The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-31
FACTS AND FIGURES.

in Buenos Ayres it takes ten dollars
in paper money 10 buy one dollar IN
gold. The paper currency there is de-
preeiated.
Indiana statistics show that the
liquor traffic cost the State, in twenty
years ended December 81 last, for GRIM
inal expenses alone. $14, 762, 359. 46.
For the first time in the history of
the commonwealth the State Prisons of
New York were self-sustaining in 1881,
and there was a surplus to their credit
of 1864. 35.-M T. San.
AT present there are no less than
twenty-one passenger steamships plying
between New York and Europe, and,
with one or two exceptions, each has
vessel weekly.
The intense heat of summer in Aus
trala far suTpasses that of the United
StateS-even that of Arizona. A recent
note in Nature records a temperature
there of 18O degrees in 1882. 172 in
1880, 153 in 1871, 159 in 1862, and 158
in 1860.
The cotton spindles of the world
number ~, I21, 148, Great Britain hav-
ING SO, 500. 600, and the United States
following with 10, 921, ,14S. The earliest
cotton mill in the United States was es-
tablished at Bridgewater, Mass, prior
TO 1857.
"A year ago a Laramie Plains cattle
man was offered n Utah herd and ranch
for $40, 600, which offer was rejected.
Since that the Utah man sold S45. 600
worth out of the herd, then sold the
ranch for $500, afterward put $4,000
more into the herd, and then sold it for
$40, 000.- Chicago Times.
IA 4I,aF Io fosYr mani
factories of Montgomery, VT, will turn
out four hundred thousand butter tubs
the present season, of all sizes. A
larger proportion of ten, twenty and
thirty pound tubs are called for than
usual. The material for hoops has be-
come exhausted in that region, and is
now bruoght from Michigan.
The estimate of the revenue of the
Dutch East Indies for the current year
shows deficit of 1885, 600 at least.
Last year the deficit was estimated at
81, 600, 900, but proved TO be $1,000, 600.
For the six years ending with 1882, the
Minister of Finance put it at $12, 5O0,-
600. The Acheen troubles. not over
even now, have been no joke for HOl-
land, where living is very dear and tax
alton heavy.
The survey of Lake WinnipiseOgee,
N. H., by the lake company gives the
following results: Islands containing
over 1000 acres, one; 500 to 1,0OG
acres, two; 100 to 500 acres. seveni
fifty to 100 acres, six; ten to fifty acres,
twenty-five; less than ten acres, 226i
total islands having vegetation, 267.
The entire distance around the lake and
Long Bay is 1872 miles; and the water
surface is sixty-nine square miles, 53l
acres, and 8. 03 square rods.
The value of babies has been fixed
A child less than one year old is worth
SI4; between one and two years, S1g1-
two to three years, $28; four years, S3li
five years, $35; six years, $40; seven
years, $50; eight years. $50; nine years,
$40; ten years, 800; eleven years, 1923.
These are the valuations made by ba-
by insurance company Of Cincinnati.
The parents pay five cents per week for
the insurance of their child. The rates
for colored children are twice as much
owing to their two-fold ability for con-
tracing contagious disease. Boston
Post.