Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-17
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL AND
TECHNICAL.

| AT the close of 1869 the number of sol
diers' orphans cared for by the State of
| Pennsylvania reached 1851. Last year
the number was only 2,7S9 The State
expenditure for soldiers orphans since the
inauguration of the system has been ST.
432 1926.
OUT of a total population of $4,000 900
in France there are stated to be 100000
Protestants and $4,000 Jews, half of the
latter inhabiting Paris. The number of
Frenchman who have formally declared
that they do not belong to any religion is
about 80, 900.
RAINwATER brings down yearly about
twelve pounds of ammonia per acre Of
ground. To supply an equal amount in
sulphate Of ammonia at six cents per
pound would cost the farmer $2.68, and
this is, therefore, the manurial value of the
rain. To this, however, must be added a
certain quantity Of nitric or nitrous acid.
scientific MSsceItany," IN tie GALAXY
for February.
SINCE the LIST Of January, 1875, the Ger
man Empire has uniform currency-all
the old gold, silver, copper and nickel
coins OF the various States comprising the
Empire having been called in and re-
coined. The fredericksdors, pistoles, due
ats, gold crowns, guilders, kreutzers,
schillings, pfennigs, batzen, groschen.
| silbergroschen, neugroschen, and the va
rious other coinages OF the petty German
| Governments, which were formerly so
great an annoyance to travellers, have all
| disappeared from circulation; and the
| bills of the various obscure banks, which
passed current only in their Immediate
neighbOrhoods, have also been replaced
by notes authorized by the Imperial Gov
eminent.
| THE speed OF railway trains in Ser
many is illustrated by report of the rail
| way bureau of the Empire for the month
of December, 1875. The greatest speed
per hour, including stops at intermediate
| stations, was, for express and fast trains,
thirty-four miles on the Berlin, Potsdam
& Madgeburg Road; for ordinary passen-
ger trains, thirty -four miles per hour on
the Maerchen & Posen Road The slow
est speed was, for express and fast trains,
twenty-one miles per hour on the East
Prussia Southern Road; for ordinary pas
senger trains, sixteen miles per hour on
the Ermsthal and the Cromberg roads of
| Wurtemberg. The average speed per
hour was, for express and fast trains,
| tvup ptJ oirrbt loo. fOr
ger trains, twenty-one miles. This esti-
mate is for the whole empire, except Ba-
varia.
THE American watch has now obtained
an almost universal reputation for superb
GRITTY over the English watch, and this, in
great part, because of the less number of
pieces of which it is composed Thus the
former, of the key-winder class, contains
143 pieces, and the stem winder 155 pieces
The English watch, on the other hand, is
composed of 63S more pieces than the
American, the excess being found in the
fusee and chain. According to the length
and fneEess Of the chain, the English
manufacture contains from sixty four to
seventy pieces to the inch, the fusee and
its attachments about forty eight pieces,
and this accounts for the greater number
OF pieces comprised in the English article.
So well are the advantages of the Ameri-
can principle in this respect now under
stood by the English makers that the
manufacturers of the celebrated Frodsham
watches have for some time past done
away with the fusee and chain, thus re-
ducing the number of pieces.-N. 7. Sun.