Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Philadelphia is building reservoir
1O4 acres in extent.
-Ceylon exports between 2,OOO,O 900 and
100000 gallons of cocoanut oil every
year.
-Williamsport, Pa, has match factory
with a producing capacity OF 1O3,6ooooo,
matches per day.
The business of auctioneering horses
in Cincinnati amounts to something over
$5,OO0,OOO year.
1t cost Rochester, n. Y, $97 900 to
support its paupers last year. This is Sll6
per capita of population.
The value of gold is about $1S per
ounce, but the finer kind Ofhair OF gold
en- shade is worth $50 an ounce.
The last quarterly statement OF the
banks in Iowa shows capital of $771 49,
with the deposits amounting to $685.,
9545S.
Since 1880 there have been lost from
Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the fishing
and coasting business, no less than 1851
lives and PSI vessels.
The number of steamship passengers
who sailed from New York for Europe
during the months of June and July, is
now leaving is crowded to its utmost ca
pacity.
According to Mr. William F. Poole,
the Cincinnati Public Library has in
creased from $4,000 to 10000 in three
years. Three-quarters of the books are
novels, and female readers far outnumber
the male.
The Western Stock Journal, published
at Pieasanton, Texas, quotes well-broken
saddle-horses at $25 to $40, and unbroken
ditto at $50 to $50. Beeves, first-class, are
quoted at S12 to SIC, sheep at 81. so to 50,
and goats IS cents to 81.
The Union Pacific Railroad sold
during the month of July, 1878, 20,599 43
acres Of land, at an average price of 673
per acre, amounting to S13S,677.23. The
| sales averaged 10S42 acres 70 each pur-
chaser Total sales to August /, 1873,
| 156 ,64457 acres, at an average price of
| S431b per acre, amounting to $780,
| 1868
Commerce at this port for the month
of July shows steady increase. The ar
rivals were 80, with 1O,628 tonnage, ex-
| elusive of vessels not required to report.
| The imports nearly double those for the
same time last year. They were: Lum-
| Der, 100000 feet; shingles, 5,437, 900;
Iath, 1,143O00; square timber, 2S0OO0
feet; iron ore, 1854 tons; coal, 600 tons;
heading and slaves, 90,000.-Mich5gon
| City (Irld.) Enterprise.
| At a social science meeting in Bos
ton, Gen. F. A Walker read a paper on
the prospective population of the United
| States, in which he contended that, in
stead of reaching 100, 355, 1876 in the year
1900, as calculated by Elkanah Watson,
or 100, 337 ,40S, as calculated by De Bow,
or 107 100000, as calculated by Commits
sioner Wilson, it will only be somewhere
| between $4,000, 900 and S4,000,000, most
| probably 10000 900 to 7f,000000
The New York Express of recent
date says that the Alabama indemnity
money, $15,500,000 gold, due from Great
Britain September 6, has already been
| paid into the Treasury, with the eXcep-
ton of about $4,000 600 which is deposit
ed in gold in q number of New York
banks The payments thus far to the
! Treasury have been in called bonds, over
due coupons, and gold. The balance due
will be gradually paid in during the next
three weeks, and within this time the
managers of this fund expect to purchase
an additional amount of called bonds.
"A curious calculation has been made
and published in a French paper in re-
gard to hens. 1t reckons the number of
hens in France at 100000, valued at
$50, 000,000. OF these about one-fifth are
killed annually for the market There is
an annual net production of 100000
chickens, which in market yield $2400O,-
600. The extra value to be added for ca
pons, fattened hens and the like is put at
S2,2O0,OOO. The production of eggs is
reckoned at an average of 100 eggs to
each hen, which are worth $4S,00O,O00.
| In all it is reckoned that the value of
hens, chickens and eggs sold in the mar
kets of France amounts to $50, 900 600
| ASK for Prussinp's Cider VINEGAR apd taka