The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-06-24
FACTS AND FIGURES.

j. II. Simonds, of Warehouse Point,
Conn, believed to be New England's
largest tobacco-raiser, who for the last
six years has raised from 40 to As acres
of the weed, will increase the acreage
to so this year.
The distance from San Francisco to
Galveston by the lines of railroad now
progressing is figured as follows: From
San Francisco to Ell Paso, by way of
Lathrop, 1,289-miles; from El Paso to
San Antonio, $50 miles, and from San
Antonio to Galveston, 264 miles-mak-
ing 2.1O3 miles. ~
"A ton of gold or silver contains 29.-
1866 ounces. A ton of gold is worth
| $500. .875. A tom of silver. at the pres
'ent rate per ounce, is worth about $32,-
900. A cubic foot of gold weighs l.
200 pounds, and is worth nearly $780,
600. A cubic foot of silver weighs 600
/ pounds, and is worth about SO, 900.
The value of gold coin, bars and bull
ion in circulation in the word is esti-
mated at $500, 100000. This, would
make in a mass a twenty-five foot cube.
Bog butter. substance found in
bogs in the west of Ireland, and sup
posed by the common people of the dis
trict to have been ordinary butter hid
den away ages ago by the fairies, or
hastily buried by smugglers, is poS OF
animal origin at all, but has been shown
by Mr.. John Plant to be; a perfectly
natural production arising from the de-
composition of the vegetable matter,
forming the peat, and to belong to the
large family of mineral resins, or hy-
drocarbon compounds.
Prof. Bencke, of Marburg, Ger
| offor v,,oa c,,r-inn ON human
hearts, says that the growth of that or
gan is greatest in the first and second
years Of life. At the end of the second
year it is doubled in size, and during
the next five years it is again doubled.
Then its growth is much slower, though
from the fifteenth to the twentieth year
its size increases two-thirds. A very
SLIGHT growth is then observed up to
fifty, when it gradually diminishes. Ex-
cept in childhood mems hearts are de-
cidedIy larger than those of women.
-Caviare is one of Russia's favorite
dishes and it is much thought of in
Turkey, Greece and Italy. It is rather
singular that q large amount of the
caviare sent to these countries comes
from Michigan. The Bay City Press
gives an interesting account of the man
1facture of this article. The eggs of
the sturgeon are cleaned and saltcd and
then the liquid is pressed out of them
and they are packed in small kegs pre-
paratory to being shipped abroad: 1t
may seem like carrying coal to New
castle to bring salt into the Saginaw
Valley, still all the salt used in the
making of caviare comes from Russia
Last year so, 900 pounds of eggs were
shipped from that one locality.
"A considerable steel-making indus
try exists in the present day in China.
on the Upper Yangtze, whence the steel
is sent to Nen-tsin for shipment and
distribution. 1t. fetches much higher
prices than the Swedish steel imported
into the country. The Chinese metal
lurgists recognize three kinds OF steel.
namely, that which is produced by ad-
ding unwrought to wrought iron while
the mass is subject to the action of fire,
pure inon many times subjected to fire.
and native steel, which is produced in
the southwest. The different names
for steel are twan kang, or ball steel.
from its rounded form; kwan kang. OF
sprinkled steel; wei tee. or false steel.
The Chinese, apparently, have known
how to manufacture steel from the very
earliest ages.