The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.

"A camel will annually shear twenty
pounds Of hair, which sells for $3.50
per pound.
There are $4,000 natives of Italy iu
the city of New York and 10000 natives
of France.
The New York street railways kept
1858 horses last year at cost of
$2,715,215 or $107.58 each.
There are more than 10000, Q)0
iron car-wheels used on American rail
roads, and it requires about 525 pounds
of pig-irOn to make one wheel.
There are now in this country over
800 horses able to trot a mile in less
than 2:3O, and 230 that can trot n mile
in 2:20 or better Chicago Tribune.
The Navajo Indians, of Arizona
number 1000. They occupy reserva-
ton, own ! 900, 600 sheep, 40, 600 horses
and 5000 cattle, and live peaceably.--
DenCcr Tribune.
Charles White, of Thorndike, Me,
has three yokes Of oxen whose united
weight is 1920 pounds. One yoke
measures eight feet four inches, and
weighs 1850 pounds.
The money expended by Americans
for the purchase of pictures in France
within the last twenty years amounts to
2O0, 900, 600 francs, which is equal to
So 900, O00.--N ]. SIN.
There are supposed to be about
1000 600 species in the animal kingdom.
OF beetles alone over 100000 species
are known, and the whole number Of
insects is set mt 500, 900. OF the higher
animals there are POO mammals, 7,50Q
birds, 1000 reptiles and 10000 fishes
The great drainage system for tho
recovery of the Florida swanpS now
covers a tract 200 miles long add 80
miles broad. Nearly l,O0O,OU0 acres.
half of which goes to the syndicate and
half to the State. are wholly reclaimed.
Land that one year ago was two feet
under water is now four feet above, and
is being planted with sugar-cane.-Cbt
cago J0Hl7laL
The most expensive kind of false
hair is natural silver white. It is worth
Sl8 to so an ounce, more than its
weight in gold. Bleached white hair is
worth only So an ounce. Natural hair
of ordinary shade is worth from 80 to
$50 per pound, except the hair collected
by ragpickers, which brings only from
S. to So. The value Of different colors
Of hair depends on the fashion. Yellow
hair, not golden, is almost useless.-N.
y. GraPhic
The Clerk of the House and the
Secretary of the Senate each get $4,000
year, as do the stenographCrs in Con-
gress, the two Comptrollers of the
Treasury, q number of Surveyors of
Customs and the Commanders Of tho
Navy. Pension agents get $4,000
year, the Civil-service Commissioners
$500, the two Assistant Attorney
Generals 80, ,OO0 eight Justices of the
Supreme Court $4,000, nine Judges of
the Circuit Courts $1,000, and fifty
three Judges of United States District
Courts from 50, 900 to Wash
i11gtOB Post.
About 30, 600 able-bodicd men are
at present working in the mines of CAL
ifornia. The output of gold and silver,
though not as large as formerly, still
amounts to 100000, 900 per year. In
1882 California produced gold 20 tho
value Of SIC, 800, 900, and last year the
product would have been materially
greater had not several large hydraulic
mines been enjoined from working by
the farmers of the San Joaquin Valley,
who complained that the displaced
gravel of the mines was washed down
upon their farms San Francisco
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