American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-06-05
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,2lO for seven acres of or.
anges. 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 103 distinct
iron factories, giving employment to
nearly 1900 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 light companies formed
to support stars and seven resident stock
companies.
Two years ago not more than 800
head of cattle were owned along the en-
tire valley of the Upper ella River.
grazing over the same ground, and
twenty-six good ranches being farmsd.
The estimated value of the prop
erty of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland is 81, 800, 900, 600;
that of France and the United States,
each $4,000. 200, 600; that of Germany,
So, 625. 00O,0 900; that of Austria-Hunga-
nv, 5000, 100000, and that of Russia,
So, 500, 100000.
There are $4,000, 900 acres of land
in California fit for cultivation, but not
over 5000, 900 are in actual use for that
purpose, and not over 8, 900, 900 are in
closed. Over 20,OOO,OOO 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 LIST of January,
1880, amounted to 1921 men, as
against 119, 748 in the previous year.
The numbers required by the existing
law are 1885, men in the regular
army, and 97.0l2 in the Landwehr; or
212, 400. The actual total at
present is 215,O63
According to LIE 7echnologiste, the
churches in Europe which will contain
the largest number of persons are as
follows: St Peters, at Rome, "a, 900;
Milan Cathedral, $1,000; st. Paurs, at
AeOHlc, <o,OVO, ot- SOPHIA, at COnStantl-
nople. $4,000; Notre Dame, at Paris,
81 200; Cathedral of Pisa, $4,000; st.
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
enough to raise ton of iron
1 20 feet in the air. A healthy heart
keeps steadily at work without weary
ing; but this it is enabled to do because
t takes a rest after each beat; or to ex-
press it more clearly, if the contraction
(emptying) and expansion (refilling)
occupy two-thirds of a second of time,
he period of rest takes a third of sec
md before contraction again occurs.
1t seems that oysters may be arti-
icially propagated by chopping up the
male and female oysters together DIR.
". j. Brace says that the young oysters
hereupon Immediately begin forming.
N few hours the embryo can swim in
he water. Its shells, at first small and
part, soon grow down over the edges
md finally form the hinge. In twenty
our hours it is able to take food, and
grows to size sufficient for food in |
bout three years. An average oyster |
contains from six to nine million eggs.
4 large oyster contains fifty million
.ggs!