Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-03-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Five thousand men are now EN-
n,oved on the Centennial buildings and
grounds in Philadelphia.
Not less than seventy tons of nitro
olvcerine are now consumed annually for
blasting purposes
-Brooslyn needs for its daily supply
about 1OO, 900 quarts Of milk, for which
II navs $4,000, or nearly So, OO0OO an
nualiy. Condensed milk is sold at from
TWEEN weight to thirty cents per quart.
About 5000 quarts are sold daily IN
Brooklyn.
An engine on the' Pennsylvania Cen
tral Railroad has been on duty since
1887. and has run in that time 43I 100
miles. or an average of nearly lI.0O0
miles per year for eighteen years. Prob
ably there is very little of the original
engine remaining except the frame and
minor parts. Another engine, made In
London, Eng, in 1893, is still doing duty.
two hundred and thirty-four mill
ions of oranges and lemons were sent
from Italy to New York during 1874; 33
peu cent. of the oranges and IA per cent.
of the lemons spoiled in the Atlantic
massage. Over 1,270, S6l boxes of fruits
Of all sorts were sent from Italian ports
TO the United States during the same
wear. The business is reg irded by the
Sicilans. in particular as very profitable.
1t is stated that out of 500 samples
of milk tested by Prof. Chandler, of New
York, 470 were diluted and then adultcr-
a'ed with something to make the article
look like real milk These samples were
from middlemen On these compounds,
innocently purcha sed for pure milk, 1t is
estimated that the middemen's profits
were $900O,O00 per year. In other
words, the producers sales of real milk
in New York amount to 80 00O,0O per
annum and that of the milk peddlers
(middlemen), by their extension" proc
ess, $l2 100000.
According to an official statement
there are ASH persons at Berlin who
have to pay taxes on their incomes, viz:
One of them has an annual income of
100000 thalers, one of 100000 thalers, one
of 800, 600 thalers, one of 100000 thalers,
two of 100000 thalers, two of 10000
thaers, one of 10000 thalers, three of
100000 thalers, seven of 1870, 900 thalers,
three of 100000 thalers, ten of 10000
to 900 thalers, nine of $4,000 to So
900 thalers, seventeen of Sc 600 to $4,000
thalers, thirteen of $4,000 to 900
thalers; consequently seventy-one per
sons have each more than $4,000 thalers
a year. Two hundred and forty-four
persons have each 10000 to $4,000 thalers
a year, and All persons have each $500
to 10000 thalers a year.
"A farmer in Missouri has made a cal
culation about dogs which may set the
people of the State to thinking. He says
that in thirty-two counties 10,602 sheep
have been killed by dogs. Allowing two
dogs for each family, which is really less
than the actual number, he estimates the
number of dogs in them to be 462 800.
The amount of food necessary to keep a
fair-sized dog will keep one hog in a
thriving condition, which, at the end of
twelve months, will weigh 200 pounds.
If this food went to the hogs it would
make (for the whole number of dogs)
92,0000O0 pounds of pork. This would
load 4,4OO cars--ten tons to the Garland
be worth at six cents per pound $4 $50, 600,
nearly twice the value of all the school
houses in the State, and more than twice
the amount USED by the State for school
purposes.
ONE of the most important railway
lines in Bavaria has for many years been
worked with turf or peat. The material
is obtained from the boys of Haspel-
moos, abundant in quantity and of the
best quality attainable. The method
pursued in its preparation is that de-
yised by NJ. Exeter, and which is alleged
to possess superior advantages on the
score of adaptation and cheapness. The