The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-04-14
FACTS AND FIGURES.

An oleomargarin manufactory has
peen 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 beeswax,
which forms an air-tight covering for
them.
The public debt of the United
States is $68 per head; of Spain, $154;
of France, Sl36; of England, S117; of
Holland, S114; of Canada, S28; of Mex
leo, S39; of Switzerland, 81.
Mr.. Corby, at a meeting of the
Manchester Scientific and Mechanical
Society, condemned the screw-jack as
a 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before long it would be superseded by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 280 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 minimum
range of two hundred meters"
The Vice President of the Western
Lumbermen's Exchange estimates that,
if the demand for lumber increases
proportionately, the forests of the
United States will be annihilated in
twenty years. The same view is taken
by the Northeastern Lunbermdn, 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"
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 the cars in order
best to resist the pressure. which is
very great.
The farmers of Canada are scarce
ly less astute in mon sy-making devices
than the Yankee peddlers whose
wooden nutmegs have become his
toric. The latest device, which is rec
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 France and driven 60O,-
| 600 acres of vineyards out of cultiva-
ton since 1874. AS result the yiefd
of French vineyards for 1880 was only
675, 900, 900 gallons, about the same as
the yield a 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.