The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-10-05

not quite gone out Of use in Los Angeles
county. California They are made OF kind OF
stone found on the DESERT of a volcanic lorna
ton and very porous 10 Is used To make ptnoe
and prepare meal for making tamales, amnch-
priced dish among the native population.
The machinery has been ordered for a nailery
at Briariield (Alabamal lr0n-wOTks. building
is being erected 200 feet long by ITO feet wide.
The capacity of the nailery win be 500 Kegs per
day. The company Is also preparing to erect an
immense coke furnace,
The Atlanta Constitution. There Is enough
hay standing Ia southern and southwestern
Georgia to feed the stock of The state three
years. and yet the people are not cutting H. The
disease of cotton picking Is upon them. The
hay is more valuable than the cotton
man who has had considerable experience
in the business of silk culture writes from Han
over, Germany, to the secretary of the state
board of immigration OF minnesota, asking for
information in regard TO the resources OF the
state md other Information which would be OF
use TO him He has selected Minnesota rs his
probable destination and win establish in busi-
ness.
The exports Of Domestic produce from New
York during the past week were heavier than
for some time past the total being .SS,2s3,2GL
against sS,9l3, GEO for lhc same week last year
An Increase Is SHOWN In nearly all the principal
articles of export more especially in breadstuiis
Since January LIST the exports amount to s2i7,'
9jj,1y6 compared with g2sid ,3H for the cores
ponding period OtlsSl
sixty-thrcc different Cyprus wines arc on eX.
hibition nj Bordeaux, the owners OF Cyprus vine
yards believing that in consequence of the phyl-
loNerN In France, the tmo has come for them to
put their products Into the worlds market
Nearly half the samples ARE rough, cheap stun,
with llayOr of tar from TIE Jars aud gOWt-slins
In which they are transported. hi II does very
well for mixing with light French wine aud
night be greatly improved by cleaner processes
OF manufacture, The pitv averages 80 cents n
gallon.
French enterprise 10 steadily pcrsoyering in
the work of TcdGemiug the desert of Sahara by
means of arteSan wells. a large number of
wells have been sunk along the northern Dor.
der more than 100 In the province OF COnStan-
tine alone, aud the work Is advancing TO the In
terror one of the curious phenomena which
The digging of theSe wells has brought to notice
is the existence Of fish and crabs at great depths
The learned engineer NJ Jus, who for twenty
years hIs directed the work, ayers that he once
boiled ana ate crab which had been drawn up
from II depth of $50 feet, and that, moreover, it
was of an excellent flavor
The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette says
When tho Pittsburgh oil Exchange was formed
the shares were put nj So each, zach share rep.
resenting membership Now they are worth
siO, aud none on the market The broker
charges S,l2% per LOO barrels for buying, and
The same for selling, so that ON the turn he gets
s6.25 for his services. Whore one of them has a
large chontage he is on the high road TO wealth
aud those who do the smallest business make Il
very comfortable income. During the present
0pHit lio cummings Ol some OF the fraternity have
RIM up to four and even five figures in single
day. Inst week one member of the exchange
had sales and rcsalos aggregatlng over COO
barrels, ana others did Il relatively large bust.
ness SO long rs they do not 20 IL specializing
ON their own account they are safe for large
profits. II isworh mentioning that during the
present revival of activity In the trade the total
STOCK on hand has changed ownership several
times. The total sales on Monday reached ~.
0ooOOO barrels, or within 3OOO00O barrels OF all
the oil now above ground,
The Kern County tCul) Gazette says There
are two carp ponds of snail dimensions near
Bakersfield in each of which tho plant was
made last spring. The Ash are doing well, and
there are to be seen great numbers of Young
hsh, u caunOt be long before this market will
DC wen supplied with this excellent fish IL
Would be well for every farmer who has half nm
acre OF ground lifted for pond. with certain
supply oi water, 10 raise these fish for the house
hold alone, as they raise their fowls. The Foot.
llll Tldlngs tells of Rev. ! W Brler who is
preceding carp some three miles from Grass Val
icy, lie finds that 1000 carp will live and grow
nhely upon what one hog within both eases
from birth 10 two years old At this age the earn
VIII weigh 1900 pounds the average lot while
Inc average porker willweigh 80 pounds At
ntcsent prices for the Two articles of food, the
llsh would bring 81 ,OOO and the hog Snl Tho
south Coast, published at san Luis ObSpo. says
That u Mr., MCLclland. a resident of that county
recently caught 300 carp at one haul of n seine
~ small Luke In that county, where only lit
We over two years ago ten were planted Owing
10 rent In the seine he thinks he did not Sc,
cure more than half that were In the net. The
average weight of the 800 was about one pound.