The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-01-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.

There was $3.50, 100000 worth OF
beer drank in this country last year. be-
ing 80, 900, 600 gallons.-N l. Herald
In spite of a somewhat extensive
emigration of French Canadians to the
United States, they have increased in
number from / ,0S2, 600 ten years ago to
the present populat on of ,298, 929.
The Corpus Christi Free Press
doubts whether another county in the
State of Texas can show greater in
crease in valuation than Neuces. The
total valuation in 1881 was 80, 482, 695,
and for 1882 1917, ,662- an increase Of
S2,005, 167.
The city of London, spreading out
so as to include its suburbs, now num-
bers 4.764, 600 people, which is a million
more than there are in Scotland. with
in 400, 600 of the whole of Ireland, and
more than in Sweden, Holland or Por-
tugaL
In this fertile land of plenty it
seems incredible that 1000, 900 bushels
of potatoes should be imported in
single year, and yet this was the case
last year as shown by the Government
revenue records. Import duties amount
ing to considerably over $1,000, 600
were paid.
No other country in the world Of
fers such facilities for tipping rs the
populous and polished Kingdom of Bel
gium, whose 5000, 900 inhabitants an
nually consume about 60, 600, 000 quarts
OF alcoho ic liquors. There is an aver
age of one public house for every twelve
male Be gians, and in some parts Of the
country the supply is nearly twice as
great.
China ahead on bridges, the
largest in the world being her structure
at Lagang, over an arm OF the China
Sea- 1t is five miles long, built entirely
of stone, has 800 arches 10 feet high and
a roadway 20 feet wide. The parapet
is a balustrade, and each of the pillars,
which are rs feet apart, supports a
pedestal on which is placed lion. 21
feet long, made of one blOckof marble.
OF the 40, 600 envelopes sent ont by
the managers of the Baltimore Home for
the Friendless, for Christmas offerings,
but ,016 were returned In those re-
turned were three So bills, seven 50 bills,
and forty seven 81 bills; th'rty-tive 90
cent pie es, one hundred and seventy
seven 25-ccnt pieces, four hundred and
| thirtv-three 1O-cent pieces, three hun
dred and fifty-sx Scent pieces, thirty
nine scent pieces and seven hundred
and forty two cents-in all $207. A.
Fifteen Americans own 1920, O00.-
| 900, as, for instance: w. Ii. Wander
bilt, $3.50, 900, 600; Jay Gould, $780,,
| 600, 900; Leland Stanford, 800, 900, 600;
| G. P Huntington. 800, 600, 600; Charles
Crocker, $50, 900, 600, 600; Mrs. Hopkins,
$50, 900, 900; Russell Sage, $40, 600, 000
James Flood, $40, ,O0O 900; j. 6. Fair
| $40, 600, 900; j. q. Mackey, $50,
! 600; Cyrus W. Field. S25, 900, 900;
James Keene, S2O OOO, 900; estate of
Thomas Scott, $40, 900, 600; John w.
Garrett. $40, 600, 600: Samuel j. Tilden,
| SO, OO0O00.--N Y. Times.
Some interesting statistics of street.
car business we're brought out at
meeting held in Boston recently, to form
| a national association of street-car oil
! GERS. There are now doing business in
this country and Canada 415 street rail
ways, employing about $4,000 men.
! They run IS, 900 cars, and more than
! 100, 600 horses are in daily use. Calcu-
| lating that the average life Of horse in
! street-railway service is four years, it
| makes the consumption of horses %, 600
! per year. To feed this vast number of
horses requires annually $50, 600 tons of
| hav and II, ,000,0 900 bushels of grain.
| These companies own and operate over
! 8, 900 miles of track. The whole num-
| Der of passengers carried annually is
over l, PIP, 400, 900. The amount of cap
! ital invested exceeds $3.50, ,000, ,0O0.-
| BOSTON TrauscYi9f.