The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-02
INDUsTRIAL ITEMS, ETC.

The Mercantile Library building Just completed
In San Francisco, cost over 5000 600
The area of British India is 947 292 square miles,
and the population l43 5s5 7s9.
1t is said Yale College owns 81 s65 900 worth Of
property.
The gross assets of the thirty Insurance compa.
MES in Rhode Island amounts to s65 ,522 ,07S.
The millers of Milwaukee manufactured 546,-
900 barrels of -four last year.
Great Britain imported in 1867 So 900 900
bushels of grain.
There is said to be 225 900 wheat threshers in
use in the United States.
Efforts are being made to introduce the bamboo
into Southern California.
There were I, 7l6 s02 pounds of tobacco exported
from Havana 10 1867.
The production Of white lead in the United
States last yesr was is 600 tons.
Only l54 tons Of coffee were exported from
Havana during 1861.
tits estimated that the gold product of Colorado
this year will reach So, 000,0 900.
Portland, Me-, consumed "a $50, 900 feet Of gas
during the year ending lst inst.
Peanuts are becoming the staple product Of
eastern North Carolina instead Of cotton.
Paris eats 900 pounds of gingerbread
annually.
The New York Times has sued the city for
$25 600 for advertising.
Twelve ministers in New York city receive
annual salaries Of $4,000.
The stock of Iaisins on hand at Malaga, June
18th, was from so 900 to 1000 boxes.
The aggregate value Of domestic produce re-
ceived at Milwaukee last year was ki5, 900, 900.
The hop crop OF Wisconsin in 1867 was worth
over So 100000.
Philadelphia has $50 public schools, in which
there were so ,4lO pupils last year.
The product OF the Canadian fisheries in 1857
was valued at 1919 $50.
A journal in Chinese and English has appeared
in San Francisco.
The stock of tea on hand lst June, in Liver.
pool and London was ~ 300, 900 pounds.
Caroline NJ. Rslfe, of New Hampshire, has re.
ceved patent for an improved hog trough.
The railways of the United States earned $40,
900 600, gross, last year.
1t is estimated that 200 900 cattle have already
left Texas this year. B
5 The church property in the United States is
valued at Sill 600 900.
Louisville has $50 licensed rum shops, III
butchers and eating houses.
The collection of periodicals in the library OF
the British Museum occupies 4l62 square feet OF
shelf room. tlt
The great financial establishments on the CONT.
pent of Europe had S620,000 900 unemployed cash
on hand. June LIST, 1865.
Mr.. BaRshaw, of Norfolk, England, annually
raises about 10000 fowls, of which $4,000 are
ducks. ..-- .- -...-- ID.
In the vilIayet of Adrianople, Turkey, there are
s5l2, 600 sheep and 77S,0O0 goats, on which the
taxes in 1867 amounted to ell ,297.
During the first six months of this year New
York received 1921 ,65l hides, OF which 1885
Melbourne has 100000 inhabitants; Sydney
100000 and Auckland, the principal city IN New
Zealand, has about Is 900.
In the various branches of trade and msehan-
zeal industry in England there are 700 cooperative
societies, embracing about zoe, 600 members.
In Liverpool, England, there are % persons liy
ing on each acre in Manchester there are 81 IN
Birmingham As; in London there are only Az.
Pearl fisheries have recently been discovered in
Western Australia, extending along the coast Tor
1000 miles.
o. The captives held in Abyssinis by Theodore
numbered II, and cost about s2,OOO0OO each to
In the schools and colleges maintained or aided
by the British government in India the average
attendance of pupils last year was l9O656.
The mercantile navy OF the North German Con-
federation consists of 6S45 vessels of COS S9l tons
burthen.
Professor Gameee estimates that the loss of
live stock in the United States last year amounted
to $l02 lSS, 295.
The net profit of the postofice department Of
Great Britain for the year ending March, 1861,
was 81 10000
New York State has I,l2s 900 cows, producing
annually As 54s 2s7 pounds cheese, and ,O9f $50
Any owner of land in Iowa permitting the Can
ada thistle to so to seed is liable to line Of i've
dollars. .
for the six months ending June Both, amounted
The shipments of tea from China and Japan to
Great Britain during the year ending April 3Oth,
lSGS were III 1928 900 pounds.
During the last s39 years, there have been 100
famiues in Russia, ten being general over the
whole country.
The average depth of the ocean is only about
three miles. The deepest place IN the Atlantic IS
between the Grand Banks and the Bermudas,
where bottom has not been found.
1t is stated that more than 500 600 English
women are unmarried. OF these 49, 1854 are out
door agricultural laborers, nearly ,OOOOOO house
servants and Is 600 governesses.
The imports Of wheat into Great Britain Tor the
first Quarter of the present year were 400 oZl
cwts. Of which SOS, ll9 cwts. were from the
Great Britain paid f7O,665, 43s for cotton in
1896 and f4S 1913 24l in 1867; being an average
of % cents per pound in 1866, and only l's cents
There ere 100000 licensed liquor shops in the
United States, and the sales last year amounted
to 81 600 A9es65, nearly half as much as the III
terest besrng debt Of the country.
A sheaTiug Of Merlno rams was held m Genesee
county New York, June 18th, at which I'll rams
were shorn, yielding an average OF about IL POUNDS
per fleece. n.
placer mine at Ballarat, Australia, has been sl5O,
900; the yield in three years $3,OOO,0OO; the ne
profits 81 100000.
The exports of sugar and molasses from Cuba
last year was $50 $50 tons sugar aud l9j.44j tom
molssses, OF which 62.ol per cent came W w
A colored barber in Pescadero, California, EN-
-ploys Spaniards to dig angle worms at two cent
. dozen, which be sells 10 trout fishers at )! a
pouhu, mus lnaAhB '0iJ 49, ~
lion. - 4,
The donations to literary institutions IN IN
United States during the last five years amour
to SIS, 2l2 500. This does not inclnie the apprC
priations from State legislatures. Of TINS amour
S2lOO0O were donated to libraries.
! Mr. Trouvelot thinks the poyphermns is the on
American silk worm worthy Of cultivation. MAN
bushels of the cocoons might now be gaihere
from the shade trees in this city. The shk Is sal
to be coarse and strong.
A meeting of some forty gentlemen was held !
Charleston two weeks ago for the purpose
stalking cotton Each member handed IN q
estimate Of the present years crop, the sverag
range Of which was from 200 600 TO H5VoVt
bales. .-arrr.H -
In the various occupations pursued by wome
In Massachusetts,, employment is furnished
IS 3l4; OF whom q, 1893 are domestics, 20 ,l52 al
operatives 62l0 are teachers, etc. Among ~
niscellaneous there is l doll shoe manufacture
Inventor, farmer, l editor and 6 Librarians