Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-15
FACTS AND FIGURES.

"A Chinese restaurant in San Francisco
pays scyenty-five cents each for tair-sized
dogs.
An Anglo-German bank with a CAPT
tai Of $15,000,000 is to be established in
San Francisco.
1t is said that in Scotland one man in
every 900 goes to college; in Germany the
proportion is one for every 1900; in En-
gland it is one for every $500.
"A competent authority estimates that
the select timber from $50 acres is employ
ed every day, or at the rate of A, 600 acres
per annum, in ship-building, including
steamboat building.
The fact that the franking privilege
expires on the 30thIO f June is overworking
the Public Printer He expects to have
100000 volumes ready by June IS, how
ever.
Professor Cameron, of Dublin, in the
FI00d, IFoter and dir J0umdl, says that he
found five hundred living mites in ten
grains of raw sugar. These microscopic
creatures exist SO plentifully in raw sugar
that a hundred thousand of them dispOrt
themself in every pound. Every kind of
raw sugar, except maple-sugar, is said TO
contain these mites, the name Of which is
iCn1llS-SdcciJdr2.
The new English war ship Dorosta-
ton is a monster resting on the water
with a dead weight of ten thousand tons.
On board this remarkable man-of-war
there are no less than thirtyfour distinct
and separate engines, possessing an indi-
Gated power of 5000 horses. Strong, steady
and swift, this vessel must be almost in
vulnerable, and probably has no superior
on the high sea at the present day.
The agricultural returns for 1872 show
that less than two millions out of the
| thirty-two millions of England live direct
ly by agriculture. About five persons are
employed in this way to every 100 acres
Of cultivated land. 1t is claimed that
England and Scotland produce the best
| wheat, the best potatoes, the best kitchen
vegetables and the best beef and mutton
| in the world. Great Britain has 107 sheep
| to every 100 inhabitants. Greece has 1888.
exceeding in this every other European
country. Spain has 135, and Switzerland
but fraction over II.
The fisheries of the United States, ac
| cording to the census, employ 20,504 per
sons, and their products are valued at
81 ,696522. These products embrace ,135
barrels OF sea-bass, 559,9S2 quintals Of cod
fish, 2,4,5 quintals of haddock, 1885
| quintals Of hal>e, 2,452 tons of halibut 81
2l0 barrels Of herring, 003 barrels of
mackercl, 5,463 barrels of mulet, 641,312
bushels of oysters, 3,2l6 barrels Of picker
| el, 24,11S barrels of salmon, 100000
| pounds of canned salmon, 2,611O0O shad.
100000 white fish, 1872 1S barrels of
miscellaneous fish, and 766,930 gallons of
fish oil. More than One-half in value of
the fish caught is by Massachusetts fisher
men, S6,215 ,325; Maine and Connecticut
have the next largest products, each being
less than $1,000,O00; New jersey returns
1914 912, and Pennsylvania $3S,i14.
Consumption is the great sc0urge ofthe
country. 1t will surprise many to read
the records of this terrible disease as con-
tanned in the second volume of the census,
and to trace the lines on the maps ac-
cOmpanying the report which mark its ex
istcnce IN its more or less virulent type.
Out Of the 1926 deaths in 1870, Sc, 500
were from consumption. There are com
paratlvely few sections Of the country that
are free from the disease. A few counties
IN West Virginia, the Florida peninsula,
and portion of Georgia, exhibit a free
dom from 1t, or rather from cases origin
ating there. There is also a small section
OF country in Central New York that is
we'll nigh free from it. Minnesota and
California, with the exception of a strip of
country north and south Ofthe Sacramento
and around San Francisco, can be put
down as well nigh exempt from this terri
bic scourge, but there are few of anv other
sections of the country where the disease
does not figure very prominently in the
mortality list. New England appears TO |
be the climate most to be dreaded bv con |
sumptlves, the deaths from this cause there |
beng one IN ten OF those from all diseases |