Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-02-19
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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a The proposed Darien Canal will cost
a 60 100000
IA There are 4, 500 inmates in the Phlla-
~ elphia alms-house.
SX The expenditures on the parks OF
e8rooklyn last year were SAG, 463 43.
F7 Ten thousand and seventy seven Phila-
III o1nhians became drunk and disorderly"
Isl year.
81 Five and a halt millions of hogs have
3oen slaughtered and packed in the West
3ljs season.
about 1000 pairs of old-fashioned
X,1irons are manufactured and sold in
Bangor yearly.
IA The beet-roor sugar product last year
Europe was 100000 tons, or double
N ne entire importation of the United
Bates.
Massachusetts, people have 100000
1oa of Western and Southern railway in
3estments, on which no dividends or in
5rest are paid.
Il There are nearly 100 900 children en-
loved in New York workshops and fac
1ories who are living without the slight
fst opportunity for education and cul-
STe.
The oyster beds of Virginia cover
L. area equal to $4,000 acres, and those
freat mines of submarine wealth are esti-
Sated to Weld an annual money value of
4lOO00000.
q The Order of the Knights of Pythias
A. instituted in Iowa in May, 1870, and
low there are twenty-three lodges in the
late, all with a large membership. In
7le United States there are 1850 lodges,
nth 100000 members.
81 In and near the city of Philadelphia
u ere are 1919 manufactures of various
4inds. with an aggregate capital of S204-
8DO 900, which give steady employment to
&52 800 operatives, contributing annually
36S 64S, coo in wages alone.
a Eight establishments in the United
1tates are now making rails from steel
8ade by the BesSemer process. Their an
9ual production is $l50,000 tons, an ag-
3recate which, it is expected, will ere
3ng be increased some thirty-three per
tnt.
4 The three.ioot narrow-g gauge railroad
1stem is rapidly becoming popular in
his country Within the last three or
bur years, no less than 1,4451a miles of
BARROW gauge railway have been built in
his country and in Canada, which roads,
&hen com pleted will have mileage OF
l56215 miles, while there are ,291 miles
Binder construction.
q There were 20,414 applications for
3atents during the year 1873, and of these
II ,S64 were successful. During the year
l4s2 patents expired, OF the patents is.
Ned, 1891 were awarded to United States
ttizens. Connecticut received G22 pat
Rlts, or one for every S64 inhabitants
9he number issued to citizens Of New
3ork was 2,s26, and Idaho and New
HeXico received one each.
"a The London Ned5caL Record says
lat during the past year there were 49,
95 cases of cholera in Hungary, and that
this number PAT, 11S persons recovered,
1S2 $40 are dead, and 2,91S remain under
teatment. Croatia and Slavonia, the
incient military boundaries, are not in
xluded in these lists, nor are the victims
@hOm cholera carried off when it broke
But at the end of 1872 in Buda and Upper
Hungary. The population of the coun-
u les of The crown of st. Stephen amount
ID 100000, and since ii is estimated
flat altogether they have lest this year
900 souls by cholera, it follows that ]
p 80 of the inhabitants has fallen beneath
4lis terrible scourge.
! There were 2SS deaths last year, in
New York City, from falls of various
4inds Forty-seven of these occurred la
he streets, the majority of them being
4ue TO the vault covers; fOrty-five tell
Gown stairs seventy two from buildings
D. scattoldings thirty-nine from win
yows; twenty-five from hatchways and
elevators; twenty-onc fell down embank-
Dents or areas, and nineteen from wagons.
Jarns and scalds caused l0S deaths. &C
8idcnts arising from machinery caused
r. death of 10; there were 26 sutfocated;
D. died from the effects OF kicks of horses,
4 from blasting rocks; from explosions;
q from collisions, and 1l0 from acct
Gents too numerous to mention"