Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-03-11
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Every pound of cochineal contains
n 600 insects boiled to death.
of the leather inspected at Philadel-
mia last year, amounting to 546, 949 SIDES,
nnly 4O,66l were foreign.
The San Francisco Alta tells of one
s;nele vine that produced the enormous
weight of 10000 pounds OF fruit in one
'' The Mont Gents tunnel cost about
eo75 a ward, and at the same rate the
rronosed tunnel under the English Chan
mel would cost about $50, 036, 900.
According to late statistics, Austria,
liza and Tasmania have about $1,000, OO0
sheen and more than $500 600 head
If cattle: and New Zealand cattle ex'
coed half a million, and her sheep III
100000.
After receiving sec, 900 for their ser
vices, spending $4,000 for kilograms, and
large sums for the distribution OF 1000
circulars, the detectives engaged to dis
cover Charlie Ross have found clew-a
straw hat worth fifty cents.
The lot on which the Drexel Build
ing in New York stands, at the corner of
Wall and Broad streets, was sold at the
rate OF SlfOOU,OVV pCl 1CiCt ooihS u
largest price ever known in the history
of American real estate.
Western Michigan has SOC, 900 peach
trees, 100000 pear trees, 10000 plum
trees, $4,000 cherry trees, 10000 apple
trees, 10000 ounce trees and 10000
grape vines A large area is also de-
voted to the culture of berries.
The average amount of ash in dried
Virginia tobacco, as determined by
Messrs. Jrby and Cabell, from six speci-
mems, is ga per cent, that of European
tobacco being 1852 per cent, that of
Connecticut and Massachusetts, tobacco
1856 PEI cent, and that of Kentucky to-
bacco 1888 per cent.
Kansas has fourteen daily papers,
five tri-weekly, seven semi-weekly and
eighty-six weeklies, but this number has
been increased since the census has been
taken Including the monthlies, etc, the
total is 1872 publications.
The new Encyclopedsn Britannica has
these appalling assertions: "f the
natural resources of America were fully
developed it would afford sustenance to
5000 000, 600 inhabitants-a number near
~ five times as great as the entire mass
of human beings now existing on the
globe And, what is even more surpris-
ing, it is not more improbable that this
prodigious population will be in exist
ence within three, or at most four, cen
turies.
The whole number of railroads in
Rhode Island is fourteen; capital stock,
$l9,371 ,707 At; total Indebtedness, $13,-
05l $40 "a; total receipts, $7,7S4, 1000
total expenses, $5,55S, $50 49, whole num-
Der of passengers during the year, 49,
557, OBS; whole number of tons Of mer-
chandise during the year, 2 ,584, 1874; whole
number of locomotives, 203; whole num-
Der of cars, 4,217; total miles in the State,
235 Ito.
The thrush is said to work from $50
in the morning until 9:30 in the evening,
or nineteen hours. During this time he
feeds his young 206 times. Blackbirds
work seventeen hours. The male feeds
the young forty-four times and the
female fifty-five times per day. The in
dustrious titmouse manages to spread
AT meals per day before its voracious
offspring. According to one naturalist,
their food chiefly consists of caterpilars
These statements and hundred more
quite as curious were made in an elo-
quent plea for law to protect small
birds from being shared or shot.