Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-09-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Minnesota thinks she will export
| 20.000,000 bushels of wheat this year.
Texas received 10000 immigrants
| last'year, 10000 of whom were from Eu
rope.
The iron trade of the United States
gives employment to 1885, 45 operatives,
| and the lumber trade to 163,391 opera
| tives.
The number Of prison RS confined IN
the Illinois penitentiary at Joliet IS l,l6O,
Onlynineteen of whom are women. Lar
ceny is the crime of the majority
Florida, with an area larger than
Georgia or Illinois, and nearly as large
as Missouri, has so sparse population as
to give only a small fraction over three
inhabitants to the square mile.
The earnings of the Kansas Pacific
Railway for the first week in August were
from passengers, $2S, 209 SO; freight, SAT,
O45 10; mails So, 05531; total, 1904.
OF this amount, $780, SO was for trans
portation of troops, mails and Govern
ment freight.
The am ount of United States moneys
and securities redeemed and destroyed
during the year ending June 80, 1878,
shows a total of $144, 1913, 962. The aver
age daily destruction Of fractional curren-
cy is over $4,000. The amount of legal
tenders destroyed during the year was
500 ,019,067.
During the month of July, the Utah
Central Road carried %, 1914 ,030 pounds of
freight, the heaviest items being: coal,
3, 902, $50 pounds; ore, 3,218,317 pounds,
and lumber, 1899, 45O pounds. During
the same month the Utah Southern Road
carried 13,S19,749 pounds of freight, the
heaviest items being 3,73S,3S7 pounds of
ore, 1,418,740 pounds iron ore and 922, 100
pounds coal.
The annual death rate per 1000 per
sons estimated to be living in London
during the week ending July 26 was %;
Birmingham, %; Liverpool, %; Man
chester, 80; Glasgow, 50; Dublin, 90 Fer
the week ending July 10, the death rate
per 900 persons living in Brussels was
81; Berlin, A; Vienna, 81; Rome, %;
Florence, 81; Amsterdam, 81 Copenha-
gen, 27.'
The Denver Neao8 thus summarizes
the work of railroad building in Colorado,
the present season Denver & Boulder
Valley, Is miles; Colorado Cen
trail, two hundred miles; Kan
sas Pacific, 80 miles; Denver, South
Park & Pacific, 30 miles-making a total
of about $50 miles Of track which will be
completed in Colorado in 1878, saying
nothing of the grading, surveys, &c,
which will be accomplished preparatory
for the work Of 1874.
The price of quicksilver is still on
the rise Within six months it sold at
sixty cents per pound; it is now selling
in New York at S110 The mines of Cal
ifornia, Nevada and the Territories can
not be developed without the assistance
of quicksilver; and no one knows this
better than the quicksilver ring of New
York, that controls the market. The
price may be run up to 81 per pound, and
the mines will still be at the mercy of
the ring.
The annual production Of gold is Off
cially stated at $40,000,000. The coinage
at San Francisco during August will be So
600, 900 in double eagles, the mint work
ing its full capacity. The provisions rel
ative to the abrasion of the new coinage
act are being observed in al treasury and
CustOm-hOuse offices of the country. The
renovation Of the gold coinage will be
completed within the next twelve
mOnths-abOut $4,000 900 of the smaller
coins. After this recoinage shall have
Dccn competed, the cost OF keeping the
coinage in good condition will be very
small. Only one-half Of one per cent. is
lost on our gold coinage within a period
of twenty-five years.
In his elements de Statisque,' NJ.
Moreau de Jonnes gives q table of the
number Of marriages which are effected
annually in the principal countries in
Europe. Ireland comes first, with one
marriage for each ninety inhabitants;
France is sixteenth, with one for one hun
dred and twenty-five; England twenty
seventh, with one in one hundred and
thirty-seven; Tuscany twenty ghth and
last, with one in one hundred and forty
three. According to these figures, the
English, Notwithstanding their reputed
headstrong imprudence, actually marry
less in proportion than the prudent, cal
culating French, who balance things so
carefully, and look before they leap.