Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.


Out of 1919 Quakers in Kansas, only
324 use tobacco.
Tobacco contributed, last year, S34,-
1885, 1888 to the internal revenue fund.
Iowa has u million and half of pigs
to be turned into pork this winter.
There are 10S theological Summaries
in the United States, with 1851 students
in attendance.
-Philadelphias real estate assessmer t
this year exceeds that of last year l.y
S20,OOO,O00.
1T is stated that 10000 girls in Swift
zerland gain livelihood by making
watches.
The cost Of the proposed tunnel IN
der the railroad tracks at Columbus, O.,
is estimated at S61,344.
Wheat receipts at WinOna, Wis, on
the Winona 4 st. Peter Railway, average
from 10000 to 10000 bushels per day.
Over 5000 children were taken on eX-
cursions by the Boston Committee, last
summer, at the expense of ninety cents
each.
While all the other Indian tribes of
the West have lost ground as civilization
has advanced, the Sioux who number
10000, with $500 warriors, control more
territory than ever before.
The yearly production of maple sugar
In the United States, It's territories, AID
the British possessions, is said to amount
to 10000, 900 pounds, with molasses to the
amount of 5O,0O0,00o gallons
There are now published in New York
City seventeen morning newspapers, ten
evening papers, and one hundred and
sixty-tour weekly journals, together with
seventeen Sunday papers and as many
semi-weeklv papers.
len y airs ago, the receipts and eN-
ports at Montreal amounted for three
years to $50, 100000 For the three years
ending 1872 they amounted to S150,000,
600. This is an increase of eighty-fye
per cent, and nearly all trade diverted
from New York Cause, the insufficient.
cy of the Erie canal to carry the grain
brought to it. There is yet time to alter
all this, but New York must look sharp.
The estimates of the War Department
for the next fiscal year exceed 100000,
or Sl4 100000 more than the appropria-
tlons Tor the present year. About one
fourth of the amount is for pay, and the
remainder for Notifications and other ex.
pcuSeS Inc army now mum DelS d ,UUO.
The estimates show that we have one
commissioned officer for every fifteen
men. 1t is an army of skeleton regiments,
with full array of all the officers, and
few enlisted men; 500, 100000 divided
by 81 100, shows the average cost of our
war-like operations to be over 81, 800 per
annum for each man in the army.
The receipts of the post-otice depart
ment, last year, as shown by the annual
figures, were $4,000, 600, and the expendi-
lures about $29,000,000, including S725,-
coo in subsidies to steamship lines, being
an increase Of per cent, against 8 per
cent. the year before. The expense of
carrying official mails, or the saving made
by the abolition Of the franking privilege,
does not appear in the figures of the
present annual report, since the free nat
ter was not cut off till the close of the last
fiscal year. AS regards the postal cards,
the demand mas much exceeded the est,
mate. For the five months ending
September 80 there had been issued Ga,
100000. The estimates for the year end
ing June 80, 1874, are as follows: Elk
penditures, $3OS63, 000 revenues, $23,6i9,-
600; from monev-orders, 100000 increase;
from postal cards, $3.50, 900; total revenues,
1924, 552 900. Estimated deficiency, S.,
100000.