Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-09-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.

London daily consumes 1O9,OOO,oOO
gallons of water, and Paris 7O,OOO,OOO.
California claims to have gained 3D.
600 population by emigration within the
past twelve months.
There were shipped from Augusta,
Ga, this season, 1860 Watermelons,
against 68, 222 last year.
The south wall Of the Grand canon OF
the Arkansas, just above Canon City, Col,
is 1 ZOO feet perpendicularly.
An excellent quality of peat has been
discovered in Cottonwood County, Mimi,
and quantity is to be prepared for fuel.
Mr.. r. King, in Texas, has pasture
of 10000 acres. nj. Mennedy, III the
same State, is content with a pasture OF
100, 600 acres.
The single article of cheese brings
into Ohio nearly $4,OOO,OO0, of which four
fifths 90 10 the farmers On the sale of it,
also, merchants make profit.
The earnings Of the Albany and New
York line of day steam boats, for this sea
son, are estimated at $3.50 600. The profits
for each boat will be $50 900.
While compositor on the Montreal
Witness was setting up an advertisement
for a lost canary, the bird flew in at the
office window, (which shows the value OF
advertising"
The rush of wheat and corn Eastward
is immense. In forty consecutive hours,
about Sept. list and I'd, 1,614 cars, loaded
with grain, passed over the Rock Island
bridge at Davenport Iowa.
The amount of grain ''in sight in
the States and Canada, August 30, 1878,
was 81 ,767, 1876 bushels, embracing 6,349,
1863 bushels of wheat 1904 ,492 bushels
of corn; 3,168,9G2 bushels of oats, and
POI, 339 bushels of barley
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue states that the revenue from the tax
on tobacco during the fiscal year, reached
$3,40O000 This is 100000 in excess
of the estimate Of the Commissioner when
the tax was reduced to twenty cents.
-Advices from Indian territory say the
negroes there, numbering $1,000, formerly
slaves of the Indians, are moving to Sc
cure territorial organization for their
own protection, and will soon hold a con-
vention in the Choctaw nation to consider
the subject.
Montana contains 100000 acres of
agricultural, and $4,000 900 acres of graz
ing land; and these vast areas are merely
peppered here and there with the cabins
OF perhaps 1000 ranchmen, the rest of the
population being gathered in the mining
towns and camps.
1t is said that the aggregate amount
of life insurance in the world is over five
thousand million Of dollars OF this, that
in the United States is more than half. or
two and three quarter thousand millions
Ii life insurance is, as 1t is claimed to be,
test OF civilization, we possess the most
OF that valuable accomplishment.
During the past two and half years,
1,167 patients have been received in the
lnebriate Asylum at Binghampton, n Y,
and 112 have been discharged, of whom,
according to careful estimates made by
the officers Of that institution, about fifty
eight per cent are believed to have a rea-
sonable prospect of permanent recovery
The vital statistics Of the Central
Park Menagerie, of New York, have Just
appeared There are now in the estab
lishment 5S1 quadrapeds, birds and rep
tiles During last year there were born
two lions, one leopard, two pumas, one
camel, and one hyena, the last-named ami
NAL being, as is supposed, the first of the
species born in the United States.
The present cash value of the farms
III al u
value Of farming implements at S15 ,6O2,-
III; the wages paid, including the value
of board, amounts to $16,4SO,77S; the an
nual value of all farming productions is
1898 1855, 007; orchard product, $1,943,679;
produce Of market gardens, s., 2S9, 212
the number Of acres improved is IA, 40
1873; woodland, 6,SS3, 80; upimproved,
other than woodland, only 35g,112 acres.
The most notable sale of cattle on
record occurred at New York Mills, Onei-
Campbell sold 115 Short-horns for the
enormous sum Of $3S0,0O0, buyers being
present from England, Canada, and all
parts of this country. The highest price
obtained for any single animal was $40
600, which was paid by Worcestershire
(English) man, but single COWS in several
instances brought $4,000, $4,000 and
$4,000 apiece, while a seven monthS' old
calf was struck off for So 900
Texas cattle droves of this season to
Kansas are now nearly if not quite all in
The total receipts will reach about half a
million head, of which 100000 were re-
ceived at Ellsworth, 900 at Wachita
$4,000 at Cotfeeville and Chetopa, and the
remainder at other points. Sixty thousand
have been driven to Colorado, Nebraska
and Wyoming; 100000 will be wintered
in Kansas; about 10000 will be taken by
packers. Twenty thousand have been
marketed at Kansas City, $4,000 more
have been driven to the Territories, and
the remainder will be wintered in the va
riOus Western States. The receipts at
Kansas City are estimated at SOC, 900 head
for the year, against 100000 last year.