Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-03
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

j ENT COUNTY, Mich, has twenty !
one single mills, representing cap
ital of $45, 900.
The Pennsylvania oil business is |
squirting ahead with steady increase
Of petroleum flow.
RED precipitate or red oxide Of mer-
cary is not made by precipitation, but
by heating the nitrate of mercury
when precipitated it has yellowish
color
GEORGIA has some forty cotton
mills, which in nearly every instance
paid dividend during the past year,
while many New England mills were
running at loss.
RURGUNDY pitch is not pitch; nor is
it manufactured or exported from Bur
gundy. The best is a resinouS sub
stance, prepared from common frank
incense, and brought from Hamburg;
hut by far the largest quantity is
mixture Of resin and palm oil.
As many as twenty of the %, 300
persons whose deaths were registered
IN Ireland in the first quarter of the
present year are described as centena-
rians. There are three among them
registered as 100 years old, one 100, one
40, and two mer Ill years of age.
TIE total amount of coinage at the
san Francisco mint for the year end
Ing June 80 was $35, 900, 800, Of which
So, 033, 900 was in gold coin. This IS
the largest amount ever coined at
this mint in any one year, and is the
largest annual coinage of any mint in
the United States if not in the world.
THE debts of English cities had
reached at last accounts a total of
So, 800, 900, OF about $462, 500, 900.
New York city alone owes a debt of
2ll4, 900, 900, or nearly One-fourth as
much us all the cities OF England. The
debts Of English cities have increased
about S12, 800, 900 within year, and it
Il estimated that they will reach a
round $500, 900, 900 by 1877.
YAkING the United States census of
1870 as q guide for our own country,
FFe find malarial fevers forming very
important feature of the mortality ia
6ies They are most fatal in Florida,
Louisiana and Texas. Next in order
follow Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia, Missouri, Kansas and Nevada.
IN another group, distinguished by
4 somewhat less mortality, we find New
Mexico, the Carolinas, Virginia, Ten
nessee, Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana.
Those States marked by the lowest
mortality are the New England and
Middle States, Wisconsin and Mime
sofa. In California there is a consid-
cradle ratio of mortality, diminishing
easIerly in Utah, and northerly in
Oregon and Washington territory,
while it augments largely toward the
South in New Mexico. = Popular
Science Montb1y.
THE drift Of northern icebergs is
~ I'LL UIlI S1CttU pOitt1 Cu11C11Co NhICI
meet near the coast Of Labrador. They
are from thence tloated with the eur
rent past Newfoundland, frequently
striking the coast, and usually diSSOlv-
ing I'D the gulf stream, which they meet
near the Great Bank, they disappear at
about latitude forty-tWo degrees. The
extreme limit reported in any anthem
flc publication is latitude forty de-
grees north. The southern icebergS,
RGt meeting a similar disSOlyent, ap-
preach nearer to the equator, being
frequently seen off the Cape of Good
LUnpa. in latitude thirty-four degrees
aonth. The weight, sometimes, is
hundreds Of millions of tons in their
frazen mass. Only about one-eighth of
their bulk is above the water. Capt
Ross found one aground III Batfin Bay,
III water 800 feet deep.