The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-07-13
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The venom of the cobra of India is
comparatively harmless when taken into
the stomach, though when introduced
into the system it often causes death in
two hours.
Georgia has probably the smallest
foreign-born population of any State,
only 10.564 out of 1912, 600 total; she
probably has also the largest per cent.
native to her own coil, over l, 400, 600.
Based on the directory canvass the
population of New Haven, Conn, is
| something over $1,000. Troy's new di-
rectory gives that city population of
something over 4,000.-N. Y Herald.
From 1870 to 1880 the increase in
horses in Virginia was 43 per cent; in
mules, p per cent; cxen, 10 per cent. !;
cows, p per cent; cattle, 40 per cent. !;
sheep, 81 per cent swine, AZ per cent. /;
Indian corn, 81 per cent, and popula-
ton, % per cent Chicago Tribune.
The largest body of fresh water on
the globe is Lake Superior-400 miles
long, 100 miles wide at its greatest
/ breadth, and having an area of $4,000
square miles. Its mean depth is said to
be 160, and its greatest depth about 200
fathoms. Its surface is about 635 feet
above the level of the sea- Chicago
Journal
"A New York journal devoted to the
ice interests estimates that 600, 900 men
are employed in that business in the
United States during the season; that
| $4,000, 600 are expended in a year, and
that $4,000, 900 are invested in that
business. The ice storage capacity of
the States is placed by the same author
| ity at $4,000, 006 tons. = Chicago Times.
The greatest run by the steamship
Alaska in her quickest trip was 1914
miles in "a hours This is not equal to
what was accomplished before 1850, the
clipper-ship James Baines having made
APO miles in "a hours. The FLYING
Cloud, Mr. Lloyds most celebrated
ship, once made 374 knots, or 433 miles,
in 24 hours and % minutes. N Y
Herald.
Emigration to Liberia every year
under the auspices of the American
Colonization Society has been uninter-
rupted for the past sixty-one years.
The number colonized since the late
| civil war is 3,577,. and the total from
the beginning is Is, 575, exclusive of
5,722 recaptured Africans whom the
society enabled the Government of the
United States to settle in Liberia, max
ing grand total of 81, 287 persons to
whom the society has given homes in
Africa.
The biggest trees in the world are
the mammoth trees of California. One
of a grove in Tulare County, according
to measurement made by members of
the State Geological Survey, was
shown to be 276 feet high. LOG feet in
circumference at the base. and rs feet
at point u feet above the ground.
Some of the trees are 376 feet high and
81 feet in diameter. Some of the largest
trees that have been felled indicate an
age of from 1000 to 2, 500 years. ChtcG-
90 Journal.
The Dominion Cattle Company of
Canada has now invested nearly $780,
900 in lands and cattle in the pan-han-
die of Texas. Their latestpurchase was
the Wolf Creek cattle ranch of $4,000
cattle and 400 horses and mules, with
all the personal property belonging to
the ranch, for the sum of $3.50, 900.
This property adioins the Word ranch,
containing IL, 800 cattle just previous
ly purchased by the Dominion Company,
| thus uniting the two ranches, which
combined are capable Of carrying so, 600
cattle, making it the most valuable
property in the pan-handle.--T Toronto
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