The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-10
TRADE ITEMS.

Virginia has LIZ tobacco factories con.
Stunning annually over 100000 pounds Of
Leaf tobacco.
1t is said that the government and rail
road land in Spokan county, w T., is being
robbed of its timber by the settlers adioin.
ing it.
Wood ashes make a good fertilizer fol
pear trees. Mixed coal and wood ashes
may al so be applied with advantage.
Ground bones are better for fruit trees OF
all kinds than fermenting manure.
Butter is being imported into the United
States from Holstein in large quantities. 1t
would seen that our diaries and oleomar-
garlne manufactures ought to furnish all
we need of this article.
The official statistics show that 769,0l9
bushels of potatoes, valued at $43S IGl, have
been imported into the United States since
last March from Ireland, Scotland, Nova
Scotia, and Canada and without these we
might have had potato famine
In private garden on Russian Hill, San
Francisco, can be seen an almond tree, a
plum tree and pear tree, all in full bloom.
The almond tree commenced Towering as
early as the 10th of January.
Every person who keeps chickens should
raise garden peppers A tea made by boil
ing them in water and added to boiled po-
tatoes or cornmeal dough is stated to be a
sure preventive of cholera in fowls.
The number of words transmitted by the
Western Union telegraph to the 1856 daily
papers it serves for the census wear is stated
at GIL, l09,930, while the total number of
words transmitted by the government tele-
graph Of Great Britain to all the papers of
the country for that period was 3l3, 800 900.
a few days ago, near Riverside, California,
an important discovery was made of q
large body of tin ore. The ledge shows
II 600 feet in length and 10 to rs in width,
and there is said to be ore enough in sight
to enrich half the town of Riverside
The manufacturers of Sterling and Rock
Falls claim that the proposed Ienncpin
canal will damage their water power, and
MIR. Hawk, Congressman for that district,
put in plea before the railways and canals
committee of the house, yesterday, asking
that their interests shall be provided for in
event of the construction of the canal.
A curious proof of the prevalence of the
English language throughout the globe is
afforded by statement in the News
paper and Bank Directory of the
World" that out of 1924 newspa-
pers and periodicals which were published
III 1850, no fewer than 1880 were
printed in cur own tongue Nearly halt
the remainder were in German, n quarter
in French, and the greater bulk of the rest
in Spanish, Daily papers numbered 1 02O,
and the gross circulation of the whole peri
odlcal press is estimated at 1882, 000,0 900
The iron and steel manufacturers in 1880
made profit of about $4,000, 900, or TWEEN
ty-one per cent, on the capital invested.
This is pretty fat thing for the proprie-
tors, but as for their workingmen the wages
paid them S55,l16,7S5) give only an average
of 800 to each man wherewilh to support
himself and family. In consequence ofthis
limited pay, his sons and daughters are. at
an early age placed at hard work in fac.
tories.
Thirteen miles southwest of Graham was
recently discovered an enormous bed of coal
which measures five feet eleven inches in
thickness about ten feet back into the hill
nom where the coal outcrops Further
back we dare say it will improve ana thick
en-. The country around shows conclusive
rvidgac that there is an immense deposit,
such rs never before found in Texas.
Inquiries recently made by the Boston
Con. mcrcial Bulletin in regard to wages OF
wo9len-mill operatives show that present
rates will average trille more than 10 per
cent. above those current in 1879 but that
there has been Il still greater enhancement
of the yearly earning of majority of oper.
atives, owing to the more general extent
to which they are employed. One manu-
ldcturer writes I'VE are paying just about
10 per cent. advance in wages to our en-.
ployes as compared with 1873. The main
advance was made in the spring of 1850, the
year of the boom" Another writes: BY
reference to our books, it appears we are
paying for spinning and weaving Just about
10 per&ent. more than in 1878; for many of
the day hands we are paying 10 per cent.
more, while to the overseers we are paying
the same rs in 1878. We average, ON the
whole, about II per cent. more than in
lS1S.N
Charles G. Locber, an inventor, living at
No. III Eleventh street, claims to have made
u discovery that makes air-ships feasible.
He says he has found how to obtain an air
resistance varying from an ounce to eight
pounds to the square inch with my dis
coyery,' he says, 'it becomes feasible to
build and shall construct ship of ordi.
nary strong material-iron, steel or tim
ber--ot considerable carrying capacity, say
one hundred tons furnished with ample
steam power. | shall load ii with passen.
gers and freight and propel it through the
air at q much higher rate of speed than
present modes of conveyance afford The
ship will ordinarily 90 no higher than to
clear distractions, but in case of gales or
head winds 1t will be able to rise above
them, although in few cases will this he
Probably the most expensive food in the
market is the terrapin. 1t has no conncc.
ton whatever with the turtle species, and
is used chiefly for stews. The COW terrapin
| is occasionally made into soup. The cost
OF q terrapin is So The only statistics we
have of the shipment of turtles to New
York are those of 1880 when 10000 pounds
were received"
A Bay Hundred sportsman is having
manufactured in Baltimore curious kind
of armor which he proposes to use in hunt.
| ing wild geese. II is made of the best and
very stout rubber, and is intended to com.
| pletely cnvelop the wearer, and to be en-.
tirely impcrvious to water. The head.
piece, which terminates the suit, is TO be
made exactly in the form of wild goose,
with eyes made OF magnifying glass
through which the wearer looks when on
an expedition. The inventor has fully
studied the details of the whole thing, and
has no doubt that II will be found TO be n
success. II will not be completed In time
for use until next winter.
| IL is stated that there Is scarcely any oak
| timbc, LETT In Sweden and Norway. and
that the pine woods are being fast thinned
out the people being already Obliged 10
| buy much OF their wood elsewhere The
forest area Of Russia, along the Baltic and
In the southern provinces, has been largely
reduced, aud occupies only about one.tenth
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