Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-11-30
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THE Russian Medical Gazette states that
on the 1st of last January the Russian
army possessed 2, 102 surgeons, $50 apoth-
ecaries, 6,S87 assistant surgeons, and 173
veterinary surgeons. This gives one sur
geOn for every 407 men, one apothecary
for every 3,454 men, and one assistant
surgeon for every 161 men.
ACCORDING to information published
by the Statistical Department at Christiania
the late census shows that on the 1st of
January this year the total population of
the kingdom of Norway amounted to 1, '
817, ,237 souls. The total population of the
towns in Norway amounted to 332 ,938, the
remainder of the population living in the
country.
MR. DAVID CROCKETT, who resides sew
en- miles southwest of Mexico, Mo, while
clearing rubbish out of his corn crib
killed sixty rats. After clearing the crib
of shocks and rats, he commenced to haul
corn from a number Of pens in his field,
and while so doing killed 270 more rats,
and then wound up by capturing eleven
more in the open field.
The number of immigrants who ar
rived in New York, in October, was
$3.50, of whom 1898 were males, and
1922 females. Of the total number, 1 ,347
came from England, 910 from Ireland,
and 2,016 from Germany. In addition to
the above, 1900 passengers arrived dur
ing the month of October. Of this num-
Der, 1856 were citizens of the United
States, and 344 temporary sojourners.
The population of Italy, compared with
that Of France, shows much better ratio
of increase Statistics last year showed
hot ho &c ipIo I,o
former was 81, 7,482, ,161. The number of
deaths during the year 1875 was 842, 161,
and the number of births was 1 ,035, SIT.
The excess of births over deaths was al
most 100000, which is much better
showing than France makes for the same
year.
THIRTY-sEvEN pipe companies own an
aggregate of 2,0814 miles of iron pipe
Pennsylvania. Seven miles are of six
inch pipe, and six miles of four-inch; the
remainder being of either two or three
inch. One company has $50 miles, two
others 800 each, another 1856, another 1873,
and so on. This is a method Of cheap
transportation with which railroads can
not well compete; but when it comes to
carrying pig IRON, gram, live stock and
such trifies, the pipe companies are not
formidable rivals.-I2Gil0ay age.
In Asia the giaz is the measure of
length, and is seven fists and thumb, or
about tWenty-seven inches. The kari is
twice the length of the extended arms, or
nearly twelve feet. For long distances
the tash is used; it is IL, 900 PAGES, or
about five and three-quarter miles. The
land measure is the tanap, sixty giaz
square, or about three quarters of an acre.
The monetary unit is the silver tenga,
worth about sixteen and three-quarter
kopeks, or eleven cents. The gold coin,
the tilla, is smaller and thinner, and 1uc-
tuates in value with the rate of exchange,
being current at from nineteen to twenty
eight tengas.
NJ. KRANTZ intends to initiate on
small scale the great He'll Gate explosion
in opening the ground of the Champ de
Mars in Paris, and thus advancing the ex-
cavations for the erection of the basement
of the Exhibition building for the Worlds
Fair of 1878. The French journals fur
nish some statistics respecting this build
ing, from which it appears that the
weight required for the machine gallery
will be II 900 tons, and for other galleries
10000 tons. To these 81 900 tons of cast
iron may be added 700 tons of sheet iron
for covering the building. The area of
carpenter r-work for battening the roof,
which is to be covered with zinc, will be
0,000 square yards, and the quantity Of
the wood used will be about 1900 cubic
yards. The number of rivets employed
in boiling the metallic frame will be H..
900, 900, and the number of holes to he
perforated viii reach % 900, 900.