The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-06

amount of SO, 1853 tons.
The apple crop in the nsigbborhoOd of Hart
| 70 Conn, IL estimated at 200 900 bushels.
The net revenue Of the railroads In British
| India. last year, was Eli ,665 900.
Mark Twain has inside $40 600 by his work,
"JUmpn' Frog of Calsveras.n
Ii l. said New York CITY has one hundred
trades unions, representing 10000 workmen
British India has nearly 1000 miles OF railroad,
| which cost Els 900 900.
There are nine establishments in Massachusetts,
for the manufacture of spool cotton.
| Horace Greeley receives $1,000 per annum as
leading editor Of the Tribune.
Bureau county, Ill.,, has planted one hundred
miles OF Usage orange hedge this season:
fund Of $4,000 has been subscribed Tor the
| Connecticut industrial school for girls
Mr.. Paxton, OF Nstchez, Miss, Ii cultvatlng 4O
| acres IN castor beans this season.
Norwalk, Ohio, takes one newspaper for every
| two Inhabitants.
New York city consumes rs 100000 gallons of
The bsy crop of the United States is estimated
| at rs 900 900 tons.
| During the wear ending the 3lst ult, Plaque.
| mines sent 4, 6S7 900 pounds of rice to market.
1t is estimated that there are 225,OOO threshing
| machines IN the United States.
The crown jewels of France are valued at
| 29 900 900 francs.
The national debt of Denmark is about s72, 500.
900.
There are nineteen colleges in o xford, England,
the eldest dating from 1923, the latest from IVA.
Last year Great Britain received from all other
| countries 63 $50 600 bushels Of wheat.
Smyrna, whence comes our dried figs, is a city
| OF 81 ,0o inhabitants.
AT the late Chicago exposition twenty diplomas
were awarded 10 various persons tor fine woods.
Cuyshoga county, Ohio, has 1000 acres of
| graVes.
In 1852 the kilograms sent in France numbered
| only As los /; 1867 they numbered !, 2lS 1896.
Long IslaDd N. l., has a total of enrolled aud
| Licensed SD PIP ng Of 80 $40 tons.
ebad as. hal ab
Office savings banks, amounted to "a 643 906.
San Francisco has received SO,OJO Goldfish from
Alaska.
Fifth avenue, New York. boasts of having
81 900 0C0 worth statusry and paintings.
Cincinnati employs 430 teachers, whose salaries
last year amounted to $3l7 500.
The ,, ceipti Of wool in Chicago. during the
ye ndng April lst. 1868, we're III ,2lS 900 pounds.
In Sutherland 10000 women are employed in
Matchmaking.
At the recent Turner's festival in Hartford,
Conn. 500 barrels of lager beer were drank.
Eng al exported in 1867 more than 1000 horses,
valued al nearly 81 900 0U0.
Italy has raised $50, 000, 900 from the sale of
church property within the last eight months.
Cuba has 1865 sugar estates, 996 coffee estates,
and 94S2 tobacco fields.
Great Britain exported last year wooden and
wOrsted fabrics valued at $50, TAG 900, and linens
TO the value of s37 1865 600.
Paris consumes annually, per head, of populs.
ton. $50 pounds fresh meat. 327 pounds bread,
Al gal o0s OF beer and 43 gallons wine.
Krupp, OF Essen, Prussia, annually turns out
more han 60 600 tons of cast steel His establish
ment occupies 450 acres, and employs 5000 men.
The Island of Cuba has an area Of AZ 27S square
miles The population is estimated al Ala 900,
of which 365 553 are slaves.
IL Is expected that Canada will this saason ex-
port $50 900 bushels of barley more than last
year.
Cuba has more than 200, 900 free negroes, who,
like free mes roes everywhere, contribute little or
moth "a ha ufrU
During the first five months of this year Great
Britain received more than 100000 bushels OF
wheat iron the United States.
Philadelphia claims to be the second manufac.
turing city in the world, London only exceeding
her 10 extent and variety of products.
In the United States $50 249 207 are invested in
the manufacture of liquors, and sl9,622, 1913 in
printing and publishing.
A dry goods firm in Paris spends annually
100000 francs in advertising, and has done SO for
the lssf twenty years.
On Valentines Day, 1867, there we're 997 900
valentines sent through tEe London postOthce,
and IN 1868 the numDer rose 10 ,ll9l 42.
Cleveland, Ohio, has library OF 10 000ivolumes,
and population of so 900 persons, of whom only
200 are m, mbers OF the library association.
The public gardens at st. Bruno, France, have
succeeded in raising vanilla from the seed. The
qUaliy l. SAID to equal the best imported.
Prof. Liebig says: -Four quarts of beans. two
pounds of corDed beef boiled TO rags 10 so quarts
Of water, will furnish good meal1o 40 men"
pounds Of dried blackOerrles sold AT IL TO 20
cents per pound.
George w. Gift, of Memphis. says: Give acres
Of onions. properly cultivated, will yield more
clear money than tif'y acres In cotton"
J. Van Buren,, of Clarksylle, Ca, says: The
scuppernong grape will yield from 1000 to 1000
gallons Of wine per acre."
The total appropriations for West Point since its
establishment, March 18th, 1902, hes been 1861,
339.
Cuba produces annually 1900, 900 pounds of co.
cos, so COO 90 pounds rice and Us coo pounds ar
rowroot.
gentleman in Nashua N H., has an artificial
fish pond, In which he has 500 trout, averaging
from one.half to two and half pounds each.
Great Britain annually obtains from foreign
countries from s4O0 600, 900 to $500 100000 worth
Of food of all kinds.
A house 10 Salem, N. c., has shipped North 1000
barrels Of dried blsckberrles, netting about $50
per barrel.
A telegraph company, principally Americans,
are preparing to lay down a wire connecting the
ten principal cities of China.
The capital invested in mining and manufactures
ia the United states is estimated al 81 100000 600;
and the value of farms in the United States is
estimated at IS 400 900 900.
Ii is estimated ihat the consumption Of silver
throughout the world, in the manufacture of
shverware. watches, jewelry and the arts, amounts
to 100 coo ounces per day.
The New York Atlas says: There are 80 900
women IN this city who labor night and day for
pist would attempt To support taVorlte cat"
Thirty nine gentlemen recently attended clam
bake at GregoTy's Point, Conn, whose aggregate
weight was s766 pounds. The weight OF clans
| eaten by the party was omi,te by the reporter.
A cooperative sewing machine society, estab-
| listed In Baltimore last November, has already
| distributed Is machines, costing from S55 to SIS
| each. Each member secures a machine by pay.
| ing a small weekly sum.
Diamonds, it is said, have doubled 10 value 10
the last twenty-five years. Three firms ia New
York each sell 81 900 600 worth of them annually.
Private persons in that city are said to own
$50 600 900 worth.
During the year ending April lst, 1868, Chicago
received ass 5l2 bbs of -four, ID 4S3 100 bushels
OF wheat, % 223 600 bushels OF corn, ~ 6j9, 900
bushels of OATS l276 600 bushels Of rye, and
2, sou 200 bushels of barley.
Forty miles OF the track of the Pacific Railroad
| require to be covered with sheds to protect il
| from the SHOWS of the Sierra Nevada. Twenty
| eight saw mills supplying the lumber, more
than 30 600 900 feet being required.
The annual produce VI the chase in the province
| of Archangel. Russia, amounts to aOOIt 100000
snuirrels % 600 ermines 40 600 hares 5000 foxes.