Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-02
FACTS AND FIGURES.

There are l, 121 convicts in tho A.,
burn N. " State Prison. o-
in the last seven months 900 bor.o.
have been exported from England.
New York City consumes 75o ooo
hogs, $4,000 sheep, and 1900 bullocbs
annually.
The working population of the Unitod
States is estimated at 13,000,GOO-one
third of the population.
Pepper, the chief vegetable product
of Sumatra, is produced in that island at
the rate of between 30, 100000 and 40 900
600 pounds per annum.
The receipts of wool at Chicago for
the first seven months Of the year were
19,714,S64 pounds, against 15,270,262
in corresponding time in 1872
There are 10000 drunkards in Con.
necticut, and fifteen out of every forty-one
men who have attained their majority and
died during the last five years were
drunkards.
"A mushroom weighing fifteen pounds
and measuring sixty-five inches in cir
conference, was exhibited on the streets
of Harvard, H., lately,
The daily average, including Sun
days, Of crude bullion received at Omaha
over the Union Pacific, for shipment East,
from January 1, 1878, to date, has been
10000 pounds.
Europe alone possesses III cities
containing more than $1,000 inhabitants,
at the head of which stands London,
Paris, COnstantinople, Vienna, Berlin, and
ST. Petersburg.
The taxes of New York City were
largely increased last year, yet the debt
was also increased to the extent of SIS
100000. The entire amount of the ex-
penditures was $52,0O0,000.
The Jackson (Mich) Patriot says that
in boring an artesian we'll ON the farm of
WilliamBarnes, of Rives, a few DAYS
since, solid oak log was struck at dis
lance of 146 feet below the surface
The two hundredth anniversary of
the first settlement of white men in Hi
nois was recently celebrated at Starved
Rock, ON the Illinois River, halfway
between La Sale and Ottawa, at which
point Fort St. Louis was founded by La
Sale, the French explorer, in 1878.
The New York Bulletin estimates the
present wheat crop Of this country at
SoO,OOO.oOo OuSIClo anu tllot LdiopS W III
require an importation Of 100000, 900
bushels this year, which is twice its i'm
port requirement of last year,
According to Dr. Despaulx, the mum
Der of people who attain the age of 100
years bears greater proportion to the
total population of the world than most
of us had imagined He states that of the
6000O,0O0 inhabitants of Russia, 1880
were centenarians, and two of these were
100 years old. France, in population of
100000, counted $50; Poland, 80 to
100000; Sweden, II; Norway, 40; United
States, 2,619; Canada, 70 out of popula-
ton of 100000. In England 105 centen-
arians die every year.
The Hayden expedition has discover
ed that the Middle Park of Colorado is
intersected to a great extent with dikes of
basaltic rock, and in these once melted
rocks are found moss and wood agates,
while red and yellow jaspers cover the
hills in great abundance. The Indians of
ancient times used to resort to those
places to procure material for their ar
row-heads, and Clipped flints and broken
arrow heads occur quite frequently. There
is no doubt that flint arrow-heads were in
common use among the Western 1ndians
before the introduction of pork barrels
and hOOp iron