Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-26
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Eleven new churches i'm course OF
construction in New York will cost 81.
0OO.OO0
There was $3.50. 900. 600 worth OF
beer drank in this country last year. be-
ing 95.OUO, 900 gallons.-M Y Herald.
In spite of somewhat extensive
emigration Of French Canadians to the
I'm ted States. they have increased in
number from l. 0S2. 900 ten years ago to
tho present population of l,2yS, 929.
The ci " OF LOnd IN, sprea ling out
so rs TO include It's suburbs, now num-
bers I,76i, % W pecp,e. which Is mil on
moro than there are in Scotland. with.
IN 100000 OF the whole of Ire and. and
more than in Sweden, Holland or POr-
tugaL
Mo other country in the world Of.
fers snch iacili les for tppling rs the
populous and polished Kingdom of Bel
GUM. whose t.0JJ,000 inhabitants sn
nually consume about so. 00J, co. quarts
of alcoho ic Ii uors. There is an aver.
age of one public house for every twelve
male BE gians. and in some parts o the
country the supply il nearly twice rs
great.
China is ahead on bridges, the
largest in the world he NJ her structure
at Lagan {, over an arm OF the Chln9
Sea. II is tive miles long, built entirely
of stone. has 300 arches ~ feet high and
roadway 40 feet wi q. The parapet
is a balustra lie, and each OF the pi lars,
which are Is feet apart. sup or ; 6
pedestal on which is placed lion. 81
feet long. made OF one block OF marble.
% the 10000 envelopes sent out by
the managers OF the Baltimore Home foI
the Friend ess. for Christmas offerings,
but 1,OI6 were returned In those re-
turned werethree s. b lis, seven b b lis,
and forty seven 81 bills; tn rty-iive so
cent pie es. one hundred and seventy.
seven - cent pieces. four hun lred and
Oh rty-thrce 1u-cent p eces. three hun.
drtd and hitysl j-ceDt pieces, tn rtv
nine ) cent piec's. and seven hundred
and Orty two cents--in all S207. "a.
Fifteen Americans own 1920. OOO..
900, As. for ins ance: w. H. Wander
bit, > 6',00j.00O; jay Gould. SlOO..
100000; Leland Stan ord. SO }. O0O, 900
G. +. Huntington. 800. 900 Charles
Croker. = O.0OO. 600, 600: Mrs. Hopkins.
$4,000. 200: Eus ell sage. $40, 600, 900
James Flood, $500 10, %; j. G.. Fair.
S4O.OOO.OOJ; +. G. Mackey. 500 o..
600; Cyrus W. Field. So, OO1. 900
James Kecnc. $40. OOn, 900; estate oil
Thomas Scott, $50. 900. 600; John w.
Garrett. go, 900, 900: Samuel j. Tilden.
S1j.C0 O)0.-N u TTmcS.
Some interesting statistics of street
car business were brought out at o
meeting he .d in Boston recently. to form
national association Of street-car II.
GERS. There are now do M bus ness in
this country an Canada 4l5 street rail
ways. employing gbout $1,000 men.
They run $4,000 cars. and more than
lOO,OO horses are in daily use. Calcu-
lating that the average life OF n horse in
sire tt-railway service is four. years. it
makes the consumption of hor es ~. OO0
per year To eed this vast number of
horses requires annually $50. 900 tons OF
hav an ll.GO),0 bushels Of era n.
The companies own and operate over
5000 miles of track. The vino num-
Der OF passengers carried annually lie
over LIZ. $4,000. The amount OF cap
ital invested exceeds Sl0O, O0O. Coo
BOStOD 1TdnScr,p'.