Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-30
FACTS AND FIGURES.

California is shipping 1000 bushels
of barley to England.
Coal has been struck at Farmer City,
H., at $50 feet
The population of the British pos
sessions beyond the seas exceeds S0O, ooO,
900 souls.
There are 5,O86 newspapers in this
country, having an aggregate circulation
of 1858, 492.
There are 1OS theological seminaries
in the United States, with 1891 students
in attendance.
Ten thousand persons have been
thrown out of employment at Buffalo,
n Y, since the panic.
The valuation of Milwaukee has in
creased $2,OO0,0O0 during the past year,
while the increase of business done was
$4,000, 900.
A farmer near Des Moines, Iowa. has
lost, within the last few weeks, over fit
teen hundred dollars worth Of hogs by
an unknown disease.
There are about 700 of the Pullman
Palace Cars now in use, running on 152
different lines of railroad. The capital OF
the Car Company is ST., 100000
The Boston of today contains 49, 100
acres, and has population, as indicated
by the last census, of 2,4SG, making
her sixth in rank in the Union. Her
total valuation now is $765, 7S6,S13.
English official returns give the grand
total of emigration from the United King
dom for the quarter ending June 30, 1878,
at 1851, the emigration to the United
States being 11O,O97. OF the remaining
27,514, British North America received
20,70S.
"A statistician has discovered that the
Russia one for every $40 people; in ST.
IBERIA, one for every 500; in Prussia, one
for every $50; in England, one for every
23S; in Belgium, one for every SO; in
Holland, one for every 90; and in France,
one for every 70.
The total production of postal cards,
up to October 5, was "a, 302 800, and at
that time the special agent in charge of
their distribution had all orders filled and
a surplus OF 6,S13,000 cards on hand
From the demand during the first five
months of their issue, it is estimated that
100000 postal cards will hereafter be
used annually in the United States.
"A young man recently called upon
the prosecuting attorney in San Francisco
and said he wanted to obtain a divorce
from his wife, to whom he had been mar
ried but eight months, giving, as reason
for wanting a legal separation, that a
brother OF his wife was eating him out of
house and home The officer Of the law
regretted his inability to interfere in the
matter.
The annual consumption Of coffee,
per head, in various parts of the world, is
as follows: England, q pounds to each
person; France, 21S; Germany, 4; Den
mark, so; Switzerland, 6; Belgium, 81
Holland, 1O1s; United States, :. But IN
California, which appears to beat all
creation" IN this, as in so many other
things, it amounts to Is 3-5 pounds, or,
excluding Chinese and Indians, who do
not drink coffee, 10 201z pounds.
The hay crop of Maine, this year, is
worth as much, in the Boston and New
York markets, as the cotton crop of
Georgia. Our hay crop is not less than
100000 tons. It sells to-day, IN Boston,
at $50 ton. That would amount TO $4S,-
100000. A princely sum, truly! The
cotton crop of Georgia, this year, is esti-
IittlCN tlG boOlcOV DGItS vi fOo iJDuitlo C8CIl-
This, at 20 cents a pound, would bring, in
the Boston market, 100000.
The immense granite statue for the
National Cemetery Is reported to be fast
approaching completion at Westerly, r.
|. This colossal representation OF an
American soldier will be put upon its feet
about the 1st Of January. The statue is
made Of two blocks of granite, and when
up will stand twenty-one feet high thick
ness across the shoulder, five feet two
inches; feet, thirty-six inches long; hands,
twelve inches wide; fingers, fifteen inches
long; moustache, thirteen inches long,
ETC.
The estimated value of all farming
lands in the United States in 1870 is a
little more than $9,000,000,000 against
$1,000 100000 in 1860 The Increase in
some of the Northern States is most ex-
traordinary. Indiana has nearly doubled
in valuation; Illinois and Michigan have
nearly doubled theirs; While Iowa, most
remarkable of all, has grown up from
$119, 900 in 1850 to almost 100000, 900
in 1870. The Southern States are slowly
going backward This decline will
doubtless continue for many years. In
the British West Indias, values have
steadily declined from the date Of emanci-
patton.
Experiments which have been made
recently at the Illinois Industrial Uni
versity to test the cost Of planting different
varieties of forest trees have given the
following results. The amounts charged
against the various species include the
cost of the trees as well as the cost of
planting and cultivating one acre of
ground occupied by them The cost for
each acre was as follows: Norway spruce,
$4,000; green ash, $161.3S; chestnut,
$152.9S; Austrian pine, $40 So; Scotch
pine, $40 rs; white maple, $1457S; white
pine, $144.3; catalfa, $113S0; butternut,
1894; white elm, $97.12; white ash,
S69.16; European larch, $63S6; white
willow, $56.36; Usage orange, S46OS.
These are all more or less valuable trees
for shade or for timber, and it is unuues-
tionable that an acre Of any of the above
varieties planted at the above rates of cost
would be very paying investment In any
locality.
An AgOniZing Situation.
One of those distressing accidents