The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-12
TItADi ITEMS.


THB total of the building improvements In
Detroit for the month of prl Is S3llSGj
Last month Peoria, Illinois manufactured
l,23 ,9A gallons of ardent spirits.
A Mills county. Iowa, farmer has sold l75
dozen eggs from seventy hens since February
lst IN addition to supplying the wants of the
family
PORTLAND May The salmon catch on the
lower Columbia Is practically nothing
In Cand"lara Iowa, the water company sells
water NJ five cents per gallon Enterprlsing ped
dlors run wa err carts In opposition. and sell
wafer at three cents gallon.
The total salt shipments from the Saginaw val
ley by rail during April WAS 54,9OS barrels, 10
4ulring72 cars. being All average of twenty
-FOUR ears por day for the entire month. These
shipments were all to western points
urnpc cuttings about Livcrmore, California, IN
loose, gravclly soil are beginning to sprout In
red clnv soil In which there Ii no gravel, the
vines show no signs of starting
Among the valuable minerals found In Ar.
IONA II Is said that the Importance OF the opal
has been o, erlooked In Yuma county. cspc
cially, are these gems found In great abund
ance. They usually have II lime coating aud
are oval In shape.
peach tree twlg from Irving Montgomery
county. Alabama contains on n section two
Inches IN length seventeen young peaches.
Evidently southern Illinois will have peaches To
BSll tho coming season,
Fourteen tn usand punches bananas, $50 bar
rels oranges and = small lotto pineapples, by
and 4,6O0 cocoannts, by schooner Eta \. Watt
arrived In Baltimore on Saturday from Jam
island.
1t takes about 3 1000 tons of leo. says the Now
York Herald to supply the whole OF England
during tho season, while New York alone uses
between 2, 1000 and 225 900 tons
Orchnrdists near Huywards. California ara
preparing to handle tne fruit M soon as II IL
ready for shipment uo0sebcrries are first
picked, closely followed by strawberries, cur
rants and cherries, larger fruits coming IN later
During tho last nineteen years there have
been sold under tho hammer In London 81 IL
tons OF ivory being nh average of +'ts tons 4
year. III ,soa,cd that about one.half the
supply consists OF tusks Of 20 pounds up to 100
potnds and occasionally $50 to
100 lbs The supply Is gradually diminishing
and the price, of course. continually advancing
80 mat the most eStrnyagant prices for this com
modify are anticipated within very few years
The export Of tin plates from England has
more than qnadTupled during the last tw cny
years caused largely by the development Of the
business of packing provisions In Tin eases The
exports, which IN 1862 were l,00l, t97 cwt, have
Increased steadily, and In 1881 hal reached
4,StS. goo Cwt
New York capitalists are making extensive
purchases o. coal lands In western Pennsylya
MA One company purchased 1900 acres on the
Monongahe y river ~ from so To $50 per acre
William II Vanderbilt has employed an agent
tn select all the good locations In Wes,moreiand
county and rep 1T their price to him, with y
View to purchase.
There ere 2S,. IA farms In Illinois which leads
the ioll ns The champion agricultural state Of the
Union, Little khody has the smallest numNcr
showmgn grand total OF 6,3l6 being u trlnlng
Increase In thirty years
The shipment of oranges from points on the st
Johns river via Jacksonville. Florida, the past
season. shows how rapidly that industry Is de.
yeloplns IN Florida The shipments for the
season aggregated 1885 boxes aud taking 100
oranges to the box, the usual average IN Flnrlra,
the oranges shipped numbered 2s vi, 20 The
season Is now about over but 1t Is conceded the
Yield next season WIN be largely In excess OF
the last should no mishap befall the crop
The attention Of the French Academy of Sci.
cnces has been called 10 the disappearance of
the sarilne nm the coast of Brittany, where II
year, II Is attributed TO change In the dircc
ton OF he gulf stream, which also accounted for
the mild winter aud early spring NJ Blan.
chard remarked that In England committee ot
engineers and photographers were studying the
apparent change In the gulf stream, and that in.
formation might be obtained # IN them n,
question was referred To u committee COMPOSED
OF NM. Faye. Jansen, Daubrec aud Admiral
Jurien
Egypt Is experiencing fair degree of pros.
perity, In spite OF many DRAWBACKS A review
OF the trade Cor 1881 hOws thai the aggtcyat,
amount Of exports has remained much the same
for the last tire years being always between
flS0NO,OOO aud flt 00OO, and this year Comiup
to ElsSla0W, The imports, on the con-
trary. have steadily increased In 1917
tn
Ge,7l7t0o, but IN lssi they reached f7iiSto OF
The export OF the great staple, cotton. has sur.
passed mat OF the previous year In 1850 96l .
eoo bales we're exported, us against $4,000 bales
only market nor are British ships the only com.
peutnrs for the trade; 49, 90 bales were taken Ia
the United Kingdom, but lTaOOs bales went Ia
iD n,Ssa Rn w BRUSH ny steamers sailed to the
3o5,ool. Odessa, Trieste Genoa and nanl,, ~
are all competitors now with british ports Ear.
merry the produce used 10 be carried through
knsishu 70 INC continent the continent now
serves Itself The price OF cottos has VARIED
from 6S-id To Sd the pound. which il "A fair N,
crage for recent years, Cotton seed which has
only recently become an article OF export .,ili
goes almost entirely TO England. or The wh,n,
OF Egypt England takes four times as much n,
the continent and Of the beans, twice ~ much
bill has been prepared to be INTRODUCED int
congress 70 tar and regulate the sale and manu-
stop to tho gross fraud on the public of drl",e
rious product from corn starch by the use o
sulphuric acid and soda ash, favored with ,
small per cent OF Louisiana molasscs, and vol,
~ golden syrup, II Is by concealment and ia
ccpuon only that such q compound finds a mar
ket The commissioner OF Internal revenue
General Raum. makes this statement concern
The sdui,srs,ion Of syrup. with glucose /,
piacuce which has recently spread alarminuly
Lnc exclusive use q glucose, or the grape suea
o. commerce, 10 held 70 be the main orlsii, a
the pscssn. pryvalencs Of thai maisdy. The i'm
pMseuona % Hlucoac Increased tcnfold bctwae,
i1s And isII And ~ the same time eItsns,y
sSn S wss,. we,s sso'i,hed feI y, msnuon,e
vim .apSSrs ssa c q 1 S,G'ISF . SST,:iS =
ne product With lime, A portion Of the s M
and oSes SosSSs S SSpesss 81. .nyn.,
ne Elucose. 10 the ahalysls Of seventeen !" !,
HssfnSle sy!up b, DE- Ksdse. sscsS ~"