Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-13
STATISTICAL AND
TECHNICAL.


LONDON pays nearly one-third of the
whole income tax of England.
The sum of s1a1 900, 900 has been spent
in England since 1910 in building and re-
storing church edifces.
One dollar at ten per cent. annually in
300 years, the time elapsed since the first
settlement in America, would amount to
S136, zoo, 600, 900.
ONE dollar at three per cent. compound
ed annually for 100 years, the period of
our National existence, would amount to
about $1,000. One dollar at ten per cent.
compounded similarly for like time
would amount to over $4,000.
SPEAKING of solid banks, what do you
think of the Bank of England, which, in
the last seven years, has had paid in notes
to the number of $4,000, 900, valued at
81, 900, O00,0 900, weighing over 112 tons,
and which, if joined end to end, would
reach Is, 600 miles
TURF, FIELD AND FARM publishes an
account of an enormous hog, raised in
Putnam County, n. Y, which measured
eight feet in length, seven feet girth
(around the body, stands three feet four
inches high, and pulls the scales down at
the enormous weight of 1, 100 pounds.
PROF. c. V. RILEY, the State Entomol-
ogist Of Missouri, and the President of
St. Louis -1cademy Of Science, in the
course Of recent lecture in ST. Louis on
Insects" said that the annual loss to
farmers, caused by insects, averaged
$100, 900, 600 year; that the chinch- bug
alone, during 1874, caused loss Of $780,
000,0 in the Western States, of which
SIS, 000,0 900 were lost il Missouri. Prof.
Riley estimated the losses by locusts
(grasshoppers) during the last three years
at $50, 900, 600.
A DURABLE black and shining varnish
for iron is made by adding to oil Of tur-
pentine strong sulphuric acid, drop by
drop, stirring until sirupy precipitate is
formed, and no more Of it is produced on
further addition of a drop of acid. The
liquid is HOW repeatedly washed with
water, until the water exhibits no more
acid reaction. The precipitate is next
brought upon cloth filter, and after all
the water has run off the sirupy mass is
fit for use. This is painted over the iron
with a brush, being previously diluted
with oil of turpentine, in case it does not
flow we'll Immediately afterward, the
paint is burnt in by a gentle heat, and,
after cooling, the black surface is rubbed
with a piece of wooden stuff dipped in
inseed oil. This varnish is said to COM
bine chemically with the metal, and does
not wear or peel of.-Se5e1tltic american.
THEY also live to ripe old age in Can
ada, the war pensioners upon the Govern
ment. They, too, are survivors Of the
War of 1912. The total force in service
was 43 900, and they " fit into" fifty seven
battles, skirmishes, and engagements of
some sort, out of which they figured up
thirty eight victories. Out of the 40, 900,
1854 survive to receive their pensions
regularly. The two youngest have attained
the age of but seventy-four years, and
have prospect of collecting their pensions
for the next dozen years. Then there are
369 aged eighty; $50 aged eighty-one; no
aged eighty-fve; 119 aged eighy-nine,
and over 100 years old. a study of our
own pension rolls would 60 even farther
to prove that, to be made sure of the long
est life, it is only necessary to go into the
army. If you fall, you will be enrolled
among the immortal few etc., and
should you escape that Immortality you
will gain the next thing to it, in living on
the pension rolls to the ripe old age of
ninety, 100, Or somewhere thereabouts.-
Chicago Tribune.