Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-09
FACTS AND FIGURES.

There are fifty-seven lodges of Odd
Fellows in California, with total mem
bership of 3015
Portsmouth, Ohio, completes with the
POrkopOlis in packing annually 81, 100000
worth of pig-iron.
Two hundred and forty acres of land,
with improvements, two miles from Lake
City, Fla, lately sold for ten cents an
acre.
Small as is Rhode Island there are
213,277 acres of unimproved land within
its borders, of which 169,399 acres are
woodland.
Summers death cost Massachusetts,
SAC, 900, and the expenditures were made
on such an account that men feel delicate
about questioning them.
Half dozen Cinnamon arrived at
Virginia, New, recently, from Reno, hav-
ing walked on the railroad track 325
miles in seventeen days.
In New Hapshire there are sixty-four
savings banks, having 92,7SS depositors
| The aggregate amount of deposits is now
$2S,S29,376.73, being an increase of
1858, 835, So the past year.
The Iowa State Agricultural Society
offers premium of $1,000 for the best
ten acres of artificial timber, payable in
1881; also $500 for the best cultivated
farm, payable in 1875; $3.50, payable in
1878, for the best orchard of five acres !;
and 5000 for the best mile of hedge, pay
able in 1877.
The tremendous powers Of water are
nowhere more wonderfully illustrated
than in the sublime canyons of our far
Western States and Territories. There is
the great canyon of Colorado, for in
stance, 299 miles long, and with sides
rising perpendicularly to height of
from 5000 to 5000 feet All this vast
incision was cut by the waters in their
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The mileage of the railroads of the
! Western States for 1878 was 32,973 miles,
| against 2S,77S for 1872. Their cost was
$1,730, TBS, 224, against S1,472, 625, 232 for
| 1872, and was made up of $846, 1888, All of
share capital and 1888, 794, S13 of debt
| Their average cost per mile was S52, 490,
against $50,55S for 1872. Their gross
earnings were $211, 717,7 81, against $1S3,-
626,252 for 1872. Of these $51, 1920, 779
were received for the transportation of
! freight and $3.50, 096, 002 for that of
passengers. The percentage Of gross
earnings to the cost Of the roads was
| 1928. The net earnings were S72 ,464,
PIP, and equaled 4.19 per cent. of such
cost. The earnings per head OF popula-
ton equaled $1433, against S1376 for
1872 The dividends paid amounted to
S19,055, PAT, and equaled 2.25 per cent. on
! the share capital of the roads. The ra
! ito OF total mileage to population was
one to 406, against one to 433 for 1872.
We are composed of 206 bones, not
! including the teeth; to which are at
! tached about 600 pairs of muscles, not
! including millions Of miCroscOpical ones,
which are found in the skin and else
where. These muscles and bones illus
/ trate every form of lever power; one
! pair even working through as nice pull
! ley as a ships carpenter could construct.
! The sweat-tubes that penetrate the skin
/ in all parts of the body would, if
! stretched out, form tiny aqueduct %
! miles long; the air which we take into
our lungs comes into contact with about
1,4OO square feet of a delicate, vascular
membrane, by which means it is thor
ouglhly oxygenated and decar63onized;
while the food, which is to replace our
eveT-decaying tissues, after being di
gested by the aid of five different solv-
ents, is greedily sucked up by over OOO,-
600 hungry little mouths. Our heart
is powerful, plucky little force-pump;
sending the blood bounding through the
arteries and receiving it again from the
veins at the average rate OF 1OO,800
strokes per day; 36,792,000 a year and
Al $50, 900 times in a life of forty years
more than we could count in the same
time if allowed the regular time, eight
hours per day.