The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-30
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

wv ih3sNN cotIon factories are hay
ing more work than they can do.
TIE township of Rusk, in Cherokee
County, Texas, receives $4,000 for it's
crop OF sorghum strip.
BRITISH manufacturers are COM
planning that the street cars used there
are made in the United States.
LAST year we paid foreign countries
$50, 100000 for wooden goods and
Sll,000,000 for manufactured goods.
IT is believed that more pork and
beef will emigrate from the United
States this coming season than ever
before.
HICKORY nuts are selling at one dol
lar per bushel and chestnuts at two
dollars and fifty cents in Todd County,
Kentucky.
OF the seventyfour present Sena-
tors twenty-six are alumni of colleges,
and of the 29S representatives and
delegates 10S; the two houses together
giving a proportion of college-educated
men amounting to thirty-six per cent.
THE South sends more college grad
yates to Congress than the North, pro-
p ortionately. Alabama, for instance,
sends five graduates out of eight mem
bers: Georgia, both Senators and seven
members out of nine; Kentucky, five;
fpnnpCEpn A rly
ACCORDING to the regulations and
records of the American Jockey Club,
there have been, during the year 1876
(the season has just closed), 412 legiti-
mate races, eXclusiveo of private sweep
stakes and contests for hacks or hunt
ers. Of these 2S4 were dashes of from
half mile to four miles, eighty-five
were heats over similar distances,
twenty hurdle races and tWenty-three
steeplechases. The total amount of
money won was 1911, 130, including
pieces of plate at their nominal value.
TIE life-saving service of the United
States was inaugurated in 1850. 1t
now has i'll operation 135 stations and
has in its employ 965 men. Since its
organization up to the present year
PSI vessels have been driven ashore
on the line of coast protected by its
stations, having on board 3,24O per-
sons, of whom 3,197 were rescued
fOrty-three were lost. In 1873, 1915
vessels in distress were assisted by the
revenue vessels, and eighty-one per-
sons saved by this means.
Nix. BLYDEN, formerly professor
in the Liberian College, whose recent
papers on African subjects have at
tracted some attention, will shortly
undertake, on behalf Of gentleman
interested in trade with the west
coast of Africa, heightened journey
of exploration in the unknown regions
lying beyond the Kong Mountains,
West Africa. After crossing that
range Mr.. Blyden will take as direct a
course as possible to the east, and ELI
deayOr to reach the Niger; in the
event Of his succeeding it is not i'm
probable that he will continue his
journey further, in which case he will
be absent in the interior for fully a
year.-LOnd0n Icademy.
PROF. RILEY, at meeting of the
st. Louis Academy of Science, eX-
hibited potato bug which was 50
completely covered with mite para
site that the point of Il needle could
not be placed on any part of the
beetles body without touching one of
the parasites. He estimated the
number of mites at 500. The bug had
been attacked by these enemies and
killed. The potato bug seems to have
number of natural enemies, such
as the toad, the crow, the rOse-breaSted
gross-beak and domestic fowls. There
are no less than twenty-three insect
enemies that attack and kill it. The
bug has also been migrating eastward
across the continent for several years,
until it has now reached the Atlantic
Ocean.
THERE are only two States in the
Union which have a longer shore line
than California. These are Florida,
with LII miles of Gulf coast, and
1868 miles of Atlantic coast, and Texas,
with 1909 miles of shore line. Ac-
cording to the report of the Coast
Survey, California has 1,136 miles of
coast line, PIP miles Of island shore
and 24O miles of tide-water river
shore, making altogether 1,G4S miles
of shore line. The whole shore of the
Pacific coast, including island and
river, is 3,S74 miles, not including
Alaska, which has, all told, $3.50
miles. The aggregate Of shore line of
the Pacific coast belonging to the
United States is 12,734 miles, while
the total for the Atlantic States is set
down at II, $40 miles, and for the Gulf
States at 4,S43 miles.