Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-06-18
FACTS AND FIGURES.

-Base.b costs the country S5,000,o00
year.
Six per cent. of the population of Ohio
is German.
Ninety nuptial knots were twisted in
Baltimore in one week.
An Indiana man is III years old and
has voted 12j times
Not less than 100 women have entered
the medical profession this year.
The public debt of Connecticut has
been reduced $201, $40 during the past
year.
-Seventy-two steamboats, are engaged
in towing lumber on the upper Missis-
sippi
This years maplesugar yield in Yer
mont is estimated at $4,000, 900 pounds,
worth $l,500,00O.
The collection of Chinese coins in
the museum of the Paris mint consists of
nearly 800 specimens, some gold and sill
yer. Some of the pieces date from ], 7eO
years before Christ.
The artesian well of the National
Rubber Works at Bristol, r. L., has been
bored upward of 600 feet through solid
granite, and is not yet finished Only a
small supply of water has been obtained.
A farmer in Chester County, Pa, sold
from thirty hens in 1873 eggs and chick,
ems amounting to $43O1S The cost of
feed and commissions for selling amount
ed to $16l.o4 leaving net prolt OF
. $26S.94.
Chief State Engineer Thomson, of
Louisiana, writes to Gov. kellogg
that 100000 cubic yards of levee is re-
ouired to be built to save the State from
overflow next year, and that Louisiana
cannot pay Tor the construction OF more
than onethlrd.
The New York Central Railroad Com
pany has leased large tract OF land at
the junction of SiXtleth street and the
Hudson River, New York, upon which they
will erect extensive docks, tracks and
other conveniences, together with grain
elevator capable of handling 1850, 900
bushels OF grain.
The census Just taken shows the pop
uIation OF Providence, II. l., to be 80 593.
The prolonged suspension Of work at the
dclane mills diminished the population
about 1000. The old city has gained
1850, or 2211 per cent, in four years, and
10 100 have recently been annexed from
North Providence.
"A novelty, is the handsome 81 so
field Croquet Set that the Excelsior Mag
aztne is giving to new subscribers for 80
cents, through "a special arrangement with
a large manufacturing company. They
furnish sample copies of the Magazine for
% cents, from their office, Room SO, No.
157 La Sale ST., Chicago, Ill.
For the fiscal year ending June 80
Il 1
States and Territories 5000, 1853 gallons of
fermented liquors, and during the follow
ing wear 500 1923 gallons. In 1873 there
were 3 554 breweries in the United States,
against 3,421 the previous year. OF these
PENNSYLVANIA had 800, New York 4,S11,
Ohio 296, Wisconsin 300 and Massachu-
sets 40.
james Lick, of San Francisco, has
recently disposed of his property in the
following manner: He donates 500, 900
to the construction OF the largest and best
telescope in the world for the observatory
at Lake Tahoe; $4,000 for public mon
uments $150,000 for public baths in that
city; 100000 for the OLD Ladies' Home !;
$4,000 to the Society for the Protection
of Animals; 5000 to the Ladies' Pro
lection and Relief Society; $4,000 to the
Mechanics Library and Protestant Or
phan Asylum; $25, 5000 to the city of san
Jose for an orphan asylum; $25, 100 for
the erection Of bronze monument to the
author of the Star Spangled Banner" in
Golden Gate Park; $500, 600 for the en-
dowment of the School of Mechanical
Arts of California, and the residue in
excess OF 81 $50, 900 to the Pioneers So
ciety. He makes ample provision for rel
atives, and reserves his homestead and
$4,000 per annum for himself while liv-
ing.