The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-23
yerage of one divorce to every twenty. five mar.

average OF one ulNotce 10 oFefJ t"enJ-n Ne mai-
riages.
Cuba produces one third of all the cigars made
10 the -four quarters of the globe aud GreAt
Britain and her colonies, aud the Uaited states,
consume half the cigar crop OF the world.
There is a porpoise oil manufsctury near Cape
Hatteras, N. c., which is doing considerable busi
ness. The refined oil is used for Oling watches
and all fine Instruments.
The cotton mapufa ctnring com oany at Ari7Ona,
Claiborne parish, turns out daily 1000 yards OF
"A domestics and 500 pounds Of thread OF superior
quality.
French agricultural writer suggests that school
boys be sent TO the fields once week to hunt the
insects injurious to the crops. He estimates that
600 schools with so pupils each, by this plan,
would destroy 900 600 insects each fortnight.
The official gazette at Kingston, Jamaica, gives
notice that from 5000 to 10000 plants OF tbs
cinchons (euinive) will be ready for sale at the
government cinchons plantation in the spring VI
1863.
Twenty years ago Prof. Mspes paid $4,000 for a
forty acre farm ia New Jersey. The soil Was so
poor and thin that the original proprietor could
not pay the taxes on it, By scientific culture it
now pays ten per cent. interest on $685.
Bishop James asserts that the members OF the
Methodist Church North paid TO the United States
last year 81 900 900 taxes the tobacco used by
| them, while their missionary treasury Is in debt
The annual cost Of tuition in thu publ, schools
| Of Philadelphia is SIS &C per pupil; in Boston,
500 rs: in New York. $50 80; in Cincinnati,
1 :
! in Chicago. SIS %; 10 Brooklyn, Sl7 80.
Fish spawE is now sent safely by mail. A
| package of 200 trout spawn was sent from Mon
roe county. New York, to Fort sanders. Dakoiah
! Territory, being seven days on the route, aud
| only six eggs were spoiled.
Two hundred years ago a Scotch emlgrani
| carried thistle TO Canada and planted it in his
| garden. The seed took root in his neigh0or
soil, and now il is such pest that State legisla
lures are passing laws, with penalties attached
10 prevent its introduction aud spread.
There are ten stationary grain elevators IN \ ew
York, with storage capacity for Ia 600 900 bushels
gram. There are also some thirty to forty floating
e elevators, for transferring grain from one vessel
to another, which are provided with screens, blow
eIs and weighers.
There were S6l2 patients received in the Charity
Hospital Of this city in 1861. OF ihese, Zoo were
natives of the United States, 3079 natives OF Ire
land, 1892 natives Of the German States, 455 ma
tves of England, 434 natives OF France, and the
rest from various foreign countries.
A boot and shoe manufacturing company, II
Ithica, N. Y. began business Ia 1904 with
capital OF 100000. They have increased thel
capital up to 100000, and now employ IL
hands run rs sewing machines, and turn out 80
pairs of boots and shoes daily.
Prof. Swallow. the geOlOgist, says: " The cos
beds of Missouri can furnish 10000 900 tons pc
snnum tor the next 1860 years, and there is iro
enough above the surface Of the valleys, within
few miles of Pilot Knob aud Iron Mountain, {
furnish 10000 tons per annum, for the mex
| 200 years.