Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-06-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.

England has 5000 temperance lodges.
Memphis has $50 lawyers to offend
and defend her.
London disposes of 1000 bushels of
cinders yearly.
The Agassz memorial fund has
reached the sum of over 100000.
Two hundred acres of land were re-
Gently sold in Florida at five cents an
acre.
The San Francisco Chronicle est.
mates the value Of last seasons fruit crop
in California at S2,000,000.
The United States has $4,000 miles
of telegraph. No other nation has half
as many.
There are millions of grasshoppers in
Green County, Pa, that get up every time
the sun shines.
kentucky publishes nine dailies,
elghtyslx weeklies and sixteen month
lies-11l in all.
The Railroad Commissioners of Con
necticut have just made their annual re-
port, from which it appears that there are
twenty-five railroad corporations in the
State, owning 1864 miles of road, of
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these only 1913 miles are within the limits
Of the State.
DR. Shaw, in collecting material for
the centennial, has ascertained that there
are in Iowa 456 Methodist clergymen. 200
Presbyterian, 225 Baptist, 1913 Congrega-
tlonal, III Catholic, 80 Catholic clerical
students, $50 common schools, 90
colleges, POS seminaries, 10S private
schools, 1000 Oranges, 1000 agricultural
clubs, 400 Masonic lodges, $50 Odd Eel
lows lodges and 300 Good Templar
organizations.
The annual report of Horatio Sey.
mour, Edward M. Smith and Robert 3.
Roosevelt, Commissioners of Fisheries of
the State of New York, has just been pub
lished, illustrated with engravings show
ing the processes commonly employed in
plsclculture. The most successful eX-
perlments were made with shad, of which
more than 100000 were successfully
Matched and turned loose, the greater part
in the Hudson River.
p. T. Quin, in a recent address at
Trenton, n. j., gives the strawberry crop
of New Jersey at 100000 quarts in favor
able seasons, worth at Is cents per quart
100000; blackberries, raspberries and
grapes, about as much more; and he est.
mates the cranberry crop at 1875 900
bushels of sound fruit worth about $780,
000), and more than half the entire crop
Of the country, and bringing into use
thousands of acres of swamp lands which
could not otherwise be employed.
The total value OF dry goods imported
into New York during the month of April
amounted to $S,505,35 AS compared
with corresponding periods in former
years there is decline of %94, 4S0 in com
parison with April, 1873; of S2,726, 1856 as
compared with 1872, aud of $2,557, l0S in
1871. The Total importations of dry
goods during the first four months Of the
present year amounted to SAB, 42l ,942
against $53 1913, sol in the corresponding
period last year; $G3, 110,203 in 1872, and
1853, 255, 3Sl in 1871.
The Third National Tournament of
Chess-Players is to be held in Chicago,
beginning on July 7, 1874, and ter.
mlnating on July 20, or as soon after as
convenient and possible. The Chicago
Chess Club has undertaken 10 make all
necessary arrangements TO accommodate
those who may desire to participate. The
programme cOntempates Grand and a
Minor Tournament-th former composed
of acknowledged first-class players, receiv-
ing no odds from any other player. The
latter will comprise such players as may
choose to enter the lists, and who are in
the habit OF receiving the odds Of at least
pawn and move from first. class players.
Prizes will be given to successful com
petitors in each class. The entrance fee
to the Grand Tournament has been fixed
at $50, and to the Minor Tournament at
$40. Each contributor to the general
fund to the amount of So will be entitled
to a copy of the book of the Congress. A
copy of the rules and regulations adopted
by the committee, and other information
desirable to intending participants, can
be obtained by addressing Albert w.
Giles, Secretary and Treasurer, ia East
Madison street, Chicago, III.