American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-16
FACTS AND FIGURES.

AN OleOmarg airline mandatory has
oecn established at New Orleans.
Pittsburgh capitalists will build
glass works among the soda mines of
Wyoming Territory.
The Russians keep fish perfectly
sweet for long time in the hottest OF
weather by dipping them in bceswax,
which forms an air-tight covering for
them.
The public debt of the United
States is $6s per head; of Spain, 1854
of France, $l36; of England, Sly; of
/ Holland, $114; of Canada, 1928; of Mex
leo, $50; of Switzerland, 81.
Mr.. Corby, at a meeting of the
Manchester Scientific and Mechanical
Society, condemned the screw-jack as
relic of barbarism, and predicted that
before long it would be superseded by
the hydraulic jack.
India rubber has rival in the
milky sap of the - Bully tree of South
America. 1t becomes soft, SO as to
bear being joined piece to piece. at
about 120 degrees Fahrenheit. but re-
quires 2SO degrees to melt it.
The Hotchkiss revolving gun. al
ready adopted in the French and other
great navies, has been ordered for use
lately in the German navy, the ships to
''be armed with this weapon in such
manner that every point surrounding
each vessel may be protected by the fire
of at least two guns at a minimum
range of two hundred meters" :.
The Vice President of the Western
Lumbermen's Exchange estimates that,
if the demand for lumber increases
proportionatcly, the forests of the
Init Cfafn In loft d in,
twenty years. The same view is taken
by the Northwestern Lun,bermG,s, which
says that ''the timber supply of the
Northwest is becoming so rapidly ex-
hausted that within the next ten years
something like timber famine may be
looked for" 81 So
An odd looking car has been run
over the eastern part of the Erie Railroad
recently. The top of the car was
covered with windmills and revolving
cups, so that it looks like the roof of a
signal service station. The object was
to test the pressure of the atmosphere
on cars going at different rates of speed,
SO as to determine of what shape to
make the front of tire cars in order
best TO resist the pressure, which is
very great.
The farmers of Canada are scarce
ly less astute in mon ,y-making devices
than the Yankee peddlers whose
wooden nutmegs have become his
toric. The latest device, which is re-
ported as getting alarmingly common
in some parts of the Dominion, is the
preparation and sale of galvanized
butter. This interesting article of
merchandise is made in rolls, the out
side of which are of the primest pro-
duct of the dairy, plastered on in thin
layers over huge Jumps of lard. sleeps
fat. ETC.. of the poorest quality.
The phylloxera, the understanding
insect. has appeared in six California
counties. a very serious occurrence. The
pest, for which no prevention or remedy
has been discovered after years of
search, has ruined the vineyards OF en-
tire districts IN Ffauce and driven 6O0,-
600 acres of vineyards out of cultiva-
ton since 1874. AS a result the yield
of French VINEYARDS for 1880. was only
$40, 900, 600 gallons, about the same as
the yield century ago, and barely one
third the wine crop Of 1875. the most
abundant year on record. In 1879 and in
1880, California exported wine to
France, and, unless the phylloxera
spreads on the Pacific coast, the State
is certain before many years to supply
Europe with wine.