The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-30
FACTS AND FIGURES.

"A Cincinnati factory makes eleven
miles of candles day.
"A Pittsfield (Mass.) manufactory is
to furnish sleeping-car blankets for an
Italian railroad.
1t is estimated that the State of
Louisiana contains so, 600, 600. 600 feet
of good lumber, more than twice as
much as Michigan.
The Long Branch property of ex-
President u. S. Grant, near Elbenon. has
been transferred to his wife, Mrs Julia
Dent Grant The consideration named
was $40, 600.
The city. of Utica, N Y, was fifty
years old the other day, aud Of the
10000 inhabitants who lived there when
the city charter was obtained, only I75
remain in the present population of
$4,000.
During the year 1881 Sweden ex-
ported about $4,000, 600 pounds avoirdu-
pOis of matches. One firm employees
The boxes to contain the matches are
made by the prisoners in the jails of
Stockholm.
-Messrs. George Rowland, Jr., and
Matthew Rowland, of New Bedford,
terest in the whaling business, a pursuit
in which their family has been engaged
for a longer period than any other firm.
The first whaler was built for their
father, George Rowland, in 1906.
Brooklyn has paid for the maintenance
of her public schools nearly $40, 900, 600
One half of this amount was paid to
teachers. About 5000, 600 were used in
providing free books. The expenses of
the educational board have increased
from $307, 720 in 1864 to ST., 424, 1895 in
1882.
The value in round millions of the
cereal crop of 1881, according to the
estimates of the Department at Wash
ington, are: Corn, $759, 900, 600; wheat,
1858, ,000, 900; oats, $I93, 600, 900; rye,
SO, 600; barley, S33, 900, 900; buck
wheat, S., 900, 900. Total 81 400, 900, :
900, against 81, 1861 900, 900 in 1880.
There are several departments in
the government of New York State
which are substantially self-supporting
viz, the State Engineers, insurance,
banks, the salt-works at Syracuse, State
Prisons, which earned, last year, $40
900; gas-meters, shore inspection. These,
with the retained school money, make
$3, ,621, $50 of the $S,747, 746 named in
the annual appropriation bill.
Statistics show that the annual con-
sumption of eggs in the United States
is about 10, 600, 900 barrels. The poultry
marketed or consumed is estimated at
$50, 600, 600 pounds, at $68, 900, 900, and
yet there are some that say that chickens
don't pay them anyhow. If this is so,
some one must be losing money in dis
posing of the vast amount of chickens
and eggs consumed in the United
States.
The packing business in Maine has
reached immense proportions. There
are sixty-one corn-canning establish
ments, with an an annual production of
about II, $50, 600 cans. The packing of
fish is roughly estimated at 1000, 600
cans of lobster, 100000 cans of mack
erel, and $50, 900 cans of CLAIMS annual
ly. The sardine business, which had
its origin four or five years ago in a
small shop at Eastport, has attained
vast proportions, there now being fif-
teen or more factories in operation at
different points in the State, and others
are projected. Several factories are
also quite extensively engaged in the
canning of meats, chiefly mutton.
Others at present are canning apples.
while immense quantities of blueberrries
and other small fruit are put up at the
various establishments throughout the
State during the summer season.