The examiner., 1882-03-25
FACTS AND COMMENTS.

FAC1S AND COMMENTS.
 In 1777 considerable interest was
 manifested in an annonncem. mt that
 six stoves had been completed in Pbil-
 adelphia. The annual product of the stove foundries in that city is now val
 ued at $4, 900. GOO, and the industry sup
 ports about 12,00O people.
 The value in round millions of the
 cereal crop of 1881. according to the
 estimates of the department at Wash ington, are: Corn, $759, ,O0O, 900; wheat,
 $453, ,OOO,0 oats, $193, 100000; rye,
 $19,00O,000; barley, $33, 100000; buck wheat, $8, ,000 900. Total, $1, ,465. .O0O,- 900, against $1, ,361, 100000 in 1880.
 In Great Britian there is g medical association with already nearly 200 members who eschew the prescription of alcoholic liquors in nearly every case, and who publish a quarterly magazine as an exponent of theIr views. Dr. Richardson and Norman Kerr, of London. and other eminent names are included.
 Charles A. Henry, formerly editor of the VaIkyriem, a Scandinavian journal published in San Francisco, has been engaged by Henry Willard to bring to this country 5000 or 10000 Scandi- navians, to be employed in the con- struction of the Northern Pacific rail- road. Inducements will be offered these emigrants to settle on the line of the road.
 There are 1000 Indians yet in the everglades of Florida. They speak their own language, but by frequent intercourse with white people at the trading posts on Lake Okeechobee have become civilized: They are friendly and honest in their dealings with the whites, and are never known to commit thefts or outrages. Nov and then tourist induces one to go up to Jacksonville, but they seldom gofarther.
 An Italian who It Is, perhaps, unnec- essary to say has lived some time in America, has come to the conclusion that it is 8 huge basin of petroleum under Vesuvius which keeps the bowels of that interesting mountain in con- stant state of ebullition, more or less active. He therefore proposes to dig tunnel at its base, tapping the great caldron, and thus putting the noun tain at rest and securing an unlimited supply of petroleum.
 MT. Bergh's society for tho proven tion of cruelty to animals has sixteen branches and 230 agencies in the State of New York, and last year prosecuted 955 cases in the courts. In New York city and Brooklyn 1,275 animals were taken from work and sent to veterinary surgeons for treatment. Three years ago the number was 5000, and it is claimed that the falling off proves that the work of the society has been effect i've morally.
 The Chicago Tribune predicts that within an area of about 90, 900 square miles, covering the northern third Of Illinois, the southern quarter of Wis ccnsin and the entire State of Iowa, is to be the great butter and cheese pro- ducing region of the world. The farm CTS there are said to receive only about fifty per cent. of the commercial value of the grain they raise, the balance being absorbed in the expense of trans portation, but when they use the land for pasturage and fodder for cattle and turn their attention to, dairy products the net receipts amount to ninety per cent. of their value, the, transportation being reduced to leu par cent, including brokerage.
 The movement in favor of reform in the agricultural law of EnglaLd is quite as active as in Ireland, 1t is quiet anG undemonstrative, but none the less de- termined for all that. and gradually. but somewhat stealthily, it may be aii, are the great as we'll as the small l:snd- loris dlsposing of their propert ies. From every quarter of England comes the announcement of the sale Of sonie hereditary estate, which has lain in the family for ages, and in every case the announcement is accompanied by the most bitter. lamentations aga nst the depression in the value Of la nd. The Duke of Westminster has alre ady sold sone of the most desirable DOT tions of his property. He is said to have already realized over quarter of a million by his sales, and he has ex- pressed his anxiety to lessen his re- responsibilities still further.
 The following, taken from tke report of the chief of bureau of statistics, shows the value of the principle articles which we buy of other nations:
 Articles Values Sugar and molasses s93, ,4O4, ,2S9 Coffee 56,784, ,391 Iron, steel and manufactures Off,. 46, 439, ,737 Silk and manufactures of. ......... 42, 944, 965 Wool and manufactures of. ..... 40,860, 394
 cines ................. s6,59O,473 Cotton and manufactures of. w 31,976, ,637 Hides and skins, other than furs.. 27,477, ,019 Tin and manufacturers of. ....... IS, ,191, ,560 l Tea =. 21,0O4,9 ,913 ! Flax and manufactures of. 17,621, ,465 i