The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-10
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| Ah-hDiA
THE latest novelties in canned goods are
frogs and sweet potatoes.
| Big diamonds of the purest nature are re-
ported to have been discovered at Junction
City, on the Republican river.
Black walnut is so plentiful in Kentucky
that the people use it for fence rails.
In the trays and tanks of the Milwaukee
branch of the state fish hatehery there are
now 100000 lake trout and whiteash ova.
The, ice factory at Pensacola has lust
| turned out its first product, and the first
ton was sold and delivered with appropri.
| ate ceremonies
General Grant has grown rich by stock
speculation. lie made $4,000 during the
last year. W.
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Walsh, NJ. T.
Mississippi has four times as much pine
timber rs Minnesota From Kentucky to
Florida stretches an all but continuous for
est, which has scarcely been touched by the
lumberman.
The only public question now agitating
Toronto is whether the telephone shall be
used on the Sabbath.
The total cost of criminal prosecutions in
Iowa for the year 1881 was $3.50, $685.; for
| 1850, 1888, 1919; increase in 1881 over 1880,
SH31S.56. The total number OF convic-
tions in 1880 was l,0Sl; in 1881, 1870.
1t is stated that French silk has become
so inferior in quality and American silk so
superior that many ladies in Paris have al
ready sent to America for black silk despair
ing of finding ever again really good and de-
sirable silk in the Partisan market.
Another quarter of II million of whitefSh
eggs, from Lake Michigan, were received
at San Francisco Tuesday afternoon by the
state fish commission.
The mills at Grand Rapids, Michig for
the year 1881, cut about 52000,0 600 feet of
lumber, an excess of about 100000 feet as
compared with any previous year,
So far this winter about 100000 tons of ice
have been stored away by Milwaukee brew.
ers, packers and ice-dealers. The crop is
not light by any means, and about /, 800
men are yet engaged in putting up ice of
very good quality.
At Genoa all dead bodies may now be
legally burned instead of buried The ere
matory furnaces are in full working order.
a Connecticut concern is making large
quantities of vaccine points of ivory Or
ders of from 10000 to 100000 are coming in,
which shows that the spread of-small-pox is
waking people up to the necessity of vac
cination rs preventive.
A.Sullivan county, New York, tanner re-
and also its exact counterpart in paste for
Sl.5O. They aitcrward became mixed, and
he has been obliged to take them to n level.
err to have them identified.
Some one who processes to know SAYS
every person carries enough phosphorus in
his body to make 1900 ordinary matches.
A young woman of Chicopce Falls, Mas.
sachusetts, has u head of hair of extraordi.
nary abundance and length. When loose
i trails for half n yard along the floor
though she is a woman of fully average
height IL has become burden, however,
and will be shortened
a Houston man claims TO have found
! cork wood in Jasper county which will
compare iavorably with Italian cork.
The Hover gardens in st. Augus slime are
much admired at this season of the year by
northern visitors, who are not accustomed
to see flowers blooming in the open air in
the midst OF winter
Louisville, Kentucky, adviccs state that
the tendency of the tobacco market during
the week has been strong and advancing for
all desirable grades, and dark and export
leaf is from 25tg5Oc per 100 pounds hi ;hcr
than week ago.
Robert Goodyear, OF Mankato picked last
season $500 quarts of strawberries from one
acre of ground, which he sold for $50, and
$50 worth of plants, aggrcgating a years
income from one acre of 1910 The work
was mostly denc by his own family.
There were seven inches of snow in New
York yesterday, aud the police of Central
park report that 10000 sleighs passed
through the gates.
The value ofthc lumber cut yearly on the
| Pacific coast, at the rate of $40 per loo
feet at the port or place of shipment, Is So.
100000. A thousand years would not SUI
flee to exhaust the giant woodlands extend.
ing from Alaska to Santa Cruz, so that on A
very rough estimate this portion of the no.
sources OF the Pacific slope is worth at least
| 0000, 100000.
II takes eight hundred iull.blown roses
to make a tcaspoonnl Of perfume.
| Bermuda grass is estimated to be worth
$500 per acre, as q pasture, Some men are
wealthy, and don't know Il,
The sultan of Turkey has sent TO this
country for specimens ofthc most Improved
agricultural implements.
Vermont farmer yearly fattens $500
turkeys 200 geese, and 2i00 ducks. One
lot OF his poultry last year brought $40, 500
| In the Boston market.
The finest vein of coal yet discovered IN
the whole Rocky mountain region is the
one now being opened up near the town of
Hillard, In Uintah county. Wyoming terri.
tory. The strata OF coal is nearly thirty
fee. In thickness, and all pure, clean coal,
| rich In resinous matter.
II Is believed In Jamaica that the stimu.
lus that the fruit trade and the prosecution
| OF the minor industries have lately received
will prove the turning-point IN the fortunes
Of the island, which have long been at low
cbb. The shipments OF oranges 10 the
United States are enormous, several large
steamers having their whole tonnage en-.
gagged for this purpose.
A bill In congress proposes TO lease The
arid or desert. lands lying within the state
oil Colorado, In tracts not exceeding five