Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-03-26
FACTS AND FIGURES.

FAClS AMI V1UOASAACs ~
Pennsylvania is valued at seven thou
i and millions.
New buildings valued at $32 100000
core erected last year in New York city.
The Hudson River has yielded only
N o(l] tons of ice this season, against
100000 tons last year
The total receipts of domestic wool
Il, ,he port of Boston in 1S13-221, l59
t'1ss-is an increase of 63,41S bales over
The number of school children in
aobo is 3, 1896, against 1900 last year.
rhe school moneys amount to 81, S54.41,
4 rainst s3,627. 10 in 1872.
census of Galveston, Tex, just
d omnleted, shows 34,350 inhabitants, not
3nrIuding the floating population, an in
8rease of over 10000 in three years.
4 The largest tree in Brookline, N. H.,
4 oS inst been cut and sawed. 1t was
kine 1870 years old. The first log, IL feet
made 800 feet of inch boards; the
shoe tree, 1917 feet.
The deposits in the MASSACHUSETTS,
ssyings banks increased from $lo4,797,-
Il % in 1872 to 500, O62, 1856. SO in 1878,
H. more than $4,000, 600. The increase
H. the number of depositors was about q
Ker cent.
4 The number of deaths from accidents
m New York city, according to the Stats
HIS of the Coroner's Office, during the
East year has been S62, of which no
lever than 1876 were caused by the vic
Aims having been run over by cars OF va
4ous descriptions. Steam cars within
she city limits killed thirty-six.
An average Atlantic steamer con-
Rumes 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
kOOO square miles; with apparently mex
haustible copper and iron stores; with
cad and silver mines; with 2O,OOO,OOO Of
here's of cotton bearing land, and with
AGRICULTURAL resources equal to those OF
Any State in the Union, Texas can enter
&lpon her new career confidently and JOY
fusly.
1t is stated that financially the Massa-
6husetts Agricultural College does not
Nav its way. From the State fund of
|k233, 1888 33 there is an annual income OF
$4,000, and the receipts for tuition and
Room rent increase the income to $4,000
Der annum. Over against this there is
bet an annual expenditure of $4,000,
leaving deficit of 5000 to be made
good by further endowment, by contribu.
aiOns from private citizens, or by special
appropriation by the Legislature. OF
R34 young men who have been connected
with it since it's establishment about
&eventy 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
ayorite 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
inc months annually, and that all the
English branches are taught, including
Geometry, rhetoric, etc. that there are
Borty-four native teachers and twenty-five
6ale-faces; that they have one orphans
School, and ninety inmates; one female
Righ school, presided over by a teacher
from Mt. Holyoke, Mass, and one Mora
! ian missionary school. These schools
pave been supported by the United States
8Or thirty-five years past, or since their
formation, and about $4,000 is now ap-
3,ropriated by Congress annually to sus-
Pain them. The Superintendent thinks
4hat the Nation will in time support the
Schools without the aid from Government,