Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-09
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Out of 1850 men who enlisted in the
Eighth Illinois Cavalry, but $50 are now
living.
Reliable figures show the cotton crop
to amount to 3,930,5O8 bales.
On tobacco alone Virginia has paid
$3O,OO0,OO0 of taxes into the United States
Treasury since the war.
During the next fiscal year the sum
of $31 100000 will be paid out to United
States pensioners.
The Campbellites have commenced a
theological school for colored students at
Louisville.
There are in Paris 1874 cafes, wine
shops or beer saloons, containing In all
27,711 public billiard-tables.
In England there are S57 persons with
$250,OO0, and only SO persons who have
larger incomes.
From three castor beans planted by
DR.. Allen, of Montgomery Co., Ill, in
1871, and their yield in 1872, there are
now growing in his neighborhood 100
acres.
MIR. Young, of the Bureau of Stistics,
says that only $4,000 Americans went to
Europe this year; and our foreign obi
CATION, all told, are 81 ,OOO,0O0,O0O.
In the bottom of the Solomon River,
in Kansas, near its confluence with the
Smoky, have been discovered springs of
coal-oil bubbling up, and there is great
excitement in that neighborhood
1t is stated that a deposit of litho-
graphic stone has been discovered in
Russia, which is SO immense that it is like
ly to cause reduction in the price of
this comparatively rare material.
In many localities in California, since
1857, the thermometer has ranged as high
as ia degrees and 1T degrees in the
heated seasons, and yet there never was a
case of sunsroke reported
England has this year exported books
to the value of S4,419,OO0. OF this amount
$1 ,537 900 worth came to this country.
During the same time England imported
about 100000 worth of books from the
United States
The Mennonites have purchased
5000 acres in Clay Co., Neb, and have
also secured large tract of country ad-
joining their purchase, for Russian col
ony. Over 1000 are expected to settle
this fall in Clay County
The rice crop of Louisiana, the pres
ent season, will be the largest ever pro-
duced, being estimated as high as 10000
barrels clean, or "a, SOC, 900 pounds The
crop last year was only 81 206 barrels, the
year before 5000. and in 1870 only 40
600.
The following are the receipts and
shipments of live stock at the Union Stock
ards, Chicago for the month of Seplem-
Der: Receipts Cattle, IS, 1874 hogs, $780,
512; sheep, 1874. Shi pments-Cattle,
4,301; hogs, 1911 ,241; sheep, 1875.
Up to August 2, 944321 boxes of
cheese were received since January, /,
at New York, being an increase of 1S7, O40
boxes over receipts in corresponding time
last year. The exports this year have
been 937, S6S boxes, an increase of 293,9S4
boxes over exports of corresponding time
last year.
Fred Girard planted five acres on
new breaking, at Bismarck, Neb, on the
Upper Missouri, last May. He has sold
$3.50 worth of truck from his garden, and
has 600 bushels of potatoes left, which he
is now selling for So a bushel He will
clear $1,000 for his summers work.
1t is estimated that the more i'm
portant exports Of the current year will
aggregate S410,O00,000 as follows: 3,O0O,-
600 bales of cotton, which will realize
1925, 100000; 50,000,000 bushels of wheat
worth abroad $75,000,O0O; 300000OOO
bushels Of other cereals, worth nearly
$25, 600 coo; 200,000,000 gallons of petrO-
leum, valued at $4,000 600; 500, 600, 900 lbs
of pork and other provisions, $4O,00O,O0O;
250,OOO,OOO Tbs. Of tobacco, worth $25, 000,-
900.