Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-14
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Under the nom de plume of "Theophi-
lus Jones" Prof. Swing is writing for this
paper, the Chicago Alliance, series of
sketches, entitled "The Recollections of
Dr. Heinrich"
Whatever its faults the "Hub" is
not niggardly. 1t has given over $276,-
| 600 in response to calls for aid during
the past year, besides nearly 100000 for
private charities.
Lake Erie-length, 24O miles great
est breadth, go miles, area, 9,5s
square miles; area of water shed, 81 ,37l
square miles; discharge at outlet, pa, 1874
cubic feet per second; deepest sounding,
24O feet; elevation of surface above the
sea, 565 feet.
The heaviest item Of American man.
ufacture exported is that of our refined
petroleum. 1t foots up to the enormous
figure of $37,0O0,OOO annually. For the
year ending June 30, 1874, the export of
refined oils was 271 600, 600 gallons of an
aggregate value of $37, 56l, 5l3, and the
residuum and crude exported in the
same year swelled the amount to about
$41 100000.
The Enterprise, Of Virginia City,
New, says 1.-The yield of gold and silver
on the Pacific slope during the past
twenty-five years amounts to 81, 5S3, GA
934. OF this sum California produced
81 O04,9l9,09S; Nevada, $221, 400, Alp;
Utah, Sl8, 527, 1877 Montana $119,30S,147 ;
Idaho, $57 ,249, 1877; Colorado, $3, 600 900;
and Oregon and Washington Territory
together, $25, 504,25O."
Some idea of the extent of the sub
scription book trade may be formed from
the following figures, which show the cir.
culation of different works: "Ten Years
in Washington" by Mary G. Ames, co.
600; "TellIt All; or, A Lies Experience
in Mormonism," by Mrs. T. b. II. Stem
house, $4,000; Kit Carson's Life and
Adventures" 10000; "Lives and Deeds
OF our Self Made Men," by Harriet Beech
er Stowe" 10000; Inside Life in Wall
Street." 10000; Fighting Fire" 10000;
"Gilded Age" by Mark Twain and Dud-
ley Warner, 5000.
An average Atlantic steamer con-
sumes fifty tons of coal in twenty.four
hours; and, therefore, if five tons of coal
are sufficient to feed an ordinary fire in
dwelling during the entire year, it fol
lows that the coal consumed on board a
steamer in one day will last a small fam
~, A"iu Is " 6Oou hAC, bCu years. NOW,
1t is found that if load of coal be left
out doors, exposed to the weather, until
1t Is burned up in one CRATE, say month,
it loses One-third of its heating quality.
Or if ton of coal is placed on the
ground and left there, and another Is
placed under shed, the latter loses about
20 per cent of its heating power, and the
former about AZ per cent the softer the
coal the more it loses.
1t is estimated that, out of 1 zoo, 900
inhabitants, IA commit suicide in Spain,
81 in the United States, AZ in Belgium.
66 in Sweden, 50 in Great Britain, % in
Bavaria, "a in Norway, 1856 in the Grand
Duchy of Baden, 40 in France, 1873 in
Prussia, 1873 in Hanover, 1856 in Olden.
burg, 1856 i'll Lauenburg, 159 in Mecklen-
burg, lib in Holstein, 209 in Schleswig, |
251 in Saxony, 28S in Denmark and 1888 |
in Saxe-Altenbuy. OF the occupations |
OF these suicides, it is observed that |
per cent. belong TO the agricultural |
classes, IL per cent. to the tradesmen, Is |
per cent. to the merchants, 22 per cent.
to the professions, and the remaining Al |
per cent. are without settled occupa-
ton. l; is remarked, in the same con
nection, that warm and dry seasons are
regarded as particularly favorable to the
development OF the mania for suicide.