Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-09-10
FACTS AND FIGURES.

! Switzerland is a little, cramped-uT
I country, but she sent US during the month
/ of June over 4 million and half francs
worth of silk ribbons, watches and
/ cheese.
/ All the Irish railways together do
/ not exceed 1000 miles, yet there are
/ fifty-six companies, each with an average
i length of forty-three miles They are
/ managed BY no fewer than 400 directors
! and the solicitors, engineers and officers
are innumerable.
/ Vermont shows pretty good fnan-
| cial record for the past year Its assets are
/ S411. 4S7, and liabilities 1886, $50, leaving
a balance of nearly S23,0OO; but last
! year at this time there was balance of
/ $4,000 on liabilities over assets, so the
State is S13S, 659 better of than it was
then.
Public Investigation in France shows
that infants 'nursed out" in that coun-
! try are nursed out of the world at the
rate of eightv-two to eighty-seven in a
hundred The implement used in this
slaughter is an ordinary baby's bottle,
which the farmers" scrupulously avoid
washing.
Last wear Minneapolis, Mimi, man
ufactured three and a quarter million
barrels of -four, nearly two hundred
million feet of lumber, one hundred and
fifteen million shingles, and thirty
three million laths, besides carrying on
many other branches Of manufacture
Twenty years ago there was but one
house in Minneapolis.
In the longevity Of its inhabitants
Williston, VT, claims to be the banner
town of the State. 1t has population
of l, Al, of whom POI are sixty years of
age and over; AS sixty-fve and over;
ninety seventy and over; siXty-one sew
enty-four and over; twenty nine eighty
and over; six eighty-1ve and over, and
three ninety and over.
The agricultural triumphS which
have been achieved in Nebraska are the
work of little more than ten years, and
as the country is settled and the posi-
ton Of the farmer becomes easier wheat
ranks higher among the crops Of the
country. In 1860, when the population
was $4,000, the wheat crop amounted to
141, S67 bushels, or about 81 bushels per
head; and in 1870, when the population
was 122 900, the wheat crop was :, 125, 0S6
bushels, or little under Il! bushels per
head.
South Carolina has given $4,000 to
Washington and Lee University, and eX-
poets to make up her stated moiety-
S50,000-of the endowment. Kentucky
has already given $4,000 for the chair
of history and political economy; Lou
isiana $4,000 for the chair Of modern
languages; Texas $50, 600 for the chair of
applied mathematics; and Virginia has
also contributed $25, 900. Each of these
States is to give the amount of $4,000.
Missouri has nearly completed her en-
dowment of $4,000 for the chair of
applied chemistry.
In the last twenty years the product
of butter and cheese in the United States
has been more than doubled. Last
year it amounted to 650,000,000 pounds
of butter and 2O0,OOO,0 900 pounds of
cheese, Of which more than One-fOurth
of the butter and nearly one-half of the
cheese were made by the State of New
York. The cheese factories number
about 1000, employ about $4,000, 900 cap
ital, and use the milk of three-fourths of
a million COWS. The american Grocer
states that the production this year is
likely to greatly exceed that of last year,
but does not believe that the production
will even exceed the demand. The
cheapening and improvement of butter
and cheese by artificial means will tend
rather to overstock the market.