The Weekly Minnesotian

BARNUM AND TOM THUMB.--The N. Y. Express gives some statistics relative to these noted characters :

Barnum's chiefest sources of income out of Connecticut, are his Museum, said to be very profitable, and his famous menagerie now in Michigan. Sixty thousand dollars were the profits of the menagerie the last year, and among its incidental expenses are $200 a week, or $10,400 a year for Tom Thumb. Barnum made Tom Thumb's fortune, and Tom contributed not a little to Barnum's. Tom is about 16 years of age now, though passing for more, and it is his money that built for his father the house in Bridgeport. Tom has made all his family rich. and when at home is of course the elephant of the town, Barnum being then but a simple lion. Tom has his bijou of a room in his great house, with a rosewood bedstead, chairs, tables, and a tea set, &c., all made to match his own diminutive proportions. His quarters contain all the presents he received in Europe, and pistols, bowie knives, jack knives, &c., have been among his favorite play things, but he is amiable, intelligent and much esteemed. Barnum took him as an experiment about 10 years ago. His pay at the start was $3 a week; soon it was raised to $25, and then to $37. At this price Barnum took him to England, where his great success prompted Mr. B. to share the receipts with him. Now for showing himself merely he earns an income equal to the official salaries of Daniel Webster and John J. Crittenden, combined.