The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-10-09
FACTS AND FIGURES.

IT is estimated that 20, 600 more per-
sons visited Saratoga this season than
ever before.
THE Sandwich Island alphabet has u
letters the Burmese, 10; the Italian, 20;
the Bengalese, 81; the Hebrew, Syriae,
Chaldee and Samaritan, % each; the
French, %; the Greek, "a; the Latin,
%; the German, Dutch, and English,
20 each; the Spanish, %; the Arabic,
%; the Persian, 81; the Russian, Al;
the Sanscrit, so; the EthiOpic, 202.
A PAIR of rats produce, as a rule, IS
filters Of Fights young ones each in three
years, and the young ones do the same
after becoming six months old. The
grand total for single pair at the end
of three years is 65G, sos. Rats have
migrated to all parts of the world. They
are found eating turtles on the Island of
Ascension. They have reached India,
China, and abound in Japan.
DE CANDoLLE, the great French bot
anist, gives some interesting facts based
upon results of experiments, to show the
strength of certain fibers used in the
making of ropes and cordage as COM
pared with the strength of silk. While
silk sustained weight of "a pounds,
fiber of New Zealand flax of the same
pounds; common hemp, IS Is pounds,
and common fax, l 1 81 pounds. The
tissues which are obtained from certain
woody plants yielding fiber used for
cordage, are produced by long contin-
ued maceration in water.
THE fruitfulness of a grain of wheat
has been computed by mathematician
who seems to have had plenty of time.
Ia FhoA
grain of wheat produces so grains, and
each of the 80 grains viii produce sc
more and so on, we find in the second
year $500 grains; third year; 125, 900 !;
sixth year, 1926, 600, 600; twelfth year,
244, 140, 625, 100000. The third years
crop would give 500 men one meal, leav-
ing enough bran to feed eight pigs for
one day. The product of the single
grain in the twelfth year would suffice
to supply ali the inhabitants of the earth
with food during their lifetime.
LEwINBECK tells of an insect seen
with microscope, of which $4,000, 900
would only equal a mite. Insects of
various kinds may be seen in the cavi-
! ties of grain of sand. Mold is a for
est of beautiful trees, with branches.
| leaves and fruit. Butterflies are fully
| feathered. Hairs are hollow tubes.
| The surface of our bodies is covered
| with scales ike fish; a single grain OF
sand would cover $50 of these scales,
and yet each scale covers 500 pores.
! Through these narrow openings the
! perspiration forces itself like water
through a sieve. The mites take SOC
steps a second. Each drop of stagnant
water contains a world of animated be.
ings, swimming with as much liberty rs
whales in the sea. Each leaf has a col
ony of insects grazing on it like COWS IN
q meadow.
PHILADELPHIA pays over $50, 900 /;
day for oysters, and New York almost
| $1,000 every twenty-four hours. Bos-
ton and Baltimore together eat more
oysters than New York. There are
5000 acres occupied by oyster beds in
Chesapeake Bay alone, while for $500
miles along the Atlantic coast oysters
can be found. The Chesapeake beds
turn out 25,000,O00 bushels of oysters
annually. Baltimore cans 10000, OOC
bushels of oysters every year and has
S15,000,O00 invested in the business
American oysters are exported to Ger.
many, England, France and other for.
eign countries. The Philadelphia Times
estimates that the foreign and domestic
oyster trade of this country exceeds
$500, 000,0 900 annually, and that we ship
abroad $4,000, 100000 oysters every
year.
ACCORDING to the various official re-
ports, of the most recent date, the gross
number of sleepers required for the va
rious railways of the world is set down
at 250, 100000. Taking the life of E
sleeper at an average of some eight
years, and allowing for the large in
crease of mileage every year, it would
appear that above 1000, 900 of sleep
ers must be the annual requirement-Or
making a deduction of about 5000, 900
on account of many railroads being laiC
with cast and wrought IRON sleepers, thu
yearly destruction now going on may
it is thought, be fairly calculated at 40,
600, 600. These contain, on an average
about two and one-half cubic feet o
timber in each sleeper, or about 100,
100000 of cubic feet, and, even at tn
most moderate estimate of their value
: an enormous sum is thus annually ex
pended, and vast industry represented
J in this single item.
The marriages, an infallible sign O
, general prosperity, in England durin;
+ the first quarter of the current year hav
> been a sixth below the usual average TO
the last 40 years, the nearest approach
+ to the unfavorable showing this year be
! ing in that year of commercial disaster
J 1871. The birth-rate has also fallen OF
q seriously, and the average number Q
! suicides in London during the latter par
!, of the summer has doubled as compare,
: 2 with the past 10 years. Vital statistics ar
not the only ones which show wide
= spread distress. Railway earning
'. steadily diminish, and the average rat
: of profit for 1873 on 81, $3.50, 200, 900 in
! vested in English railways, 4.38 pc
: cent, was the lowest for years, the pei
eentage of profit having decreased yeal
ly since 1872; the business this yea
:, warrants the expectation of still smalle
| returns in 1879. The emigration froI
! Great Britain continues to exceed this
: of last year by about d third, and it
English, not Irish or Scotch. Out {
!, 1905 English subjects who emigrate
: from Liverpool in July last, 6,O53 wei
= English, and only 1,037 Irish, and tire,
= fourths the large number of Englis
cmigrants come to this country.
+, A Life in Bed.