Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-30
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Twins are said to be on the increase
al over the country.
-Tenyile, Ga, has shipped S,203 bales
Of cotton this season.
california produces lemons weighing
tventv-four ounces apiece.
1t took a Bishop and four clergymen
to marry young lady lately.
The members of the Fat Mems Soci-
e,y naturally belong to the ton.
There are 100 persons in Griggsville,
ILL.,, over seventy years of age.
six Young ladies are announced to be
Studying for the bar in London.
Not less than 100 women have en-
tered the medical profession this year.
An engine on the p. & II. r. r.
weighs sixty tons. Largest in the world.
-Ihe Bingham Canyon Railroad is
shining forty carloads of ore per
day.
On the 18th of October, 1882, the
cornerstone of the White House was
laid.
--Seventy-two steamboats, are engaged
in towing lumber on the upper Missis-
sippi.
1t takes forty-four big strawberry
short cakes to go around in Vassar Col
lege.
- In 1860 the population of lndianapo
lis was $4,000; it is pow estimated at So
600
Eighty thousand dollars are going
into the milling business in Wichita,
Kan.
A woman in Waynesburg Pa, is
reading the Bible throughlfor the forty
eighth time.
There are about 5000 children in the
State of Indiana over ten years of age
who cannot read.
"A Philadelphia boy ran half mile
at Norristown, recently, in two minutes
and fourteen seconds.
Since 1864 tie University Press at
Cambridge has produced 1000 tons of
Websters Dictionary.
Maine has in her State Prison 142
convicts, of whom fourteen are under
sentence for murder.
Some mathematician in Elberton
County, Ga, has found out thai 1876
grains of wheat can be produced from
one grain,
In the last five months one firm in
st. Marys, Fla, has shipped ,22l All feet
OF lumber to domestic ports, and D, lac, 523
feet to foreign ports.
"A Mr. Mahin, of New Castle, Del,
has thirty five colonies of Italian bees,
from one Of which he recently took
seventy-fve pounds of honey.
There were erected in Cincinnati last
year $50 new buildings, valued at $l,311,-
53S. There were erected in Toledo during
the same period 6S5 buildings, valued at
s. 600.
Arthur Stuart, of Logansport, Ind,
oratory at Amherst College, Mass, re-
Gently. This is the second prize he has
taken for oratory.
One hundred and thirty volumes Of
standard English law books have lately
been added to the Illinois State Library
which has full set of the English
statutes, and altogether one of the very
best collections of English literature in
this country. The addition cost 81, 200
Joseph Arch proposes to bring over
n 600 English laborers and let them
know what liberty is, but Joseph had bet
ter make arrangements for their brei d
and butter before they land. Three
square miles of freedom won't go as far
as sandwich to hungry man.-De-
troit Free Press.
Somebody has been summing up the
fate of kings and emperors, as follows
Out of 2,54O emperors or kings over "a
nations, 800 were dethroned, "a abdicat
ed 20 committed suicide, II went mad,
100 died on the battlefield, 1913 were
made prisoners, % were pronounced
martyrs and saints, 151 were assassinat-
ed, 62 were poisoned, and l0S were SEN
fenced to death. Total, 1858