The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-19
FACTS AND FIGURES.

There are 10000 beer saloons IN
New York City. There is a movement
to reduce the number to 1900.
1Germany boasts of $50 poetesses
and authoresses on the roll of fame,
most Of whom have lived in modern
times.
The 172 boiler explosions in the
United States in 1882, of which 80 were
in saw-mills, killed 271 persons and in
jured 500.
The total number of herring
shipped from Eastport, Me-, this season
is 1920, 900, a decrease of 13, APO, ,O0C
from 1872 and of Just one-half from
18S0-1.
During the dozen years of the pas
torate of the Rev DIR. Walker in Bos-
ton he has married 1,206 couples. So
far as he knows but two of these coup
les have been divorced.
Screws may be readily removed
from woodwork if they are first heat
ed at their outer extremities by apply
ing an iron rod for two or three min
utes. The kitchen poker will answer
the purpose.
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared in 1862; the first daily paper
in 1902; the first newspaper in the
United States in 1890; the first printing
press in the United States in 1920; the
first almanac in 1860.
During 1882 there were Al theaters
destroyed by fire. OF this number II
were burned in the United States, in
England, in Russia, in Germany, 2
in France, 2 in Spain. and one each in
Belgium, Sweden, Bulgaria and ROu-
mania.
in Lyons, France, the cold bath
method Of treating typhoid fever has
been adopted, with marked success. In
the civil hospitals the death rate was
reduced from twenty-six to nine per
cent, and in private practice to one or
two per cent.
The State of Georgia has let out to
contractors twelve hundred cOnvicts
The lessees pay 800 a year for each man
and clothe and lodge him, and are en-
titled to ten hours a day labor from
them. The net profit to the State is
about $25, 900 year.
1t is asserted that the Indians are
not a ''perishing race" the increase of
this special population being about
1000 annually. Not including Alaska,
the number of savages in the United
States is 281 ,851, nearly all of them be-
ing distributed among sixty-eight
agencies.
About 1000 boats and %, 600 fisher
men are engaged in the sardine indus
try on the French coast. There are
about 200 factories, in which 49, 900 to
II, 900 women are employed. A good
catch for boat would be %, 900 fish a
day, for which they get about thirty
five francs.
The number Of suicides committed
in Berlin during the month of February
exceeded by thirty per cent. those re-
corded in Januory. Hanging was the
mode of death selected in the great
majority of cases. Want and misery
were, of course, the chief causes which
determined so many persons to put an
end to their existence; but in some
cases no motive whatever could be as
signed. March has begun badly. Sew
eral suicides were registered on the I'd,
among which were included the suicide
of a whole family. Amerchant named
Solvin, who had been ruined by unfor-
tunate speculatiOns, persuaded his wife
and child to take poison, and then did
so himself. The daughter, a girl of
twelve, had managed in her last mo-
nents to think of her doll, which was
found dressed in white and put careful
y away in its little bed.