The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.

There are $40, ,S41 miles of teIe-
graph in the world, of which los, $40
are in the United States.--N. Y. Sun.
1t costs $500 to equip locomotive
with a Westinghouse air brake, and
| 800 for each of the cars. This in
cludes the royalty. Chicago Herald.
There are over 800 Smiths en-
ployed by the Government, 400 of whom
are John SIN tbs. There are over 800
each Jones and Johnsons. y. Times.
The curious elephant building on
Coney Island was first opened Saturday
TO visitors. The animal is 122 feet high,
took in 1000, 900 feet of timber and can
hold 5000 people in his bosom at once.
N I. Herald.
Frogs sell for fifty cents a dozen.
and in eastern restaurants three of them
fricasseed in cream bring forty cents.
The demand enables sportsmen armed
with shot-guns to make a good day s
wages shooting them. From the trib-
utaries of the Chesapeake Bay alone the
frog market yields 800, 00O.- Chicago
Times.
OF the All sessions of Congress,
twenty-seven have lasted over two hun
dred days, the last one included. Tho
longest was the first session of tho
thirty y-frst-302 days, from December
3. 1849, to September 80, 1859. There
have been thirteen special sessions,
nearly all short. The Eortieth Con-
gress held five sessions, and is the only
one that ever held more than three
Washington Star.
The Niagara International Park
Commission has ascertained that Goat
Island during the past ten years has
yielded an annual revenue of about
$4,000, and Prospect Park, during tho
same period. $4,000. The island, con-
tanning eighty acres, is held at 1,O00,-
600, and the park, fourteen acres, at
the same figure. The real estate inn
mediately above the falls desired by the
commission is held at S3, 800, 0O0 -But-
falo E1preSs.
Illinois still leads all other States
in miles Oe railway, having Tx 8SZ
miles. Ohio is second, with 5000
miles; New York third, with 6,23O;
Pennsylvania fourth, Indiana fifth, Mis-
souri, sixth, Wisconsin seventh, Texas
eighth, Minnesota ninth. There are
16,041 miles OF track in illinois, II, 400
in Ohio, II ,245 in New York, 10, 500 liz
Pennsylvania Michigan has greater
number of miles of side tracks and sec
ond tracks than any other State in pro-
portion to number of miles of main line.
-- CHtC1yO LCFtttH
Silk manufacturing has grown
wonderfully in the United States during
the last thirty-five years, the most re-
markable increase being from 1870 to
1880, when it was 250 per cent. This
country stands second now in this
branch of industry, France ranking
first, and promises to lead before long.
The value of the silk manufacture of
1880 was 81, ,033, ,O45, New Jersey Lead
ing with S17, l22, 23G, while New York
followed with SO, 10, lao, Connecticut
S5, 881 900, Massachusetts S3, 764, 26O.
and Pennsylvania $3, 491, $40. - Troy
Times
The consumption of the native coal
of the Missouri slope is growing rapid
ly, and coal mining promises to become
one of the leading industries Of the
country. To show the increase in the
demand the following figures concern
ing coal shipped from Sims are given:
Coal shipped from November, 1882. to
July 1888, II, 720 tons; from November,
1888, to July, 1884, p, $50 tons, or an in
crease in. the latter period of 9.61O
tons. People are learning TO use this
coal, and many of the leading business
houses and hotels of the country are
using it exclusively for fuel.-iSt. Louis