The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-23
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A paper mill at Pittsfeld, Mass, makes daily
a ton Of paper for collars.
Stockholm. in sweden, has 100 900 inhabitants,
and but one daily newspaper.
GusisInala exported, in 1867, cochinsaI to the
amount of 81 ,O6S goo.
There are 1890 letter carriers in the London
postC flee.
New York city consumes 1000 tons Of meat per
week.
In France the forthcoming crop of bsetroOt
sugar is estimated at 200 900 tons.
Egypt has a population of 5000, 900, of whom
4 0UU. 90 are Arabs.
There are 500 old clothes dealers in New York
city.
There are so wooden mills in the Northwestern
States.
A writer on sdulterations in food says there
are so substitutes TOR coffee and l29 for tea.
The French government derives from the
tobacco monopoly 247 900 900 francs annually.
The taxable property Of Missouri for 1868 10
estimated AZ $3.50 900 900.
At Great Fails, N. H.. mandatory turns out
1000 bags Tor grain per day.
France exported 1878 tons Of beetroot sugar
last year.
Under the rule Of Napoleon III the national
debt of France has increased 1000 600 900 francs.
The total income of the French revenue for the
first half Of 1865 was 900 6S4, 900 francs.
Paris annually consumes about 9O,OOO.O)O gal
Ions Of wine.
In the central market at Paris, $4,000 900
punches Of water crosses are annually sold.
One biscuit baker in Paris uses $4,000 eggs
daily.
California wne.makers pay 75c. per 100 pounds
for grapes delivered at the press.
China exported in 1867, A. 2S 900 pounds OF raw
silk.
In 1857 the British herring, cod and ling fihe
1 ries employed Il ,20S boats and 40 2l9 persons.
Aurora apd Golden, Illinois have sent TO mar
| ket this season 6S46 bushels of strawberries.
Moore's Rural says: " Let every farmer have
| his vineyard, as well as his orchard"
six y-seVen kinds Of paper were exhibited at
| the london exhibition OF 1862.
| Alton, Illinois, has shipped more than lIOO
| bushels OF strawberries this season.
There are $4,000 persons 10 the insane instiiu-
tons OF France, and 80 2l3 in England and Wales.
1t is estimated that the growing crop OF corn 10
| the United States covers 3d. 900 900 acres.
The gold mines of Nova Scotia, from 1862 to
| 1867 inclusive, yielded 1854 ounces o. gold
| Paris and It's envlrOns cover 1896 English
acres.
| hoOo, employing GAIA hanis.
Near Plate city, Mo-, ten acre field OF wheat,
lately harvested, yielded 5S3 bushels.
IL is estimated that $4,000 900 cigars are con-
| sumed IN New York city every year.
During the week ending 4th August, POI patents
were issued from the Patent Office at Washington.
| England, last year, exported 40 SOC cWLs. Of
The Liverpool bonded dock warehouses earned
1897 coo TOR the year ending June 30, 1865.
The population of Siberia Is said to be
| 20 600 900.
Chicago consumes over 5000 quarts of-milk
| daily.
| erection of a new city nail.
| The United states, IN 1861, imported 2,350,O00
| bushels IT lnseed, aud produced as much more,
from which made 900 OoO gallons OF oil.
In France, out Of a population OF $4,000 900
the annual average number OF persons struck Dy
IL is estimated that $50 900 900 is annually spen
10 the United States in paints and paintings OF al
kinds.
annually shipped from Maine to Boston and New
The copper mines in Polk county. N. c.. arr
now refining over 100000 pounds OF lngot coppei
The exports of tea from China and japan Z
the United States last year, were S3,3O2,64
| pounds.
The grape crop of the Sandusky (Ohio) regior
| last year was 33il tons; worth 500 SO. Tn
average product of each acre was s221.
| In Paris 5000 men and women are employed Z
sweep the streets and crossings, their pay bein
from thirty to fifty cents per DAY.
It's estimated that the book and neWspape
Offices of New York city use more than thou
sand miles of paper per day.
The municipality OF Durango, Mexico, in Ma.
last, paid for the killing Of 1886 scorpions
1be stock of thirteen mining companies
California has declined s5,OOO,DOO in value With
q year.
Liverpool has only 100000 bushels Of India
corn in store, against 25OO,OVO bushels ordlnArii
The income of the Cornell University is est
mated see 900 for the first year, and SO 900 Il
the second.
the public schools of the city cost $4,000 la
Ii is estimated hat the present crop of brea
stus in the United States will exceed that OF Isl
, | by 800 900 600 Of bushels.
The imports into the United States for the yea
enoing 30th June, 1865 amounted to 1911 $40 A
against SAIL ,7jl, lOl the previous year.
, A canal boat OF 1900 bushels capacity, propelle
by steam, has been put In service Gu tue TT
Canal.
I During the first six months of this year, ,O62
75g metr,csl quintsls (21l4 pounds each) Of whe
0 we're imported into Marsees. France.
The Oneida (N.Y.) community last week came
81 bushels OF huckleDerrles aud 15-busEes OF ras
The value Of exports from Great Britain to Il
d United States in 1867 was f2l ,o2l, 1856, again
: f2S 400 5l4 in 1866.
A Ietter.Wrlter states that there was recently
the stocks in the suburbs OF Genoa, Italy l2O Sc
4 going vessels mostly over 200 tons outthen.
70 The total value Of merchandise and prOdu
shipped from Portland, Oregon, IN 1861,
d he receipts of wool in Bostoa in July las
we're 10, 900, 900 pounds; the sales about hAu tn
y q1snuiy. -, --,.,..,,- J. =,
Pacific States, Mexico, South America and Chi
is bout sc, 900 TASKS OF seventy-nVe ponds eac
y George Willard, Of Chicago, has Invented
e steam plow, which weighs about 5000 pounds, 81
-e costs $1,000 to $500.
MesUrado county, Liberia. last year product
le 200 900 pounds OF sugar and lO,OOO pounds
&c coffee.
- Two gentlemen who managed small tru
farm. near Norfolk, cleared $ij, 900 last yea
So says the Norfolk Journal.
A farm was recently purchased in the R4pp
s, hammock valley for SIS 000 which is to be deVoV
e. exclusively to the production of blackberrles:
q, lie New York tribune has just made di'
. iend Of $500 per share, which, with other d.
u bends since December last, amounts TO $500
share.
ID there are IS firms in New York city engaged
n boiling soda water. They turn out daily abe
5; 10 600 dozen bottles, each bottle containing o
J., glass. .....
The London Times employs 100 composite
J., IL foremen, "a proof readers, and 10 pressm,
Its oaily circulation is from $4,000 to 6o,I
h copies.
q The Moniteur estimates the number Of rats
France at over 2 900 600 900, and the annual {
D. structon of property by them 1t 100000
h. | flames.
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