The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-06-03
FACTS AND FIGURES.

New Orleans has shipped to France
and Italy within year 2, 400, 900 gallons
of cotton-seed oil.
MIR. Sharb, of California, in 1878
received SS,210 for seven acres of or
aEges. He says the profit that year
was over 81 900 per acre. ''
The pear trees of the old Mission
gardens of Santa Cruz, CAL, planted
by the Spanish priests ninety years ago,
yielded an immense crop last year.
Philadelphia contains 1O3 distinct
iron factories, giving employment to
nearly Il, 1000 hands, without including
those employed at the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Works.
There are in the United States $50
theaters and 120 concert halls, $50 reg
ular travelling companies, fifty variety
companies, ,sixty-eightc companies formed
to support stars and seven resident stock
companies.
Two years ago not more than 800
head + cattle were owned along the en-
tire valley of the Upper Gila River.
To-day there are at least $4,000 head
grazing over the same ground, and
twenty-six good ranches being farmed.
The estimated value of the prop
erty of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland is "a, 300, 900, 900;
that of France and the United States,
each $1,000, 600, 900; that of Germany,
50, ,625, 900, 900; that of Austria-Hunga-
ry, $4,000, 900, 900, and that of Russia,
80, 500, ,00O,00O ..-
There are 100000 900 acres of land
in California fit for cultivation, but not
over 100000 are in actual use for that
purpose, and not over 5000. 900 are in
closed. Over 20, 900, 900 acres are held
by land rings or individual monopolists
for speculative purposes, in tracts of
125, 900. to 100000 acres.
According to an official statement,
the effective strength OF the Swiss
Federal Army on the 1st of January,
1880, amounted to 1927 men, as
against 119, 74S i'm the previous year.
The numbers required by the existing
law are los, ,3SS men in the regular
army, and 97.0l2 in the Landwehr; or
altogether 212, 400. The actual total at
present is 2l5, ,063.
According to lie Tscknologiste, the
churches in. Europe which will contain
the largest number of persons are as
follows: St. Peters, at Rome, 81. 900;
Milan Cathedral, $1,000; St. Paul S. at
Rome, $4,000; st. Sophia, at Constanti-
nople, 23,0)0; Notre Dame. at Paris,
2l.O00; Cathedral of Pisa, $4,000; st.
Marks, at Venice. 1000. Evidently
Italy is the country of the largest
churches. .--..,.-
If all the heart-beats of one per.
son in good health during twenty-four
hours could be concentrated and weld
ed into one great impulse, it would be
| powerful enough to raise q ton of iron
| 120 feet in the air. A healthy heart
keeps steadily at work without weary
ing; but this it is enabled to do because
it takes n rest after each beat; or to cx.
J press it more clearly, if the contraction
(emptying) and expansion (rctilling)
occupy two-thir1s of n second of time,
the period of rest takes third of sec.
ond before contraction again occurs.
1t seems that oysters may be arti
ficially propagated by chopping up the
male and female oSsters together. DR.
w. j. Brace says that the young oysters
thereupon Immediately begin forming
In few hours the embryo can swim il
the water. Its shells, at first small anc
apart, soon grow down over the ed~e:
and finally form the hinge. In twenty
four hours it is able to take food, anC
it grows to size sufficient for food il
about three years. An average oysteI
contains from six to nine million eggs
A large oyster contains fifty million
eggs!