Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The Central Pacific Railway ac-
knowledges to bonded debt of $751;
133, 948.30. Its assets foot up 1882, $40,
1882
"A mathematical professor in a Sacra-
mento high school calculates that if each
mosquito and gnat in that city should in
one night obtain One-tenth of a drop OF
human blood for supper every person in
the town would be dead in the morning.
The earnings of the Toledo, Wabash
Western Railway for the second week
IN July, 1874 were $78, III; 1873, S92, 933
decrease S14,216, or 154 per cent. The
decrease in the earnings of the St. Louis
d Southern Railway for the same period
was 15f per cent.
Prof Loomis, OF Yale College, has
published the results of his examination
of the meteorological tables which have
been carefully preserved at Yale College
for ninety-siX consecutive years, and
proves that November of 1873 and April
of 1874 were the coolest months of their
names in ninety-six years.
From 1851 to 1861, 10, 600 sheep were
slaughtered by dogs in Connecticut, and
New Haven County has been almost de-
populated Only a few years since
lambs were plenty in the market at ten
cents pound, but now enough for the
demand cannot be procured within a ra-
dius of many miles from the city. Hun
dreds Of acres are going to waste that
might be devoted to the pasturage of
sheep if it were not for the dOgS.-NeC
H0Ue1o PdHadium.
The commerce of the Connecticut
River is of good deal more importance
than most people think, as will DC seen
from the following figures: During the
nine months of navigation last wear
there arrived at Hartford POI vessels, of
which 800 were sailing craft and barges
with freight, these latter classes bring
ing $4,000 tOns-of which 1872 900 were
OF coal-while there was also received at
the Hartford docks 100000 feet of
lumber. The line of propellers, semi
weekly, between Hartford and Philadel-
phia brought $4,000 tons, which, added
to the freights brought by the daily line
of steamers, makes in the aggregate over
$4,000 tons Of freight received during
the season.
The United States raises annually
about 150,000000 bushels OF potatoes,
representing money value OF about
100000, coo. Twenty-Five per cent. OF
the potato is solid, dry substance, and OF
this 625 per cent. Is SUarCn. One nun
dred and fifty bushels of potatoes, which
may be raised as easily as twenty bush
els of wheat, contain 2 ,250pOunds of dry,
nutritive substance. The twenty bush
els Of wheat would contain only 1,044
pounds of dry substance, of which go
per cent is starch, and. as starch is the
material in living bodies which furnishes
nutrition to the respiratory processes
and fat to the tissues, for these purposes
a crop Of potatoes is worth double a crop
of wheat
The closest estimate now gives to
Texas over $500, 900 head of cattle. OF
these there are $4,000 beeves, 100000
COWS and 100000 young cattle.
There are annually raised and
branded, 100000 calves. New York
State, with 4,000,00 inhabitants, has but
GAS, 900 oxen and stock cattle; Pennsyl-
vania, with over 100000 inhabitants,
has ri 900 cattle; Ohio, with 100000
people, has $4,000 cattle; Illinois, with
100000 people, has S67 00G cattle; Iowa,
with 100000 people, has Csc, 600 cattle ;
while Texas, behind all the rest, and
with only 600,00 people, has her $780,
600 head of cattle, and yields as many
head per year rs the entire stock Of Hi
DOiS or New York