Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-16
FACTS AND FIGURES.

1t takes 100000 postal cards to
weigh one TOM y. Times.
Out of a population of 1900. 900 in
New York City, only 81, 052 persons
own real estate.-N T. Tribune.
In his report TO the Secretary of the
Interior, Governor Tritle, of Arizona,
claims for the Territory population of
10000.
Texas organized sixty-eight new
counties last year. making 200 in the
State. The increase of her taxable
property in the year was $3.50, 600. 600.
-Chicdgo Herald.
New York City has $50, 100000 in
vested in the oyster business, and last
year ate at home S,0O0.OOO bushels of
the toothless fish. A Washington Mar
ket woman is getting rich selling 500
bowls of soup day at ten cents bowl.
N y. SIN.
1t is unusual for Southern planter
10 make 500. 900 by farming. Mr.. l..
NJ. Hill, of Wilkes County, Ga, has re-
Gently died. He made 500, 900 by
farming. In the same county General
Toombs and his brother Gabriel are
each worth SjOhO00, nearly all of
which has been made by farming
Louisville COuricr-JoTrRdi.
When Horace Greeley visited Utah,
the saints told him that there were
more girls than BOYS in MormondOm,
which they argued was a sign of God s
approval of polygamy. The latest sta
tlsticS, however, show that of the births
in the church during the last six months
l,2O0 were male and LOO female.
Moreover, the last census shows that
there were then in the Territory "a. 932
males under ten years of age and %, 762
females. Chicago Times
Ono of the finest coffee estates in
Mexico is said to be that of San Anto-
MO, northward from the city of COlima,
the property of Messrs Adolf Kefe,
Arnold Nogcl. Enrique Stoldt, and
Arthur l'Arivcl. There are so. 600 trees
in fruit, which will produce abundantly
this Year, $1,000 which VIII produce
the first crop, 5000 planted in the
current year after having been in the
I nursery three years. and from 10000
10 10000 trees in the nurseries, max
Ing total of 10000 plants. of which
10000 are in bearing.
The great bulk of the borse-hair
used in the United States is imported
from the Argentine Republic and
| Uruguay. The total amount imported
in 1852 was 4,082,U00 pounds. In the
previous year the importation was 81
6ij,912 pounds, and in 1880 nearly A.
100000 pounds. Assuming an average
price of % cents per pound the amount
imported last year would reach total
value of about 81, 40, OOO. The bulk of
this horSe-ha'r is manufactured by four
or five concerns, one of which is in
Boston, one in New York one i'm Phila-
delphia and one in Baltimore.-N. y
H.rG'd.
A league has been organized in
New England to inaugurate 4 war
against the excessive granting of divorce
DEGREES. During last year 5S7 divorces
were granted in Maine-an increase of
! nearly 30 per cent. in twenty years.
New Hampshire divorces have increased
from l07 in 1860 To 81 in 1882; MaSsa-
chu-cu divorces from 2i3 to GOO in the
same length of time; Connecticut di-
vorccS from Ii in 1919 to 40 in 1880;
Rhode Island divorces from 1872 in 1869
To- 2Gl in 1882. The New York courts
granted 2lS divorces in 1880, 253 in
1881, $40 in 1882, and this year the
number promises To swell TO 400.-BOS-
ton Post.