The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-12
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS. ETC.

Tunis has population of two million souls.
The population of Hong Kong, China, is lis, 900.
Salt Lake city has population of about 20 00O
1t is estimated that there are 22,000,000 sheep
in the United States.
There were q, 1853 visitors to Bunker Hill Monu-
Ment last year.
Los Angeles county, California, has IA 800 Or
ange trees.
Philadelphia has appropriated 81 900 900 to ex-
tend and improve Paramount PARK.
The wine crop of France is valued at s50O,0O0,-
600.
France derives revenue of $50, 900 900 annually
from tobacco.
Barley sown near Memphis yielded 40 bushels
per acre. Quality choice.
- The Chateau LATTE" vineyards, in France,
are for sale at 100000.
Houston, Texas, is to pave her streets with
shells at an expense Of $40, 000
The cost of the public printing in England last
year amounted to 81 1878, 800
1t is estimated that Ia, 900 convicts are annually
sent from Russia to Siberia.
One individual in every 400 Of the population
of Europe is blind.
OF the 60 600 Germans in Texas, threefourths
are engaged in agricultural pursuits.
There are 40, 600 900 pounds of maple sugar an
nually made in the United States.
About 1000 tons of starch is annually made
from potatoes in Grafton and Coos counties N. H.
A lady near Norfolk, Va, received $4,000 last
year from thirty acres of pears.
In Great Britain there are 1885 members of
the Society of Friends.
The annual sales of fruit in Chicago amount to
SIS co., 900.
There were thirty thousand stoves made in
Cleveland last year.
The average annual loss by fire in Paris for the
last twenty years has been sl64 900.
In Connecticut, during 1867, there were 4779
marriages, ,029 births, and 7343 deaths.
Florida has a population of l52 ,659-showing an
increase of Is, 236 in seven years.
copy of John Eliot's Indian Bible was re-
flx- IN Nauu XorEf
farmer in Rockford, ILL.,, sold the produce Of
four acres last year for more than $1,000.
II is stated that there are one hundred thousand
acres Of grapes cultivated in the United States
John Harbert, of Tennessee, nets over $500 per
acre per aDnum on his crop of sweet potatoes.
1t is said that there is $500 900 900 lying idle in
London, Paris and New York.
1t costs $500 to weigh a cargo of tea in New
York.
The corn crop of the United States In 1867 was
T76S20, 900 bushels.
A single vineyard in California produced Is, 900
pounds of rsisins last year.
There were 450 divorces granted in Connecticut
last year.
The province of Volhyna, in Russia, has 1882
schools. attended by q 500 pupils.
New Hampshire has thirty.one savings banks,
In which 3,54l ,534 are deposited.
II is estimated that the peach crop of Aiken, S.
c.. and vicinity will realize $4,000 this season.
Mr.. Keller of Los Angeles, California, made
one hundred thousand gallons of wine and nearly
as much brandy last year.
The aggregate value of taxable property ia
North Carolina is one hundred and fifty million
dollars.
Prof. LOOMS says 5000 900 shooting stars pass
through the earth's atmosphere every twenty-four
hours.
The treasurer of Amherst College states that
the institution is now worth more than million Of
dollars and free from debt
The English people are great egg eaters. Last
year they received $50, 900 900 eggs from Ireland
and 100 900 900 from France.
j. p. Alexander, of Illinois, owns from $4,000
to $4,000 head of cattle, and buys and sells large
numbers weekly.
DR.. Dockery, of fernando, Miss, made two bar
rels of choice scuppernong wine last season from
five vines.
A naturalist says that single family of jay
birds will consume twenty thousand insects in
season of three months. Spare the birds.
The practical range Of musical sounds is COM
prised between 40 and 1000 vibrations per second
which amounts TO about seven octaves.
laundry has been established in the suburbs
OF Paris, at which 10000 pieces of clothing are
washed daily.
The steamer from jacksonville Fla, to New
York, on a late trip, took COO mockng birds and
large quantity of vegetables and melons.
Mrs. Richardson, of Newbern, N. c., has a Gu
cumber vine which has produced 200 cucumbers
this season.
There are about 60 900 Cinnamon on the Pacific
coast, scattered from the Golden Gate to Salt
Lake.
~ 10 csuuldtcu lndt people OF texas Will
this year realize s. 900 900 from their cotton crop
and cattle.
The Western Union Telegraph Company owns
30 OCO miles of lines, and its total capital Is said
70 be over $40 10000
The production of cotton cloth in 1860 aver.
aged 46a yards for each individual in the United
States.
During the last seventeen years Franklin
county, w. has shipped 50 ,9il 900 pounds of but
ter and Is .435 900 pounds OF cheese.
At Green Bay, Wisconsin, 20 100000 feet of
lumber and 2OO,OOO,OOO shingles are annually
sold.
Paris has $4,000 houses and 100000 inhabi.
tants. London has 100000 houses and 900 900
Inhabitants.
The Elizabeth furnance, near Stanton, Va, Is
now turning out six tons of steel per day, made
directly from brown hematite iron ore.
~. Nlncents lslsnd, eight miles from Apalachi.
cola, Fla, containing IL 900 acres has been pur
chased by Hon. George Hatch, ex mayor OF Gin.
ciDnati.
Two Germans last year bought eighty acres of
land in southern Tennessee, and paid for their lot
with the proceeds of the FIRST crop Of four acres
Of Strawberries set out last fall.
The Suez canal is about IS miles long; its cost
nearly s6O,OOO,OOO. Ii is asserted that the car
rage OF merchandise between Western Europe
and the East Indies is shortened 5000 leagues by
1his canal.
Francis H. Smith, of Baltimore, has success
FULLY dried sweet potatoes. With q simple peeler
and slicer they are prepared rapidly and dried as
NUT Is dried. They loose two thirds of their
weight IN drying, and are quite hard and white
1ney have only 70 be steamed, and they are re.
stored 70 their original freshness.
"A sKk LIKE sATN.-Of all the elements of