The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-03
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

THE Pennsylvania oil business is
squirting ahead with steady increase
of petroleum flow.
RED precipitate or red oxide of mer-
curry is not made by precipitation, but
by heating the nitrate of mercury;
when precipitated it has yellowish
color. rB 81
GEORGIA has some forty cotton
mills, which in nearly every instance
paid dividend during the past year,
while many New England mills were
running at loss.
BURGUNDY pitch is not pitch; nor is
it manufactured or exported from Bur
gundy. The best is resinous sub
| stance, prepared from common frank
incense, and brought from Hamburg
but by far the largest quantity is a
mixture of resin and palm oil.
As many as twenty of the 2S,290
persons whose deaths We're registered
in Ireland in the first quarter of the
present year are described as centena-
! rians. = There are three among them
registered as 1O6 years old, one 100, one
10, and two men Ill years of age.
THE total amount of coinage at the
San Francisco mint for the year end
ing June 80 was $50, 900, 800, of which
1927 ,O33, 900 was i'll gold coin. This Is
the largest amount ever coined at
this mint III any one year, and is the
largest annual coinage of any mint in
the United States if not in the world.
TIE debts of English cities had
reached at last accounts a total Of
e92, 500, 200. or about S462, 800, 900.
New York city alone owes Il debt of
! Sill, 100000 or nearly one-fourth as
much as all the cities of England. The
debts of English cities have increased
about ST., 800, 600 within a year, and it
is estimated that they will reach a
round $500, 900, 900 by 1877.
TAXING the United States census OF
1870 as q guide for our own country,
we find malarial fevers forming a very
important feature of the mortality ta-
bles. They are most fatal i'll Florida,
Louisiana and Texas. Next in order
follow Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia, Missouri, Kansas and Nevada.
In another group, distinguished by
a somewhat less mortality, we find New
Mexico, the Carolinas, Virginia, Ten
nessee, Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana.
Those States marked by the lowest
mortality are the New England and
Middle States, Wisconsin and Mime
sofa. In California there is a c0nsid-
cradle ratio of mortality, diminishing
easterly in Utah, and northerly in
Oregon and Washington territory,
while it augments largely toward the
South in New Mexico. - Popul0r
Science Monthly.
THE drift of northern icebergs is
| VIII tilC Sltdl pOlti INllClllo NIl'il
meet near the coast of Labrador. They
are from thence 1loated with the cur
rent past Newfoundland, frequently
striking the coast, and usually disSolv-
ing in the gulf stream, which they meet
near the Great Bank, they disappear at
about latitude fOrty-two degrees. The
extreme limit reported in any anthem
tic publication is latitude forty de-
gTeeS north. The southern icebergs,
not meeting a similar dissolvent, APP
proach nearer to the equator, being
frequently seen off the Cape of Good
Hope, in latitude thirty-fOur degrees
south. The weight, sometimes, is
| hundreds of millions of tons in their
frozen mass. Only about one-eighth OF
their bulk is above the water. Capt.
Ross found one aground in Baflin Bay,
in water l 800 feet deep.