Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-21
FACTS AND FIGURES.


An Angio-German bank with capt.
tai Of s15,G6O,OOO is to be established in
San Francisco.
1t is said that in Scotland one man in
every 900 goes to college; in Germany the
proportion is one for every 1900; in En-
gland it is one for every $780,
"A competent authority estimates that
the select timber from $50 acres is employ
ed every day, or at the rate of As 900 acres
per annum, in ship-building, including
steamboat building.
The fact that the ranking privilege
expires on the 30th Of June is overworking
the Public Printer He expects to have
100000 volumes ready by June Is, how
ever
Professor Cameron, of Dublin, in the
Food, Water and Alr J0u7arl says that he
found five hundred living mites in ten
grains of raw sugar. These microscopic
creatures exist so plentifully in raw sugar
that hundred thousand of them disport
themself in every pound. Every kind of
raw sugar, except naple-sugar, is said to
contain these mites, the name Of which is
Acdr1Is- sdcc1ldTG.
|. The new English war ship De0asta-
ton is a monster, resting on the water
On board this remarkable man-of-war
there are no less than thirtyfour distinct
and separate engines, possessing an indi-
Gated power of 5000 horses. Strong, steady
and swift, this vessel must be almost in
vulnerable, and probably has no superior
on the high sea at the present day.
The Central Falls VasStor saws that at
a recent funeral at Moshassuck Cemetery,
after the coffin had been lowered to it's last
resting place, the mourners stood in silence
a few moments, apparently not knowing
what to do next, when a man stepped up
to the undertaken, and said loud enough
to be heard all around "Well, [ suppose
you might as well fill her up" That is
all the service there was at the grave.
The agricultural returns for 1872 show
that less than two millions out of the
thirty-two millions Of England live direct
ly by agriculture About five persons are
employed in this way to every 100 acres
of cultivated land. It is claimed that
England and Scotland produce the best
wheat, the best potatoes, the best kitchen
vegetables and the best beef and mutton
in the world. Great Britain has 107 sheep
to every 100 inhabitants. Greece has 1873,
exceeding in this every other European
country. Spain has 1876, and Switzerland
4.
The fisheries of the United States, ac-
cording to the census, employ 20,504 per
sons, and their products are valued at
ST. 500, 522. These products embrace 1876
barrels of sea-bass, $50 9S2 quintals of cod
fish, 2475 quintals of haddock, 1886
quintals of hake, 2, 452 tons Of halibut, 81
210 barrels of herring, 221 003 barrels of
mackerel, 5, 1853 barrels of mullet, 647,312
bushels of oysters, 1926 barrels of picker
ell, 24,11S barrels of salmon, 100000
pounds of canned salmon, 2,617000 shad,
%, 200, 600 white fish, 132,71S barrels of
miscellaneous fish, and 766,930 gallons of
fish oil. More than one-half in value of
the fish caught is by Massachusetts fisher
men, S6,215, 1895; Maine and Connecticut
have the next largest products, each being
less than $1,000O0O New Jersey returns
1912, and Pennsylvania $685. Ia
Consumption is the great scourge ofthe
country. 1t will surprise many to read
the records of this terrible disease as con-
tanned in the second volume of the census,
and to trace the lines on the maps &C
cOmpanying the report which mark it's ex-
istence in its more or less virulent type.
Out of the 1925 deaths in 1870, 69.S96
were from consumption. There are com
paratively few sections of the country that
are free from the disease. A few counties
in West Virginia, the Florida peninsula,
and portion of Georgia, exhibit free
dom from it, or rather from cases origin
ating there There is also small section
of country in Central New York that is
we'll nigh free from it, Minnesota and
California, with the exception OF strip of
country north and south of the Sacramento
and around San Francisco, can be put
down as well nigh exempt from this terri
bic scourge, but there are few Of any other
sections Of the country where the disease
does not figure very prominently in the
mortality list. New England appears to
be the climate most to be dreaded by con-
sumptives, the deaths from this cause there
being one in ten of those from all diseases.