The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-16
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There are 500 paper mills in Italy. their pro-
ducts amounting TO % 600 600 francs annually.
The late reduction of the army in Austria gives
so 600 men back to agricultural labor.
There are 10000 mich cows IN the dalries
around ST. Louis.
Last year California raised 200 900 silk cocoons.
The estimated product for 1868 IS 1900 900.
During 1861, Rockand, Maine, manufactured
O0O,0OO barrels of lime.
Sprsgue's cotton mill, at Augusta, Me-, manu-
featured 2,435 7SS yards of muslin last year.
More than 10000 women are employed 10 making
lace and embroidery In the various cities Of ltaly.
The strawberry crop OF Vinelsnd. n. j., the
present season, was 39j ,5S3 quarts.
The Erie Railway Company have contracted for
5000 tons of steel rails
The cost of all the telegraph line now in
operation Is estimated at s42 900 900.
The island of Nova Scotia has an area OF IS, 727
square miles and population of about $4,000.
The wheat crop of Minnesota for 1865 Is eSti-
mated a. 100000 bushels.
Cochin China exported $40 900 900 worth Of rice
last year.
There are thirty-one vineyards in the Sonora
Valley. California, containing %, 40 acres.
The average annual production of iron at the
Iron Mountain Works is about 10000 tons.
Seventeen varieties Of mineral substances have
been found at the geysers Of California.
Chicago consumes daily 1891 ,4l2 gallons of
water.
In local telegraph Office in New York. fifteen
ladies are employed in sending and receiving mes
AD association in LOndOn has established III
fountains for the gratuitous supply Of water to
men and animals.
The revenue derived by the Spanish Govern.
ment from the Havana lottery during the year
ending June Goth, 1868, was 81, 739, 2SS.
The grants of land to the Pacific Railroad are
equal TO nine-tenths of the area Of the empire of
France.
A California farmer recently harvested fifty
acres Of barley, which averaged so bushels to the
acre.
johnson & Stockton, of Norfolk, Va, gathered
A,240 quarts of Strawberries from five acres, and
received over IS 600 for them.
The city Of London consumes daily 500 sheep,
700 oxen, 30 cows, 1000 pigs, 900 chickens,
1900 coo oysters and 200 tons Of Dish.
There are 400 pudding furnaces and 80 rolling
mills II operation IN Scotland, which, in 1867, pro-
ductd $4,000 tons Of iron.
The estimated cost OF the proposed suspension
bridge between New York city and Brooklyn is
SC 675 600.
Prussia has appropriated s7,l52 900 to be ex.
pended next year IN fortihcations heavy artillery
and armOred vessels.
The silk trade of Italy employs %. 600 looms
and their products are valued at l9j 600, 900 OF
francs per year.
During the season of lS67-6S there was put up
for the British navy l.O42 7s2 pounds OF beef, at
about l0d. per pound.
The lake of Tescoco, near the city Of Mexico,
is concentrated solution of soda, and is over so
square miles In extent:
employs 30 hands and turns out 1000 dozen combs
per day.
J. W. Spence, of Durant, Mss. reports his crop
OF Irish potatoes this season has averaged 800
bushels per acre.
The value of boots and shoes manufactured in
Lynn, Mass, during the second quarter of lS6S
was SO $50 0C0.
The Mercantile Library of St. Louis has about
80 700 volumes; and the Public School Library of
that city, Is 600 volumes.
The net earnings Of labor and net earnings of
captal' In the Uniie States during the years 1850
to 1860 amounted 10 an annual average Of $751;
100000. SO says the Bankers Magazine
Cotton growing in Egypt has ceased TO be re-
muneraiive since the termination of cur war.
Large portions Of the land lately in cotton is now
sown in wheat.
DR.. snider, of Magnolia, Miss, planted one bar.
rel OF Goodrich potatoes, aud gathered &c bushels
Of large marketable potatoes and five bushels of
smaller ones.
The Augusta Factory, at Augusta Ca, running
sos looms, consumed l,3G2,57l pounds Of cotton
during the first six months Of this year. The net
profits of the company were sl07534.
The ROck Island wooden mills. at Charlotte, n.
c., employ over one hundred operatives, and turn
out, daily, over 1000 yards of cassimeres, cast
helise etcf"s,Uu WINS, AZ Eastbsmpton, Mass, are
making thread from cOmbed Sea Island cotton.
which boot and shoe manufacturers use instead of
linen thread.
There are about 500 600 900 postage stamps used
annually 10 the United States. They cost the gov.
eminent eighteen, twenty, and twenty i've cents
per thousand.
The Cambria Iron Company of Pennsylvania
are daily turning out 2j0 tons of nails manu-.
featured directly from the ore. They require for
this daily supply OF l.. 900 tons Of coal and 600
tons of ore.
In California immense orchards of the English
walnut lJuglQus Regal OF Madeira nut, are now |
coming on. Why should they not be grown m |
these Southwestern States? Our soil and climate |
are all right. Who will set good example and |
plant walnut orchard?
The Woodscrew Manufacturing Company was |
at Providence Rbode-Island, 20 wears |
ago, and has been the most profitable COMPANY |
known in this country. The original par value |
s23 coo.
The total exports Of the United States last year
we're s474 Cos 900, Of which southern products |
amounted 10 1928 406 757, leaving but sli3 2Ol243
of the produce and manufacture of the north, OF |
hat amount s5O0O0,OOO was gold and silver in |
coin and bullion.
In Lima, South America, large dogs are fitted |
out with psnnieTs, fastened to each side, as DON
keys are loaded, for the purpose of carrying small
parcels. They are frequently employed by bakers |
md butchers to carry fresh bread and meat to |
heir custom ers.