The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-12-07
FACTS AND FIGURES.

s-Pennsylxania produces about ones
half OF the entire crop of buckwheat OF
the United States. The total yield Tor
the year will be over I, 900. 900 bushels
The twl underground lines OF rail-
way In London carry 10. 0QO.OOO pass
sengers every year. and the Metropol-
itan alone carries 1000, 900 for q maxi
mum charge of one penny.
Fulton County, Pennsylvania. has q
hog years old as large as an ordinary
COW, and which, If fattened, would
weigh about 1900 pounds. Its tusks
are like those of nm elephant. - Chicago
Times
The capital stock of all the National
banks in the country is Sl6s, 10, 202.
The assets claimed by life Insurance.
companies, and there are but few OF
them as compared with the number Of
National banks. III S4GS,54l,7y3.
In the commonwealth OF Massachu-
sets there are now twenty-one cities,
with total valuation for the current
year of 81, 149. 1872, 625. showing gain
of S2e, ,O33. 224 over 1881. Boston alone
shows a gain of nearly 1000 600.
The cost of treating free gold ores
in twenty stPmp-mills on the Pacific
coast during the year 1877 was $50 per
ton. In 1873 it was reduced to Sc per
ton, and in 1879 to 81 per ton. In some
districts the cost now ranges from Sl.23
TO $3.50 per ton only, which shows
remarkable progress in the right Girec-
ton
AT the recent Cincinnati exposition
7.467 men aggregated ] ,l5O, lOS pounds
weight, an average of l54.O2, and H.
GSS women weighed 1922, 1919, an aver
L. 4 Il 10
averaged 1878 pounds, those from
Southern Indiana and Illinois 1853. 52,
and Kentuckians l5e.43 pounds. As
near as this came to being a Unanimous
Vote.n that of the women was still
closer, Ohio women averaging 1855,
Kentucky 1873. 76, and Southern Indiana
and Illinois ladies 1873. 55. Detroit Post
I'm the pockets Of curIous-lookng
unfortunate individual who was run
over by the cars and killed at New
Brunswick, n. j.. were found papers
showing that the deceased was Dam
ish poet, Christian Jansen, and a letter
written in Danish to President Arthur,
stating that the bearer did not seek au
Office, but desired when he visited the
White House to pay his respects to be
courteously treated. In another pocket
was small piece of asst le soap,
scrap of ham fat and some lard.
Some idea Of the great slaughter Of
deer which annually takes place in Cal
iforna, Nevada and Oregon, may be
gained from the trade statistics OF the
hide dealers. One export house in San
Francisco has n pile containing 5000
deer-skins I'm its warehouse. IL handles
annually over 10000 skins, and esti-
mates the annual number Of deer killed
at 200, COO. The largest portion OF the
skins come from Northwestern Nevada
and Southeastern Oregon. in Oregon
and California large numbers OF the an
imals are left TO rot, the skins being all
that is desired. - Chicago Hcrdtd.
One OF the largest ropes in thick
ness and length ever produced IN En-
gland is that recently manufactured for
service in New Zealand. where IL is 20
be employed in hauling up ships when
they run aground on the soft mud bot
tom there which is occasionally the
case The rope in question is q twenty
One-inch white MANILA hawser, l2O
fathoms long, and composed Of nine
Strands of 3l6 yards To the strand
Another rope, intended for the samo
purpose, is q iifteen-inch hawser, of the
same material and length. and COM
posed OF nine strands, with l6l yards 10
the strand Twelve-inch ropes arc tho
largest size ordinarily made.