Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-15
FACTS AND FIGURES.

| THE total losses to the Gloucester fish,
| ing fleet for the year 1876, in addition TO
the ten vessels mentioned as lost in the
| December gales, gives the terrible asgre-
| gate OF s213 men, al d twenty-seven vessels
valued at S150,000.
| ENGLAND yet manufactures four times
| as much cotton goods as the United States.
England runs 35,0O0,O00 splndles and
| manufactures 1,264, 100000 pounds of
cotton, while the United States runs 9,S59,-
900 spindles and uses 563, ,0G0, 900 pounds
of cotton.
IHE pig-1rOn production in 1876 was
2,050,0 600 tons, against 2,266, 900 in 1875,
and ,S6S, 600 in 1878, the highest ever
reached. New England only produced
Is, 900 tons, or one-half the product of the
previous year, and New York fell off one
third. Pennsylvania, Ohio and some of
the southern States increased their yIeId,
and Pennsylvania has larger stock on
hand now than a year ago. The total
stocks IN the country are 100, 900 tons
| less. Pennsylvania produced 9S9. 900, or
nearly one-half, and Ohio ranks next with
3S3, 600 tons
THE wealth of some dairying districts
is enormous. Herkimer, n. Y, is said
to ship annually over 1900, 900 pounds
of cheese, and 300, 900 pounds of butter
worth S4, 800, ,O00 Little Falls, n. Y,
perhaps as much. st. Albans, VT, ships
100000 pounds of cheese, 2,750, 900
pounds of butter, worth in the market
81 $50, 900. The village of Wellington
Ohio, shipped 1000, 900 pounds of cheese
in 1869, worth $500,000. The products
of the dairy are sold for cash, and hence
/, Il H.,
bles the manufacturer to reduce large
bulk Of food into small compass, through
the two processes of feeding COWS and
manufacturing the productions.
RUSSIA is one of the leading countries
in the world in the matter of horses, pos
sessing some 20,000,000 of these fine ami
mails, or about twenty seven to every 100
inhabitants, three times as many in pro-
portion to population as either England,
France, Prussia or Austria possesses. ST.
IBERIA is the best supplied of all the prov
inces, having little less than horse to every
male inhabitant. The horses of the steppes,
though small, are remarkably hardy
The Crown possesses some twenty estab-
lishments, with ZOO stations and 5000
brood mares, with something like rs, 900
stations and 700, 900 brood mares in pri-
vate establishments, About 10000 ami
mails are annually sold at 400 horse fairs,
out of 200, ,00s offered, the average price
being about 500.
DIR. J. M. TONER, of Washington, has
compiled list of theaters, churches and
other public buildings which have been
destroyed by fire within the memory of
man. He goes back to the year 548 B. c.,
when the Temple of Delphi was burned,
and the year 356, when "the aspiring
youth fired the Ephesian DOME" The
table includes the following notable con-
hagtations, with the dates of their occur
renee and the number of lives lost in GER
tain cases: Church of St. Sophia, Con
stantinople, 532 A. D.; St. Paul's, Lon
don, 1137; st. Paul's and sixty other
churches, London, 1866; Drury Lane
Theater, London, 1879; the Flemish The
ater, Amsterdam, 1772, 700 lives; Trinity
Church, New York, 1773; the Saragossa
Theater, ITS, 400 lives; the theater at
Montpelier, 1888, 500 lives; London
Bridge, 1912, 5000 lives; Chestnut Street
Theater, Philadelphia, 1890; Park Thea
ter, New York, 1921: Bowery Theater,
New York, 1928; theater in Canton, China,
1S45, 1890 lives, Niblo's Theater, New
York, 1916; church at Santiago, Chill,
1868, over 1900 lives; Niblos Garden,
New York, 1872; Saragossa Theater, 1872,
600 lives; and the Fifth Avenue Theater,
New York, 1878. The latest report gave
the number of the lost by the Brooklyn
Theater fire at 294.