Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-06-18
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Baseball costs the country S5,OOO,OOO
year.
Six per cent. of the population of Ohio
is German.
Ninety nuptial knots were twisted in
Baltimore in one week.
An Indiana man is III years old and
has voted 125 times.
Not less than 100 women have entered
the medical profession this year.
The public debt of Connecticut has
been reduced 1907, 80 during the past
year.
-Seventy-twO steamboats, are engaged
in towing lumber on the upper Missis-
sippi.
This years maple-sugar yield in Yer
mont is estimated at $4,000, 900 pounds,
worth $1,500O00.
The collection of Chinese coins in
the museum of the Paris mint consists of
nearly 800 specimens, some gold and sill
yer. Some of the pieces date from ], ZOO
years before Christ
The artesian we'll Of the National
Rubber Works at Bristol, r. l., has been
bored upward of 600 feet through solid
granite, and is not yet finished. Only
small supply of water has been obtained.
"A farmer in Chester County, Pa, sold
from thirty hens in 1878 eggs and chick
ems amounting to $4307S. The cost of
feed and commissions for selling amount
ed to $16184, leaving a net profit of
$266. 81.
Chief State Engineer Thomson, of
Louisiana, writes to Gov. Kellogg
that 3 100000 cubic yards of levee is re-
quired to be built to save the State from
overflow next year, and that Louisiana
cannot pay for the construction of more
than one-third.
The New York Central Railroad Com
pany has leased large tract of land at
the junction of Sixtieth street and the
Hudson River, NewYo rk, upon which they
will erect extensive docks, tracks and
other conveniences, together with a grain
elevator capable of handling 1,250,O00
bushels of grain.
The census just taken shows the pop
ulation OF Providence, r. l., to be 99,593.
The prolonged suspension Of work at the
delaine mills diminished the population
about 1000. The old city has gained
1860, or 2211s per cent, in four years, and
10, 100 have recently been annexed from
IN OTLu ITONluGuCG.
"A novelty, is the handsome $3.50
field Croquet Set that the Excelsior Mag
Gz5pe is giving to new subscribers for 80
cents, through special arrangement with
large manufacturing company. They
furnish sample copies of the Magazine for
20 cents, from their office, Room 50, No.
157 La Sale ST., Chicago, Ill.
For the fiscal year ending June 80,
1872, there were brewed and sold in the
States and Territories 8,009,969 gallons of
fermented liquors, and during the follow
ing year S,910S23 gallons. In 1873 there
were 3,554 breweries in the United States,
against 3, 421 the previous year. OF these
Pennsylvania had 500, New York 4,S11,
Ohio 296, Wisconsin 300, and Massachu-
sets 40.
james Lick, of San Francisco, has
recently disposed of his property in the
following manner: He donates 100000
to the construction of the largest and best
telescope in the world for the observatory
at Lake Tahoe; $4,000 for public mon
uments: $150,000 for public baths in that
city; 100000 for the OLD Ladies Home
$4,000 to the Society for the Protection
of Animals; $4,000 to the Ladies' Pro
tectlon anu IlolleI society; SIO,OOO 10 the
Mechanics Library and Protestant Or
phan Asylum; $4,000 to the city of San
Jose for an orphan asylum; $25,150 for
the erection Of bronze monument to the
author of the Star Spangled Banner in
Golden Gate Park; $500, 600 for the en-
dowment of the School of Mechanical
Arts of California, and the residue in
excess of $1,780,0 900 to the Pioneers So
ciety. He makes ample provision for rel
atives, and reserves his homestead and
$4,000 per annum for himself while liv-
ing.