The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-03-16
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL AND
TECHNICAL.

THE japanese Government is said to
have adopted singular but effective
method for extending knowledge of the
Arabic numerals with their English
names; they are printed in tabular form
on cloth, which is sold at low price to
the peasantry.
THE German Emigrant Society of New
York in its annual report shows the re-
ceipts for the past year to be 500 ,494 .O6,
and expenditures, s20,731.55. During
the year ,425 persons were. pecuniarily
relieved, 31S patients treated, and 149, 1852
immigrants sent to different parts of the
country.
In Maine 5000, 900 are invested in
eighteen porgie factories, employing 1854
men, thirty-six steamers, and thirty-seyen
sailing vessels. In 1875, 712, 900 barrels
of fish were taken-90, 900 more than in
1S74-and 100000 gallons of oil and
% goo tons guano made. Fourteen
steamers were added to the fleet last year
and 1000 barrels of fish were sold for
bait.
THE Lice Stock Journal, published in
Gloucester, England, says that a shoe
maker of that town has a wonderful hen.
One day she laid an egg, the next day she
laid three; three days afterward eight;
and on one day the week following she
managed TO produce eleven. The eggs
were large and the shells of different col
Ors. This beats the famous hen celebrat-
Cd in poetry that laid one egg day and
| two ON Sunday.
From the official report of the French
fisheries, ii seems that the supply OF ogs-
tiers from artificial bearing beds i in
creasing. Statistics regarding the yield
of the beds at Arachon set the amount for
1873 at IL, 100000 of oysters, which were
sold for e69, 40 In 1874, the yield was
81 600 600, which sold for eS0,000-a
large fall in value. Although the returns
are limited 10 these beds, it is to be in
ferred that the harvest in other districts
was also increased, or the prices would
not have fallen so low. The inference is
supported by the fact that grants of eys-
ter-bed5 are annually augmenting in NUN
Der.
Now that coal is becoming scarcer and
more costly, peat and turf are receiving
more attention as sources of fuel, while
petroleum-though scarcely yet regarded
as safe fuel-is also coming into no
tice for heating purposes. In various
parts of Europe, peat is now and has for
long time past been almost the only fuel
used and, within comparatively recent
period, great efforts have been made to
utilize it advantagcously for this purpose
in the United States and Canada. In its
natural state, or merely air-dried, it has
been much employed, although Of very
inferior heating power to coal; but when
puIped and compressed, as is the process
carried out so successfully in some cOun-
tries, as i'll Holland and Italy, it has been
found capable of competing with coal and
wood on equal terms, both for steam pro-
| ductiOn and household use. Charred peat
has also become an important article of
consumption, as a substitute for wood,
charcoal and coke. The more general
employment Of peat, by some improved
method of preparation rendering it more
readily and profitably available, is yet
| looked forward to; and when it is consul
cred what vast peat tracts exist, as an al.
most total waste, in different parts of the
world, a source Of vast industry and
wealth would appear to be simply await
ing the due application of ingenuity and
enterprise.-N. y. San.