Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-27
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The shipments of wheat from Du-
luth, Mimi, from Sept. 1, 1882, to June
l, 1888, were $685., $50 bushels.
1t is asserted that the largest ivory
factory in the world is at Centerbrook,
Conn.,, where sometimes 1925, 900 worth
Of ivory is bleaching.
There are 1884 manufactures in
the United States, the average number
Of hands employed being 2,75S, $50, and
the money paid per annum in wages
about 1oO, 100000 sterling. The num-
Der of manufactures has doubled during
the last ten years.-N. Y. Times.
"A Montana firm bought 5000 head
Of cattle on the Sun River and Telton
range about year ago for S135, 00C
cash. They were sold to a Colorado
syndicate recently for $235, 900, the in
crease in the value and the increase in
the herd netting 800, 900 in one year
Chicago Tribune.
1t may not be generally known that
the hog furnishes more export material
than the cattle, dairy products, horses,
mules. sheep and poultry together. In
lS79-'S0 the hog products amounted to
$3.50. OS7, 726, while the product of all
other domestic animals was only $780,.
$40, 3S2.-N y. Herald.
One of the South Dakota papers
figures it up that of the $4,000 square
miles south of the forty-sixth parallel
about $4,000 are NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
lands, leaving for the proposed State,
for which some of the South Dakota
people are clamoring. only $4,000
square miles, about half the size OF
Iowa.
An idea of the increase of real estate
in New York City may be had from the
statement that two buildings recently
torn down at the corner of Broadway
and Nineteenth streets, which'cOs their
owner 80, 500 originally, occupy site
which is now valued at S250,000. Last
year the rent for the two buildings was
s25, 00c-N. Y. Sun.
1t is estimated that Washington
Territory will send abroad this year
49,, 900, 900 feet of lumber, 200, 900 tons
Of coal, 200, 200 pounds of hops, 200. 00G
cases of salmon. 100000 bushels OF
wheat, 100000 bushels of oats, 1O0,-
300 bushels of potatoes, and $500, OOC
pounds of wool. In cargoes of 1,50C
tons, this quantity of produce will load
900 large ships, or three every day in
the year except Sundays.
The agricultural laborers of Mis-.
sissippi, $40, 900 in round numbers, EN-.
bracing men, women and children, in.
Guiding children from ten years of ace
up to men and women of threescore,
manage to wiring from the bosom OF
mother earth the magnificent aggregate
Of S63, 701,844 per annum. or nearly
SlSS to every man, woman and child
engaged in stirring the soil and gather
ing fruits. The money value of the
farms in the State in 1880 was 1922
S44,915, against SSl, 1866 in 1870,
which shows a wholesome increase il
value. Chicago Herald.
With only two exceptions the
Judges of the Supreme Court arr
wealthy. Judge Blatchford is worth al
least $4,000, 900, and has no children
nobody but his wife and self; Judge
Matthews is worth, at a very low esti
mate, $4,000 Wood, 800. 900; Waite
S250,0C0; Field, $4,000; Judge Gray
$4,000, and he is an old bachelor
Bradley, 100000. Judges Miller anC
Harlan are both poor men. Their only
income is their salary. So you see W.
have the enormous sum of SIS, 1850, 0Ot
represented by seven men on the Su
preme bench-an average of 81, lis, 900
N Y. Tribune.