The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-06
FACTS AND FIGURES.

I'm 1871 the revenue of the Suez
Canal amounted TO about $1,700,OOO; in
1881 it had grown to more than SlO,-
100000.
The product of California quicksil-
vcr mines last year was 60, S5l TASKS,
and the exports by sea and rail were
45, 779 TASKS.
1t has cost twice as much to take
care of the criminals as to educate the
children of Nevada, the figures since
1865 being for State Prison, 1857, 090;
for schools, S46S, 329. Chicago Times
In New York there a=e %, 271 moro
females than males; in Philadelphia,
SO, $50; in Brooklyn, 23, ,S72; in Bostonl
Is, 422; i'm Baltimore, is, 63f; in Wash
ington, 10,673; in New Orleans, 1896;
in Louisville, 6,794; in st. Louis, 1922;
in Kansas City, S,213; in Denver, 7,440.
The clerk of the United States Su-
preme Court has salaries and fees
amounting to about $4,000 year. No
reporter is allowed to take notes on pa
per of plea or decision in that court
while the court is i'm session. Each JUS
tice has body servant TO whom the
Government pays Sl,200 year.-BoS-
ton TrdUeUcr.
Statistics are sometimes valuable
The relative positions of man and
woman i'm the sphere of conversation
have been determined by an English
statistician, who calculates that on an
average every man speaks tifty-twO
volumes of GOO octave pages per an
mum, and that every woman yearly
brings out $50 pages of the same size
in talk Christian Union.
Kentucky and Illinois make the
whisky. The total production of the
United States for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1881, was 117,710, 100 gallons,
of which Kentucky produced 81, S69, ,047.
Illinois 80, ,OOt, ,40S, Ohio 1901, ,264 and
Indiana s, ,992, 417 gallons. Where 'Jer-
sey Lightning is manufactured is not
stated, but Judging from its fatal effect
iveness it is an "out of the world
product. - Chicago JOHrnaL
1t il estimated that in Egypt there
is one lunatic for every 80, ia of the
population; In Spain, one in every Z, 1874;
and in England, one in every 357. In
sanity is thus more frequent among
those peoples who live indoors and are
subjected to the greatest mental strain
and anxiety. In New York State the
special committee appointed to report
on the insane found that there was one
lunatic to every 3S4 of the population.
A gentleman well acquainted with
the Paris Bourse shows how much the
Partisan middlemen made out of the
Quebec Government loan of S4, 200, 900
Mt per cent. They took the loan ut
90 and sold it at 102, thus netting per
cent, or $160, 900. But they put the
real per cent. loan in their pockets,
and issued a so-called Quebec loan at
Al per cent, thus Docketing the other 4
per cent. Capitalizing the J per cent.
interest over a period of twenty years,
and the amount is about S4O0, 600, in
all $3.50, 600 that the middlemen held.
But out of this came the expenses of
getting the loan foated, say the large
sum Of S5G5. Toronto Globe.
At a nunlismatist's sale in New York
City, few days since, proof silver
dollar of 1886 brought $40, one of 1889
brought $50, silver half dollar of 1876
brought $40, one of 1897 sold for S35,
and n silver quarter of 1896 brought SO.
Several dimes were sold for over $3 each,
and one of 1904 brought S460. A half
dime of 1894 sold for $10. 40, and one of
1897 brought $10.01; another of 1896
brought $5.70; one of 1905 brought SO
so. A cent of 1904 sold for 81. So, and
many brought from 81 to 81 each. A
half-cent piece sold for $l6.l0; another
for 1880. and third, dated 1874, for
$l1. A silver-center pattern cent Of 1892
brought $25 a Mormon double eagle.
said TO be an extremely rare coin, sold
for $435 Several p.ne-tree shillings
sold for $13, while u Lord Baltimore six
pence brought $3.50. A New York ex-
celsiOr cent of 1887 brought Sl2.