The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-01-10
Science and Industry.


The telephone has been tried be-
tween Dover and Calais with satisfac-
ton to the spectators of the submarine
cable.
Lynn is said to be losing its trade
in boots and shoes, which used to he al
most a monopoly. Western manufac-
turers are getting a large share of the
business.
Two hundred and twenty street
lamps at Providence, Il. l., which ex-
tend over a distance of nine miles, are
now lighted and extinguished by cleo
tricity, in less than Is seconds, by one
man.
Among novelties constructed of
paper is a chimney for factory at Bres-
Ian, Long Island. 1t is so feet high,
and rendered fire-proof and impervious
to water by a chemical preparation.
Next we may expect stoves and CRATES
made of paper. -.......
Birds killed on the Western prairies,
packed closely with paper in barrels,
and without any freezing or other artifi-
cial process of preservation, are sent 10
England by every steamer, where they
arrive in excellent condition.
An orange tree in the Azores in one
year produced 10000 oranges, which
were exported in perfect condition to
England. In these islands the exporta-
ton of oranges has become a very i'm
portant industry. During she past year
they have yielded to Great Britain alone
20S,615 cases of the fruit, worth about
S5O0,000. The branches and trunks OF
the trees are attended to so scientifically
that they usually attain gigantic pro-
portions. l han
S. G. Livermore, of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, has Guernsey COW which sweeps
the board on lacteal product She
dropped her first calf Oct. IS, 1876.
From Nov. l following to Sept /, 1877,
she gave 1922 pounds of milk, from
which was made 3073 pounds of butter.
Sept. 80, 1877, she dropped her second
calf; and from Oct. Is following, in
seven days, she gave 121 pounds of
milk, from which was made 81 pounds
of butter.
An official statement gives the num-
Der of gallons of wine produced by each
of the grape producing countries of the
world, for 1876; France, 1, 170,076, JIG;
Germany, 1881, 204; Switzerland, 3d.
600; Bohemia, $1,000; Austria, 81, 1922
81; Hungary, 22l, 214,4 Russia
provinces In part, A, 1861, 900; Portu-
gal, III, 100000; Madeira, 0874) l.
450, 600; Italy, 100000; Turkey and
22,O00,OO0; Australia, L.
92S, 1924; Cape of Good Hope, 1,7S5, 1926;
Balearic and Canary Isles, 291, 456;
Spain lin part) 66,000,000; Greece, 26,- /
100000; United States, 100000.
There are % packing houses in Bal
timore, employing each from so to $50 /
hands, and handling 100000 of raw
and 100000 of canned oysters each 1
season. Besides there are so steaming
houses, where $4,000, 900 cans are pre-
pared each season by 1000 men. Near
ly 1900 men are engaged in making 1
cans. Oysters shuckers make on an /
average S1.25 per day, but some experts
make as much as IS. A bushel of oys 1
ters in the shell will make 10 cans, and
,ne firm have shucked and canned as
many as $500 bushels in a day.
1t is expected that Bartholdi's statue
If " Liberty Lighting the World, :" which
s to serve as lighthouse in the Harbor
If New York, will be ready for display
1t the Paris Exhibition. The hand of
his gigantic figure measures over four
meters; the middle finger is two meters
n length, and weighs As kilogrammes; 1
md the wrist is the size of a locomotive
,oiler. The height of the statue on its
will be 81 meters-the uplifted
lrm, holding the lighted torch, reaching
.bove the head.