The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.
At Yreka, Cal, a crazy man had t.
be lassoed on the top of a house.

At Yreka, Cal. crazy man had to
be lassoed on the top of house.
John Swim, of Jefferson, O., has
made 100000 picking rags and sticks
to it, Cleveland Leader.
During the past year the street cars
of New York have carried 145, 900, 600
passengers. N. T. Tribune.
The returns of whisky for taxation
in Kentucky foot up 1887, 600 gallons.
Louisville Goarier-JournGL
There are now sixty-nine Bricklay-
er's Unions throughout the United
States, with a total membership of over
1900 Chicago Journal
There are about Sc, 900 locomotive
engines in the world, and 10000 pas
senger and 100000 freight cars. There
are 200, 900 miles of track, and the cap
ital invested is $4,000, 900, 00O.-M L.
Herald.
Postal cards were introduced by
Prof Emanuel Herman, of Vienna.
They were first used in England, Ger
many and Switzerland in 1870, in Bel
GUM and Denmark in 1871, and in Nor
way, Russia and the United States in
1928. - Boston Post.
The Public Printer of the United
States is at the head of the biggest
printing establishment in the world,
employing over 1920 men, and turning
out annually about 100000, 900
blanks, envelopes, etc., $4,000 blank
books, and 100000 pamphlets and
books. He uses up every year about
So, 800, Philadelphia Press.
After prolonged exercise with
figures, it is announced that the total
amount of fire insurance written in this
country in 1882 was $40, TAI, 900, 900,
that the average premium rate was SO
cents, and that the ratio of loss to
this was so per cent. and the i'm
portant thing about it is the fact that
the premium rate was 6 cents above
that of 1881, while the loss ratio was
l per cent. lower. - Chicago Times.
From 1910 to 1880, horses increased
in the United States 800 per cent; in
the latter year they numbered 12,000.-
900, value $740,000,000 Mules in the
same period increased 400 per cent,
numbering 100000 in 1880, at value
of $4,000, 900. Mich cows the same
year numbered 100000, while other
cattle footed up to 1882, $50, value
$481, 686,080. Sheep value 800, 000,-
600, and swine 1924, ia, 500. Detroit
Post.
The biennial report of the Kansas
State Board of Agriculture for 1881 80
recalls attention to the remarkable
growth of this new State. In the ten
years from 1872 to 1882 there was an
increase in population from 1854, 399 to
995,966; in cultivated acreage from
2,476, 1862 to II, 043, 379 acres; in value of
live stock from $30,013, 1893 to 1888, 874, :
539. In 1882 there were 1913, 678 horses,
1,404, 497 cattle, 97S,177 sheep and
1928, 683 head of swine. Nearly 4, $780,
600 acres were in corn, and more than
100000 in wheat. - Chicago Journal.
Senator John P. Jones, who is said
to have lost $25, 900, 900 within the past
ten years, is trying to get another fort
une. He has leased the Bonanza
mines from the 1850 level upward.
The Bonanza, which has turned out
over $100,000,000 OF. gold and silver,
was found at a depth of 1850 feet, and
Jones expects to find valuable ore de-
posts above that level. His lease ex-
tends three years, and he will explore
the ground for all it is worth. He is
to account for seventy per cent. of the
assay values of the ores found; all over
that is to be his Chicago Inter Ocean.