The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-08
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--Newsboys began In America In l8aS, with
n speech of Daniel Webster's.
The Iowa Democratic State Convention Is
10 be held ut Marshalltown on Wednesday.
August 20.
The San Francisco Bulletin thinks that
California and Oregon will have about $4,000
tons Of wheat to export.
"A London dispatch states that one hun
slred and seventeen persons have been poi
soned In that city with scarlet fever tainted
milk.
Field Marshal Wrangel Is the senior OF
the German army and It's second Marshal
Prince Frederick Charles, created In 1854,
ranking him. He Is now past ninety-four,
and has for eighty-two years been on the
army roll. At Waterloo, In 1915, he was made
colonel
Amherst College this year conferred the
degree Of doctor Of divinity upon Roman
Catholic Clergyman, Father Hewitt, Of New
York. This Is n new departure for Amherst
which was founded by orthodox New England
Congregationalists and has ever since
been under the control OF that discrimination
There are at present In France steam
engines Of an aggregate horsepower OF 1000,
600, which is equal to the effective labor OF
81 ,Oo0, 600, or about ton times the Industrial
population of tho country. Yet so very
recently as 1862, there were only 6O0o liked
steam engines In the whole of France and
these had an estimated strength of only $4,000
horsepower.
In seven years %, 900, 900 notes of the Bank
OF England have been paid, and they are con-
tanned in 1900 boxes, which, placed side by
SIDE would extend distance of three miles.
These notes are not made Of old rags, but Of
pure white linen cuttings, and their manu-
facture for nearly two hundred years has
been placed In the hands of the Portals, of
Laverstoke. Hampshire
The Quarterly Journal of Ltebriety has
made an estimate Of the stimulants used by
the race from which 1t appears that coffee is
used In the bean and the leaves by 6o,0Oo,o0o
OF the human family. Tea Of all kinds is used
by 800 0O0,0 600, and opium by 400, 900 600; alco-
hol In its various forms by 500,000,00 To-
bacco Is probably used by 7O0,OO0,O 900 or $780,
100000. The figures show tobacco largely in
the ascendant, which the total abstinence
people will probably be glad to know.
In spite of the counterblasts against It,
tobacco seems TO be growing more popular
each year. The manufacture of cigars in New
York city has become extensive, employing
an army Of work people and paying an an
nual revenue of $4,000 The. tenement
house plan has been adopted by several man
ufaeturers. They lease house and sub-let
It to poor families; TO each of these Is given q
quantity of tobacco on Monday morning,
which IL returned ON Saturday las cigars or
cigarettes. Nearly all nationalities except
Irish are engaded in this industry. Ameri-
cans are found in sparse numbers, but Ital-
fans. Spaniaads, Cubans and Chinese abound.
The Cambridge tMd.l Cuonicle says: "Ac-
counts still agree that the peach crop will be
immense, although in some parts of the PEN
Ursula the yield will be very small Not one
half of the crop will be sent to the market in
the natural state, owing to the great excess
OF the supply over the demand. Last year
experiments were made in drying the fruit by
intense heat, and this year that branch of the
business will be prosecuted extensively, es-
pecially in Delaware. A bushel bf peaches
contain two gallons Of water, which can be
driven out in a few hours by evaporation, and
the slices, when brought into contact with
> water again, ARE found to be not materially
altered in taste. Europe is the market to
which the dried peaches are to be sent.