The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-30
INoUsT sIAL ITEMS. ETC.
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oieei Ihhs cost only ABOUT twice as much as
IRON, and wear ten times as long.
The total annual product aud income OF the
Island OF Cuba is estimated at s25s. 522, 900.
IL is said that John B. Cough has made $500 900
by delivering temperance lectures.
The illinois coal measures cover an area of
60 GOO 10 10000 square miles.
Persia contains an area Of GAS, 900 square miles,
ano population Of 400 900.
rake factory established at Tyringhsm, Mass,
last fall has made 800 900 rskes.
The English yacht navy numbers l048 vessels,
with an aggregate tonnage Of 1886 tons.
In Liverpool on the lst Of August, cotton seed
oil cake v as selling at IS lis Cd. per ton.
The annual sales Of boots, shoes and leather in
Toronto. Canada. amounts 10 over 81 100000.
The Erie Railroad brings into New York city
daily IS 90 gallons of milk.
There were 1874 bathers in the public baths
Of Boston in July last.
factory in northampton. Mass, has made
5000 dozens of peach baskets this season.
Tie Pacific Railroad Company has 80 locomo-
tive in use, and l07 more now building.
The Jews Of New York city consume annually
about 10000 animals.
Fifty years ago Buffalo, N. Y, had 500 inhab-
itants now there is nearly 100 900.
The French Transatlantic Steamship Company
own twenty one vessels, which cost $l3 10000
The stock of petroleum on hand in the producing
districts, August LIST, was 267 $50 barrels.
1t is said there are l4000 acres OF peach
orchards in the State Of Delaware.
At Bloomington, Iowa, the prospects for the
butternut crop are quite hattering.
Near Harrisonburg, Va, 1874 bushels of wheat
were harvested from ten acres this season.
A glass factory at Ptt'burg. Pa, turns out 5000
dozen lamp chimneys per week.
1he Wisconsin hop crop for 1865 Is estimated at
60 COO TO 65 ZOO bales.
II is said there are 1000 newsboys and 800 news.
gills 10 New York city.
watermelon weighing 81 pounds was sold IN
Salisbury, N. c.. last week.
Since lS4s California has furnished over 81 900,
COR 900 worth of gold to the commercial world.
The diamonds wern by the fashionabes now at
Saratoga are valued at 81 500 900.
France annually exports trotfies to the amount
of 81 $50 900.
Boston has 1908 duly commissioned justices,
and ESQ lawyers.
Buffalo, n Y, has thirty grain elevators, with
storage capacity for 900 900 bushels Of grain.
| New York State had AZ murders 10 1861, or one
for every so 900 inhabitants.
Paris daily consumes s2,422,OOO gallons OF
In England during the last seven years there
| has been an average of 1850 suicides per annum.
Last year IA 400 emigrants left Great Britain for
| Australia and New Zealand.
During the first six months of this year, the Cas-
tie Garden Labor Exchange procured employment
| for IL 95l immigrants.
The sardine harvest on the coast OF Spain is 30
immense that large quantities are being used Tor
manure.
Boston has l40 newspapers and magazines; of
| which are dalies, AZ Weeklies, 4 semi weekes,
| 80 monthlies, and semi-monthes.
|
Y. bad Oh inmates at the end OF last year. The
expense of the asylum for the year was s9O,93i.
| The annual consumption Of wool in Great
| Britain Is estimated at S3S, GOO pounds, oil
which the British isles produce 275 900 900 pounds
| A founding hospital for illegitimates, estab.
lished at Rome, has at present 1000 children and
| 1000 nurses
| Denmark produces annually about 100000
| bushels Of cereals, one.sixIh OF which is ex-
ported.
| A manufacturer of shoe pegs. in New Hsmp-
shire, lately shipped 400 bushels to foreign
| During the first half of the present year, ToIe-
| do Ohio, shipped $50 600 bushels of potatoes,
principally TO Southern portions of the State.
A tenement house in New York city has In II
siItl fife families consisting Of 3O7 persons, among
prof Leibig SAYS "that 1850 quarts of best
Bavaria beer contain exactly as much nourishment
| as two.anda half pounds OF bread"
| During the first six months OF 1868 there were
500 dozen broons shipped from the United States
merchant of Galveston has so barrels of mus
tang wine, which is said to be a superior table
wine. He intends shipping it TO st. Louis.
The sales of the dry goods auctoneers OF New
York for the first SIX months of this year amounted
!" asn1 we're 60 600 Darrers - -.auu ~
the Isl of August in New York city, against So oS6
| barrels same time last year.
| The Lyman Mills, HOyoke, Mass, are making
| cotton pocket bandkerchiefs, l5 inches square
| eighteen of them weighing one pound. N M,
Thos Kenmore, of Delaware, VIII gamer IO'VOO
baskets of peaches for market THIS season. ioi
| Whicb he expects to realize SJO,OOJ.
| Mexico with an area OF SOO,OOJ square miles
and s,22o 900 Inhabitants, has only l6O miles o
| railroad ia operation. -,
There ia s5.44s GOD capital invested in IS
wooden manufactures in the Northwestern
States. n,.,.o.r,
A travelling correspondent OF the DoylestoNi
| Cpa \ Gazette writes scotsman 10 EdlnOnr
sells annually % 900 bushels OF tlrnip seea.
| petersburg
Va, turns out daily $500 pounds oil printin
Louisville firm has compscted for "a 900 bal
reIs pure copper distilled whisky to be deiiVere
, " Daring the first six months of this year Por
land, Maine, imported 81 $4,000 worth oil mola
ses. IL, o o-s
o COO bushels of wheat; this year the crop is esl
. mated at Is ,975 coo bushels.
It In England and Wales. during the twenty yea
ls47-66' there were LOG, 29s deaths from cholel
u | and 3ll 200 from disrrhea. =,
K Tba receipts of the New York society for Il
70 prevention Of cruelty to animals for the year en-
D. ing May LIST, 1858, were 81 .6Io' ..r..,
II The stock yards at Chicago nave caps9iii ~
il for q 600 head Of cattle, ~ 600 sheep and s'O
h0s1 algeria. in 1867 exported produce to the val
of SIS, 432 600, and imported goods amounting
E. knitting machine of German invention W
at lately exhibited at Chicago, said TO be capspie
be making so 600 stitches per minute.
IN The wine crop of France for 1868 ls esuma'
re at n coo, 600 heetoltres, equal to 70 game
M each. =, CO.. .,-oo
T. The coal fields of the United States, alrea
sy discovered, cover an area OF 2OO,OOO squ'
= miles. -. - -, -. L.
Ip- In ITO there were 100000 land owners IN J
*, Irnited kingdom; now there are less than 81,
IN | snd nearly 5000 Of these are IN Ireland.
on Book publishing in Russia must be pIont1s'
lis az :, on an average, each book hnds sale
from 80 900 10 $50 copies"
try A convention Of Texas WOOL growers mest'
re Anstin. Texas, on Wednesday, the I'd OF sept
TO In 1867 there were % 900, 900 pounds OF bat
81. 400 coo pounds of cheese, ,VOO,OVO eggs
AT the central markets of Paris.
II Is said the wool crop Of the Northwest
ls6s has fallen short of last years crop 81
5000 OC0 pounds. .,..., n
In 1867 there were l773 books printed IN
United States, OF which f4l were "oiN'