The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-23
BUSINESS ITEMS

The locomotive shops at Patterson. N.
j., have not been SO busy before for over
five years.
The number of children attending
school in ireland this year is 10000 less
than last year.
The advance in window glass in Eng.
land from the lowest point touched last
year has been about fifty per cent.
In New England alone il is estimated
by railroad men that over 1000 freight
cars are now being built by the various
roads.
Official announcement has been made
that the Illinois Central railroad has re-
| duced its fare from four TO three cents
per mile over all its branches in Illinois.
The work of changing the gauge of
the Atlantic and Great Western railroad.
for over 300 miles, from six fee. 10 the
present standard, Is TO be performed on
the I'D of June, the longest day of the
year.
The Swiss exports 10 the United States
IN 1879 show an increase of 1900. 600
francs over those of 1878, the Chief items
ni increase eng cotton goods, watches
and embroidery
as another Instance of tie aivautac,.
OF being fnr-sighted enough 10 lay In d
stock of material during the period of
low prices, may be mentioned the South
ern Pacific railroad. which purchased
last year steel rails and ties for over 800
miles, sufficient TO extend its track from
Tucson to the Rio Grande. The differ
ence between the cost of rails alone then
and now wonld be more than $1,000, 600.
A statistician, curiously and closely
lnQuirlng, declares the result of his in
vestlgation as to the products of the
United States to be that the agricultural
products of one year amount to nearly as
much in value as the products of our
mines since 1919. In plain words, or
rather figures, he sums up 81, 504, GOO, 600
as the total value of the agricultural pro-
ductions OF leading staples IN 1877,
whereas, the estimated yield of all our
mines during twenty-seven years-that
is 1S49-T6-was 81 ,6l7 100000.
Secretary Schurz has recommended TO
the house an appropriation of $500 to
purchase the first patent ever issued in
America. Accompanying il was letter
from e. I. Hall, OF Columbus, Ohio, the
present possessor of the document, in
which he says ii was issued at New
York, July 81, 1870, to Samuel Hopkins,
of Philadelphia, for an improvement in
making potash anu pearlaSn. 1t is writ
ten on a sheet of parchment in round,
Old-fashioned hand, signed by George
Washington and certified by Edward
Randolph, attorney general, as being
conformable to the act of congress to
promote the useful arts and its delivery
to the grantee is certified by Thomas
Jefferson, with the seal of the United
States.
During the first SIX weeks of this year,
3, 1927 boxes of spurious tea were con-
demned and destroyed by the English
custom authorities. Very often large
shipments are allowed to be re-exported,
and, no doubt, some of it finds its way
into this country. Wholesale dealers in
London are urging the strictest enforce
ment of the law fOrbidding spurious teas
to pass into consumption, as the effect of
such importation will probably be to
check the use of tea in England, as it has
done on the continent. The whole guam
tity of tea taken for home consumption
in France last year did not exceed 9O2,-
900 pounds, or .024 of pound per head
of the population, while in Great Brit
ain the quantity delivered for home use
was 160,652, 900 pounds, or at the rate of
40 pounds per head of the population.
In this country we consumed Go 1000 900
pounds of tea last year, which is at the
rate of 1.36 per capita.