was 1869,
involving liabilities amounting to $121,-
O56000. The failures in 1871 aggregated
1915, with liabilities amounting to So
252, 600 while for 1870 they were 1851,
with SIS, 2242, 900 of liabilities.
The total cut of logs in Maine, the
past winter, will reach nearly 450,0O0,000
feet, of which the Penobscot River takes
115,O00,00O feet The cut of this winter,
with the old logs on hand, amounts to over
590,00O,0O0 feet showing a falling off, as
compared with the logs on hand last year
this time of some 1S0,000,00O feet.
There were 1886 newspapers pub
lished in the United Kingdom at the be
ginning of this year, distributed as fol
lows: England-London, 285; provinces,
999; total, 1,174. Wales, 50; Scotland,
144 Ireland, 40; the isles, 2. Of these
there were Sc dailies in England, in
Wales, 12 in Scotland, "a in Ireland, and
in the isles. The magazines, including
the quarterly reviews, numbered 100, of
which 253 are of a decidedly religious
character.
"A Remarkable Invention.-One OF
the most important improvements ever
perfected in musical instruments has late
" been introduced by Geo. Woods &
Co, in their improved Parlor Organs. 1t
consists of piano Of exquisite quality OF
tone which will never require tuning.
The instrument was lately introduced at a
musical soiree in Baltimore, and received
the cordial applause and Endorsement of
the many eminent professionals present.
Boston Journal
The wealth of some of our dairying
districts is enormous: Herkimer, New
York, is said to ship annually over seven
teen million pounds Of cheese, and three
hundred thousand pounds of butter, worth
four million five hundred thousand dol
lars. Little Falls, N. Y, perhaps as much.
St. Adams, Vermont, ships one million
pounds Of cheese, and two million eight
hundred thousand pounds of butter,
worth in the market one million three
hundred thousand dollars. The village
of Wellington, Ohio, shipped four mill
ion pounds of cheese in 1869, worth five
hundred thousand dollars.