The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-05-27
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The largest gas-meter in the world has
just been built in London. Its capacity
is the enormous quantity of 10000 cubic
feet Fer hour, and its measuring drum
delivers for each revolution l 800 feet.
PROF. G.. ". RILEY, State Entomologist
of Missouri, is confident that by 1877 we
shall have seen the last of the grasshop-
pers, at least for some time -.
- -.---..,- ~. son, an Engl1Sh saiior, mas
discovered the lofiest mountain IN the
world upon the island of New Guinea, at
the junction of the Indian and Pacific
Oceans. 1t is 30, 7S3 feet high.
TIE net profits of the Bank of British
North America for the year 1874 were
el0O, ,925; the usual dividend at the rate
of 10 per cent has been declared for the
half year ending in June.
CoTToN SEED is becoming one of the
principal exports of Egypt. In 1860
/ ,09O cwt. only were exported from that
country while last year 3,49O,0S0 cwt.
were exported, the value being E11O, 600.
England took nearly the whole OF this
quantity.
BETWEEN the 1st of December last and
the 1st of April S11 ,317, 200 in gold was
exported from California, and s., 45I, 200
collected for duties, making Sl3, S3i,9 900
gold coin Withdrawn from circulation,
while only $i,g20,000 was coined in the
same period, showing an abstraction OF
the gold coin of the State TO the extent
of s. 905, 900 in four months.
THE Angora goat, which furnishes the
mohair so largely used in the manufact-
ure of various fabrics of wearing ap-
parel, thrives wonderfully in California.
| In 1870 a rumber of these goats were
imported into that State from Asia
Minor, and their number along the Pa
cifc coast is now estimated at ,, ,000, 600
while it is doubling yearly. The cost OF
the hair or wool of this animal is from
fifty cents to $1.25 per pound. There
! are three manufactures in the United
States in which mohair is woven into
fabrics.
IN the province of SiieSia 100000 col
onics of bees are kept, representing g
capital of more than &l,000,G00. These
n even in the most unfavorable years yIelt
a profit OF 10 per cent and in propitiou
seasons, such as the year 1916 was, The
yield was fully 100 per cent, or more
Than 81 ,000,000 IL is well ascertaineC
that the whortleberry and buckwhea
blossoms are much richer in saccharint
Juices on the poor soils of Silesia thai
in more fertile disiricts.-N. !. lRde
pend NJ.
TIRE history of the growth of the irol
Z manufacture in the United States withil
J the last fifty years exhibits rcmarka
= ible progress From production of "a
! 600 tons in 1910 it had become 165,0U
tons in 1890, 341 900 tons in 1910, an
600, 00o tons in 1850, as near as can be es
, timated. In 1860 it had reached 9l9, 1870
in 1870, 1856, 600; and in 1872, 2,SS0,0I
. tons; while the diminished production c
: 1873 2,695,434 tons, shows already tn
: effect of the depression under which tn
iron interest of the country stIil suffer!
i OF the production of 1878 very nearl
!, one half was made in Pennsylvania, an
! not less than I ,249, ,613 tons with anthr;
5 cite, while the total amount of charcoal
], made Dig-iron was only 524, l27 tons,
/ which are TO be added 10000 tons {
1 malleable iron made by the direct prot
A ess in bloomaries The importation
+ foreign iron and steel for 1872 was 195, ,65
/, tons; Tor 1878, 37l, ,l64 tons, and for is,
less than 200, 900 tons. From the figure
. for 1872 and 1873 we may conclude tn;
" the consumption in The United State
/ was then equal to about :, 900, 600 tons {
II iron yearly.-T. Sterry Hunt, IN Haype'
u H5gazsne.