The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-02
TRADE ITEMS.

The whale fishery first sprang up in the Bay
of Biscay, in tie twelfth century.
The genuine Connecticut river shad bring %
cents pound. The North river variety can be
bought for Is cents.
Wells. Fargo & Co.'S express line takes in
twen'y.seyen thousand miles. over which are
scattered ten thousand agents
Large quantities Of cabbagcs are being raised
in Florida this season for northern shipment.
They are chiefly raised In the vicinity OF ITALIA
hassoe.
An eminent Arabian naturalist and physician
of the tenth century, named Temini, states that
In ancient times the bitumen of Judca was used
% preserve the vine from the rayages of para
sites.
The cat was first domest icated In Egypt The
Greeks and Romans did not possess II.
The Pascagoula Star says: The glass blowers
struck for higher wages last Saturday, and
being refused In their demand they left for
the north last Tuesday morning. The glass fac-
tory is at Moss Point
The sardnc has disappeared from the coast of
brittany, where II used u bring the fisherman
an annual revenue of 1900 900 francs. NJ. Bla-
vlcr thinks that some change In the direction of
the gull stream may account for the fact
Kansas has 300 iouring mills, with capital OF
Slp53,'66 30 saw-mils, capital $4,000; 9afri-
cultural implement establishments, capital,
S7l. 300 n cheese factories, capital 81 800: 10
wagon and carriage manufactures. capital $751;
COZ, WOODEN mills capital, 5000 and , paper
mills, capital, $4,000,
The European immigration Mt New York for
furnishing the largest proportion, and the llal-
ians coming next The demand for labor, skilled
and unskillcd, from almost NIL parts OF the coun.
try Is such az to provide ready employment for
all who are In need oft
The estimated total length of all the submn-
rino telegraph cables In the world Is g. 100 miles,
and their money value Is computed at 500, co.
600 According to the estimates of a French
statlstclan, the total length of all the telegraph
wires al present laid Is sufficient To reach forty
six times around the world,
There Is on exhibition ut Laredo quantity of
c0rdage made OF the fibre of the cactus plant
IL is represented that seven pounds of green
cactus will furnish material for one pound of
rope, and that the manufactured article IL of
good quality. The supply of cactus Is almost
FlorIda, which has become noted for
its oranges, Is now giving attention. to
tue production of cocoanus, Many
thom containing not less than 1000 trees with
its variety OF products and its immense mineral
wealth, future of unbounded prosperity seems
20 walt upon the south.
The protective tariff has received severe
blow In Spain by the adoption Of reciprocity
treaty with France Catalonia, the chief man
uiacturing district considers itself ruined, with.
out hope of redemption. II remains To be seen
II Those same desperate Galatians will not be the
loudest mouthed advocates of the treaty us soon
usexpcricnce has shown its wisdom
The anthracite coal still has decidedly droop.
Ing tendency, and so evident is 1t that tho conl
companies have been mining too much coal this
month That tho policy of only halt-tim working
- W be renewed next month. THE week thai
closed on saturday was enc of full out put" say.
the Philadelphia Ledger In It's review, "and re.
suited IN large accumulation at the shipping
port', the market taking nothing like the amount
'ot coal that was produced. This week there
viii be only three days work ut the mines, aud
similar restriction has been resolved upon fol
the first and second week In liay, and official
notice given that there win DO an equal rcstrc.
uun during thelatler weekin May, Il Unnecessary"
This Chinese candle tree which for a
hundred years or mo q has boon ono OF
the. popular street trees OF New Orleans
aud ether southern clties il creating
some attention IN california Just now. 1t IN be-
'aevcd that tallow can be obtained from these
trees cheaper than the illuminating oils now
used In lighthouses aud olscwhcru The col.
orcd candles used H. the decorations OF on,
Christmas trees arc said to be made from thi,
wax
A boston paper says the nvc towns bordering
ON or near Lake Champain, In the counties 81
Chittcndcn and Franklin return this year owe,
tu,Oo barrels OF apples purchased on the tree,
by parties In Boston and New York. ome nc
teen years ago the farmers In the region referred
%, knowing the favorabl-ncS ot the soil for
fruit growing, grated IN on apples. This yea
the crop was an excellent one. and tho prize,
pail averaged averaged 81 per bsrrel-the SO
leoted nuit being largely for export
France has an Agricultural school for slrls
one Of the chief IL near Rouon, which Ia said Il
nave begun with capital OF one franc, by q ais
WI VI Vhnrly anu TWO nttlc discharged nrisoncI
Urls, and 10 be now worth $40 ,vOO This cstab
lshment hasS 0 girls from ci.ht " eighteen
years. The farm, entirely cultivated by them
uoverf 0acres IN extent Tho staff Of icac or,
consists OF twenty .nvo sisters, More than one
medal OF the French Agricultural society hs,
been awarded 70 this establishment =, Darnclc
anu the pupils are IN great demand all over
Normandy on account OF their skill They &c
vut ~ stewards. gardeners. farm managers
uh'ry women, laundresscs. Zach girl has on
leaving, q small sum OF money earned In spar,
nonns, they wanta homo they can always 70
There has been steady fall IN tho flood wa,
vts 81 tho southern Mississippi at all points dur
ing the past Few days, and all but the southern
rpruon OF Louisiana promises soon 10 he ont oi
wafer. In the sugar districts now noo,iel how,
over. the decline II very slow, the river from
Baton Rouge 10 the gulf having, during tho mas,
week or ten days, fallen but n few Inches hrin,
almost stationary In front OF New Orleans and
all along the lower coast "Ihe amount of eans
which viii ultimately he lost by the lood. say.
the New Orleans Prize Current Il a. vet moi II
he determined From the fact however ina
the water falls 50 very slowly, planters 10 = thn
All the cane now Submerged will prove A toin
loss Tho back water In the interior patishr,
Is beginning tn fall more quickly than tito river
aud as general thing planters are morc hone
ful Than was to be expected aud are applyin,
themselves with commondable energy To III,
cultivation Of the land as fast ~ II cmcrgcs iron
me water. The destruction OF fences, house
ami farming implements generally however I
'ocyoni present computation"