The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-12-07
INDUSTRIAL. STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

bhhHiL LII iliollco tiio oHllcu 'cldltS
with thirty-six million pounds of to-
bacco per annum.
New YORK has sixty-eight corset
factories, which shows how our indus
tries are running to waist.,-Boston
Post.
THE jelly factory in Hayfeld, Craw-
ford County, Pa, has succeeded be-
yond the expectations of it's proprie-
tors. 1t is run night and day, and is
behind with orders.
a MAN in Boston advertises that he |
will furnish genuine titles of Earl or
Count for $4,000. European orders
for from $3.50 to $4,000, and member
ship in foreign scientific and literary
societies at $3.50. He warrants the |
certificates genuine.
UTAH now contains some ninety |
mining districts and some 10000 peo-
pie engaged in mining. The mines and |
improvements are valued all the way |
from $15,000,0 600 to $4,000, 600, and !
the annual yield of lead, silver and |
gold has reached 1000, 900.
Mr.. E. W. SEwELL, a Canadian
shipbuilder, is going to attempt to
keep the st. Lawrence River below
Quebec open all winter In considera-
ton of small subsidy offered by the
Canadian Government he has CON
structed a powerful iron-clad propeller,
by which he hopes to break the ice.
THE importations of some classes of |
dry goods are falling off largely. The
amount imported in the month of Oc-
tober shows decrease of S467, 900
less than October of last year. The
total importation for nine months of
this was 900, $50, being $50, 900, 900
less than the same time last year. OF
this decrease $40, 900, 900 is in manufac-
tured WOODEN goods, and s., 900, 900 in
silks and cotton.
kELETI, Chief of the Hungarian
Bureau of Statistics, gives some aston
ishing facts relative to the production
and consumption Of wine III that king
dom. He says there are 1922 wine
presses, which produce annually an
average Of 105, 5SO,744 gallons. And
yet this is not enough for home con-
sumption, but that Hungary is an i'm
| porter of wine. He says that the wine
consumers of that monarchy are about
2,S15, 900, and that this number con-
sumo annually about S9,3S8, POS gal
| Ions, or siXty-seven and One-third gal
Ions per capita
ACCORDING to custom-hOuse figures
given in the San Francisco Bulletin,
the total value of grain exported from
| California from July to Oct. 3l-four
mOnths-was $13, 1902, 900; this sum
being 50, 900, 900 more than in the same
time in 1875. The same paper gives
the total value of all farm products ex-
ported from San Francisco in the
month of October at $4,5O6, GOO-the
largest monthly shipment in the his
tory of the State. 1t is evident that
the very large yield in California
much more than makes up for any de-
felt i'll the wheat crop of the north
west, so that unless some unlOOked-for
demand should arise, no appreciation
of prices is probable.
THE manufacture of artificial pearls
is now said to be extensively carried
on in France, the material used for
this purpose being perfectly white
solution of the scales of the bleak, a
Well-knOVrn fish of that country. The
| genuine-iS Il mucuS which
| lubricateS the scales of the fish; it CO.
agulateS by heat to thick, white de-
post, and is obtained by carefully
scrapiDg the fish over a shallow tub
containing fresh water, pains being
| taken not to scale the back or dOrsal
part, as these scales are yellow, While
| the white scales possess the value.
| The material is received on horse
hair sieve, and the first water, mixed
with little blood, is thrown away.
| The scales are then washed and
pressed, when the mucus or essence
sinks to the bottom of the tub, and
appears as brilliant blue white oily
mass. 1t takes 10000 fish to furnish
two pounds of the substance; it is
sealed i'll tin boxes with ammonia, and
in this condition is sent to Paris. If
drop of the essence be.taken up by a
straw and let fall upon water, it
floats, giving forth the most brilliant
colors. Mere glass bulbs, in shape of
pearls, lined with this substance, imi-
tate the real gems with remarkable
cl0SeneSs.
AN inquirer, in one of the English
science journals, wishes to know the
supposed longevity of cells. He has
had specimen Of the common sharp
noZed eel (AnguiU0 Gcutir0stris) in an
aquarium for above twenty years, and
has desire to penetrate into the flu
ture, and learn how much longer he
may expect to retain the animal. 1t
seems to possess extraordinary vital
ity, and is as lively at the date of
writing as ever it was, notwithstand-
ing ii has frequently crept out of the
aquarium at night in years past, and
been picked up dry and stiff on the
hall floor in the morning. Its meals,
too, have been extremely irregular,
and very little attention has been paid
to its diet. When it does get a morsel
in the way of a worm, it retires be-
meath the single in the aquarium,
and there lies quietly for day or two,
until the process of digestion is COM
pleted. The poor worm is always
swallowed head first, and after it has
reached the stomach, its writings
can plainly be seen through the trans
parent tissues of the eel The latter
animal is twenty inches long, and
weighs only two and one-half ounces
yet it will dispose of a worm eight or
nine inches in length.