Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-27
FACTS AND FIGURES.

1t costs the New York Herald $3.50
every Sunday for that special newspaper
train to Saratoga.
The number of cans of peaches
packed last year Appropriated about p
900, 900, tomatoes 1o,0OO,OOO and corn
from 100000 to 100000.
The San Francisco mint turns out %, =
600 trade dollars a day. Large numbers of
them are to be sent to CHINA, where they
are said to be supplanting the Mexican
dollar in Celestial favor.
The statement of the sugar crop of
the island of Cuba for past years shows
that 1888 per cent. of the total exports of
sugar and molasses went to the United
States or was taken by the United States
The commerce of Boston seems to
be steadily decreasing. The exports
from that port during the month of May
amounted to only So, 023, Psi, against So
544,307 in May, 1873
"A young gentleman eighteen years
of age, seven feet high, four feet across
the shoulders. and weighing 500 pounds.
was walking about the streets Of Cincin-
natl recently, attracting the attention of
all he met and leaving behind him a
long string of wondering people. He did
not appear to feel bigger than anyone
else
The total number Of schools in Cali
fornia is 1900; the total receipts for
school purposes, S3,OO00O0. The average
monthly wages paid to male teachers is
| SS5: TO female teachers, 500. Number
of persons between five and fifteen years
! 40, 900.
During the month Of March there
were sold by two railroads only in the
States of Iowa and Nebraska 19 900 acres
of land to actual settlers, for the sum of
Sf34,0 The total sales OF the Union
| Pacific and Burlington i Missouri up to
| April 1 We're $50, 292 acres, for the sum
of S5,799, 204, mostly within the short
space of three years.
Washington Market pays the city of
New \ rk 100000 year. The annual
business done in it is about Sl00, 100000.
There are 400 stands, of which meat &C.
Cupies 175, butter and vegetables sixty
oysters and hens fifty. A stand measures
seven feet by four, is held ut the pleas
ure of the Comptroller, and with the
premium is sometimes valued at $4,000
a year.
"A statistical table in the Boston Id
| gertis6r, giving the length Of the service
of each United States Senator from Mas
Sachusetts since the foundation Of the
Government, shows that the State be-
ieyes in several terms for public ser
wants when they do their duty. Charles
Sumner served altogether as United
States Senator tWenty-three years, Daniel
Webster nineteen years and half, Henry
Wilson eighteen years and q quarter,
Honest John Davis fourteen years, and
so on.
An investigation made by a Berlin
physician, of the data relating to human
longevity, shows the average age of cler-
gymen to be s.; of merchants, e.; clerks
and farmers, 81; military men, 50; law
yers, So: artists, 81, and medical men, So.
The medium duration of life in Russia is
about p years; in Prussia, %; in Swift
zerland, "a in France So; in Belgium, 36
in England, So Medical men stand high
in the scale of longevity. OF twenty-eight
physicians who died there last year, the
youngest was so, the Oldest 50; two 9th
ers were SO and 80 respectively; three
were 81, and four were So each
"A report of the census taken in Scot
land in 1871 has been issued. Of the
1850, 01S, which is the total population
of Scotland, it appears that l ,468, $50 fol-
lowed occupations Of some kind. The
professional class, during the same period,
has increased by 31,773, its total number
being 114,694. In the agricultural class,
however, there was the marked decline
of 102, 289, the total number now being
270,OO8, instead of $4,000, as in 1861.
This fact, says the report, fully bears
out the conclusion we have arrived at,
that the prosperity of our country is
every year becoming more and more de-
pendent on the prosperity Of our COM
mercial, manufacturing and mining in
dustries."