Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-16
FACTS AND FIGURES.


ENGLAND has more iron-clads on the
seas than any other country, and also
more under the seas.
In appears from the recent statistical
literature on the great Suez Canal, that
the cost of construction has been over
$50, 100000.
THE fees which lawyers get from peo-
pie who don't know any better than to
quarrel in court annually amount to $780,
900, 600 in the United States.
TEN AND A QUARTER pounds of paper to
each person is consumed each year in
North America. This is ahead of all the
other countries, except England, where
they use pound and quarter more per
head probably in trying to write poetry.
THE circulation of the San Francisco
Call appears prominently and persistently
at the head of its columns as "33, SOL"
and the thoughtful man looking at the
figures is thrown gradually into restive
nervous agony in wondering what in
duced them to tack on that last 81 ."--lSt.
Lsuis Republican.
THE herring fisheries of Scotland con-
tinue to decline seriously. In them are
engaged 40 ,226 persons, who own IA, S41
boats with tonnage Of 105, ,577 tons, and
! have invested capital of Ct ,072, ,777 In
some of the waters the fishery has become
absolutely unproductive and the failure
threatens the destruction not only of an
! important national industry but of large
source of food supply. The diminution
of the herring is attributed to the facilities
which, under the existing regulations of
the fishery board, have been afforded TO
the taking of sprats and herring fry in the
friths and inner waters of Scotland by
means of trawl-nets. While the sprat
| fishing was kept in check the herring
fishery was prosperous; but since, and
wherever trawling has been practiced, the
destruction of young herring has resulted
TO prodigious extent, and year by year
the legitimate fishing has declined.
ACCORDING to recent statistics the pro-
duction of silver in the whole world in
1900 was $35 900, 900, which rose in 1850
to $42, ,000, 900, in 1854 to SAT 500, 900, and
in 1865 to about $62, 100000. The pro-
duction of this precious metal during the
! year 1878 is subdivided as follows: En-
gland and its colonies, $4,000, 900; Nor
way, Sweden and Denmark, $3.50, 900; /;
Russia, $500,000; Austria, 81, 500, 900;
Germany, $4,000, ,000 France, $4,000, 900 ;
Spain, 81, 100000 Sardinia, $500, 900 !;
Mexico, 500, 900 600; Central and South
America, $9,000,000; Canada, 5000, 900; !;
the United States, $50, 500, 900, which
gives total of $85, $50, 900. Including
the year 1878, it is estimated that the total
production of silver, since the discovery
of the New Word by Christopher Column
bus, has been $715, 100000, the largest
source of accession, during late years, be-
ing due to the Nevada mines. .-Sctentifc
american.
The total quantity of coral annually
brought up from the bottom of the Medi-
terranean Sea by Italians is estimated to
average weight of about 100, 600 pounds
and to represent value of 81 ,150, 900.
OF the above amount less than 1000
pounds is valuable for jewelers. purposes
The Spaniards are the only rivals of the
Italians in coral fisheries. They employ
about sixty boats and obtain somewhere
about %, 900 pounds per annum, which is
valued at in the neighborhood of $780,.
600. This coral is not SO fine as the other,
however, and has its special markets.
After the coral is gathered il is sorted, and
that which is considered as merchanta
BILE" is sent into factories where women
are employed TO clean it, reassort it, class
it out according To color and make it ready
for the use of the trade. Only a very
small quantity finds sale in Italy More
than nine tenths is sent to foreign mar
kets, and the total revenue from it is esti-
mated to amount to $2,000,000 yearly.
Most of the fishermen are convicts. Hence
the proverb, "TO be a coral-fisher you
must be either rogue or vagabond."