The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-04-09
TRADE AND TRAFFIC.

One farmer in Iowa has this year dis
posed Of 1900 hogs.
The city of Paris has over fifty thou
sand cafes or wine shops,
There is a salt we'll at Grand Haven,
Michigan, 1,425 feet in depth.
Silk mills have been established at
Be kley, Penn, employing 300 girls.
The last South Carolina Legislature
paid 81, 800 for spittoons.
The "runnng expenses" Of Capt E.
B. Ward,a Detroit manufacturer, amount
to fifty dollars minute.
Glass has ''riz'' ten per cent in Pitts
b1rg.
Delaware has nearly three millions of
dollars invested in peach-raising.
Minnesota has nine new railways in
course of construction.
Ohio and New York manufacture
two-thirds Of the cheese made in the
United States.
The circulation of the London Times
is authoritatively stated to be $4,000.
Philadelphia has had an importation
Of tea direct from China, the first in
thirty years.
An Illinois genius makes paper out of
! tobacco stems.
An extensive quarry of fine building
stone has been discovered near De,
Kalb, Illinois
Russia has to day nearly 10000 miles
of railroad in successful operation.
The people of Iowa get clear arti-
Gle Of sugar from black walnut trees.
OF 2,S7S Episcopal ministers in the
United States, 32l are unemployed.
The capital invested in manufactures
in Lowell, Mass is said to exceed $22,-
100000.
Russia has more agricultural societies
within her borders than any other ma
ton.
In France the manufacture Of match
es sustains $4,000 workmen, and 7,000,-
600 of francs are invested in the bust
ness.
One farmer in California, during last
season, trapped and skinned 10000
squirrels, selling the skins for glove ma
king, at fifteen cents each.
Five factories in jefferson county,
Wis, last season, manufactured 231, ,267
pounds of cheese, which sold at an av,
erage price of 10 cents per pound.
The London omnibuses pay an annu,
al tax Of over f600,000 to the Govern
ment, and employ 5000 persons.
1t is computed that over $1,000 has
been paid during the past thirty years
for the printing in the Congressional
Globe Of the single word slaughter"
More than four hundred beet-sugal
manufactures exist in France,th indus
try having risen gradually to one of the
first Importance.
The consumption Of liquors in Eng
land last year, according to the Pal
Mall Gazette, amounted to the large
: figure of 1,007,127,675 gallons, valued
at S600,000,O0J.
The mining returns Of Nova Scott.
show an increase last year in the pro
duet Of the coal mines of $4,000 ton!
E over 1870
+ The production of steel rails in thi
; country in 1865 was 1929 tons; il
1868, 10000 tons; in 1859, 5000 tons
in 1870, 10000 tons; and it is estimated
that in 1871 it was 100000 tons.
5 The steam cars upon the railroads o
| Austria are now heated. and very com
f fortably so too, by steam pipes runnin!
; through them, supplied with steam di
3. rectly from the locomotives boiler.
In consequence of the rapid con
+ sumption of timber iE the Russian EN-
S pire, it is proposed to pass law enact
: ing that no other fuel than coal is to b
> used for heating the engines employed
t on railways.
The largest rope in the world ha
been completed in Birmingham. 1t i
about six miles long, five and quartz
inches in circumference, and weigh
over sixty tons.