Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-04
wFaCTs AND FIGURES.

a.
Texas EXPECTS TO- have a popula-
ton. of 1900, 600 in 1890.
/ The national debt Of France, S4,-
6S3, $40, 900, is three times as large as
ours. SIS ~
"a correspondent of the Brooklyn
| On. " Eagle says there are 13.OOO,-
600 of spiritualists in the United States.
New Orleans; is not generally re-
garded as a very healthy City, bat re-
cent records show the low death rate
| among thewhite residents of twenty-one
in l, 900 III ~
1t is estimated that Florida's cigar
product this year will be about double
that of 1882. In that YEAR fl, S59, S75
cigars were manufactured, upon which
a tax was paideof S251 1922!
-Mr.E3R Beauehamp, United States
Consul at St Gale, Switzerland, raised
10, $50 francs for the benefit of the suf-
ferers from the Ohio River flood, which
he forwarded to the New York HeraId.
In the United States last year thero
were published 3,472 books, of which
lIs767 were tiction, 326thoolog5calo and re-
ligious, 27S were Juvenile. and 37S were
on law. The fewest number, 81, were
on mental and moral philosophy.
The Cable Construction and Main
tenance Company earned almost half a
million clear last year. outof which div
idends were paid art the rate of twenty
per cent, and over $500. 900 carried
over. The laying of submarine cables
evidently is not anSunprotitable bust
ness. is-a1 = ~e7T 2
Investigation shows that in. Utah
the Mormon Church has about l20, 600
members; in the Western. States and
Territories about $4,000, and in the
Sandwich Islands about z 900. { 1t has
about ninety churches IN Great Britain,
and the determination is one 81 the
largest in the southern part of Wales.
Probably the largest mass of rock
that has ever been transported, not ex-
cepting even the blocks in the Egyptian
Pyramids, was that from which was
cut the pedestal of the statue of Peter
the Great, in ST. Petersburg. 1t was
block of granite weighing 5000, 600
pounds, or about 1900 tons, and was
found isolated on marshy ground, about
four miles from the Neva Its shape
was that of an irregular prism, about
twenty-four feet high, forty-seven feet
long, and thirty feet broad in its largest
dimensions.
Heretofore Nevada has furnished
most of the beef consumed inCalifornia,
but it is said that lexis is nukinela
strong bid for it, now that railroad com
7munication has been established, there
with. Recently council of .stockmen.
at which upward of $50, O00, 600 i'm cat.
tie were represented, was held at Fort
Worth, the object being to devise means
to control the California cattle trade!
California can no longer be called a
cattle country, as land there is becom-
ing too valuable for other purposes than
grazing. Chicago Times.
Some one in France has made an
estimate of the average cost Of living
among the working classes inthat couri.
try, and 'hefinds that the expenditures
of 16 families, fairly representative of
different orders of laboring people,, va
ried from 1922 TO 5000 per annumnn.
House accommodation, as a rule,
claimed 10 per cent. of the total expendi-
ture, clothing 16 per cent. and food GIL
per cent, eight per cent. being reserved
for miscellaneous purposes. In the
matter of food he found that the highest
expenditure registered was y per cent.
and this item of expenditure was thus
distributed: S3 per cent. for bread, IA
per cent. for meat, - per cent. for milk,
u per cent. for groceries and 10 per
cent. for miscellaneous ailments. The.
greatest expenditure upon bread in any
Individual case was AS per cent - -.