Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-11-27
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$76, 452, 1853.
Lake Erie is the home of thirty-fvt
varieties of fish.
The Police Department of New Yort
numbers ZOO men.
Dubuque is paying annually between
$4,000 and 500, 900 on its public debt.
America consumes annually 6,O0O,OO(
pounds of Turkish figs, in round f1ggers
The six chief officers of the Erie
Railroad divide $50, 900 salary per annum
-Oberlin College Ohio has c%atalogued
1850 students this year-and more com.
ing.
-Two-thirds of the patents issued by
the Canadian Government are to Ameri.
| can citizens.
-Montpelier's VermonD grand list
shows a reduction of polls of 3O3, and an
increase of dogs of 697.
In Ireland, with less than 5,400,0 600
inhabitants, the two shillings license was
paid in 1872 Oh 800, 1876 dogs.
Two and a half million dollars is the
capital invested in Auburn, Me, in the
manufacturing of boots and shoes.
-The merchant navy of Great Britain
numbers 36,S04 vessels, and these are
manned by $4,000 British sailors.
One Toledo fisherman took from his
nets the other day, A 900 pounds of
white fish. The catch is the best for many
years
The colored people of Washington
have twelve public schools, attended by
over 1000 pupils, and taught by eighty
four teachers.
Prussia has one physician for every
1890 inhabitants Austria one in 4,355;
Hungary one in 5,492, while Russia has
but one for IA, 1876 people.
The herring catch in England tSis
year represents a money value Of a mill
ion and a half sterling and a total of $780,
100000 individual behring's.
kentucky has PAL, 1876 white voters
and 47,125 black voters within her limits,
making a total of 2SS,320 persons having
the privilege of the franchise.
The Indians of Red River, Wis, this
year have raised 5000 bushels of oats,
1000 of corn, 5000 of potatoes, 1000 of
rutabagas, and 300 tons of hay.
-Iher are six savings banks in Lowell.
Their aggregate deposits mount to ten
millions OF dollars, of which at least
three-quarters are owned by the opera
tives.
The east and west drifts in the Sutro
tunnel under the Comstock lode, Virginia,
Nevada, have cOme together and match to
a fraction Of an inch-and now the tunnel
is in 1855 feet.
Patents may be scored by American
Austria, Prussia and Russia. The aggre-
pot ia Nomination of th1Sa 7 n p; ar . -, 80
to 219,0O0,000.
"A company has been formed to build
in Philadelphia a hotel that will cost
S5,OOO,OOO. 1t will be eight stories high,
and have an immense dome. 1t is to be
done before the centennial.
The census of school children in
Florida for 1878 toots up 1895. Last
year it was 62,S69. The increase from last
year is s, 126. The basis of last years ap-
po~tIonment was the census of 1871.
It's curious how inquisitive some are
about their own business. For instance,
here now are the Directors of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company wanting to
know what becomes of its earnings, some
S1,O0O,OO0 annually.
The new Post Office at New York.
for the construction of which the Govern
ment has appropriated $500, 600, will be
ready tor the occupants by the 4th of
July. No wood is to be used in its con-
structiOn, granite, iron and brick being
the principal materials; Il, O00, 900 brick
have already been used in it.
"A great railway bridge is to be built
across the Firth of Forth (Scotland) at
Queens ferry, which will be the most stu
pendous work OF the kind in the world.
1t is to cost six and one-quarter millions
Of dollars-about four times the estimated
cost OF the great bridge now building over
the lay. 1t will be $50 feet in height.
and will contain nearly 100 spans. The
central span will be 1850 feet, and he
smallest spans $50 feet in width.
The almost incredible statement is
made by a correspondent of the London
Lancet, that IN some of the manufacturing
districts of England where women are
largely employed, the death rate among
infants under one year old is from so to
80 pei cent. The cause of this fearful
mortality the writer ascribes to the fact
that the infants are left at home under the
care of ignorant elderly women, who feed
them with starch food, as boiled bread,
Cruel, ground rice, ETC.; substances which
the intantile stomach cannot digest, and
which prove their certain destruction if
given IN sufficient Ouantity