The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-27
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Paraguay has a population of SOC, 1000.
Church organists in New York receive saarie.
In Utah $4,000 grasshoppers make bushel.
rs 600 900 pounds
ranging from 800 to $1,000 per snnum.
There are IA 500 barrels of whisky in one ware
house in Covington, Ky.
Vineland. N. j., has shipped 500 tons of wate-
melons 70 Boston this season..
The cereal crop Of Ohio, for this year, is est
mated at l4l GOO, 900 bushels.
There are 1886 convicts in the Mississippi pen
Tertiary, of whom 70 are white.
New York city has 5000 children offered for
adoption. -''
The profits of the London Times last year were
fl00 600 so says the Court Journal,
There are about 10000 saddle trees made ner
month in ST. Louis FN
About 600 pounds of maple sugar are
annually made in the United States.
In southern Illinois they grow 800 bushels OF
A firm in Bangor. Maine. are making 10 900
mocoasns per week.
M de sors, near Paris, has 100. 900 hens in hi;
poultry yard which furnish about 10000 dozen
The governor general of Cuba receives a salary
OF $50 1000 per annum in gold.
Rome has population of 100000 and but one
newspaper.
Victor Hugo has received from the publisher
100000 francs for his new novel 93.u
ment in Great Britain.
The coal region of Wyoming Territory occapies
an area Of over 5000 square miles.
The Lincoln monument at Springfield IN will
cost 5000 900. ' WI
:, Dayton, Ohio, makes about 100000 gallons OF
lnseed oil annually.
A A single plant Of purslAne has been known to
1000 per week.
An establishment at KeypOrt. N. j., annually
puts up 600 600 bushels of tomatoes In cans.
The corn crop in the eastern part of Georgia
Is said TO be the largest ever gathered there.
Inc water power OF St. Anthony's Falls Mime
sofa, Is estimated at 100000 horse. power,
In and around Detroit there are 700 government
pensioners, who annually receive about 800 600
Is Is said that two thirds OF all the gloves in
New York are made of rat skins.
More than nifty operators in Wall street made
over 81 COO goo each last year.
There are 22OO barrels of potatoes shipped
daily from Troy TO New York city.
Last year twenty-one life insurance companies
in Massachusetts, paid over 81 500 900 10 dividends
The United States annually imports about 1000
chests Q3S us. each) of Turkey opium
COncrets-walks are being laid in Concord, n H.
II costs 80 10 SOC. per square yard.
s Turkey opium has from twelve to fourteen per
cent. OF morphine in Il,
Chicsgo is u have Home for neWsboys and
bootblaoks which will cost 500, 900.
A gentleman near Terry, Mss. sold the fruit
from one pear tree this season for Sl26.
II - ttattu tuat Sy5o, O,Uo0 OF American
securities are held In Europe.
The Edinburgh Review has been published
sxty-six years.
Leipzig, in Germany, has 50 printing Offices
which employ 9l5 cOmpositors, pressmen, etc.
Carlyle is now preparing a standard edition of
MS writings, forming a series Of twenty five TO
thirty volumes octave,
IL is said the Boston daily papers are all making
money, their profits being from sS5 900 70 Ell. 900
annually. 'N
The amount OF s75O,OOO was received At the |
auction sale of pews in the new Je wish synagogue
in New York, last week
During the first six months OF ls6s Costa RIGA |
exported 1917 $40 cwts Of coffee, valued at 81 no,
II is estimated that the mowers and reapers in |
the United States dispense with the labor of |
200 600 men for six or seven weeks of the year
A physician in Bombay has a hospital for Ian. |
rous patients. he says the worst cases can be |
cured in twelve months.
Mr.. A. w. Rountree. opposite Csrrolltou. seven |
miles from this city, during the past two seasons
has sold strawberries 10 the amount OF Sic 900
There were less cases OF boots and shoes shin
.sed from Boston for New Orleans, during the
Eeek ending 10th inst.
A company has been organized at Gadsden.
Ala, with capital of 81 SOC, 900 for the purpose
ci making the Cooes river nAvigable.
Inc New Alnadin quicksilver mines are said to