Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-04-14

which he steps when he gets out Of bed
is very coarse. And there are three OF
four tables covered with books and pa
pers. Frederick was told one day that
rome one had spoken i'll Of him. He
asked If that person had 100, 600 men ?
He was answered, No. every WELL .
said the king, " can do nothing; If he
had 10O,0 600 men, / could declare war
against him."
1 TRADE INTERESTS.
| New York IL gaining on Paris in the
manufacture Of fine confectionery.
This country spent 50, 10000 on
opium last year.
FIFTEEN car loads Of horses for the
eastern states were shipped from Mon
treal recently in one day.
WALNUT knots from the big Sandy
country, Kentucky; now used for max
ing furniture, are sold by weight at
twenty-five cents per pound.
AUGUSTA, Ga, is fast acquiring the
character OF manufacturing city. her
canal giving her great advantages in The
way of water power.
The Pittsburg Chronicle says that the
refuse from the oil reaneries has driven
all the food fish out of the Allegheny
river.
In New England alone it is estimated
by railroad men that over 1000 freight
cars are now being built by the various
roads.
THE New Orleans Times says: 'tThere
are in the golden, fallow state of Louis
lana %, 600, 900 acres of land awaiting
the plough and the harrows of the white
men who are here and the emigrants who
ought to be-"
ONE of the occupations of young men
who are filing up western Texas is to
breed geese. One of these has 5000
geese, whose feathers are plucked every
two months. Each bird will average q
pound and half year, worth fifty cents
a pound.
FROM paltry IS cents worth of iron
ore may be developed $3.50 worth of bar
iron, $40 worth of horse-shoes, $50
worth of table knives, $6,8OO worth of
fine needles, $29, ,480 worth of shirt but
tons, 500, 600 worth Of watch springs,
$40O, 600 worth of hair springs, or $2,-
500, 900 worth Of pallet arbors (used in
watches)
THE fertilizer trade shows that the
people of the south are again cotton
crazy. From circulars sent to every
county in South Carolina, the Charles
ton Ne,Cs and Courier has received in
formation to the effect that "the amount
already sold in the state far exceeds the
amount sold up to this time last year,
and is almost if not quite as great as was
sold the whole of last season."
So tickle have been the prices of old
rails for few months past that parties
who have old rails to sell write the Off
cials of rolling mills: "What will you
give for few Thousand tons Of old rails,
providing they are not sold before your
answer is received ?" The rolling-mill
official answers, II will give $4S per
ton if don't change my mind before 1
hear from you."
AT the present moment firm of To-
ronto, tea brokers, acting for American
importers has 10, 900 boxes of tea in the
warehouse of the Great Western railway
station. If the former revenue tariff
was In force Toronto wholesalers would
reap the profit from this and other large
| importations. Under the national policy
they are totally unable to do business in
competition with the brokers OF Ameri-
can firms. Toronto Globe.
| CHICAGO is to have one of the largest
glucose factories in the world. Chicago
and New York capitalists have put $3.50,
600 capital into the concern and paid
| $500, 900 to start with for location on
the west side of the south branch. Fac
tories costing $500, 900 and employing
| 700 men are to be built within year,
and they expect to work up 15, 600 bush
els Of corn daily into 500 bushels Of glu-
cOse.
Bass, the world-renowned brewer, usee
up, every year the hops grown on some
two thousand acres Of ground; and year
~ rolls into the groggeries of London
and the other great English towns some
thing like million barrels Of beer.
This one brewer could serve one-half the
human race with glass of beer per
head from his own brewing in single
year. He owns over five miles of pri-
vate railway in Burton, aud pays out
over $4,000 every week to his beef
makers.
A coHREspoxDENrof the Lumbern,an's
Gazette writes from Bridgeport, Conn,
and says: "There are over one hum
dred houses OF different kinds going up
in this city at the present time. He
also states that P. T. Barnum, the great
Snowman, has instructed his agent in
that city to build one hundred houses on
property he owns, and already some If
teen or twenty of them are under wsy.
It is impossible, he continues, to get
good responsible builders In this section;
good man would do we'll here. Every
body seems crazy to build now that
prices are going up; but when prices
were down, no one thought Of doing any
thing, and ~ consequence mechanics
and laboring men were idle, and trade
generally was dull. Now all are engag-
cd, and more could be employed"
FmH-FRxHxrN0 II the latest develop.
ment Of Anglo-In -Indian industry. The
fish, oysters both obtained ct Bombay
and Calcutta are famous al over India,
but the enormous distances these fxAil
comestibles have totravel prevent Anglo
Indians in the interior Of the country
from enjoying them. The novel indus
try now inaugurated in Bombay win,
however, meet the difficulty. Oysters
and sea-l1sh, II frozen up il solid blocks
Of ice can be kept perfectly freah for
several days, while the Ice iteen remains
untainted and as serviceablc - ever lOY
cooling drinks. The hGh are suspenied
in win nets h the freexing wnter. while
the oystegs, stripped Of thar ahella. are
mt stored with fheir juioe n IL 6ght
ems, and ~ then froaen II tho blocks
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