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

to the acre, and gathered so bushels.
During the first six months of 1868, the city OF
Pittsburg consumed 100000 feet Of gas.
Lard oil was first made at Lexington, KY, in
1882.
The Hebrew population of the United States is
estimated at 100000.
In London 10000 dogs have been killed this
season.
The vine crop of Portugal this year is about
40 coo pipes. against As 900 in 1867.
Ten years hence, Houston, Texas, expects to be
the great railroad center of the Southwest.
Rome, Ca, has shipped l62, l56 pounds of dried
peaches this season, valued at SIS, 225.
The public libraries of France contain 6.23SOOO
volumes.
farmer near Philadelphia has raised pump
Kin weighing 13S pounds.
In 1885, China exported 1928 900 pounds Of raw
silk, and l57 $50, 900 pounds Of tea.
The library Of Yale College contains $4,000 vol
umes.
Arson, Maine, has % 900 sheep and produces
more wool than any other town in that State.
The fire department of Chicago has about three
and half miles Of hose.
San Francisco receives forty tons of soaproot
per month from the mountains.
The aggregate product OF gold and silver in the
world In iecz was estimated at $225 ,oOOooo.
The cotton crop of the Southern States last year
was valued at s244 100000 in currency.
Spain has nine national libraries containing
1l66, 595 volumes.
The English government is establishing an oys-
ter fishery on the coast of Ireland.
Chinese hemp grows in Kentucky to the length
of sixteen feet.
One hundred railway trains leave Cincinnati
daily.
Paris has 1000 vagabonds out Of population
of 100000.
New York city has thirteen morning and nine
evening daily papers.
Nearly 400 900 copies of "Uncle Toms Cabin"
have been sold
An insect called the coffee boner," is destroy
ing the coffee plantations in Madras.
1t is estimated that the gold mines Of North Ca.
rolna are yielding about $500, 900 per aunum.
The manufacture of artificial teeth in Paris
gives employment to 20eO persons.
There are GAG agricultural and horticultural So
cieties in Canada West.
Elm bark is used for tanning in Norway white
willow bark in Denmark. and birch bark in Russia.
The German population of the United States is
estimated at .300,0
One establishment in New York employs 400
hands in the mandatory of billiard tables.
In North Carolina $4,000 colored children
attended school last year.
Chestnuts of the new crop are selling in Louis.
Vile at fifty cents per quart
The factories in Petersburg, Va, consume
5000 bales cotton per annum.
About l5e, 600 packing boxes are used annually
by the New York dry goods dealers.
The trade between England and China amounts
to 500, coo, 900 per annum.
lady in North Carolina made ten barrels of
wine from scuppernong vineyard of less than
half an acre, when only seven years old.
There are more than a hundred dog carts daily
in operation in New York. collecting the swill
from private and boarding houses to feed swine.
1t is said the South, this year, has a saleabe
crop OF cotton, tobacco, rice and sugar worth
100000 0O0.
A nugget of gold weighing AZ pennyweights,
was recently taken from mine in White county,
Ga.
The private library of Capt Hervey. Of Oak
wood, N. j., was recently sold at Auction in New
York for 1867.
A large bed of gypsum has been discovered in
Smythe county Va, said to be more pure than
that received from Nova Scotia.
During the week ending fourteenth October
there were 1900 cases Of boots and shoes shipped
lIOm DOstOb iuf 4NoW stttoonSs
Staunton, Va, has six churches, nine clergy
men, IL physicians, "a lawyers six fourshing fe-
male Schools and two classical male schools.
At recent fair in Derbyshire, England. pre-
MUM was awarded for three cabbages, averaging
y25 pounds each.
new kind of cotton, called "wool cotton" is
being raised in Mecklenburg county. N. c., this
season. 1t is said to be q superior article.
During the thirty-fve years that the Cincinnati
Orphan Asylum has been in operation. there has
been in it Is 053 inmates.
Recently plow- boy in Wisconsin turned up
nugget of nearly pure copper, weighing 432
pounds. No wheat in that field next year.
An advertising agent in New York lately made
contract for advertising amounting to$l4S,7 76 Is.
That advertiser will be rich in five years.
A contract has been made for the removal Of
the FRYING Pan and Pot rocks in He'll Gate for
s3s 900.
The aggregate wealth Of Great Britain within
the British Isles, is s36 O0O. 900 OOO that of the
United States $4,000. 100000.
tits estimated that foreign steamships will re-
ceive, this year, 900 for carrying the United
States mails to Europe.
The Erie Railroad Company. within the past
few months, has laid down 1900 tons of steel
rail.
1t is stated that the foreign steamship lines, du-
ring the time they have been running, have made
$50 600 out of the business of this country.
In 1885, there were Is ,672 foreign ships engaged
in the China trade, of which 8 27G were English,
and 1902 American.
beef packery, Just going into operation at
Shreveport, has received $4,000 empty barrels
from New Orleans.
During the first six months of ls6s France i'm
ported merchandise to the amount of ,73s 900 OOo
francs.
Col. John Powell, of Coshoma, Miss. has In
vented portable power for sewing machines
and churns."
congress of usturaists from all parts of Eu-
rope will meet at Vienna, Austria, the last Of this
month.
The marine losses during the nine months end
ing September 80, ls6s, include PSI vessels which
with their cargoes, were valued at sll 900.
silver mine has recently been discovered IN
Upton county, Iowa, which is said to be very