Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.

-Two-thirds of the patents issued bv
the Canadian Government are to Amer can
citizens.
John Harper has two-year old colt
which he is confident will rival the ner
Torrance of Longfelow. 'N-
"A Memphis woman who was afraid
Of the ycllow-fever, sold a piano for
$25 i'll order to get means to leave
town.
One hundred bushels Of wheat from
two and quarter acres of ground is the
cheerful report of Hardscrabble ranch
man in Colorado.
Nearly 100000 of salmon eggs, taken
from California waters, are on their wav
to the Atlantic seaboard, to be placed in
Matching houses on the Delaware, Schuvl-
kill, Susquehanna and James rivers
They had some Hungarian pigs at
the Vienna Exposition, one of which
measured 3 feet inches high and 6 feet
inches long. Another breed was shown
which is covered with wool instead Of
bristles.
In Saginaw Co., Mich, poor man
named Ref, while recen .ly boring well
is reported to have been greatly frightened
by the upward flow of gas, the escape Of
which shook the earth, produced noise
like thunder, and, when fired, shot up
flame fifty feet high.
The total number of immigrants who
have landed at Castle Garden since 1s41
when the emigration commission was ere
ated, was recently stated to be 5,260,357
Of whom 1868, 43O were Irish, 1868, 90(
were Germans, 651 ,272 were English, ant
the remainder of various other national
tiles.
The celebrated pacing mare "Poca
hontas" died last week at Providence
She was foaled in 1S49, and her turf career
which commenced in 1853, has been I'm
usually brilliant. Her most remarkable
performance was over the Union Course
L. l., June q, 1866, when she made mile
in 2:171a to wagon.
"A Bloomington 1ll.) man, while re
Gently boring for water, struck gas vein
at the depth of thirty-ive feet. Pipe!
have been inserted in the well, and the
gas furnishes clear flame, nearly equal tC
coal gas. 1t is intended to enlarge the
bore of the well, and apply the gas tt
lighting purposes in the part of the city
in which it is located.
p. J. Peterson and F. FL. Brandt, the
original discoveries Of the Little Annie
Del Nofte, and Margretta lodes, in Colo
RADIO, have lately sold out their claims foI
$4,000, cash. These men, one of whom
is Swede and the other German, are
thus suddenly raised to opulence, and
will shortly visit their wondering rela
tives in Europe.
In the course of various mechanical
and manufacturing operations, it has been
found necessary to test the strength OF
various metals, and from one of the state
ments Of the trials made, we compile the
following: A bar of cast lead, one inch
square, breaks under a strain of sec
pounds; bar of cast gold of similar di
mansions, will break under a strain OF
$4,000 pounds bar of cast silver will
not break until the strain reaches A SOC
pounds; bar of cast iron will remain
intact until the strain reaches $4,000; the
best wrought iron will bear a strain OF
$4,000 pounds to bar an inch square
and a similar bar Of steel has been made
of such tenacity as to lift a weight OF
10000 pounds before breaking. An
alloy of two metals nearly always pos
sesses greater tenacity than either one
does separately. A strip of sound oak
wood an inch square hes been found to
lift and sustain 1890 pounds before
breaking, and a similar strip of locust
10000.