Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-26
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Pennsylvania is valued at seven thou
sand millions
New buildings valued at $50 100000
were erected last year in New York city.
The Hudson River has yielded only
$50, 900 tons of ice this season, against
1000, 900 tons last year.
The total receipts of domestic wool
at the port of Boston in 1S13-221 log
bales-is an increase of 60, AS bales over
1872.
The number of school children in
Idaho is 1896, against 1909 last year.
The school moneys amount to S3,o5441,
against $3,627.10 in 1872.
A census of Galveston, Tex, just
completed, shows "a, $50 inhabitants, not
including the floating population, an In,
crease of over 10000 in three years.
The largest tree in Brookline, n. H.,
has Just been cut and sawed. 1t was a
pine, $50 years old. The first log, IL feet
long, made 500 feet of inch boards; the
whole tree, 3,317 feet.
The deposits in the Massachusetts,
savings banks increased from S1S4, 797 ;
1889 in 1872 to S203, 062, 156. 80 in 1878,
or more than $4,000, O00 The increase
in the number of depositors was about
per cent.
An average Atlantic steamer con-
sumes fifty tons of coal in twenty-four
hours. Therefore, if five tons of coal are
sufficient to feed an ordinary CRATE in our
dwellings during the entire year, the coal
consumed in one day will last small
family, burning one fire, ten years.
With one single field of coal covering
5000 square miles; with apparently mex
haustible copper and iron stores; with
lead and silver mines; with 100000 of
acres of cotton bearing land, and with
agricultural resources equal to those of
any State in the Union, Texas can enter
upon her new career confidently and joy
ously
1t is stated that financially the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College does not
pay its way. From the State fund of
1898, 1913 SO there is an annual income of
$4,000, and the receipts for tuition and
room rent increase the income to $4,000
per annum. Over against this there is
set an annual expenditure of $4,000,
leaving deficit of S., 900 to be made
good by further endowment, by contribu-
tions from private citizens, or by special
appropriation by the Legislature. Of
with it since it's establishment about
seventy are known to be engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits, and nearly all are at
work in some industrial occupation.
Next to farming, civil engineering is a
favorite pursuit with the graduates.
The Cherokee Nation now numbers
10000. Its Superintendent of Schools
reports that about 1890 children attend
schools; that the schools are in session
nine months annually, and that all the
English branches are taught, including
geometry, rhetoric, etc. that there are
fOrty-four native teachers and twenty-five
pale-faces; that they have one orphans
school, and ninety inmates; one female
high school, presided over by teacher
from Mt. Holyoke, Mass, and one Mora
Wan missionary school. These schools
have been supported by the United States
for thirty-fve years past, or since their
formation, and about $4,000 is now APP
propriated by Congress annually to sus-
tain them. The Superintendent thinks
that the Nation will in time support the
schools without the aid from Government.