The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-02-22
FACTS AND FIGURES:

The New York Central Railroad
Company owns 6S8 passenger coaches
and y, 400 freight cars. The Erie has
44l coaches and -, POS freight cars.
The British possessions in Australia
cover 3, O75, 600 square miles. The pop
ulation, white and colored, number
>, 2,835. 954, by ar the greater part being
concentrated in \ few cities
In 1882, somet ody i'm the United
| States swallowed 73, 556,0 0J6 gallons Of
| distilled spirits, 5,62S OIL gallons Of
wines, and 527,051,2 gallons of beer
over coo, 0O0,0 gallons all told,
and there was probably some water
used during tho same period. Detroit
Post.
There are, according TO French sta
tistics, 4S, 4S7 sailing vessels in the
world, with tonnage of nearly four
teen millions. England heads tho list.
and then come in their order America.
Norway, Germany, Italy, RuSsia and
France. Great Britain has 3, ,317 steam
ers, carving 800. 600 tons. Next
comes America, with jOl; then France,
with IA.
In the British Army Report for
1880, just published. il is stated that the
total number of recruits inspected dur
ing the year was 46. .lOS, and of these
1874, or 400 81 per 1000 were reject
ed. 1t is believed that most OF these
we're driven to the recruiting Office by
sheer nevess ty. OF the number Of app
plicants, =. 8 = were laborers and hus-
bandmen by profession, and 10, 100 Of
these were found unit to he soldiers.
Harper II. Black, of Hartford
County, Maryland, Las several spcci-
A-.I na..n
note is for twenty shillings issued by
the State of Delaware in l759. Another
is n rote of the denomination of 80,
issued by the state of Maryland in l767.
On the face is the Maryland coat-of-
arms, with tho motto "Crcscite ct
Multipicamini.n Cn the reverse Of
each note is inscribed: "Tis Death 10
Counterlc t. -
The reports of the Maine Railroad
Commissioners for 1882 show a very
gratifying condition of prosperity in the
roads of that State. The total income
of all the roads amounted To SL57l,-
$40 81, and the expenses to 81, 22S.-
76S Is, leaving n balance Of -, 352,-
1910. The who length of the main
lines operated has been 2.O66 6S. Tho
total assets of tho Maine Central are tho
largest, amounting to S12, 827, s0S.57
the Boston d Maine coming next with
$I2, $50, 623. ~.
A firm in Boston that thirteen
years ago employed only five women,
now employs 800; another firm that six
years ago employed only fifty now cm-
plOys 90, md still another firm gives
work to 1,2OO. Everywhere there is a
drift of women into industrial employ
ment The wages of some of thom,
however, are andalously low and il i5
hard to imagine how they manage tn
live; SO that the question as to wheth-
er the result will be altogether for tho
good of women remains rs yet undeCid-
ed. .-BOStOn Transcript.
The Warden of the Illinois Pcniten,
tiary has collected fgurc7 as to the
death rate i'm penal institutions, and as-
touishing var ations are shown. While
at Sng sing the yearly deaths from
900 inmates number less than seven,
at Auburn they are twelve. and at Cln-
ton over twenty. The lowest rate i5
three in Wis onsin. and the highest is
seventy-scven in Mississippi He says
that the practice Of letting conyicts work
in mines and upon railroads, without
proper food or lodgings, causes fright
full dcst uction of life in several South
ern States. but he cannot unGers and
why the figure is so high rs forty-eght
in New Hampshire. N J.. Sun.