Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-08
FACTS AND FIGURES.

TAC1S AND ElUUhESs
Mexico, in thirty-seven years, had
| fifty-six Presidents.
Poland has had 81, $50 cases of cholera
this year, and Prussia 1924.
Statistics show that during the year
1878, 1854 emigrants have settled in
Iowa.
The national debt of Italy has reach
| ed the respectable amount Of $S07,472
920.
The twelve Rothschilds are now esti-
mated to be worth nine hundred and forty
millions.
The Unitarians have never given
| birth to a composer Of music, nor have
the Quakers.
The lovers of stale bread are recon-
mended to try that found at POmpe;i,
about / 800 years old.
There were shipped last year from
| California to England 204, 342 barrels of
flour, valued at 81 ,257,z 59.
Great Britain pays out $1,515,69
annually to the descendants Of persons
who have rendered the State great SER
vice.
The total shipments of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal for 1878, show a
| falling off, compared with 1872, of 1926
| tons.
Dinners are again being supplied in
| London to poor children at two cents per
head. Last winter the number of dinners
| given on this plan was 104 1856.
1t is expected that from twenty to
! thirty steamers will leave New York for
| Europe every week next summer. The
ocean ferry traffic is increasing astonish-
ingly.
The London Times estimates that IA
| 100000 bushels of wheat will be required
from this country to supply the markets
of Europe until the crop of 1874 is har-
vested
Louisiana has become the banner cot
ton State, producing this year 100000 of
the 100000 bales raised in all the South.
| To accomplish this the cultivation of
sugar has been largely abandoned.
| Quite a number of men in Newbury-
port are employed in catching frogs for
the Boston frog eaters. One man has taken
1000 and another 600, this season. They
are kept in tubs and fatted with meal, and
shipped to order.
The number of pounds of cheese
made in Trumbull County, Ohio, the past
year, according to returns, was 5, 116,258.
Lorain exceeds that by over 1000, 600
pounds. Trumbull County produced
over 100000 pounds of butter.
-Pennsylvania's annual production of
| minerals nearly equals that OF all the
other States and Territories put together.
In the last year, reported by census, her
mines yielded 76,207 1865 worth OF min
erals, and all the rest of the country,
86,390,604 worth.
The railways in Great Britain, &C
cording to an English engineering jour
nal, are 1854 miles in total length OF
this 1912 miles are double track. The
cost of these English roads foots up a
total of $780, 100000. In the United
States, in 1870, there were $1,000 miles of
railway, which cost $780, 100000. So
that the average cost of construction here
is only matter of $4,000 per mile, to
$160,O00 in England.
1t is estimated that the number of
railroad ties in present use in the United
States is 100000, 600. A cut Of 300 ties to
the acre is above rather than under the
| averae e, and it therefore has required the
product of $50, 600 acres Of well-tim bered
land to furnish the supply. Railroad ties
last about five years; consequently 3d.
! 100000 ties are used annually for repairs,
taking the timber from 10000 acres.
The manufacture of rolling stock. dis
| poses ofthe entire yield Of350, 900 acres, and
full supply of 500, 900 acres more every
year. 1t appears, then, that our railroads
are stripping the country at the rate Of
| 1000, 600 acres per annum, and their de-
mands are rapidly increasing.
Here is the pro gress of cooperation
in Germany: In 1860 there were so sOcie-
ties, with 1856 members, who had on
loan, 4,131, 1876 thalers; share capital
| 246,001 thalers, and in 1870 these figures
had risen to 40 societies, 314,656 mem
bers, 207618,2S7 thalers lent, and the
share capital had risen to 13,440,1
| thalers. Even during the Franco-German
war, the number of cooperative banks
| increased by 121, and 112 new stores were
! opened, while 9 manufacturing societies
were established The business done by
| all these societies in 1870 amounted to
$50, 100000 thalers. The paid-up capital
was 100000, and the loan capital
| 100000. The number of co-operatOrs
now in Germany exceeds 100000
Among the trading associations there are
| of shoemakers, 65; agriculturists, 43;
| tailors, 81: cabinet-makers, "a; smiths, s;
weavers, 5; book-bin lers, 4 glove manu-
facturers, 2; carpenters, 2; basketmakers,
2; house painters, L millers, 1 cloth
| makers, 1; sewing 2; booking
establishments, l house building estab
lishments, 8; and they appear to make
most progress in cooperation just where
we make least.