The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-16
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

Since 1861 the American people
have built 10000 miles of railroad. -
Chicago Herald.
A California vine-grower gathered
seven tons of Zinfandel grapes from an
acre of vines this season. San Fran
CISCO Chronicle.
"A prune orchard at Saratoga, in
Southern California, is believed TO be-
the largest in the world. 1t contains
10000 trees and was recently sold for
$4,000.
More than 60, 600 New Workers 1.-Two
at the hotels, and there arc 100, 600
strangers in town every night. Over
$50, 900, 600 are invested in the hotel
business in the metropolis J. Star.
Paris has 1890 acres in parks, or
one acre to every thirteen inhabitants
in Vienna the proportion is one acre to
100 persons; in Chicago, one to 200; in
Philadelphia, one to 800; in Brooklyn,
one to $50; in New York one to / 1868.
Chicago Herald.
The revised schedule of property
valuation of the State of Minnesota,
prepared by State Auditor Bradcn,
gives the total valuation of real prop
erty as $307, 400, 900, and that of per-
sonal &7S, 9S4, 401. As compared with
that of 1888, this shows an increase in
the realty of SOL, 100000
The microscope reveals that there
are more taan four thousand muscles
in the caterpillar, and that the eye of "a
drone contains one thousand mirrors.
There are spiders as small as u grain of
sand, and they spin thread so fine that
it would require four hundred of them
to equal the size OF a single hair.-Sct-
e15ttfc american.
"A Dakota farmer, in 1881, planted
a single grain of wheat in one of his
oat fields. From it grew twenty-five
stalks, each one bearing n full head.
These yielded $50 grains, 760 of which
were planted the next year producing
one fifth of a bushel of splendid wheat
This was planted last spring, yielding
seventeen bushels, making ,O2O pounds
of wheat from one grain in three years.
--DeHCcr Tribune
The big stone tower of the Phila-
delphia public buildings, now under
process of erection, will be finished by
the end of the season of 1886, and will
then be $40 feet high. From that ele-
vation the irOn-wOrk commences, aud
goes 195 feet higher until, to tho
crown of William Penn's hat the
height of 535 feet is reached Tho
crowning piece in the circle forming
inc lower DdTJ Ol Jue loWeE ~ u 9lHBio
stone weighing thirty-two tons Patta-
oeL1ohia Press.
Particulars have been published re-
gnrding the proposed ship canal across
ireland. The length is intended TO be-
127 miles, with thirty locks. Nayiga-
ton would be effected by a towage sys-
ten, and it is estimated that the passage
from Galway Bay to Kingstown would
be accomplished in thirty hours. For
ships of 800 tons the cost would be
$40, 900, ,000 for ships of $500 tons,
$50, 600, 600, and for ships of 5000 tons.
500, 600, 900. The projected width at
the surface is 200 feet, and at the bot
tom 100 feet.
When pure, platinum is as soft as
silver. but by the addition OF iridium it
becomes the hardest of metals. The
great difficulty in manipulating plati-
mum is its excessive resistance TO heat.
A temperature that will make steel run
like water and melt down fire clay has
absolutely no effect upon it. You may
put piece of platinum wire not thicker
than human hair into a blast furnaces
where ingots of steel are me lting down
all around it and the bit of wire will
come out as absolutely unchanged as 1t
it had been in an ice-bo all the time. -
N. Y. Sun.