Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.

No library in the United States con-
,ains over 100000 volumes.
Our naval expenses amount to $751;
900 for each enlisted man per annum.
The vital statistics OF Hartford,
Conn. for the year 1874 were; Births
e35, deaths 5SS.
-Forty-eight vessels were driven
oshore and wrecked on the Atlantic coast
last wear and the losses were about
100000.
"A Boston tea company offers $500 in
cold for the nearest guess at the gross
weight of an eight-horse team which
draws one of its wagons.
During January $3.50 gallons OF free
eoun were furnished at Boston to 10, 739
families, comprising 50,365 persons, at an
expense to the city of $1,S23.
In few wears two rats become 646,-
sos, and yet the druggists look with sus-
n;c;on on a man who asks for dimes
worth of strychnine.-Dandury Nesos.
Subscriptions to the loan asked for
by the city of Paris amounted to l05N,-
OlO 900 francs, or, in our money, W, lOO,-
COO 600. Only 25O,00O,0OO francs was
asked for.
This year diligent effort has been
made in Kentucky to report every child
entitled to the benefits of the school
fund. and the result shows an increase in
the school census of over $500 pupil
children.
Statistics show that if person
should travel on Massachusetts railways
zoo miles day he would, by the doctrine
of chance, be seventy years of age be-
fore he received any injury by rail.
way accident
The divorce business seems to be
pretty good in Maine, and is constantly
increasing; indeed, some will have 1t
that divorce can be got in Maine easier
than in any other State. Last year 4S7
bills were granted, of which 23S were for
desertion.
1t will take seven tons of locks and
KEYS to supply the 1000 doors of the
Palace Hotel at San Francisco. Each
lock is to have a dozen keys, and the
contract to supply them has been
awarded to a San Francisco mechanic,
who is TO furnish 5000 locks AID as, 600
keys for $4,000
The California wool product for
1874 was little short of 40, 900, 900 pounds,
against 81, 0OO,0 600 in 1878 and 23,0OO,OOO
in 1882. Of this total $4,000, 600 was
sent out of the State, 80 100000 by rail, an
item of no small magnitude and profit in
the traffic of the Pacific Railroad. The
exported crop returned IS, 100, 600, which
is less per pound than in the previous
year, but still q good price.
1t has been estimated by some sta
tistical genius that the great American
nation smokes 5,16S. 900 cigars a day.
This, at five cents cigar, land what sort
of cigar can you expect for five cents!)
would amount to over $3.50, 900 day; so
that, if the above was not mere figure
of speech, our nstion expends an enor-
nous amount in smoke, and no wonder
she requires so much capital to-back her.
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Somebody has been at the trouble of
calculating the average number OF hairs
which grow on an average persons head.
1t is found that the number varies ac-
cording to the color of the hair. Light
or blonde hair is the most luxuriant, the
average of this color being 10000. When
less being only no 600, while black hairs
reach only the average amount of 100000.
1t might naturally be supposed that a
lighthaired person, having the most hair,
would have the greatest weight to carry,
but it is not so. That which is lightest
in color is also lightest in weight; and a
lady with abundant tlaXen locks is as
light-headed as one whose tresses are of
raven hue. Hence it follows that the
former is of finer texture.