The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-04-05
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The Register Of New York City is
said TO have on income from his office
of SO, 900 a year
Walter Harman, of CenterYllIe'
Md. found n penny of l196 among th@
change in his pocket the other day ana
cent fancier gave him a barrel Of Hour
for it. a. .....a En-
More than Sc, 25O 600 worth of os
tr.fch feathers are exported from South
Africa annually. The supply of feath-
ers greatly depends on the supply OF
food Chicago Journal.
In the United States during 1882
| there were published SAP volumes, AN
! increase of 4S1 over the publications OF
! the preceding year. In topics treated
| fiction leads with 767 volumes, and the
ology and religion follow with 326.-A.
| 7. Herald.
The Scotch, always a thrifty race,
are investing largely in American cattle
/ ranches. During 1882 ten large ranches
/ for herling cattle wero bought by
Seotchmen. The profit is SO much
! greater than from any use the money
/ can be put to at home that Investments
! of this kind are sure to increase. .-- Cht'
cagO Hcra5d.
.-Aeeording to the report of the New
! York Board of Police Justices the ar
raignments during the year ended Oct.
! 81. 1882. were 268 less than during the
preceding year, and this in spite of the
great increase of the city's population
During the past nine years the annual
decrease in crime has been $50 per
cent. N y. Sun.
The Census Office bulletin upon the
forests of West Virginia, Just issued,
places the area still occupied by white
| los IA Tf
. contains about ggO,O0OOO0 feet of mcr-
chantable lumbcr The lumber prod
uct of the State for the census year was
18O.112, 900 feet of lumber, 12.07l,oOo
laths, 3,69j, 600 shingles, 4l,992,O OOV
slaves, and ,952, GOO sets Of headings,
valued at 50, 43l ,857.- Chicago Times.
Immigration into the United States
attracts general attention, because the
people arrive i'm numbers, but whoever
thinks 10 count the population which
shifts from one State to another? Tho
census of 1880 shows between siN and
: seven millions Of forcign-bom citizens.
: But ii also reveals the fact that nearly
seven millions of natiyc-born Amcri-
cans are living in other STATES rom
those in which they were born-N. D..
Herald. "
+ The following figures show the work
| done by the IlSN hdltHtIltS III NdH't'i'''
The eggs and fish laid down in hatch
cries were: Salmon, 6,Gl2,O00; salmon
trout, 8, $50. 900; spccklcd trout, 100000;
{. whitefish, 43, ,OO0 OOO--a total of 80, 1872
: 600. The fsh-fry distributed during the
sprino has been: Salmon, 5,7S3- OOOi
: salmon trout, 2,277, 600; California sal
+ mon, All, 900; specklcd trout, 40,6OO'
!, pickereI, 26,500, 600; whiteiish, 2O,I2o,-
d 0OO-a total of So, 799 600. The total en-
= penses of the fish-culture service was
: $31 ,223.
? Vertical travel, by means of pas
: senger elevators Is rapidly increasing
: throughout the United States. The
= first one went into operation less than
. twenty-five years ago, and now betwcct
$4,000 and $4,000 arc in constant use
New York alone having $1,000 IL D
estimated that for every new mile 4"
2, railway which is constructed, passeu
ger elevator is built. The travel oi
le them is enormous The eight elevator
n in the Equitable Life Building, in Nev
2 York carry up and down daily aver
+ age of 10000 people, while severa
n thousand per diem is not an unusua
'd number for large stores and hotels d
IN our great cities N y. ITtb1t'tc