The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-01
FACTS AND FIGURES.

An exploration of Great Salt Lake
shows that its greatest depth is sc feet.
TEN thousand counterfeit trade dol
lars are said to be in circulation in New
York.
THE Turks Island salt crop is short
this year, and the price has risen from
$1.75 a hogshead to 1920.
PROF. SHELDON, in his new work on
dairy farming, assumes that $50, 100000
gallons of milk are annually made into
cheese in England, and 800, 900, 900 gal
Ions to butter. The quantity of the
! former product made is 126, 600 tons,
and of the latter ,265 tons.
THE Sandwich Island alphabet has y
letters; the Burmese 81; the Hebrew,
Syrlac, Chaldee and Samaritan 90 each;
the French %; the Greek %; the Latin
%; the German, Dutch and English &c
each; the Spanish 81; the Arabic %;
the Persian 80; the Russian Al; the
Sanscrit 30; the Ethiopic 202.
FRANCE has the largest wheat area,
in proportion to population, of any
country in Europe; but while England
average wheat yield IS from rs to 80
bushels per acre, that of France is only
10 IL. An increase OF one bushel an
acre there would amount to 100000
bushels. This small yield is attributed
to poor cultivation, and, in the South,
to the dryness of the climate in spring
NATURE still takes her revenges in
spite of civilization. The death ratio in
England among infants of the "com-
Portable Glass; where light, air, heat
and food are all provided for the tender
life was recently put by DIR. Drysdale,
an English authority, at so per LOCO.
1t is somewhat smaller in the highest
classes, where all the resources of great
estate are used to keep alive the young
heir or possible heiress. Taking all
classes, however, in places like Liver
pool or Manchester, the rate rises to 240
or 800 per 1000. In Berlin one-half the
babies die.
An interesting paper by NJ. Cabot
states that statistics show the number of
cattle in France is diminishing. In 1872
there were "A, 000, 900 head of cattle, in
GLIDING pigs; in 1875 it was $4,000, 900,
while the population had increased 500,-
600, being in that year 36,638, 1913. The
average consumption in capitals and
towns of more than 10000 inhabitants
was, in 1916, 50 kiog. no or. whereas,
in 1875 it had risen to IS kilog. $50 gr,
showing more meat per head is now
used. The total production is insult
ficient for the demand. NJ. Cabot di-
LrectS attention to the wealth of cattle in
America, Australia and South Africa.
CONCERNING the tendency to railway
consolidation, the Cincinnati Gazette has
the following paragraph upon the sub
ject: 60 In 1869 the total mileage con-
trolled by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company was 538; New York Central,
593; Chicago & Northwestern, 1,150;
! Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, $50
At the present time the mileage con-
trolled is as follwws: Pennsylvania les
tima.ed), 5000; New York Central
(estimateO, 1920; Chicago & North
western, 2,15S; Chicago, Milwaukee g.
st. Paul, $3.50. The increase of mile
age here shown is almost entirely due to
the absorption, by lease or purchase, of
the minor lines"
/ THE Swiss Government carries or a
great coaching business, but at a serious
loss. In 1876 it owned 1898 convey
ances, estimated at about $1,000 and
the total net loss on this branch of the
postal service was over $4,000 The
number of passengers conveyed was
1925, 1903, OF whom 227, 1884 travelled on
what are known as Alpine and tourist
routes. A notion of the great increase
in Swiss travelling of late years may be
formed from the fact that the passengers
forwarded by post in 1852 are given at
$40, 104, En which figures travellers by
rail are not included. Great economies
have resulted in diminished loss in the
department in the past two years, the
falling off of Swiss travel notwithStand-
ing. The depression in England tells
heavily on Switzerland.
IT is now estimated that there are
$4,000 carriage manufacturers in the
! United States, who employ upward of
100000 hands, pay out from So, 900, 900
TO S31 100000 for labor annually, and
produced during the past y months up
ward of 100000 carriages, amounting
in value to fully $4,000, 900. This
makes one carriage to every 3S persons
i'll the United States, to say nothing of
sleighs of various kinds. This does not
include the extensive manufacture of
axles, springs, wheels, bows, Joints,
bolts, clips, leather, cloth, and the
thousands of articles made in part that
are now purchased in Ii partly finished
state by the trade, in which many thou
sands of men find steady and remunera-
tive employment.
THE CG1lddd Fdrnaer pronounces the
bee farm of ID. A. Jones, near Beeton,
Ontario, the most extensive and success
full in the country. 1t consists of four
bee-yards. each covering about an acre
of ground carefully inclosed, and con-
tains, besides the hives and summer
store-rooms, a house for wintering the
bees. The hives used are oblong, pine
wood boxes, with a cubic capacity of
1920 in, the inside measure being Is by
IS by y. Mr.. Jones's four bee-vards
contain $50, $50, 100, and 20 of such
hives respectively, and he reckons 80
GOO bees "a good swarm for one of them.
At the end of July Mr.. Jones had Sc
cured $4,000 pounds of honey from $40
stocks of bees. He expects total Weld
for the year of 10000 pounds of honey
from his 19, 600, 000little workers, in which
case he would net between $1,000 and
$1,000 for the years product, without
taking into account the sale of swarms
or of queen bees. This successful apiarist
estimates the years total outlay at 81
100, nearly half CT which, however, is
interest on capital which has grown up
with the business.
A Journey Under the Earth.