The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-19
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Europe has l02 500 miles of railways.
IL is stated that Russia has II 900 00C swine.
The Michigan University at Ann ArDor, has
thirty two professors and over 1900 students.
In England 100000 women are employed In the
factories.
1t costs $4,000 per annum to light the post Office
in New York city.
farmer near Galena ILL.,, killed 1856 rates in
his cellar, on the 18th June.
The Pennsylvania State library has $4,000
volumes.
The London post Office delivers !, 100, 900 letters
per week.
There are $4,000 serfs in Russia not yet eman.
cipsted.
In 1861 Great Britain exported $3.50 tons of tin
and 1900 tons Of zinc.
machine has been invented which will turn
out 200 strawberTy boxes per minute.
Good strawberries are retailed in New York at
twelve cents per quart.
The gross revenue of Great Britain for the year
ending March, 1868, was ESQ 500 900.
New Workers pay $50, 600 every Sunday, to take
their exercise in Hoboken.
A Massachusetts, firm has an order from China
for l,72S 600 cans condensed milk.
The lobster fishermen of Maine are putting up
5000 Holsters per day.
The trade Of San Antonio with Mexico amounts
to IS 600 900 annually.
BotaDists have described $1,000 species of
plants.
Milwaukee drank ASH $50 glasses of lager
beer last year.
The sales Of wheat and its products in this
country, are estimated ut S., 000, 900. 900 year.
SDails are sold in Paris at two sous per Dozen
The best are those faitened on vine leaves.
IL is estimated that there are 2Sl45 900 neat
cattle in the United States, worth $3.50 900 900.
The profits of the late Paris Exposition sum up
5000, 600.
The agricultural societies of Massachusetts,. last
year, distributed premiums to the value of s24. 1872
The factories and mills In Petersburg Virginia,
run ~, 200 spinoles, nineteen pair of wheat and
fourteen pair of corn burrs, all by water power
In To and fha EaIl a.
end they have an accumulated fund of Sl2, 900,
coo.
Great Britain annually consumes more than
10000 bushels OF chestnuts. imported from France
and Spain.
The quantity Of madden annually consumed in
the United Stated is estimated at from 1000 to
5000 tons.
The pest house at Ancoma-co, Peru-le. 900
globe inhabited by man.
A mass of copper weighing 1926 pounds was
received In Detroit short time since, from Lake
Superior.
A firm in st. Louis, last season, purchased
1880 bushels castor beans, from which they
manufactured IL, $50 gallons OF oil.
GGrdners in the vicinity of London import toads
from the continent at the cost of 81 so per dozen
TO put in their gardens to destroy insects.
IL is estimated that New York will this season.
receive eighty cargoes of pine apples The
csrgoes vary from 1000 to 5000 dozen each.
Thirty life insurance companies, in New York,
nave III IOtce ZOo,yob pollcles, lnsurlng the i'm.
mense aggregate of s6l2, 72I All.
On ITO, 49O acres of upland in the counties OF
Ohio, Brook and Hancock, in Western Virginia,
there are lO2 900 sheep.
There are eighty-seven steamers sailing be.
tween New York and Europe, and all but one are
owned abroad.
OF seventy.nine serial publications commenced
in London since the beginning of the year, only
seven are now in existence.
l.. NJ Brown, of Sioux City, raised, last year.
5000 bushels of potatoes off ten acres, and after
saving seed and enough for his own use for the
year. sold $4,000 worth.
j. P. Coates, the sewing thread manufacturer.
England.
A mechanic in New Albany, Ind, has invented
q machine which makes two quarts of shoe-pegs
per minute.
Pittsburg, Pa, has sixty glass manufac.
tories. Their aggregate annual PRODUCTS 10 900.
900 bottles, 100000 boxes window glass, and
$500 IONS of glassware.
In 1867, 1856 books were published in Germany.
Books philosophy are less in demand than
they used to be, and school-books are more called
for.
The date tree comes into bearing in from six 10 |
ten years. and is fruitful for more than two hun.
0 4red years. A single tree produces from 100 to |
200 pounds of fruit in the season.
The Neighbor, of Columbia, s. c., saws: awe |
know Of no fruit of the ground that does as much |
good, IN as many forms, 20 as many creatures
ana AZ SO little cost as blackberies. Thank God /
for blackberriesu WV
non IN Europe is 2,2s5 $780, and the total average
yield OF vine is 3,540 900 900 gallons which at25
cents per gallon, gives $SS5 900 OOO Average WELD
per acre Is in Germany, lac gallons in Spain ISL
IN france, loi In Italy, 44l3 The Scuppernong
Of these Southern States viii give a much larger
yield, and will find ready market at one Soi1sr
per gallon for all that is made. NO''--