Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-16
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The legal-tender notes now outstand
ing amount to $358, 649, OSS.
Connecticut has voted to make Hart
ford the State Capital by ajority of
nearly 5000.
Three women were lately hanged in
Parker County, Texas, for horse stealing.
Boston has 1880 places where liquor
is openly sold in spite of prohibitory
ordinances.
in London, 5000 policemen patrol,
| day and night, 1000 miles of street. The
| exact number of known criminals in that
great city is 7S,2O3
-Barnum's $4,000 rhinoceros died in
Philadelphia few days ago The Smith
sonian Institute will fall heir to the body.
The largest Touring mill in the
United States is being built in Minneapo-
lis. 1t will cost 100000, and contain
forty run of stones.
Recently, grist-mill at ST. Cloud,
Kansas, was obliged to shut off the water
to get lot of suckers out of the wheel
There was perfect fish chowder and it
took some time to get the wheel clear
Virginia, in the per capata indebted
ness of her population, stands pre-emi-
nently at the head of the list. The debt
of each Virginian is $37, and of each
resident of Minnesota only GA cents.
"A panther is roaming around Sulli-
van Co., and tiger is making things
lively in Davies Co, Ind Both butcher
their own pork.
The number Of prisoners received
into the Michigan State Prison during
September was "A; number discharged,
10; number pardoned, !; number escaped,
9. The whole number now confined in
the prison is 655.
The coinage at fle San Francisco
mint for September isas follows: Double
eagles, s., 04400O; half eagles, $40 600;
quarter eagles, ST, $40; trade dollars,
$1330O0; half dollars, $4,000 dimes,
$4,000. Total, S2,2645OO
Some idea Of the rate at which the
forests Of the Northwest are falling be-
meath the axe Of the lumberman, may be
gathered from the following: The total
amount Of lumber run out OF Cass River,
| Michigan, this season, is about SO,000,000
feet: out of the Au Ores, go, 600, 600; oHt
of the Rifle booms, 60,000,000 and out of
the Saginaw River 100000 900
Statistics show that the amount of
foreign rice consumed in this country has
/ fallen from 100000 pounds, in 1864, to
2S,000,000 pounds, in 1870 Adding the
domestic product to the latter figures,
we find the total consumption to be trfe
less than 100000, 900 pounds The domes-
tic crop is estimated at about 100000
pounds, and the domestic export at less
than > 100000 pounds.
Quite severe earthquake was felt
| throughout a large area Of Virginia. on
October 3, notably at Petersburg and vi
cinity. Large buildings were agitated
from center to circumference, and furni-
niture, in many instances, Frustrated and
broken. The alarm, in some sections, was
wild, and did not seem in any wise abated
by the information that the shock was ex-
perlcnced in other places In this absorb
ing topic the financial situation was en-
tirely merged and lost sight Of.
| -One-seventh of our United States
population is of foreign birth, namely:
five and hat millions, among thirty
eight and haaf; in exact figures, 1851
SAC, among 3S,t5S,31 The foreign ele-
ment is much largest at the North, but its
distribution is almost identical in the
newer and olde' States, on the Atlantic
and on the Missouri Thus the foreign
percentage III both Massachusetts, the
Oldest State, ant in Nebraska, the young
est, is in both States well-nigh the same,
namely, one-four,h. In the former, 353,-
1919, in total Of I ,457 ,351; in the latter,
3O,14S, in total of 122 1893
1t has been demonstrated that's beetle
is capable Of lifting 315 times its own
weight A man of ordinary muscular
| power is fully 100 tines feebler, and had
an elephant such comparative strength it
could run away Witha load of 100000
| pounds. The flea, too, scarcely three
| hundredths of an inch in height, manages
to leap without difficulty over a barrier
fully 500 times its cwn altitude For
man six feet is an unusually high leap.
Imagine him jumping 5000 feet, or near
ly three ffths of nile
The Raleigh On. c. Sentinel in very
forcible article on therecuperative powers
Of the South, publishes the following
facts and figures taken from the statistics,
which are calculated to inspire the peo-
| pie, at least, with ray OF comfort: an
| 1860 the exports from Southern ports
amounted to $2OS, 46.,362 In 1870 the
exports amounted to $209,560, 800. SO,
with all our manifold political vexations
and prosecutions, the South actually ex-
| ported over one million dollars more five
years after the war, than it did before the
war The importations in 1871 were over
| two millions more than in 1860 In the
latter year they were $40076,746. In
1871 they reached $42, 33O, 431. This
shows the productive energies of the
| people"
Hanging of the Modocs.