The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-29
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Chicken business is not a small con-
Germ when it is estimated that S75,
900 is the value OF the eggs of the coun-
try each year.
Maine sold s125,0 900 worth OF
spruce gum last year. At five cents a
chew this would represent an aggregate
of II, 100000 american girls and boys
made happy.
The Edison lamp factory at Now
ark, N. j., can turn out 10000 lamps a
day, and yet each lamp passes through
more than zU0 distinct stages during It's
manu- acture. A. y. Sun.
"A man has figured that there are in
this country about II, 600, 900 pet cana
res, which annually use l 5000, 600
pounds of seed, worth S14. 900, 900, and
that twenty-five manu- 'actories made
1000, 0JO cages last year
One of those persons who keep
recor rds'' says that 134feet Of snow have
fallen in the Ashuelot Valley, New
Hampshire, during the past twenty"
three years The smallest ia in one
year was 80 inches; the deepest 1Ol
inches.
In France upwards of a million
foreigners now reside. only $4,000 of
whom are English, while $50, 0,000 arc
Belgians, 250, 900 Italians, $50, 600 Ger
mans, 10000 Swiss, and $4,000 Span
iards. Thirty years ago the Germans
numbered only 57.O61 and the Italians
only 63, 80.
Already during the present year
seventeen separate notices of the dis
covery of gold and silver in the State
of New York have been filed with the
Secretary of State. These ella ms are
distributed among the counties as fol-
lows: / Eerkimcr, 5 u,tOn, 8; Hamll-
ton. 3; and Saratoga, OtsegO, Putnam
and Rensselaer, l each. N. \. Times.
The report of the minister of
crown lands O. the Province of Quebec
shows hat during the year covered by
the returns pa, 367 acres of public
lands were sold for the sum Of $50
1 <. ~, on account OF the same, and O.
sales previously made. 800, 741. were
collected. The proceeds of the sales Of
agricultural lands amounted to S50,-
1881, and those OF mining lands to
S15, 9O7.4S.
The largest cotton-mjll in the
United States is that OF the Clark
bread Company Just opened at Kear-
ny, on the le t bank of the Iassaic. 1t
cost over 81 900, coo. 1t contains GAO
machines, weighing l0,0l0 0.000 pounds,
WHICH,, III d Slu2iC bSbf Vi ACh WI nh :
hours. could produce a length of yarn
sufficient to eucrcle the earth four
times, but so fine that it would weigh
only 1000 pounds. ds.-Neacar5 (N 0)
Register.
In all Great Britain and Ireland,
with popul ton apprOximating 81
900, ,O00 there are between 900 AMI
II. 900 lawyers In the United States,
with a population larger by On'y L.
0OIOOO, there are 65. 0O0 lawyers, and
in New York State, with tenth of the
country population, abide sixth OF
its entire body of lawy yers. There IS a
lawyer to cry 5000 people in Great
Britain, while in America there is a law
yer to every 800 people. albany On
| = JOatrRnt.
The manufacture of macorOni and
vermicelli is assumin large dimens Ons
in California. A pecul ar kind OF wheat
! is used that is grown on the islands OF
| the Scr mentO River from seed i'm
| ported from 1t Is. About 10, 600 cks
| of this wheat are used every year. Some
| 30, 600 boxes of the macarOni are con-
sumed annually in the States and Ter
ritories west of the Rocky Mount aims,
| exclusive OF the CITY of San Francisco,
! which uses 70, 900 boxes more Over
! 1900 boxes go to Mexico, Australia,
| Central 4 merica China, the Sandwich
and South Sea Isl nds. Alaska calls
| for Il, 600 pounds. and some is sent even
| to Siberia. San Francisco Chronicle.