Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-06-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The total export of silk from China
for the season of 1884 is about $1,000
to $4,000 bales.
Boston, as municipal corporation,
will celebrate the Forthcoming hide
pendence Day $4,000 worth.
The wealth of Maysville, KY, is esti-
mated, in dollars and cents, at $1,995, 249
"a falling off, a decrease, Of $92 600 from
last year.
Lynn, the great shoe-manufacturing
city in Massachusetts, numbers about
10000 souls; or, as its late Mayor would
write it, soles.
-Boston's contribution to the sufferers
Of Louisiana amounted to $4,000; Balti-
more sent $4,000, and Philadelphia's do
nation was $4,000.
The production of lumber last year
on the upper Mississippi and its tributa-
ries is estimated at /, 032, 1853, 628 feet, both
logs and lumber being included. The
supply of logs on hand for the season of
1874 is estimated at 312, 100000 feet.
Mr. n. w Clark, the Michigan pisci-
culturist, placed, last November, in the
State hatching-boXes, 1,S00,000 eggs of
the whitefar Ninety per cent. of these
were Matched. Since March % he has
distributed 100000 young whiteish in
1874 lakes and rivers in Michigan.
The manufactured wool imported
into the United States in 1878 was valued
at $13, 189,479, against $28,022, 118 in 1872
The value of the imported manufactured
articles containing wool was, in round
numbers, $49,000,000, against about
$54,000,000 in 1872.
According to a late census there are
100000 cats in England, and a venerable
grimalllin attached to the editorial staff
of the London lStd1lddrd estimates one
mouse and five rats to every acre, max
ing a total of II 10000 of these animals,
consuming grain enough to feed nearly
5000, 900 human beings.
A correspondent of the Smithsonian
Institution who has spent considerable
time in investigation of the subject, in
answer to a remark by Prof. Henry that
" the immense water power at Niagara
may, in the progress Of practical science,
be applied to the purposes of industry"
states that by the "last census there are
52017 water-wheels in operation in Amer
lean manufacturing establishments, Civ
ing a power of 1,130,4 horses, while
Niagara Falls gives power Of II, 1854
horses"
The births in Boston during 1878
numbered 968S, an increase of 418, or
451 per cent, over 1872, and o ratio of
one birth in 1886 of the population;
$3.50 per cent. of the children are of for
eign parentage. The marriages were
1883, an increase of 121, or 1923 per cent,
over the previous year, the rate being
one person married to 1851 Of the whole
population. The deaths show a decrease
of 221 from 1872, the whole number be-
ing 1853, or 28.45 in 1000.
The amount of salt inspected in
Michigan during the season to June l
was 294, 715 barrels, divided in the fol
lowing quantities: Fine, 1857 barrels;
packers, 6,23S barrels; solar, S27 barrels;
second quality, 5,693 barrels. The
amount inspected during the same time
last year was 190,415 barrels, or 104, 300
barrels less than this year, but which at
that time was the largest amount of
Michigan salt inspected during the same
period.
of the 800 members of Congress, l24
are college graduates. Of the non-grad-
yates, s. received an academic educa-
ton; 65 only common-schoOl education.
-Four were educated in private schools,
and six were self-educated." Of the
remaining 70, a large portion took partial
courses at college, or supplemented their
early education by study IN the law or
other professional schools. A classical
ton OF the 1874 graduates reveals the fact
that Yale heads The list Of the colleges
represented i'll Congress.