Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-06-04

England has 5000 temperance lodges
Memphis has $50 lawyers to offend
and defend her.
The AgassiZ memorial fund has
reached the sum of over 100000.
Two hundred acres of land were re
Gently sold in Florida at five cents ar
acre.
The San Francisco Chronicle esti
mates the value of last seasons fruit crop
in California at 100000.
The United States has $4,000 miles
of telegraph. No other nation has hall
as many.
There are millions of grasshoppers in
Green County, Pa, that get up every time
the sun shines.
Kentucky publishes nine dailies
eighty-six weeklies and sixteen month.
lies-111 in all.
The Railroad Commissioners of Con.
necticut have just made their annual re.
port, from which it appears that there are
twenty-five railroad corporations in the
State, owning 1854 miles of road, OF
which 1897 are furnished and in use. OF
these only 500 miles are within the limits
Of the State.
the centennial, has ascertained that there
are in Iowa 456 Methodist clergymen, 200
Presbyterian, 225 Baptist, 1913 Congrega-
tional, Ill Catholic, so Catholic clerical
students, $50 common schools, %
colleges, POS seminaries, 1O8 private
schools, 1900 Oranges, 1000 agricultural
clubs, 400 Masonic lodges. $50 Odd Eel
lows lodges and 800 Good Templar
organizations.
The annual report of Horatio Sey-
mour, Edward NJ. Smith and Robert B.
Roosevelt, Commissioners of Fisheries of
the State of New York, has just been pub
lished, illustrated with engravings show
ing the processes commonly employed in
pisciculture. The most successful eX-
periments were made with shad, Of which
more than 100000 were successfully
Matched and turned loose, the greater part
in the Hudson River.
p. T. Quin, in a recent address at
Trenton, n. j., gives the strawberry crop
of New Jersey at 100000 quarts in favor
able seasons, worth at 10 cents per quart
100000; blackberries, raspberries and
grapes, about as much more; and he esti-
mates the cranberry crop at 125, 900
bushels of sound fruit (worth about $780,.
OOO), and more than half the entire crop
of the country, and bringing into use
thousands Of acres of swamp lands which
could not otherwise be employed.
The Third National Tournament OF
Chess-Players is to be held in Chicago
beginning on July Z, 1874, and ter.
minating on July 20, or as soon after as
convenient and possible. The Chicago
Chess Club has undertaken to make all
necessary arrangements to accommodate
those who may desire to participate. The
programme cOntemplates a Grand and 8
Minor TOurnament-the former composed
of acknowledged frst-class players, receiv.
ing no odds from any other player. The
latter will comprise such players as may
choose to enter the lists, and who are in
the habit of receiving the odds of at least
a pawn and move from frstclass players
Prizes will be given to successful com.
petitors in each class. The entrance fee
to the Grand Tournament has been fixed
at $40, and to the Minor Tournament at
$40. Each contributor to the general
fund to the amount of So will be entitled
to copy of the book of the Congress. A
copy of the rules and regulations adopted
by the committee, and other information
desirable to intending participants, can
be obtained by addressing Albert w.
Giles, Secretary and Treasurer, ia East
Madison street. Chicago, III.