The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-01-07
IrEsIs OF INTEREST.

ITEns OF INTEREST.
Cuba's estimated crop of sugar will
reach 100000 tens.
The cereal crop of France is estimat-
ed at S267 100000, the wine crop at
S2l9, 800, 900.
The only railroad in Mexico is from
Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico, a
distance Of SOB miles.
At recent sale Of ostrich feathers
in South Africa, pound OF that COM
modify brought S33S.75.
The Calumet and Hecla copper mines
are employing over 1000 men, aud
their monthly payroll foots up between
SO, 900 and S75, 900.
Canada is getting one feature of a
great nation, aud that is great debt.
She owes about $3.50. 900, 900, and has
inst arranged for a new loan of Sl5,-
900, 900.
Hungary produces more horses than
any other country Of its size--2 1884,
600. for population of $1,000, ,000.-
The Government has four breeding
stables.
The steamer Great Eastern which
has been chartered to run between
London and Galveston in the transport
tation of live stock. has capacity for
carrying $500 cattle and 800 sheep.
Russian journals complain bitterly
of the financial condition OF their
country. The interest on it's public
debt is now over $50, 900, 900 ronbles
per year, or fully one-third the entire
revenue.
The issuance of one and two dollar
National Bank notes has been stopped
and all outstanding National Bank
notes Of those denominations will be
retired with silver dollars as fast as
they wear out.
A bill was recently introduced in
Congress, prohibiting the Union Pa
cidc railroad from charging additional
freight or passage over the Omaha and
Council Bluffs bridge, with a penal
clause for it's violation.
Trenton, New Jersey, has nineteen
potteries IN operation, manufacturing
white granite, cream colored and por-
celain china, Capital, 81. .2lS0. 900; en-
ploy 2,l42 hands; produced in 1877
goods valued at el, 762, 925.
There are in Colorado, according to
the assessment returns, 3l5, 6lS cat
tie, l,0l3,0 005 sheep aud s.6l0 hogs. -
The cultivated laud are placed at l.
033, 072 acres and the value ~ farms
and town lots aud improvements S20,-
76l ,392.
London will have an exceptionally
large meeting of the Agricultural SOci-
ETY. next July The Prince Of Wales is
exerting himself euergetically in the
matter, aud, taking place as it viii in
the midst Of the London season, the
attendance must be enormous. II will
be an excellent occasion for our agri-
cultural implement makers TO add to
their laurels.
An interesting experiment has been
made to determine whether the head
waters of the Danube found their way
through snbterranean passages into
the Aach. Some hourescien was plac-
Ell in the waters of the Danube, and in
three days the splendid green color
and golden reflections were quite dis
tinct in the waters Of the Aach.
The total number Of standard silver
dollars coined since their remonetiza-
tion, up tO and including Nov. 23d,
was 1854, i5l. OF this number about
10, 800, 600 were in the United States
Treasury, some 4, 200. 600 we're in the
mint vanlts. aud the balance, a little
over 5000 600. was IN general circula-
ton. The total was abOnt / 800. 900 in
excess of the minimum required by
law.
The gross earnings of twenty-five
railroad companies for the month of
November, 1873, as compared with the
corresponding month in 1877, show
net increase of S9i,979. The gross
earnings Of the same lines from Janu-
airy /, 10 November 80, show net in
crease, as compared with the CORES
pondiug time last year. Of sj,5l3, ,959.
These figures do not include any of
the great East and West trunk lines.
The center Of the greatest production
Of wheat and corn il moving westward
much more rapidly than the center Of
population. In lS49 the center was at
the line Of 81 degrees west of Green
wich, in 1877 in was 50 degrees. The
progress OF wheat growing westward
over large acres of the plains aud
plateaus and mountain valleys between
Western Nebraska and the Pacific
coast, must eventually carry the cen
trail liue for wheat much beyond that
Of corn.