Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-08-27
FACTS AND FIGURES.

IT costs the New York Herald $3.50
every Sunday for that special newspaper
train to Saratoga.
The number of cans of peaches
hacked last year Appropriated about 49,
60O 600 tomatoes 100000 and corn
from 100000 to 100000.
The San Francisco mint turns out co.
600 trade dollars day. Large numbers OF
them are to be sent to China, where they
are said to be supplanting the Mexican
dollar in Celestial favor.
The statement of the sugar crop OF
the island of Cuba for past years shows
that 1858 per cent of the total exports OF
sugar and molasses went to the United
States or was taken by the United States.
The commerce of Boston seems to
he steadily decreasing. The exports
from that port during the month of May
amounted to only $3,023,251 against 49,
544,307 in May, 1878
A young gentleman eighteen years
of age, seven feet high, four feet across
the shou ders and weighing 500 pounds,
was walking about the streets OF Cincin-
natl recently, attracting the attention OF
all he met and leaving behind him a
long string of wonderingpeo He did
not appear to feel bigger than anyone
else
The total number of schools in Cali
fornia is 1000; the total receipts for
school purposes, $3,O00,000 The average
monthly wages paid to male teachers is
$S5; to female teachers $65. Number
of persons between five and fifteen years
1000
During the month of March there
were sold by two railroads only in the
States of Iowa and Nebraska 10, 600 acres
of land to actual settlers, for the sum OF
$I340O0 The total sales of the Union
Pacific and Burlington & Missouri up to
April were $50, 292 acres, for the sum
of s., 100 204, mostly within the short
space of three years.
Washington Market pays the city of
New York 100000 year. The annual
business done in it is about 500, 100000.
There are AGO stands, of which meat oc-
Cupies IT'S, butter and vegetables sixty,
oysters and hens fifty. A stand measures
seven feet by four, is held at the pleas
ure Of the Comptroller and with the
premium is sometimes valued at $4,000
year.
"A statistical table in the Boston Id
of each United States Senator from Mas
sachusetts since the foundation of the
Government, shows that the State be-
lieves in several terms for public SER
wants when they do their duty. Charles
Sumner served altogether as United
| States Senator twenty-three years, Daniel
| Webster nineteen years and half, Henry
Wilson eighteen years and quarter,
Honest John Davis fourteen years, and
so on.
An investigation made by Berlin
physician of the data relating to human
longevity, shows the average age OF cler-
gymen to be 65; of merchants, 90; clerks
yers, So, artists, 81, and medical men, SO.
The medium duration of life in Russia is
about 81 years; in Prussia, 90 in Swift
Zerland, "a; in France, 35; in Belgium, 36;
in England, 49, Medical men stand high
in the scale of longevity OF twenty-eight
physicians who died there last year, the
youngest was so, the Oldest 90; two 9th
ers were 90 and 80 respectively; three
were 81, and four were SO each.
"A report of the census taken in Scot
land in 1871 has been issued. Of the
1850, O1S, which is the total population
of Scotland, it appears that | ,46S, $50 fol
lowed occupations of some kind. The
professional class, during the same period
has increased by 81, 773, its total number
being 114,694. In the agricultural class,
however, there was the marked decline
of 1902 $50, the total number now being
0O8, instead of $4,000, as in 1861.
This fact, says the report, fully bears
out the conclusion we have arrived at,
that the prosperity of our country is
every year becoming more and more de-
pendent on the prosperity of our COM
mercial, manufacturing and mining in
dustries."