Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-09
FACTS AND FIGURES.

There are fifty lodges of Ode
Fellows in California, with total mem
bership of 3,Ol5.
Portsmouth, Ohio, ccmpetes with the
Porkopolis in packing annually 81 900, OOt
worth of pig-iron.
Two hundred and forty acres of land
with improvements, two miles from Lake
City, Fla, lately sold for ten cents al
acre.
Small as is Rhode Island there are
213,27T acres of unimproved land within
its borders, of which 1863, 1893 acres are
woodland.
Summers death cost Massachusetts
$4,000 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, hay
Ing walked on the railroad track 32j
miles in seventeen days.
In New Hapshire there are sixtyfouT
savings banks, having 92,7SS dcpositors.
The aggregate amount of deposits is now
$2S,S29, 1858, being an increase of
1868, S35. IS 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
1873, for the best orchard of five acres
and 5000 for the best mile of hedge, pay
able in 1877.
The Connecticut Labor Bureau, which
came into existence about eight months
ago, reports that there are 5,l2S manufac-
tories in the State, employing as laborers
81 6S4 men, 20,Sl0 women and 1929 boys
and girls. The capital is $95,2Sl ,27S,
wages x3S 1897, 1877, the materials worked
up being worth $S6,419,579 and the prod
ucts turned out 1851 ,O65,474
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, 29S miles long, and with sides
rising pcrpendicularly to height of
from 5000 to 5000 feet All this vast
incision was cut by the waters in their
mighty course through the hardest rock,
The Excelsior Magazine" one of
the choicest and most artistic of month
lies, is published at $3.50 "a year New
subscribers are offered a $3.50 field GRO
quet set and the magazine for $40, only
80 cents additional. A handsomely-illu
trated Fashion and Etiquette supplement
goes with it. Rare inducements to get
ters-up of clubs in money or premiums.
Sample copies 25 cents. Office, Room 50,
No. l51 La Sale street, Chicago, Ill.
The mileage of the railroads of the
Western States for 1873 was %, 973 miles,
against %, rs for 1872 Their cost was
$l,73O, 12S PA, against S1,412, $685. 32 for
1872, and was made up of SS46, 1913, All of
share capital and 1888, 794,S13 of debt.
Their average cost per mile was S52 400,
against S50,55S for 1872 Their gross
earnings were $2l1,71T7Sl, against $lS3,
S26,252 for 1872. OF these SOL $40, 10
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
ton equaled S1433, against Sl3.16 for
$l9,055,247 and equaled 2.25 per cent. on
the share capital of the roads. The ra-
ito of total mileage to population was
cli' w tOo' against 'lt w foo lOl 1919
We are composed of 206 bones, not
including the teeth; to which are at
tached about 500 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 a pull
ley as ships carpenter could construct.
The sWcat-tubes that penetrate the skin
in all parts of the body would, if
stretched out, form a tiny aqueduct 2S
miles long; the air which we take into
our lungs comes into contact with about
400 square feet of a delicate, vascular
membrane, by which means it is thor
Oughly oXygenated and decarbonized
while the food, which is to replace our
eyG-decaying tissues, after being di-
gested by the aid of five different solv-
ents, is greedily sucked up by over 4, 000,-
600 hungry little mouths Our heart
is a powerful, plucky little force-pump
sending the blood bounding through the
arteries and receiving it again from the
veins at the average rate of 100, SOC
strokes per day; 36, 1872 900 "a year and
l,4n,6sO, 600 times in life of forty years -
more than we could count in the same
time if allowed the regular time, eight
hours per day.