The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-28
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS ETC.
Paris has las. 900 shade trees.

| GdIis mas l4oUUU shade trees.
| Jerusalem has % 900 inhabitants
The State of Maine has over 1900 lakes
The town OF WiDchlnden. Mass, annually mann
features 81 900 worth of wooden ware
DR.; Hamilton, of Athens, Ga, raised As bushels
| OF wheat on one acre this season.
| The Knoxville Tenn Iron Company turns out
ION and half railroad spikes per day
or the SO 400 children yearly born in Paris.
IL geo are put out TO nurse in the provinces.
The New York Central Railroad employs IS
telegraph operators, of whom 81 are ladies'.
Last year, 2733 bales of cotton were raised in
Illinois.
The Hudson River Railroad Company has laid
100 miles of steel rails.
81 The annual wheat crop of France is about 3OO.
There are 100000 spindles running in the
manufactures of the United States.
The ssrsaparila diggers of Yucatan are said 20
be descendants Of the Aztecs.
In l749, Georgia, then a British COLONY. pro
duced 10000 pounds of raw silk
The British West Indies receive annually about
$4,000 barrels Of flour from the United States
hops.
The consumption of tea in the United Kingdom
for 1865 is estimated at l56, 900 900 pounds
There was z3323,0 600 gallons Of DR. of spirits
distilled in the United Kingdom during 1867
since the last election in Massachusetts, 277g
liquor shops have been opened IN that State
The wool crop of California for 1868 ia estirna
ted at IL 900 900 pounds.
The New York Evening News boats of having
circulation OF over 100 900 copies daily.
o. mere are ~ herman newspapers in the United
States, OF which 46 are dailies.
In France 5000 900 pounds of cheese ara an
nuslly made from the milk of sheep.
The receipts of tie Western Union Telegraph
Company last year were $1,000 00O
The fl y breweries Of ST. Louis make annnalv
200 600 barrels Of beer.
The city Of Philadelphia consumed last wear
1000 beeves, us, 900 hogs and 1858 900 sheep.
The town OF Suez, on the Red sea, has 20 900
inhabitants.
The tbimble was invented by the Dutch. and
was brought TO England about 1905.
There Is S26u, 0oO, 900 capital invested in the
production of cotton cloth in the United States.
There are ,0OU acres Of the vine 10 cultiva-
ton in France, yielding an average of ]. 200 O0O-
coo gallons Of wine annually.
Inc production OF petroleum was about ii 900
barrels per day in 1867, and the consumption
1900 barrels per day.
The Island of Madeira produced 1000 pipes of
vine in 1867. The crop is expected to reach
10 600 pipes in 1858.
Robert Mccormick. Of Stanton, Va, has in
vented machine which will seed cherries at the
rate Of gallon IN four minutes.
r. u. Foster, of Wake county NJ c. has in.
vented type setting machine said TO equal the
capacity Of six compostcrs"
A gentleman of New Hartford raised last year
100 bushels of Goodrich potatoes on one. quarter
OF an acre, and sold them for $500
The Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Com
psny have Manufactured 1880 sewing ma
chimes.
The annual production of raw silk is estimated
at s2l5 100000, Of which sl4l 900 900 worth is
raised in ASIA.
Statistics show that the people of France an
Duslly take 1899 tons Of snuff, and smoke 1874
tons of tobacco.
Upwards Of 100000 have been expended in
establishing and stocking artificial 6sh ponds on
Long Island.
there are in the United States $50 2f teachers
in the common schools, of whom 100000 are
women.
England consumes annually 10000 tons Of
cheese Of which 30 600 tons are received from
the United States.
There are in the United kingdom over 5000
collefies, in which are employed $40 600 men aud
boys.
farmer in Greene county, N Y, recently
sent 70 market 400 pounds Of maple sugar which
he had made in -four days.
million pounds Of the extract Of beef are an.
sually mace in the countries bordering the river
Platte. One pound of the extract contains tas
essence OF twenty-five pounds of beef.
A new variety OF cotton is being cultivated in
Georgia which yields $500 pounds per acre and il
worth ten cents per pound more than ordinary 10. |
amos. ~
In France there are seventy farm schools. and |
10 Belgium one hundred such institutions. and a.. |
rleulute is the most fashionable calling in tbs |
siDgdom.
Daniel Shall, of Herkimer county N Y. Oh |
aimed $50 pounds of choice honey last year from |
hIee s"AIms OF bees. The honey was sold for /
~ eebts per pound, netting SIS per swarm.
mere are " newspapers published in Mexico. |
y winch Is are daily, tri-weekly, 6 semi weekly |
mo ~ weekly. Twod siles are printed in French |
ND semi-weekly in English.