Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-15
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The cost per scholar on total expen
d;,ures in the Richmond (Va.) public
schools is $lo.oo
The average of personal property
nor capita in the State of Illinois is as
rertained to be $l0503, and OF all prop
erty S436 per capita.
English railway companies killed
forty passengers last year out OF 400, 900,
600 and one employee of every 1913
There were two accidents to every three
DAYS. and more than half of those were
collisions. Only five of the accidents
resulted from unavoidable causes.
The German Emigrant Society re.
ports that l,779 Germans have arrived
in New York since the LIST OF January
last. The number for the first eight
months of 1878 was 70, 724, showing a
falling off this year of more than 81 per
cent.
-Four thousand four hundred and
seventy-four new depositors have ca
tered their names on the books q the
Boston Five Cents Savings Bank within
the last five months, making the whole
number of accounts now open OF, 400 and
the amount on deposit 81 1855, $780, "a.
The annual supply of copper from
the whole of the civilized world is esti-
mated at between $4,000 and 1870, 0e0
tons. The annual tin supply is stated at
from $4,000 to 5000 tons. These esti-
mates are made by leading English
house engaged in the tin and copper
trades.
The number of horses in Iowa by the
enumeration of 1874 is SCI, 263--a gain
since 1873 of 1921. Mules, 33,325-a
gain since 1878 of 1926. Sheep, 410, O14--a
loss since 1878 of 53,115. The total value
of live stock of all kind sthis year is $39,-
061 ,2S6-a gain since 1878 of $3.50, 1872.
The banner county as to horses is Linn,
1892; next, Clinton, 1924; Jasper, H.
III; Benton, 11,726; Johnson, 1867;
Dubuque, 1885. The banner county
for sheep is Van Buren,, "a ,136; Mahaska,
81 ,535; and ten other counties have be-
tween 10 600 and 10000.
We get some idea of the vastness of
our country from the statistics furnished
by Mr.. Dodge, of the Department of
Agriculture Less than one-tifth OF the
entire area of the United States is
mapped int farms, and only one-foHth
of this farm area is TILED or moved.
Heavy as our wheat crop is, it occupies
surface less than the area of South
Carolina. Our national crop, maize,
covers a territory not larger than Nir-
ginia, and the potato crop could grow in
less than the area of Delaware. The
country is capable of producing food
for the support of a population almost
without number There seems to be no
danger of our being oyercrowded for
centuries.
An able statistician has with in
finite labor, compiled table whereby
the changes and chances which may
occur in game of poker may be told at
a glance For instance, 2,59S, $50 differ
cnt hands can be dealt with pack of
cards; 1902, $40 will contain less than a
pair, and 1896, 420 one pair or more. The
latter hands divide into / ,09S, 240 of one
pair, 34,9l2 of threes, 125,532 of two
pairs, 10000 straights, 5,105 Pushes, 3,774
fulls, 624 tours, and forty straight Pushes
With this table in one hand and your
cards in the other it will take very
smart man to get the best of you III
little game of draw. If in the course of
64,974 deals your adversary holds two
straight Pushes, a look at the table will
convince you that something is wrong,
and if fours are played on you more
than once in 4,162, instead of drawing
your cards, draw your revolver and
"call" for the police, and when they
take him you take the pool.-N. Y. San.
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DYSPEPSIA arises from a great variety
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