Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1883 — BIG FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

BIG FIGURES.

A Philadelphia girl has collected near 1,C00,C00 stamps It is said that Mr. Conkling is now making at the rate of #130,C00 a year. A Mexican lady of rank visiting in this country has halt seven and a half feet long. The Treasury Department estimates that our exports this year will amount to #820,000. The bullion shipments from Salt Lake last week aggregated seventy-three c armada The census gives the cost of 87,000 miles of rai'road then in operation in the United States as #5,660,000,0(0. The Internal Revenue officers collected last year #146,500,000, or 86 per cent of the revenue of the Government Statistics collected in Prussia show that about two persons in every 1,000 stammer. This would make about 2,500,C00 stammerers In the world. Our Consul General at Calcutta reports that In If 82 the wheat production of India was 240,000,000 bushels, of which 87,000,000 f/ere exported m Since the passage of the Bland-Allison bill of Sept 28, 1878. the mints of the United States have coined in round numbers, 140,000 000 silver dollars. Of these there re* mained stored in the treasury. May L about #106,000,000. So fab, the New York State House at Albany has cost the State #14.238,000, and the architect estimat s that #4,781,000 more will be required, of which $570,(00 will go into stair-cases, # 0,000 for stained glass, #120,OOJ for bas-re iefs, (8,000 for porches, #75,. (DO for catv.ng, $721,000 for a tower and f1,200,0C0 for a terrace