The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-30

for their saw mills IL rs es mated the lot will
yield 5000 900 feet Of sawed lumber.
In Ireland. curing six months ending March 81 d
1863, there were 927s marriages, SO lSlb tn. and
25,274 deaths. During the same period IL 527
persons emigrated from the island.
More than hundred thousand volumes OF Dis
rseis works have been sold since he became
prime minister. -i..--r .r...rl
The London News says: Great Britain l.
annually paying a tribute Of Els 900 0J0 to the
United States in the shape Of labor exported to
America
Baltimore firm has opened house in Cincin
rat for canning fruit, and intend, among othsr
good things, to put up 10000 bushels Of
peaches.
there were IS ,27l cases Of boots and shoes
shipped from B s'on during the week ending Au-
gust 18th, of which 449 cases were shipped TO
New Orleans.
The agricultural, mining aud fishing products Of
The United States in 1867 amounted to 81 s9l OOO,
coo, of which Is per cent, or 1884 1000, was
exported.
Paper parchment is said to be superior to any
other parchment for tying over fruit jars, etc. A
firm in England has covered more than 100000
fruit jars with il since 1859.
A silk growing firm at Sacramento, California,
bad ton and quarter OF cocoons from their
first Matching, July 18th, and expects to have two
move feelings this season.
There is but one manufacturer OF hand organs
in the United States, II. 8. Taylor, OF New York
city. The organs weigh from SO to 10 pounds
each and play from seven TO fourteen tur $. The
average cost is from 500 to $40.
The Free Reading Room in the Cooper Institute,
n. Y, has IS daily papers, l07 weeklies, and 81
monthly and quarterly magazines. During the
past season it visited by over 200, 900 working
men and women. ....
A Philadelphia establishment is turning out
daily three tons of dessicsted Goldfish. The
sailed cod is skinned. separated from the bone,
and so torn into fbers as to be packed in boxes
like confectionery.
Philadelphia manufacturers furnish all the floor.
table and oil cloths, green gum cloths, ETC., used
in the U nited States and considerable quantities
for expectation. The manufacture originated IN
Great Britain about l740.
A match factory at Frankfort, N. Y, turns out
1850 gross of matches per day. It uses annually
100000 feet of lumber, 1875 900 pounds Of sui
ment to $50 persons.
Co operative manufacturing companies are in
cressDg in England. In the towns where these
companies are established there are cooperative
stores doing q very large business. In Lancashire
and Yorkshire there are 100000 members con
nected with these cooperative stores. whose To-
vestments equal 81 500 900.
From 1913 to 1882 the annual revenue derived
from tobacco 10 France was q 900 900 francs, and
the lunatic sylums contained 5000 patients. Nov
the revenue from tobacco is lS0, 900 900 francs
and there are A 900 patients in the lunatic hos
pitfalls.
There are ca publishing houses in the United
States. engaged either partly or wholly in publish
ing school books. 1t is estimated that 900, 00l
volumes are annually issued by them, and the an
nusl expenditure by the public, for school books
is SIS, $50 600.