The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Oxygen is the most abundant and
most widely distributed of all the ele-
ments. .1i '-.-s. tt='
! The vineyardists in Napa County,
California, produced last year over
1,1OO, 900 gallons of wine. u le1 rafsa.
DIR. Muller, of Geneva, has made q
calculation inewhich he estimates the
number of plant species existing on the
Soo. S6S"' 70 'eA'n minimum n '0'ai OF z9o'-
MIR. c. C. Coffin has figured out
that New Hampshire produces bread
enough to feed her population twenty
eight days. Massachusetts, furnishes
enough for one day, and Rhode Island
did not raise enough to give all her
people breakfast. 9'i 90 e3s
The industry of planting and culti-
waiting Eastern oysters in Puget Sound
is growing steadily, and Governor
Newell, of Washington Territory, pre-
diets that at no distant day the Terri
tory will become the great oyster-pro-
ducing region of the Pacific coast The
traffic in CLANS, too, promises to be very
large. -i , a.sa-s --,...s .,....s. SCI. I,
The Louisiana Land Redemption
Company has drained Is, 900 of its 200,
600 acres, and will plant it with rice
this year. The company makes the
rosy estimate that it will have an in
come of $50, 600, 600 when it gets its
whole tract reclaimed. The land il a
black loan from two to six feet deep,
four hogsheads of sugar or forty bar
rels of rice to the acre. J>s - %
"A varnish of cement, which goes
by the name of Chinese yarnish, and
renders cardboard or thick paper as
hard and horny IS papier 17,ache, is
easily preDared from blood, lime and
alum. Three parts of fresh blood,
well beaten up to prevent the forma-
ton of fiber, Is mixed with four parts
of Stacked lime and q little alum. the
thick-fowing mixture that results be-
ing at once ready for application to pa
per or card. ---f - g.
The railway in Japan has pro-
gressed rapidly during the past year
and is now completed to Sapporo, the
capital of Yesso. The Japanese track
gangs are led by American foremen and
lay shout a mile and half of track
per day. Trial trips over the newly
The low cost of building and the rapid
ity of construction bids fair to encour-
age additional attempts in this direc-
ton. -i>-
"A number of English coal mines
are being worked under the ocean. In
Northumberland the net available guam
tity of coal under the sea is estimated At
4O3. .OOO, 900 tons, and on the Durham
coast under the sea, including breadth
of three and half miles with an area
of seventy-one square miles, 7S4, ,500,-
600 tons. The latter mine is in q vein
of an aggregate thickness of thirty feet
distributed in six seams. Engineers are
considering how it can be worked sue
cessfully in the future. 'f.as7s.s;t
The largest lump of ambergris ever
known was in the possession of the
King of Tidore, and purchased of his
Majesty by the Dutch East India Com
pany. It weighed 1872 pounds. Another
enormous piece of $50 pounds weight
was found inside a whale near the Wind
ward Islands. and sold for %, 500. The
true ambergris, which is q morbid Sc
cretion of the spermaceti whale, gives
out a fragrant smell when a hot needle
is thrust into it, and it also melts like
fat, but the counterfeit often sold in
stead of the real thing does not present
these features Men engaged in whale
fishing are on the lookout for ambergris,
and usually find most of it in the torpid.
sick or very lean fish; consequently it
would appear to be, what ali medical
practitioners say it is, the product OF q
diseased liver. -.,,-.. 80, f...... ~,