Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-02-03
FACTS AND FIGURES.


often get more of it than they want.
While insane, Mrs. William Seago
of Byron. Ga, cut her tongue out
with a knife.
A Brooklyn Judge has just de
cided that a man married while
drunk must submit.
A writer in Temple Bar says that
the most unobtrusiyely well behaved
man toward woman is well bred
American
The city Of Boston consumes an
average of 4,520,20 gallons of water
daily from its Cochituate and Sud
bury reservoirs.
There are 5000 saloons in New
York. If placed side by side in a
direct line they would extend a dis
lance of fortytive miles.
A fine pointer dog died at Char
lotte, n. G., very mysteriously An
autopsy revealed over a quarter OF
pound of nails in his stomach.
In the Pincate district, San Bernar-
dino county, the San Jacinto mine is
said to be producing from $4,000 to
$4,000 worth of gold per month.
During the year 1881, 100 locomo-
tives were made in the United States
at eleven establishments, the greatest
number at any one place being 554.
There have been sold of apple
tons Cyclopedia' 9l,222 sets, or
1,459,550 volumes, or, adding the
annual Cyclop@dia,' 1,722,750 vol
umes.
The Chinese of San Francisco pay
about 100000 annually in licenses,
while it costs the city 100000 year
to m aintain the law in the Chinese
quarter.
A Government return shows that
local taxation in England has in
creased from eli, 1884 in 1871 to
5,668.383 in 1880, an increase of
fifty per cent.
For lighting the new residence of
Mr.. w. H. Vanderbilt, it is stated
that there are 1000 gas burners, sup
piled by about $4,000 feet, or nearly
three miles, of pipe.
Beecher has looked over several
Sunday school libraries. and it is his
candid opinion that eighteen books
out of every twenty are too boshy for
any intelligent child to read.
Twelve years ago a Yankee ranch
man on Horse Prairie started in the
sheep business with one old eve for
astarter. He now has over 600 sheep,
the multiplied increase of that old
eve.
The, total length of fencing in the
United States is upward of 100000
miles, and the costover two thousand
million dollars Cost Of fencing
during the last census year wasnearly
$79,000,000.
The North German Gazette com
plains of the guzzlery of its country
men. 1t fixes the amount paid for
beer and brandy in Germany in the
last eight years at $1,SOO,00O,OO0, of
which $1,600,000, 900 went for beer.
An Attorney General of Pennsyl-
vania has written an opinion to the
effect that the Governor has not the
power to restore to citizenship a
person who has lost the franchise by
reason of conviction for violation of
the election laws.
There are 100000 sheep in the
Territory of New Mexico. About
half of this number average two
pounds of wool to the head, 100000
average four pounds of wool each,
and the remaining 100000 average
seven pounds of wool each.
The Indians number, according to
the returns of 1881, 261, 1882, of whom
but 472 are in schools; but all, except.
ing $4,000, are under some agency
600 acres per head have been set
apart for every Indian-man, woman
and child, black, red. white and
mixed.
The duel announced to take place
between Louis de Cassagnac and
another officer is to be marked by a
novel feature. The principals are to
fight with cavalry sabres and on
horseback. If this sort of thing
becomes general, polo will be no.
where.
In the course of his duty as Dep
uty Sheriff of Grant county, N. NJ.
Dan Tucker killed eight men in that
county, and several in Lincoln. He
is now awaiting examination for
killing a man named Burns, which is
the first time he has ever been called
to account.
Land in the more common streets
of New York is worth $250,000 to
$3.50, 900 per acre; in the best part of
Broadway it is 100000 per acre,
and the corner of Wall and Broad
streets, the most valuable corner on
the Continent, was recently sold at
the rate of $14, 100000 per acre.
A cattle dealer informs the Salt
Lake Tribune that he has shipped
$500 head of beef cattle from Utah to
Eastern markets. during the past
year. He says Utah furnishes 10000
head of beef cattle to Eastern mar
kets every year, and cattle-raisers
have realized about SIS per head
An illustration of what an oatmeal
diet can do for philosophy is found
in the theory of modern Scotch
metaphysician that smell is nothing
but an inaudible noise which can be
detected only by the nose, and that
noise is merely an audible smell
which appeals only to the sense of
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