The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-18
FACTS AND FIGURES.


Troy, N. Y, manufactures 36, ,000,l
600 linen collars every year, besides
1850, 600 shirts. Troy Times.
Seventy-nine fires have been caused
in New York City during twelve years
by rats and mice nibbling matches
NJ Y. Times.
There are over 1000, 600 people
in the United States, men, women and
children, who are dependent upon labor
at mines and manufactures. - ChtcGqO
Tribune.
The Agricultural Bureau at Wash
inrton has, during the present year, ex-
pended over $500, 900 in the introduc-
ton of the tea-pIant into the various
points of the United States. - Washing
ton Star.
A considerable share of the lumber
output of the East comes from the mills
of Fort Edward, Glens Falls, and from
those along the Hudson between these
two places. Thirteen mills produce
about 200. 600, 600 feet annually, beside
slabs and other refuse. Jour
nal
According to the latest census the
people of the United States engaged in
active business pursuits are thus en-
ployed: In agriculture, $4,000, 900; pro-
fessional and personal service, 12,000,-
600; manufacturing and mining, H.
900, 900; trade and transportation, 5,000,-
OO0
The number of vessels totally lost
on or near the coast of Great Britain
during the five years, 1912, was, ac-
cording to the report of the COMMITTEES
on Harbors, 2, 1865, or an average of 491
per annum, with loss of life equal to
This frrtI
takes no account of missing ships.
The track of the Iron Mountain
Railway, Missouri, 700 miles long, was
changed to the standard gauge in one
day, June %, 1879. Three thousand
men were employed. The gauge of the
New York, Pennsylvania q Ohio Road.
225 miles, was changed from broad to
standard gauge between and $3.50 a.
m, June p, 1880, by $500 men.--Chi'
cGg0 Herald.
The largest sailing ship in the
world was launched at Glasgow recent
ly, from the yards of Messrs. Hamilton
d Co. She is described as a hand
somely-modeled iron, four-mastcd, full
rugged sailing ship of the following di-
mepsions: Length over all, $40 feets
breadth, 40 feet; depth of hold, 25 feet
s inches; register tonnage, 3, 173. Her
principal masts and yards are made OK
steel.
The game captured by the GreelY,
party during the two years ending Au-
gust, 1888, was as follows: Seven
wolves, foxes, 8 ermines, jennings,
1O3 musk oxen, 10 seals, 81 hares, 44
king ducks, So long-tailed ducks, 30
elder ducks, 60 dovekins, l diver, 6
burgomaster gulls, l Sabine gull, n
Arctic terms, l78 sknas, 81 brent geese,
1 raven. 79 ptarmigan, 100 turnstones.
1 sandpiper, 1 sandpling, 37 knots, z
ringed plovers, 18 owls, 2 phiaropes,
wa1rus.-N Y. Herald.
Swiss statistics show that the land
of Switzerland and its natural produc-
tions afford employment for 4l0,023
men and 147,716 women, and that the
labor of these persons supports 1,l6S,-
1877 individuals. Those who live on
rents. interest, pensions and annuities
number in Switzerland 56.055, or about
two in each 100 of population. Fund
holders who are nothing else comprise
8, 1928 men and 1871 women. The
members of the fundholders' families
number, in addition, IL, 983 individuals
and their servants number 1888.