Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-08
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Mexico, in thirty years, had
ffty.siX Presidents.
The area of corn in Georgia in 1873
was 100000 acres
Poland has had 81, $50 cases OF cholera
this year, and Prussia 6S,624
Statistics show that during the year
1878, 1854 emigrants have settled in
Iowa.
The national debt of Italy has reach,
ed tie respectable amount of S901, 412 ;.
$50.
The twelve Rothschilds are now esti.
mated 10 be worth nine hundred and forty
millions.
The Unitarians have never given
birth to composer of music, nor nave
the Quakers.
The lovers of stale bread are recon-.
mended to try that found at pompe:i,
about 1900 years old.
There were shipped last year from
California TO England 204 ,342 barrels of
flour, valued at $l251,559.
Great Britain pays out $1,515,G
annually to the descendants Of persons
who have rendered the State great ser.
vice
The total shipments of the Chesa.
peake and Ohio Canal for 1878, show a
falling off, compared with 1872, of 3G,2S6
tons
Dinners are again being supplied in
LOHdOn to poor children at two cents per
head Last winter the number Of dinners
given on this plan was 104, ass.
1t is expected that from twenty to
thirty steamers will leave New Ork for
Europe every week next summer. The
ocean ferry traffic is increasing astonish-
ingly.
Louisiana has become the banner cot
ton State, producing this year 100000 OF
the 100000 bales raised in all the South,
To accomplish this the cultivation OF
sugar has been largely abandoned.
Quite number of men in Newbury-
port are employed in catching frogs for
the Boston irog.eaterS. One man has taken
1900 and another 600 this season. They
are kept in tubs and fatted with meal, and
shipped to order.
The number Of pounds of cheese
made in Trumbull County, Ohio, the past
year, according to returns, was ), ll6,25S.
Lorain exceeds that by over 1000 geo
pounds, Trumbull County produced
over JUUOOO pOunuS OF DulttC.
-Pennsylyama's annual production Of
minerals nearly equals that of all the
other States ana Territories put together
In the last year, reported by census, her
mines yielded $40, 207 1866 worth of min
erals, and all the rest OF the country,
SS6, 800 GOA worth
The American trade dollar has been
formally recognized by the Chinese Gov
eminent rs ii medium of trade, and will
hencelorth be received by them in pay
ment Of duties al its intrinsic value,
which Is found by assay to be 1901 of
pure silver. In the official proclamation
announcing his the following compari-
son is made: One hundred American
trade dollars arc worth 10007 new MeXi-
can dollars or 101 As old Mexican dollars.
Therefore, the American trade dollar is
One-iOurtecnth per cent. better than the
new Mexican dollar, and within a frac-
ton of q per cent. better than the old
Mexican dollar.
Here is the progress Of cooperation
in Germany: In 1850 there were 50 socio.
ties, with 1866 members, who had on
loan, 4, l3l ,436 thalers; share capital,
2460Ol thalers, and in 1870 these figures
had risen TO TAO societies, 3l4,656 mem
bcrs, 207,G18,207 thalers lent, and the
share capital had risen to 13,440, 153
thalcrs Even during the Franco German
war, the number OF cooperative banks
increased by 121, and t12 new stores were
opened, while 8 manufacturing societies
were established The business done by
all these societies in 1870 amounted to
3j0O0OOO0 thalers. The paid-up capital
wa, 100000, and the loan capital
62000,OO0 The number of co-operators
now in Germany exceeds 100000.
Among the trading associations there are
Of shoemakers, 50; agriculturists, 43;
tailors, 81: cabinet-makers "a; smiths, s;
weaycrs, 3; book bin lers, 4; glove manu-
tacturers, ?; carpenters, 3; basketmakers,
,; house painters, /; millers, /; cloth
makers, /: sewing machinists, ,; booking
establishments, house-building estab
iishmeats, 5; and they appear to make
most progress in cooperation just where
We make least.