The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-02-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.


Twenty men of New York City, to-
gethcr, are worth $3.50. 900. 000
New York City has population of
l ,206, 299 human beings, of whom the
native born number 727, 629 and the for
eign born 47S, go.
The mining products of Nevada for
1881 were SO, sos, 971, against $13, ,655,-
967 in 1880. The yield for Colorado was
$22, $50, ,6S5, against $2l, 1921, 500 for
1880.
During the past year 2,039 vessels
were wrecked and property estimated at
81, 400, 600. 600 destroyed. Add to this
the property lost in fires and see what
an appalling amount of capital is utterly
lost.
About 81, 900, 600, 600 of our Nation
al debt has been paid since the war
ended. France and Great Britain have
mere than double our debt, and Spain
has larger debt than that which re-
mains of ours.
From 5000 hypsometrical measures
ments, DR.. Chavanne has calculated the
average height of the entire continent
of Africa to be not less than 2, $50 feet.
This high figure is evidently due 20 the
great extent of the high plateaux in that
country, surprising even that of Asia.
The census shows that the State Of
Connecticut has over 11,000 more fe-
males than males, and il is noted as a
curious fact that in the smallest towns
in the State the rule generally is that
the men exceed the women in num-
bers. The cities show the surplus of
women.
The list of fifty principal cities Of
the United States, by the census of
1870, ended with Fall River, Mass.
population, 26, 766. The list of fifty by
the census of 1880 ends with Denver,
Col; population, 1929. Six cities
that were in the list of 1870 have stepped
down and out-viz., CharlestOwn, Mass,
by annexation to Boston, and Memphis.
Mobile, Portland, Utica and Savannah
by displacement. The six that have
come into tho upper circle of fifty are,
in their order Minneapolis, Nashville,
Camden, st. Paul, Atlanta and Denver.
The year 1881 was one of remarka.
Bile activity in the ship-building industry
of the Clyde. No fewer than 261 ves-
sells, with an aggregate measurement OF
341 ,022 tons, were launched In 1880,
which showed the largest total of any
year except 1874, the tonnage reached
PAS, 800. Notwithstanding this large
output, the prospects are of the bright
est description, as it is understood that
shipbuilders have a larger number of
contracts on hand than they had Mt tho
beginning of 1881. An unprecedentedly
large number of the vessels launched
during the year were built of steel.
-Nye County, Nevada, is the largest
county in the United States, covering
24,O00square miles. San Bernardino, Cal
ifornia, with %, 600 square miles, is the
next largest. California has four other
counties, each of them as large rs Mas
sachusetts, three that are each larger
than Connecticut, and fifteen others that
are each larger than Delaware. Sioux
County, Nebraska, contains 2l,070
square miles. Oregon also has several
large counties Umatilla and
Lake containing respectively 1880,
14,26O and $4,000 square miles. Pre-
sidio, with II, 500 miles, is the largest
county in Texas. The smallest county
in the United States is New York, State
of New York, and it has the largest pop
ulatiOn. The largest of the Territories
is Dakota, with 147 500 square miles,
and the largest county in any of the
Territories is Custer County, Montana,
with sc, 500 square miles.