The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-24
THE DALLAS HERALD SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER "a, 1851

$1.25; Cabbage, s7!o. to ST. Onions, Silver
skin, 81 TO ST % per 100 lbs; Garlic, TO &c.
per Id; Carrots, ST. Turnips, 81 per lOO
bunch vegetables, l5c. per dozen; Green
Peas, TO l0c.; Green Peppers, l0c.; Pars-
nips, 1Ic.; Beets, lie Celery, 7jc. per DOZEN
Caulihower, 81; Horseradish, 10 TO l2c per
pound.
BgKApsTUYrs-Flour, $40 per Dbl; Oat-
meal 81 per 100 lbs; Cornmeal, $50 to
81. IS Cracked Wheat, So.
The total amount of copper produced by
the mines of tho world is estimated at 49,
600 tons, of which :he United States only
contributes $1,000 tons, while Chill leads
with 45, 900 tons, closely followed by Spain,
with product of q, 900 tons. 1t is not prob
able that the discoveries of copper deposits
that have been and will be made Will be
allowed to lie long unimproyed and unde
yeloped, and it will not be unreasonable 10
expect to see this country taking the lead
| in the production of copper, as 1t already
has as producer of silver. Judging from
| the history of the past, new demands Will
more than keep pace with the Increased
production Of the future.
Recently published statistics show that
| the consumption of tobacco in France has
largely and steadily increased during the
present century. In 1915 the amount de-
rived by the State from this one article was
| 80, 81, 900 francs. In 1858 the amount had
risen TO 1913 600 coo francs, while in the latest
return given it was 81, SIG, 600 frames. This
represents an average of about francs per
head of the population.
Among the recent inventions in this conn
! try is the manufacture of barrels Of pulped
wOod-one kind for fruit, flour, and other
dry substances, and the other for oils, beef,
pork, ard LIQUIDS. They are so strong that
| 81 hn, a ~
harm. Each barrel is made in one piece, OF
coarse wood pulp, .and is light, strong
| and cheap.
The Arkansas City oil mill made trial
start Tuesday, but stopped in order to
change the position of the huller. 1t is eX-
| pected that regular work at the establish
inent will be commenced next Monday.
Energetic measures against the locust are
being taken in Cyprus. Up to the end OF
October, $50 tons of their eggs had been
| destroyed, of which 30 tons were gathered
in that month alone, and four or tve
months still remain for collection. The re-
wards paid have been raised to fl3 the ton;
and the government, having already spent
| $1,000 This year on the eggs,ls preparing to
eXpend G33, 600 as soon as the insects are
hatched, in April and May, on screened en-
closures and pit-traps, TO be managed by
| two thousand men.
There are 4,0l4 miles of telegraph in Col
orado alone. New Mexico has over 1000
miles. In both districts the number OF
miles is constantly being added to-
The Board of Aldermen in Boston, hav-
ing received number of petitions calling
| for electric lights in the streets, adopted an
order instruCting the superintendent OF
lamps to place as many electric lights in the
principal thoroughfares as he shall deem
proper, provided the expense shall not ex-
| coed 65 cents per lanp per night.
The Memphis Appeal notes that since
| 1865 Tennessee has acquired nearly 100000
additional population, and has made crops
every year Of the annual net profit value OF
| $27 800 900. Nashville has grown from
| II 600 people in 1860 to 10000 at present.
Memphis in spite of three epidemics and
| the war, has grown from 23,OOO in 1860 TO
| AZ 900 in 1881. The growth of Chattanooga,
Knoxville and other towns exhibits like
gratifying expansion. The increase of man
ufactures and commerce is also gratifying
| having surpassed all computation.
| A Norman horse weighing 2,Qi5- pounds
| has been sent to the New Y ork market
| from Lafayette, Indiana.
The Mutual Union Telegraph Company
is now receiving messages tor New York
| Albany, and Buffalo and intervening
ponts. The lines to Cleveland Toledo and
Chicago will open III a few DAYS.
| According to some experiments which
were mentioned at late meeting of the
French Academy of Sciences, one can cause
an unusual number of tadpoles to turn into
male frogs by supplying them with sDecia
diet.
The cultivation of the cranberry. which
has been going on in New Jersey and in
| Connecticut for some years, is extending &
some of tho Western States. Within few
years several attempts in different parts o
Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin hav,
been made in \ small way
to cultivate this popular fruit
but, it is said, the efforts made hay,
been attended with Indifferent success, eX
cept, perhaps, in Wisconsin. The supple!
of fruit have been drawn heretofore chiefly
from the marshes where the berry grows ii
its wild state. These resources, however
cannot be depended upon, and the subject
of cranberry farming will doubtless com
mand in the near future an increased
amount of attention.
Good beef at 4 and cents finds ready
sale on the streets of Fort Smith,
A clothes.pin firm at Denmark, Maine
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