The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-26
IxDUsTRIAL ITEMS. ETC.

Davies's arithmetic nets him $40 600 annually.
The leech trade of Trieste amounts to 100000
per anpum.
The cabs and omnibusses of Paris carry SO,OOO,'
900 passengers annually.
The jewels belonging to the Shah OF Persia are
valued at ESQ DOC, 600.
Isaac Bartore, Quaker, has left 800 900 to
the Philadelphia Female Medical College.
Iowa produced SO, 900 bushels Of sweet potatoes
last year.
Gazette has daily circulation OF $4,000 copies
HammontoD, n. j., this season, sent to market
400, 457 quarts of strawberries.
Ii is estimated that 100 900 900 pounds of candy
are annually consumed in the United States.
The real and personal property Of New York
city liable to taxation in 1868, IS liked at$J0o,-
ass 327.
The number Of lawyers in the United States is
reported at 1889, with an average annual in-
come of $1,000.
Liverpool contains one hundred and ninety eight
building societies, with an aggregate capital OF
c., 900 co.,
he Illinois Central railroad runs one hundred
and fifty locomotives ell of which burn Illinois
coal, and consume 100 600 tons annually.
The Hudson Bay Company collected eight and q
half tons Of furs last season. 10 the country drained
by lakes Superior aud Huron and Hudson Bay:
In Springfield, Massachusetts, there are four
manufactures of buttons, from vegetable ivory,
employ ing two hundred operatives.
Since the creation of the world, II 900, 100000
of men have fallen in battle. So says statlst
clan.
During the year 1857. there was expended for
the relief ofthe poor in England and Wales the
sum OF f6,959.S4O. -.
During the last forty five years the elder Dumas
has cleared by his literary abors 100000, and
now has not one dollar of it left.
Mr.. Jobe, of Washington county, Iowa, on half
an acre, containing vines FIVE years old, raised last
year S605 pounds of grapes.
Thirty-eight years ago the city government OF
Cincinnati, Ohio, cost $73,l46 per annum. Now
1t costs 100000.
During the last two years twenty three butcher
shops for the sale of horse flesh have been opened
in Paris.
There was made in Iowa last year 1904, 900 gal.
Ions of syrup and 1867 pounds OF sugar from
sorghum.
The exports of petroleum from the United
States to foreign countries from January l to
June 30, 1868. amounted to 40, 27G 900 gallons.
Last year l95, 1858 persons emigrated FROM Great
Britain. OF these 275 came to the United
States.
1t is estimated that within the last twenty years
the Irish in the United States have RENTED to
their friends at home S75 900 900 IN gold.
R. H. Parks, near st. Charles, Mo-; has hun
bred acre apple orchard which yielded, IN 1861,
2564 barrels Of apples, giving 1892
At musical festival in the Crystal Palace, Lon.
don, a choir of 1000 voices sung the " Messiah "
of Handel before an audience OF 20 900 people.
Prof. Newcombs genealogical collection
numbering over q million specimens, has been pur-
chased for the Cornell University.
A block of granite 100 feet long, 81 wide, and
feet thick was lately turned out of the granite
quarry at Hallowell, Maine.
Nearly $50 COO worth of gold is annually con.
sumed in the decoration OF China and earthen'
ware in England. ,
Paris has 50 800 street gas lights, and annually
consumes 400 900 tons OF coal in the gas works Of
the city. 80
A Michigan lawyer. last spring, set out 1000
gratis and pruned HOO apple trees, all on bis own
land.
Seth Green is propagsting shsd in the Counec.
iicut river. he matches out ,OOO,OOO every
twenty four hours-sO he says.
European farms which have been cultivated for
1000 years have had their fertility renewed by
living idle every few years on account OF war.
During the last nine months the starch works IN
Madison, Indiana, have consumed l4OOOO bushels
Of corn.
In Poland six hundred and fifty estates of the
nobility have been confscated by the Russian
government, embracing the best lands In the KING
dom.
peach crop TO New York firm for 81 % per
basket the purchasers to pick and take them from
the orchard --,
In the manufacture of trimmings, made princi
paly from silk waste, in France, there are more
Than 80 600 hands employed, and their aggregate
production is valued at $40 100000.
THR LOUISIANA STATE SEMNARY.-The nex'
session of this popular and fourishing institution
of learning begins on the 9TH of September, 1865
The faculty consists of full corps of able in
structors, versed in all the branches of literature
and science usually taught in universities. The
surrounding country is high and rolling, and al
healthful as any part of the world. The terms o.
the school, including every expense except tina