The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-25
EDITORIAL PAKAsRAPHs. ETC.


their military drills.
The "Zephyrina" is the name of the last issued
hoop skirt.
New York consumes weekly about 1900, 900
pounds of meat.
New York city consumes, weekly, 100 tons of
fish and $50. 900 oysters.
California paper says the Hafenegger powder
is eighty times as powerful as gunpowder.
A firm in Wisconsin make 50 900 ladies' reticules
yearly.
The total distance between Omaha and San
Franciscois 17g2 miles.
The stro-Hungarian government has renewed
its relations with the court of Rome.
Thanks to the Galveston steamship mail line for
late Galveston papers.
Our neghbor, Gresham, has the " Land We
Love- for November.
We are indebted to Purser Evans, Of steamship
Lavacca, for late Florida papers.
Mexico, in three centuries. has produced s.. $780,,
600 900 in silver bullion.
1t is estimated that rs 900 packages OF fsi per
month will be put mp in Boston during the season.
Brigham Young is the third largest depositor in
the Bank of England.
1t is estimated that $500, 900 worth of mercantile
paper is bought and sold daily in Wall street.
A case of "Grecisn Bend" was seen in Rich
mond last week.
Horse oil is used in Paris as a dressing for
salads.
Mississippi has, in some sections, raised three
crops Of hay this year.
The Franklin Market, Philadelphia, is being
transformed for the Mercan tile Library.
Great Britain in 1867 dug lO2, 500, 4SO tons Of
coal, valued at f26. LIS, Jas.
DR.. Crosby, of Concord, N. a., is endeavoring
to make collection Of the birds of that State.
The United States produce about one.fourth as
much coal and iron as Great Britain.
A Wisconsin firm makes 5000 willow carriages
a year, and has a ninety-acre willow plantation.
The British product of iron In 1867 was T. 76I 023
tons valued at ell ,902 ,557.
In Great Britain there are 9,O36 500 cattle, 49,.
sos ,424 sheep and SL66 3OOpigs.
Three hundred books have already been written
about our late civil war.
The car Of Russia has prohibited the practice
of homeopathy in his dominions.
The emperor and empress Of France are an
nounced to be converts to a certain extent, to the
homeopathic system.
The Lake Superior Mining Company, at Ishpe-
ming, will ship 125,OOO tons of copper ore this
season.
Russia has borrowed ninety million dollars in
foreign markets for railroad purposes within
twelve months.
Ieipsic Gazette has been published eighteen mil
lions copies of it have been sold.
One manufacturer of false teeth in Philadel-
phia, turns out about 100000 false teeth every
year.
The commercial movement between Russia and
the various countries of Europe in 1867 amounted
to 457, 000, 900 of roubles.
A factory at Burlington, VT, uses four cords Of
wood and turns out four hundred aud ninety
bushels of shoe-pegs daily.
knitting factory at Dixon, H.. has just been
established, which will turn out 500 900 worth Of
goods this season.
The Alabama Agricultural Fair will be held at
Montgomery on the 18th, 10th and Goth Of Novem-
Der. The premium list amounts to $1,000.
The United States diplomatic correspondence
for 1867 forms two octave volumes of 500 pages
each.
The mineral products of Great Britain and Ire
land in 1867 were valued at f43 4SO ,O92, or s2l7-
600 900 in gold.
In the whole kingdom of Great Britain there
were 1888 924 acres under wheat in 1868, against
1898, 7S4 in 1867.
About 1000 acres OF fax have been raised in
Oregon this season. II is expected to yield &c, 900
bushels OF seed.
Charles Mackay, the song writer, and once the
London Times correspondent in America, is now
editor of the London scotchman.
During the year 1867 there were 256, l52 dogs
registered in Ireland. The tax on them amounted
to sl2S,376.
Caroline II. Dall's son, William H., arrived in
San Francisco in September, with 1000 specimens
of Alaskan and British Columbian birds for the
Smithsonian Institute and the Chicago museum.
The population of the United Kingdom in 1867
was l57 ,47S. and in 1865 3O.369,s45. The popu-
lation of Ireland in 1865 is set down at 1882 343
| and of Great Britain "a 1897 SOP.
Messrs. Guerrant & Fields, of Leaksville, N. C
| have invented and patented " the most complete
trap for catching rats, or other animals, that has
| yet been brought out.
The report of the National Cotton Manufactu-
rers Association states that the number of cotton
spindles in the United States has increased from
$3.50, 600 in 1868 to more than 1000 600 in 1868.
The salary of teachers of public schools in New
York amounts to an average of SIS So per pupil
in Boston, SIS rs per pupil in Philadelphia 50 &C
per pupil and in New Orleans, $40 80 per pupil.
collection of ancient Roman gold, silver and
copper coins, consisting of 5000 pieces, was lately
sold in Paris. The catalogue comprised SAP lots
No. 642, head of Empress Julia, sold for 6, LOO
francs.
The Comstock Lode, at Virginia City, has pro
duced slO0,OOo,OOO in bullion, and the present
yield of the mines is probably thousand tuni
per day, worth from twenty-five to fifty dollars
per tun.
Each member of the population in Paris annu
ally consumes $50 pounds of bread. In New Yorl
more meat and vegetables are nsed. and the
annual consumption of bread is only $50 pound
| for each individual.
B. Smith, Cuba, No., makes use of sorghum seed
as q partial substitute for wheat. He had some
of the yellow variety ground and bolted, last fall
and found it, for pancakes, equal, if not superior
to buckwhea.. Usually this seed is thrown away
as useless.
WALsHE's.-Ino our rounds yesterday we stepped
into Mr.. B. T. Washes, dealer in shirts AID fur
nishing goods, youths, boys and children's