The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-07-06
FACTS AND FIGURES.


South Australia has a population Of
279, ,S6G. Its debt has grown from
$11.000.O00 in 1873 to nearly $50, 000,.
600 in 1881.
The art of iron smelling was known
in England during the Roman occu-
patton and steel working was practiced
there before the Norman conquest.
The forest area Of Victoria, the
most southern colony of Australia. con-
tains 5000 square miles of forest. Of
which 71,500 is almost wholly of the
eucalyptus tree.
Somebody has taken the trouble to
figure out the fact that one million kern
els of Indian corn will measure twelve
to fourteen bushels, according to the
size of the kernel
in the census year 1880 the wotlen
mills in the United States employe
161.23I persons; capital employed,
s158, 740, 070; wages paid. $47, ,244. 900;
material used, $I63, ,05S. 92S; value of
products, 1886, 798, 454.- Chicago Jour
nal.
The Gagetta de Napoti is authority
for the statement that the number of
deaths from delirium tremens and
chronic alcoholism are: In Italy. Les
per thousand; in England. 2.04; Nor
way, 2. sc; Scotland, 2 80; Belgium and
Switzerland, each, 3.83; Sweden, 6.25,
and New York, 1908.
The vaults in the Chicago sub
treasury are loaded down with such an
accumulation of the precious metals that
it is feared the walls will settle. The
bullion vault now contains 125 tons OF
silver and two tons of gold, valued at
$500, 900, in addition to the more
valuable but lighter paper Chicago
Tribune.
Five firms are engaged in Pitts
burgh, Pa, in the sand and cobble-stone
business. with an invested capital Of
over 800, 900, emplo wing upwards of
one hundred men, From the beds of
the rivers between 800, 900 and 900, 900
bushels of sand and gravel are yearly
taken, Cobble-stones are secured about
seveDty-ive miles up the Allegheny
River.
in 1881 there were 143 sill1-weaving
establishments, having 1883 looms in
operation, in France, and in Switzer-
land in 1880 there were eighty-six S TX
manufacturers, having $3.50 power
looms, and %, 600 hand-looms. The
Swiss figures for 1879 were: Manufact-
urers, 79; pOwer-looms, 1,150; hand
looms, 26, $50. The ribbon production
in Basic in 1872 was estimated at 57,-
600, 600 francs, in 1876 at $1,000, 600
francs, in 1873 at 80, 900, 600 francs, and
in 1880 at SO, 900, 600 francs.
A ship ought to make a round trip
between San Francisco and Liverpool
annually. A good many do it. Some
have quite a margin to spare. There
is necessarily some detention at Liver
pool. This varies from two to six
weeks, sometimes longer. Last year
the st. Stephen arrived at San Francisco
in April in a round trip of 261 days, n
cluding a detention of thirty-four days
at Liverpool. Some of the vessels sent
off at the beginning of the current
cereal year are now arriving back.
Mississippi has something over 80
900, 600 acres of land-much of them
the richest known to man. Less than
5000, 600 acres are cultivated. This is,
however, an increase of several hun
dred thousand acres over the number
in 1870, and nearly equal to that under
cultivation in 1860. There are now
rs, 600 farms, as compared with $4,000
ten years ago, and AZ, 900 twenty years
ago. The number of acres comprised
in the plantations is nearly three times
that actually farmed-i. C., there are
$4,000, 900 owned. and but 5000. 600
cultivated. - Chicago Times.