Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-30
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Twins are said to be on the increase
all over the country.
-Tenville, Ga, has shipped 8,203 bales
of cotton this season.
California produces lemons weighing
twenty-four ounces apiece.
1t took Bishop and four clergymen
to marry young lady lately.
The members of the Fat Mems Soci-
ETY. naturally belong to the ton
There are 100 persons in Griggsville,
IL, over seventy years of age.
Six young ladies are announced to be
| studying for the bar in London.
Not less than 100 women have en-
tered the medical profession this year.
An engine on the P. 6 r. R. R.
weighs sixty tons. Largest in the world.
The Bingham Canyon Railroad is
| shipping forty carloads of ore per
| day.
On the 18th of October, 1882, the
| cornerstone of the White House was
laid.
| -Seventy-two steamboats, are engaged
in towing lumber on the upper Missis-
sippi.
1t takes forty-four big strawberry
short-cakes to go around in Vassar Col
lege.
: In 1860 the population of Indianapo-
lis was $4,000; it is now estimated at so,
O0O
Eighty thousand dollars are going
into the milling business in Wichita,
Kan.
A woman in Waynesburg, Pa, is
reading the Bible through for the forty
/ eighth time.
There are about 5000 children in the
State of Indiana over ten years of age
who cannot read.
"A Philadelphia boy ran half a mile
at Norristown, recently, in two minutes
| and fourteen seconds.
Since 1864 the University Press at
Cambridge has produced 1000 tons of
Webster's Dictionary.
Maine has in her State Prison 142
| convicts, of whom fourteen are under
| sentence for murder.
Some mathematician in Elberton
| County, Ca, has found out that 1876
| grains of wheat can be produced from
one grain.
In the last five months one firm in
St Mary's, Fla, has shipped 1921 All feet
of lumber to domestic ports, and ), 140, 523
feet to foreign ports.
"A Mr. Mahin, of New Castle, Del,
has thirty-ive colonies of Italian bees,
from one Of which he recently took
| seventy-fiye pounds of honey.
There were erected in Cincinnati last
year $50 new buildings, valued at $1,311,-
53S. There were erected in Toledo during
the same period 685 buildings, valued at
s., 258, 900.
Arthur Stuart, of Logansport, Ind,
took the prize of 800 given for the best
oratory at Amherst College, Mass, re-
Gently This is the second prize he has
taken for oratory.
One hundred and thirty volumes of
standard English law books have lately
been added to the Illinois State Library
which has full set of the English
statutes, and altogether one of the very
best collections of English literature in
this country. The addition cost 81 200.
Joseph Arch proposes to bring over
II 900 English laborers and let them
know what liberty is, but Joseph had bet
ter make arrangements for their bread
and butter before they land. Three
square miles of freedom won't 90 as far
as sandwich to a hungry man-De-
tro5t Free Press.
Somebody has been summing up the
fate of kings and emperors, as follows
Out of 2,540 emperors or kings over 81
nations, 299 were dethroned, 81 abdicat-
ed, 90 committed suicide, II went mad,
100 died on the battlefield, 1913 were
made prisoners, % were pronounced
martyrs and saints, Isl were assassinat-
ed G2 were poisoned, and 108 were sen
fenced to death. Total, 963.