The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-02
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Michigan produces more salt thar
anY other State.

Michigan produces more salt than
any other State.
The sales from Chicago dry goods
house last year aggregated $27, $50, 600.
The net profits of the Bank of En-
gland are s135,00O, a week, or about
S22, 500 a day.
people over ten years of age who cannot
write their own name.-Dctroh Free
Press.
New England manufactures 81, 500, =
900 worth of table cutlery every year
and yet it isn't fashionable to eat pic
with knife.
The loss to England by the last three
years of bad harvests is estimated at
from hundred to a hundred and fifty
million dollars year.
There are one thousand artesian
wells in California, three hundred of
which are in the Santa Clara Valley.
They average from $50 to $50 feet deep.
New England requires about 20,-
000,0 900 bushels of wheat and produces
only 1880, 900. New York uses about
$4,000, 900 and grows about 12,000,0 900.
Here are some of the dividends de-
clared by English cotton mills in 1881:
Moorfeld, III per cent; Albert, 2 per
cent; Twist, 16 per cent; Oak, Is per
cent; Parkside, 13 per cent. Stanley
Mills, IS per cent; Sun Mill Spinning
Company, II per cent; Royton Spin
ming Company, 20 per cent.
in the ninety-nine counties of Iowa
there were in 1880, according to the
census, 2,504 working oxen; $685.
milch COWS; 1,754, ,420 other cattle;
6,044, 906 swine; 791, ,354 horses, and
A, 399 mules and asses. There were
in the State 1,624.615 people. The
greatest number of milch COWS in any
one county was o., 232 in Lee; the
greatest number of oxen, 306 in Du-
buque; of other cattle, AZ, 391 in Lee; of
swine, 1873, 185 in Cedar; of horses, 15,-
949 in Clinton; of mules and asses, /, ,917
in Fremont counties.
The number of varieties of insects
is vastly greater than that of all other
living creatures. The oak supports $50
species of insects and 200 are found in
the pine. Humboldt, in 1S49, caiculat-
ed that between 1j0,0 and 10, 900
specimens were preserved in collections.
but recent estimates place the present
number at about 100000 species.
Nothing and nobody escapes taxa
llOu Ill 1uIkGy- luC OONGIuIAltuJ lthGS
one-tenth of all crops, besides which
there is a tax Of three-tifths of one per
cent on the value of the land. On
every sheep and goat there is an annual
tax of twelve cents, and when horse.
COW or other domestic animal is sold
two-and-a-half per cent. of the price
goes to the Government Then there is
house tax amounting to two-ffths of
one per cent. on the value of houses
worth under $500, and four-fifths of one
per cent. on houses valued above that
sum.
From the official balance-sheet of
the Paris exhibition of 1873, it appears
that the total expenditures were, in
round numbers, S11, ,155, 900, and the
total receipts S4, $40, 600, leaving de-
ficit of So, 285, 600, which is more than
three times the original deficit estimate,
the estimate having been $4,000, 600.
In almost every item the expenditures
exceeded. the estimates, and SO also of
the receipts. Admissions returned S2,-
675, 900, or 1925, ,O00less than was antici-
pated. Money paid as wages amount
ed to $500, 900, as against an estimate of
only $340,0 900. Water for the cascades
and aquariums cost $500, 600, the med
ais and diplomas 100000 and the
awards ceremony $40,800.