Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-09-03
FACTS ANB FIGURES.

The assessed value OF TAllrOau prop
ertv in Mississippi is $53, Ago, 900.
A steamer on the Hudson made
twenty-eight miles in an hour recently.
The cistern of new hotel in San
Francisco is to hold 100000 gallons.
About lO,25O persons visited the
house in which Shakespeare was born,
last year.
OF 9OS births in the city of Hartford,
Conn, during the year 1878, 702 were OF
Irish parentage.
The internal revenue receipts for
the month of July were million dollars
larger than for the corresponding month
last year.
The Michigan Central Railroad
earned over $S5, 900 more in the year
ending June 80, 1874, than in the year
previous
New England lost by fire during
July property valued at $974,S50 Rhode
Island was the largest loser, her losses
amounting to $72S, 800.
The total amount of borrowed money
upon which American railways have de-
faulted during the past fiscal year in
paying interest was 1886, 300, 6oS.
The valuation of Iowa has been fixed
at $272, 1914, 534, and the tax two mills on
the dollar, aggregating $745, 5S0-an in
crease of $7,341 over the tax OF 1873.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad shipped 1928 cattle for the
six months ending July 30, against
1905 for the corresponding period Of last
year.
In 1857 Russialhad 800 miles of rail
road; now she has more than IL, 900 miles,
showing growth almost equal to that
which has characterized American rail-
roads.
An effort is now being made to divide
the State of Nebraska into two States, to
be called North Platte and Nebraska,
and which shall have population OF
$1,000 and 100000 respectively.
The Earl of Rose estimates the
heat from the moon as the 50, 0O0ths part
of that from the sun. Bonger's expert
ments give the brilliancy of the full
moon as the 3O0,0OOths part of that of
the sun; Wollaston gives it as SO,172d,
Zollnes as from 61S, 0O0th to 619,OO0th,
and Bond as the 470, OSSth. The maximum
of the lunar heat appears to be little
before full moon.
Americans are reading people, as
in period of thirty days there were sent
through the Postottice Is, 206 books from
New York, 1888 from Philadelphia,
$3.50 from Boston and 1895 from Chica-
90, not to mention smaller numbers from
other cities During the same period OF
time also 319,330 transient newspapers
were sent from the New York Postotfice,
239,066 from Philadelphia, 1916, 039 from
Boston and 146,942 from Chicago.
I'm an ordinary piano there are fif-
teen kinds of wood, namely: Pine, ma
pie, spruce, cherry, walnut, whitewoOd,
ony, holly, cedar, beech and rosewood,
from Honduras, Ceylon, England and
South America There are used of the
metals, iron, steel, brass, white metal,
gun metal and lead There are in an in
strument of seven and half octaves PA
strings, making total length of 1877 feet.
Such piano will weigh from 600 to 900
pounds.
According to London correspond
ent the estimated value of all the dia-
monds which have been discovered at
the diamond fields of South Africa dur
ing the last three years does not fall far
short of e10,0O0,000. Many of the gems
are of inferior quality, that is to say, of
yelowish color. The largest pure
white stone weighed between seventy
and eighty karats, and the largest off
colored" 1881 karats. 1t is right to add
that large gems are by no means excep-
tonal, the discovery of stones weighing
from forty to eighty karats being COM
mon enough AS is well known, the
value of the diamonds in the European
market has been greatly deprecated by
the enormous quantity exported to this
part of the world from the Cape, but the
prices of colored stones have been more
affected than those of the purer qualities.