Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-01
FACTS AND FIGURES.

and so encampments in Wisconsin.
Over 600 persons are at the Albany
| IN. y Penitentiary.
The city of London expended S63,
147 in entertaining the Shah of Persia.
Colonel Phineas Adams, of Manches
ter, n. H., has collection of coins valued
at $4,000.
The aggregate number of deaths from
yellow fever in Memphis this season was
about two thousand.
A hundred years ago it only took
1900 lamps to light Paris Now it re-
quires nearly 10000.
Racine, Wis, has 1908 children of
school age, and an average school attend
ance of only 1906.
Baltimore has a population, accord
ing to police statistics, of 3O2,S93, twenty
thousand more than in 1870.
"A census, taken by Major Powell,
places the total number of Indians in
Utah at 2,166, divided into five tribes.
Columbus, Ga, thinks she will re-
ceive about $4,000 bales of cotton this
season, 5000 less than last season.
"A Galien, Ind, factory has $4,000
broom handles ready for shipment TIL
hlALI- iC1 1OI UOUtSSGbC Is HUI
stated
The total number of degrees confer
red in course in 1873, by the various col
leges OF the country, was 4,493, and 376
honorary.
Another thing we got by getting
Alaska-gOt to make a coast survey of
the $4,000 miles of sea front that COM
passes that iceberg,
The shipments of Iowa grangers,
through their agents, to the Union Stock
Yards Of Chicago for the year 1878,
amount to over $4,000.
The Is Touring mills of Minneapolis,
with rs run of stone, have manufactured
since Jan. l, 1873, 555, 900 barrels of flour,
using 1855, $50 bushels of wheat.
Prof. Loomis, of Yale college, says
that the last November was the coolest of
any within 70 years, the nearest approach
to its severity being the November of
1798
During the past summer, L. F. Koch,
of Lagrange, Mo. sold nearly 1000 gal
Ions of native wines, and has on hand
1000 gallons of his own manufacture the
present season.
Fifteen vessels of the Pacific whaling
fleet have put in an appearance at San
Francisco, bringing a total of II, 300 bar
rels of oil, $4,000 pounds of bone, and
10000 pounds of ivory.
The amount of timber annually con-
sImed in the form of toothpicks may be
judged by the fact that a tOOthpick fac
tory at Canton, Me, recently bought 800
cords Of wood for making into tooth
picks.
The annual report of the Michigan
salt inspector shows an increase over last
years product Of nearly 100000 bushels,
the total production of 1878 being 4,116,-
73O. The revenue received from inspec-
ton amounts to $12, $50.
"A dispatch from Detroit says: "Statis-
tics compiled here show that the total loss
Of life on the great lakes this season from
other than natural causes was 1913, of
which 169 resulted from drowning, %
from accidents, and 1 from burning"
The Iowa State library at Des Moines
contains IL, 094 volumes, exclusive of 1000
duplicates. The increase during the past
two years has been 2,075-792 by pur-
chase, ], 046 by exchange, 237 by donation :;
four have been lost. OF the $4,000 appro-
priation $386.68 remain uneXpended.
The gifts received by Yale College
during the year ended June Both, amount
to $196,284, which was distributed as fol-
lows: To endowment fund, $167,115; to
fellowships, $4,000; to special depart
ment, $1,000; to scholarships, $4,000
During the same time Harvard received
$158,G75.
The Bingham Canyon Railroad, in
Utah, cost only $141 per mile. The Salt
Lake Tribune says that it is the cheapest
railroad ever built in any country, and
demonstrates the fact that the great min
eral resources of Utah, can be developed
in an extraordinarily short time, by reason
of their ability to build railroads at a cost
but little above that Of any ordinary wag-
ON road.