The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-07-05
MATTERS OF FACT.

In Pennsylvania a law has gone
into force prohibiting the sale or
giving away of liquor during cleo
ton days.
A grape grower near Terre
Haute, Ind, cleared $40 from his
vineyard of one acre last season.
The Chicago Legal News, one of
the most valuable legal journals of
the United States, is edited by
Mrs. Myra Bradwell.
There arc sixty-six farms in the
State of New York of over one
one thousand acres each.
Louisiana owes S72 to every in
habitant, and Is the most heavily
indebted State in proportion to
its inhabitants. West Virginia
owes the least, viz, $1.27 per
head.
Nevada is the most heavily tax
d State, the rate being more than
26 on the thousand. Delaware
the most lightly taxed, the rate
being only 81 on the thousand.
The census reports for 1870
show that a large proportion of
sheep kept in the Southern States
are of no account in producing
wool, and are actually not shearcd.
Rope has been manufactured in
Baltimore of ramie-fiber brought
from New Orleans, which has been
pronounced of unsurpassed
strength" The fiber is valued
for this purpose at IA cents per
pound.
Twenty-Five years ago, NJ rs
Bennett, of Union City, Michiga n
in lowering a pail of butter into
her well, let it fall, and it remain
ed at the bottom until the well
was cleaned out this spring, when
it was found fresh and sweet.
There is largo quantity of but
ter which might well be put down
a well for twenty-five years if it
would only come out Efresh and
sweet in the end.
The consumption of sugar in
the United States in 1871 was
seven hundred thousand tons, very
nearly. Ofthis only one fifth was
of native growth, and of this
seventeen thousand tons was
maple-sugar. Before the war,
Louisiana furnished half our sup
ply ofsugar.
Edgerton, Wis, is said to have
shipped 100000 pounds of, to-
bacco this season.
Iowa has passed a law making
road supervisors responsible for
the destruction of Canada thistles
on the public roads. This is q
very important provision, as it is
from the public roads and unculti-
waited places that the seeds of
weeds spread broadcast over the
country.
A savant suggests that large
quantity of potash could be pro-
duced from corn-cobs, of which
fifteen thousand million pounds
are annually produced, and which
would furnish a hundred and fif-
teen million pounds of potash. He
states the proportion of potash in
the cobs to be .76 per cent. Now
how shall we save the corn-cobs?
The How Sewing Machine Com
pany have large mandatory in
Great Britain, where they make
500 machines a day; they are sold
at half the price charged here, and
yet enormous profits are made.
An application is now making to
Congress to extend the patent of
the Wilson Co., which would think
the public had already paid quite
sufficiently for without being furth
er taxed.
A new enterprise has been set
on foot successfully in Boston.
This is the Milk Consumers As
ISOLATION, which has started with
six wagons and 400 customers.
1t provides pure, unadulterated
milk at reduced prices for the
members of the association. In
one week it was found necessary
to double the number of supply
wagons.
It is stated that the japanese
agricultural commission, consist
ing of our own late Agricultural
Commissioners, Col. Capron, and
q corps of assistants, who were
lately engaged by the Japnese
Government to teach the art of
agriculture to the natives of that
country, have been SO successful
that their services are no longer
required, and they are on their
way home.
AS an instance of the growth of
iron manufacture in Missouri, the
Rural World, of st. Louis, states
that a new furnance is construct
ing at Carondolet, with capacity
of two hundred tons of pig per
day. AS a furnance able to pro-
duce twenty tons a day is a very
respectable one, and the largest in
the world-an English furnace
produces but fifty tons, the one
proposed in Missouri is certainly
a wonderful instance of Western
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