Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-18
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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America imported ia lawyers and
$50 doctors last year.
The New York Episcopalians pro
pose $4,000,000 cathedral.
st. Adams is three millions better of
for the dairy business every year.
1t requires 10000 cords of wood and
$4,000 tons of coal annually to warm up
St Paul.
From Sheboygan County, Wis, there
have been shipped this year l02, 400
dozen eggs.
1t is said that in Colorado, last year,
100000 butfaloes were slaughtered for
their hides.
Albany, n. Y, has a clear $4,000 in
her city treasury which she don't know
what to do with.
Havana exported 534 100000 cigars
last year, the United States taking the
largest number.
There are in London, Eng, 10000
Germans, 40, 600 French, 1900 Italians,
and 5000 Asiatics.
The industrial school tor girls, in
Lancaster, Mass, had no scholars dur
ing the past year.
Baltimore has a population, accord
ing to police statistics, OF 1888, TWEEN
tv thousand more than in 1870.
Heath, of Mama County, Kansas, is
the peanut king of the State, having
raised 800 bushels on six acres.
An old chap living in Philadelphia
has spent $4,000 and ten years time try
ing to make gold out of other metal.
The stock of the cotton factory at
Augusta, Georgia, sells at $l70 per share
"a premium of 70 cents on the dollar.
The Wyandotte silver works, in Mich
igan, have, since June !, smelted silver to
the amount of $403,00O, working only
three months time.
LYMAN Tremaine received $4,000
for defending Stokes-$10,000 as re-
tanning fee, and the remaining $4,000 at
the close of the trial.
The oil produced in Western Penn
sylvania the past year, would I'LL canal
25 feet wide at the top, II at the bottom,
7 deep and 20 miles long.
An iron bridge 1893 feet long and IS
feet wide, costing $ll 1873, has just been
completed across the lie Suer River at
hcTn oTosSlnS, Mlnneoots.
Some financial writers think that $40
apiece for every man, woman and child
in the country would be a safe and proper
limit for the circulating medium of the
country.
Among the steady habits of Connec
ticut is steady habit of drinking. Fiji
teen out of every torty-one who have died
in that State during the past five years
were drunkards.
A well-informed writer in the Finaa-
ctal Journal estimates the annual hoard
ings at the South, of white ana black, as
some two hundred millions; but this
seems impossible.
There was shipped from East Sagi
nav this season 81 900 tons of rock plas
ter, and IL, 400 barrels of ground plaster
This is considerably in excess of the bust
ness of former years.
"A San Francisco paper of the 26th
ult says "Over one hundred thousand
trade dollars will be shipped to China by
the next steamer, and the mint is full OF
orders to coin more"
The root crop of the Michigan Col
lege Farm, at Lansing this year will
amount to nearly 10000 bushels. The
crop was grown on seventeen acres of
ground, thus giving yield of about 600
bushels per acre.
The aggregate capital of the Boston
horse-railroad is over 81 100000 and about
1900 horses and $50 cars are owned and
used by the companies The South Bos-
ton road paid seven per cent. dividend
last year, the Middlesex three per cent,
and the Union ten per cent,
The gold coinage of the United
States mint during the month of Novem-
Der is included in 415, $50 pieces, of the
value of 81, 594, 300. The amount was
nearly equally divided between double
eagles, half eagles, quarter eagles, and
something over a hundred thousand gold
dollars. Of silver there were coined 1, :
64S,S 500 pieces, of the value of $4,000,
mainly in half and quarter dollars, though
including small amount of dollars and
dimes. The total coinage for November
included 1874, $50 pieces, of the value Of
$2027 400.
Work on the East river bridge, be
tween New York and Brooklyn, has
ceased for the winter. The New York
tower has reached the height of 1913 feet
above e.water-eight feet above the
roadway. Over 5000 cubic yards of
masonry have been laid during the season
upon this section. Work will be resumed
on the towers about the middle of next
March. The engineer says that it will
take over half of next season to complete
the Brooklyn tower, it not being yet with
in 81 feet of the required height 1t will
be impossible to complete the New York
tower under two years time.