Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-11
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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The aggregate amount of precious
metals produced in the States and Terri
tories west Of the Missouri River, includ-
inc British Columbia, during 1874,
reached Ga, 40l ,055, being an excess OF
H2,142362 over the yield of 1873.
The total value of the wooden goods
turned out from the Maine mills during
the past year is placed at some 81, 5O0,-
600. A North Berwick factory has done
a large business In fannels, manufactur-
ing Sl75, 900; a WATERFORD factory about
$4,000 in blankets; the Bates mill OF
Lewiston, $2O4, 800 worth of Moscow
beavers and repellants; 4 Winthrop fac
tory some $3.50, 900 worth of blankets.
Statistical tables show that there are
in the whole world about 164 cities with
100, 600 inhabitants; nine with over 600,
COO; twelve with from ! ZOO. 600 down to
10000; twenty with from 800, 600 to
100000; thirty-three with from 200, 900
to 100000; and ninety with from 100000
to 100000. The aggregate of the popu-
lation of these large cities comprises 3d.
600, 900 inhabitants-that is to say, the
twenty-eighth part of the entire popula.
ton of the globe.
Most Americans imagine that we
have the greatest country and the largest
factories in the world The national fin
ger is pointed to the rolling mills of
Pennsylvania as though their equal were
never seen. Perhaps it would enlighten
the patriots to know that the steel works
of Alfred Krupp, in Germany, cover 900
acres and contain 280 steam engines and
20 steam hammers, $50 melting and
cement ovens, 200, 900 crucibles, 600 tool
machines. And only II 900 men are en-
ployed.
The Providence School Committee
seem to think that the sewing school
opened by the city about seven years
ago has been pretty successful Eleven
hundred and twenty girls, gathered from
the Streets have attended it, 700 of whom
are now employed as seamstresses at
from 50 to $12 week Four or five
hundred of the girls were so poorly clad
when they were taken in hand that they
could not attend the day school and they
were provided with garments. The
pupils have made $500 garments, which
have been distributed among the poor
The number of children in Illinois
under twenty-One years IF age in 1878
was 1899, 1874, and ,444,141 in 1874; the
number between six and twenty-one
years of age in 1873 was 909, 1874, and
93S,S7S in 1874. The number Of school
houses has increased from 1923 to
11,434, while the number of public free
schools appears to have slightly de-
creased. In 1878 there were 90, IT'S teach
ers employed, and 21,129 in 1874. The
number of pupils enrolled in 1874 was
GIL ,775, against 654, 800 in the previous
year. The expenditures for 1874 were
1856, 6S2.1S, the cost per scholar on
average daily attendance being 1878.
From the general statistics of civil
lied countries it is found that the annual
death-rate per thousand persons, taking
all ages, sexes and conditions, is never
less than twelve. The number dying in
New York city in the last week of July,
1874, was at the rate of forty-four out of
thousand but taking the year round
the average death-rate of New York
city may be set down at about thirty,
showing that three persons die where one
ought to; three graves are dug where only
one should be; two persons out of three
die prematurely; would not die if proper
care were taken; and proper care means
to live clearly, eat regularly, work with
a steady industry and get all the sleep
the system will take.