American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-15
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Fair brown sugar has been manu-
featured from Louisiana cane in Drew
County, Ark.
Out of total of $50. 600 railway
employees in Great Britain and ireland
1000 are either killed or injured every
year.
w. Barnet lie Van read paper be-
fore the Franklin Institute, ut Phila-
delphia, in which he held that ninety
miles an hour was safely attainabe
speed on straight and level railroads.
In these nights of bitter cold it will
not be amiss to remind the poor that
two or three newspapers pasted to-
gether will afford as much warmth as
an additional blanket. The paper
should be placed between two thick
nesses of other covering. Paper cover
lets are now manufactured in England
seven feet by five, and sold at thirty
cents each. They have been in use in
China and Japan for thousands OF
years. =s,s
San Francisco has been in the habit
of importing the Goldfish consumed ON
the Pacific coast. 1t now appears that
in lieu of deriving her supply from the
East she will soon be in position 10
export the article. In 1865 seven YES
sells caught AGO, 400 fish; in 1875 seven
vessels caught SOL, 200. while during the
season of 1880, just closed, eight YES
sells conveyed to San Francisco the
large number of 1906 00 fish. The
chief source of the supply are the
Choumagin Islands and the Okhotsk
Sea.
Prof. T. Sterrv Hunt, estimating
the production of pig iron in this coun-
try during the past year at 100000
tons, expresses the belief that the full
realization of the cOuntry's possibili
ties in iron manufacture will not be at
tanned until iron shall be found side by
side with the coal and limestone needed
for its manufacture. From his eXpe-
rience in the valley of the Hooking, in
Ohio. he is of the opinion that that sec
ton will be the main place of supply
of both pig iron and steel, the ore, coal
and lime being found there in close
proximity.
The projected ship canal across
France, from the Atlantic to the Medi-
terranean, will have q uniform depth of
271 feet and a width of from ID to 250
feet. The great majority of the French
iron-clads will, therefore, be able to
pass through the canal in sea-going
trim, though few of the heaviest ar
hioiCu SHlpS Will udfc " Dc HSHlcueu
before making use of it. The, total
length of the canal from the neighbor-
hood of Narbonne, on the Mediter-
ranean, to Bordeaux, will be PIG
nautical miles, and it is calculated that,
including the time taken to pass
through the locks, ship will be able to
traverse the whole length of the. canal
in forty-eight hours.
"A paper-manufacturing firm pur-
pose converting 20. 900 acres of timber
land in Somerset County, Pa, into
paper. A large gang of workmen has
been sent to the tract to begin improve
ments. There will be erected shanty
fifty feet in length, twelve feet in width
and eight feet high. The shanty once
completed work will be begun on
large store building, thirty dwelling
houses and an enormous digester, for
the cooking and steaming of wood in
the manufacture of pulp, and a huge
building to be used in the manufacture
Of paper sacks and wrapping paper
All these preparations are preliminary
to reducing 10000 acres of forest to
news, book and fine writing papers.