Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-09-10
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Switzerland is little, crampeu-up
country. but she sent us during the month
~ nne over million and a half francs
rorth of silk ribbons, watches ana
cheese.
All the Irish railways together DO
,ot exceed 1900 miles, yet there are
ffty.six companies, each with an average
,anrth of forty three miles. They are
managed by no fewer than 400 directors,
and the solicitors, engineers and ofncers
are innumerable.
Vermont shows pretty good nnan-
c;al record for the past year. Its assets are
sI11 Asst. and liabilities $50, leaving
balance of nearly $4,000; but last
year at this time there was balance OF
x116 600 on liabilities over assets, so the
State is S13S,659 better off than it was
then.
Public investigation in France shows
that infants "nursed OUT in that coun-
try are nursed out of the world at the
rate of eighty-two to eighty-seyen IN a
hundred. The implement used in this
slaughter is an ordinary baby's bottle,
which the farmers" scrupulously avoid
washing
Last year Minneapolis, Mimi, man.
ufactured three and quarter million
barrels of -four, nearly two hundred
million feet of lumber, one hundred and
fifteen million shingles, and thirty
three million laths, besides carrying on
many other branches of manufacture.
Twenty years ago there was but one
house in Minneapolis.
In the longevity of its inhabitants
Williston, Vt, claims to be the banner
town of the State 1t has a population
of 1,441. of whom POI are sixty years Of
are and over; 145 siXty-five and over;
ninety seventy and over; sixty-one sew
enty-four and over; twenty nine eighty
and over; six eighty-tive and over and
three ninety and over
The agricultural triumphs which
have been achieved in Nebraska are the
work of little more than ten years, and
as the country is settled and the posi-
ton of the farmer becomes easier, wheat
ranks higher among the crops OF the
country In 1860, when the population
was % 900, the wheat crop amounted to
141,S61 bushels, or about st bushels per
head; and in 1870, when the population
was 1879 900, the wheat crop was 2, 125,0S6
bushels, or little under III bushels per
( head.
South Carolina has given $4,000 to
| Washington and Lee University, and ex
poets to make up her stated moiety-
S5d000-of the endowment. Kentucky
has already given $4,000 for the chair
of history and political economy; Lou
isiana $4,000 for the chair of modern
languages Teyas $40, 900 for the chair of
applied mathematics; and Virginia has
also contributed $50, 900. Each of these
States is to give the amount of $4,000.
Missouri has nearly completed her en-
dowment of $4,000 for the chair of
applied chemistry.
In the last twenty years the product
of butter and cheese in the United States
has been more than doubled. Last
year it amounted to 650,0O0,000 pounds
of butter and 100000 900 pounds of
cheese, of which more than one-fourth
of the butter and nearly one-half of the
cheese were made by the State of New
York The cheese factories number
about 1900, employ about $4,000, 900 cap
/ ital and use the milk of three-fourths of
a million cows. The american Grocer
states that the production this year is
likely to greatly exceed that of last year,
but does not believe that the production
will even exceed the demand. The
cheapening and improvement of butter
and cheese by artificial means will tend
rather to overstock the market.
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IN WASHINGTON, the other day, little
boy while playing at hide and seek, hid
in large sole-leather trunk with a
spring lock, and unconsciously locked
himself in. His playmates upon hear
ing him cry, after an unsuccessful at
tempt to release him, gave the alarm. A
lady neighbor was the first on the spot,
and after great exertion succeeded in
raising one side of the lid, thus affording
sir to the little victim. Additional aid
soon arrived, the lid was forced open,
and the child, who was excessively weak,
was rescued. Restoratives were at once
applied, and the little fellow when last
heard from, though still weak was be-
You'd danger.
AN OLD and dirty sponge may be cleaned
by first soaking it for some hours in a
solution of permanganate of potassium,
then squeezing it, and putting it into
weak solution of hydrochloric acid-one
part acid OF commerce to ten parts water.
receipts for Making DIR. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy and DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery.
Something over a year since, a periodical
issued IN Berlin, Prussia, and laying claims
scientific character, published what was
cpresented as being the formule or receipts
lor making DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and