Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-07
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The death rate of Montreal is forty
six per 1 900, fifteen per 1000 more than
New York, and twice as heavy as Lon
DON England.
1t is estimated that but one in 50,-
100000 railway passengers is killed. AS
a much greater proportion Of those who
stay at home die in their beds it is
claimed that it is safer to travel on the
railroad than to go to bed at home.
Over 800 trees and more than 800
woody species of plants are believed to
be embraced in the fora of the United
States and of the trees $50 species are
tolerably abundant in one region or an
other, 100 of them growing to large
size.
1t appears from statistics prepared
by the Massachusetts, State Board of Ed
ucation that the cost of education per
pupil in the State Incorporated acade-
mics is nearly $35 per year, while in the
private academies it is only 1913. In the
Boston Latin School the cost is $40 per
pupil.
The earnings Of the Baltimore q Ohio
Railroad the past year were 14,947 APO;
expenses, $9,416,650.67: net earnings,
81, $40 5000 The expense of working
the road is stated to>be 81 500 per cent.
upon the earnings, showing decrease
Of G4-l00 per cent. compared with the
previous year. The surplus fund of the
company on the Both of September, 1874,
was $32, 144, 160.15.
The length of Lake Superior on
curved line is 400 miles; greatest
breadth, $50 miles; area, 3S,S75 square
miles; area of water shed, 81, 63S square
| miles; discharge at outlet, 1888 cubic
feet per second; length of coast line,
100 miles; temperature of surface
water in summer so to 50 deg Fahrenheit;
of the water below 300 feet, 80 deg deep
est sounding, LOLA feet; elevation of its
surface above the sea, 600 feet.
in one Of my previous letters l gave
an account of the value and the desti-
nation Of the dead leaves of Paris.
have just learned what the mud of Paris
is worth. In its crude state it is valued
lat 100000 per annum but when pre-
pared for manure it sells at prices rang
fIng from sixty cents to one dollar for
cubic yard and is worth 100000 for the
annual product The bidders to whom
It is adjudged must pay for sweeping the
ktreets and for removing all accumu-
ated filth under the surveillance of the
authorities. Several thousand persons
pre- employed in that service. In 1923
(he Paris dirt was sold for u, 900 francs
Sl5 GOO; in 1881 the purchasers paid
Pyer 1871 900; in 1845 the value had risen
70 500, OOO.-Paris Correspondence Phila-
t6lphia Press.
1T is said that probably about co.
900 or 10000, 900 Goldfish are token
rom the sea annually around the shores
ri Newfoundland. But even that guam
ty seems small when we consider that
he cod yields something like $500, 900
zach season, and that 5000, 900 have been
olnd in the roe of a single cod. Other
Sh, though not equallng the cod, are
Eonderfully productive. A herring six
seven pounds in weight is provided
ith 10000 ova. After making all rea-
unable allowances for the destruction
the eggs and the young, it has been
aicuated that in three years single
air OF herring would produce 154 ,OOO,-
w. Button said that if pair of her
hS were left to breed ard multiply I'M
siQrbed for twenty years they would
eid fish bulk equal to the globe on
men We live. The cod far surpasses
ne herring in tecundity. Were it not
lal vast numbers of the eggs are de-
Ioyed, fish would so multiply as to fill
waters OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ameri-