The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-04
INDUsTs IAL ITEMS, ETC.


The Pacific Railroad is now building about forty
miles OF sheds over the track to keep the snow on.
Bath, Me-, has built but seven ships this year,
instead of twenty to thirty az heretofore.
II costs $780, 900 per annum to water the streets
| OF London.
The pea nut crop Of North Carolina this season
is estimated at 100 900 bushels.
fruit-grcwers association has been formed in
i Fairfax county, Va.
7 By an imperial order, university for the study
of European sciences has lately been established
| at Pekin. -...r
Broom corn Is selling in Chicago for $3.50 to $235
| per ton. Two tons can be grown to the acre.
A firm In Roanoke county. Va, have shipped
6O,OOO pounds of grapes to New York from their
There were 10 ATT barrels OF ale and beer sold
| In Cincinnati during the month of August.
| About 1000 tons Of sumac are said to have been
shipped North from Fredericksburg, Va, this sea-
] son. ri.
! The insurance companies Of Cincinnati received
I 1927 ,454 in premiums during August.
A Bee Hunters Association has been formed at
Sacramento, CAL, for the purpose Of hunting bee
trees.
"Curried monkey" and "iguans ragout" are
| fsvorite dishes in the Philippine Islands. YAM
piTe bats are also considered a delioacy.
Stockton, California, is called the Getty Of
| Windmills," owing to the number of windmills
used in pumping water for irrgating purposes.
San Francisco consumes about 10000 boxes Of
| candles per month. The receipts for the first
seven months of this year were III $40 boxes.
The receipts of the San Francisco street rail-
roads during the first seven months of this year
| were s659,074.
A Belgian paper proposes that every bachelor
who has arrived at the age Of thirty-fye shall be
taxed according TO his position in life.
II is estimated that the corn crop of Minnesota
will yield from fifty 10 sixty bushels per acre.
Odessa, on the Black Sea, exported in 1861,
20 0O0 600 bushels Of grain.
The potato crop OF New York State for 1868 is
estimated at rs ,000, 600 bushels.
The Russian empire contains about s. o7S 900
square miles, of which nearly six millions lie in
Asia. The population is about SO, 100000.
There are now over 900 homeopathic physi-
clans in America. The first one settled in New
York In 1925.
The fish ponds in Doombes, France, extend over
30, 900 acres. All the streams of the empire are
stocked from them with fish suitable to their pc
culisrities, under experts appointed by the govern
meDt.
The population OF Richmond. Virginia, is estim-
ated at 90 900.
paper mill, at Manchester, N. J., turns out
daily 2,O60 pounds paper to be made into twine.
cracker factory, in Canton, China, blew up
lately, killing 400 men and woundng about GOO
others.
tested the laying capacities of DUCKS and hens
three Of each-for one year. The hens produced
247 eggs, and the ducks 5l7.
The whole number of cattle in the various Euro.
pean States is estimated at "a, 100000.
At the cattle show in Aberdeen, Scotland, in
August last, 1851 animals were exhibited.
The wine crop of California, last year, was
estimated at 1000, 900 gallons of wine and 400 900
gallons of brandy.
The AngloSaxon race use annually IL. 40 pounds
of sugar per head the Latin race 1924 the leu.
tonic 730; the Slavonc $3.50.
NJ. Leroy, Of Anglers, France, says the leaves of
the Usage orange are substitute for the mul.
berry, as food for the silk worm.
The total annual catch Of Goldfish in the North
Atlantic is estimated at 81 100000.
planter near Holly Springs, Miss, has Guilt
waited 10 acres in broom corn this season. which is
paying him from eight to fourteen cents per
pound.
There are 396 patients inithe Georgia Insane
Asylum, so of whom are colored.
Samuel Custer, Of Roanoke county, Va, has in
vented an automatic registering marine compass,
which is said to be 1.-THE greatest scientific inven-
ton Of the age"
man in Bennington, VT, between January LIST,
1865, and September 4 sold, from eleven hens. lO7
dozen eggs and raised % chickens.
The wife Of q jcnrneyman printer in Richmond
is said 10 be of the heirs to estate in Eng
land valued at $3.50 COO 900. Her share will De
one.tenth, say SIS 900, 900.
Alta recent book sale in London, six volumes
printed by William Caxton, brought the enormous
price of $3.50.
Berlin, Prussia, has 81 political, social, and off.
cial papers; 1877 news, scientific. religious, art,
and entertaining journals and SO agricultural.
commercial and industrial papers.
At the recent trade sale in New York l, 200, 062
VOLUMES were offered for sale.
II is stated that ladies' gloves are made from
alligator skins.
Sixty Scotch families have been brought over
to Massachusetts, to work IL a new mill for making
Scotch plsids.
man in Baltimore has invented and put in op.
GRAFTON nachine for making cigars. Ii makes
$50 TO 1000 per day.
Since trees have been planted in Egypt they
are beginning to have rain. Plant trees-nut trees
and fiuit trees-theyll pay for their room and
care in beauty, shade and fruit. Plant trees.
Answ
put up their thread in boxes instead of paper
wrappers. The mills are supplied with 1900 to
1000 boxes per day.
A glove mandatory is in operation at Fond du
Lac, and knitting machine factory at Fort
Atkinson, Wisconsin.
The investments in manufacturing enterprises
at Fall River, Mass, during the last five years,
amount to about s., 900 600.
1t is estimated that 1000 persons have been
killed and $4,000, 900 of property destroyed by
lightning this season. Is
1t sometimes happens that potatoes are worth
more than corn, cabbsges are worth more than
wheat, and barrel of onions will purchase bar.
rel of flour. AL these things occurred in New
Orleans last winter.
A statistician. says the whole amount of grain
raised in New England each year would not sup
ply its inhabitants six weeks.
New York State raised 100000 tons of hay this
season.
New England imports annually 100000 bar
rels OF flour, of which Boston takes nearly
100000.
The Virginia papers want to make Norfolk the
eastern terminus of the Atlantic and Pacific rail
road.
The statement Of the commissioner of internal
revenue shows that only 2i0,l34 persons in the
United States returned incomes last year.
There were 240 patents issued from the patent
office in Washington during the week ending the
l4ih September.
Hschete & Co., Paris publishers, have given
the minister OF public instruction over 100 900
volumes Of books for the school Libraries of the
people.
The castor bean produces from 80 to 100 bush
els per acre in Texas. bushel of beans yields
two gallons of oil. mn.
The corn crop Of the United States this year is
estimated at l. 100 900 600 bushels, which at 5jc.
~ bushel il worth s65000 000.
There are 1920 tailors in p arts, who give en-
pigment to AZ 600 work people, of whom 5000
are women.
The Rocbdale (Englsndl Co operative Pioneer
Association was formed in 1884, with % men,
bers and fund of f2s. In 1867 they had s s23
members, q fund of fl2S 435, done business
amounting to f2S4, $40 and made a net profit Of
f4l ,6l9.
The Mount Vernon cotton mills, near Alexan.
dgia, Va, employ l54 hands, and turn out | ,5O0-