The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-26
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SOME OF the finest iron ore IN tennessee nus
been found In Hickman county.
Mr. Tom Thomas, of Chattanooga, TENN, says
he had duck that laid 5000 eggs.
The mill villages In eastern Connecticut are
replenshing their lists of workingmcn with
Polish immigrants
Strawberry shippers OF Gadsden, Tenn, real
lie about 81, 900 per day.
For lighting the new residence of W. H. Van
derbilt II Ia stated that there are 1000 gas burn
ers, supplied by about 5000 feet or nearly three
miles of pipe. -,
Trees In east Tennessee are bending with APP
pies, peaches and cherries, and grapes promise
nm extraordinary success.
The board OF supervisors of Holmes county,
Mississippi, at their recent session levied tax
of 90 on every dog, save one, to the head OF each
An Alderney heifer in Twiggs county
Kentucky, gives twenty-on gallons of milk n
week. from which is obtained eleven pounds OF
butter, ..,.o..
Albany IL to pay $50 n year the coming five
Years for being supplied with correct time from
The Dudley observatory.
The United States produces 20 per cent
of the grain of the world and 81 per cent of the
A bear weighing $50 pounds was recently kill.
cd within three miles OF Tallahassee,
The total population of Australia Is about
100000 Agriculture and grazing nrc leading
Industries There are over S0oO0,UOo sheep on
One hundred and fifty thousand cords of bark
are TO be peeled In Iioga county, PENNSYLVANIA,
this year This will be the product Of about
prof CireafI states that anthracite coal Is found
In abundance on the old Ute reservation in Col
Orado nearly equal IN quality to the Pennsyl-
vania anthracite. mat -
mt Chattanooga was stocked to-day with 1876 coo
shad by the government.
The increasing disliilery capacity Of Peoria
win give employment to large additional force
of men, over what has been employed III such
establishments heretofore.
One cubic foot of pure water, ut 62 deg. +.
weighs g., SIS pounds; at 2l2 deg f., only b0,6lO
pounds A cylindrical foot of water at g. deg,
+ weighs 1898 pounds. ton OF water Is
1890 cubic feet
Bituminous and black coalis found In eighteen
states, and Is produced In AHA mines and 5000
diggngs operated by farmers, The total amount
ofcapitnl invested Is $50 300 l00 wages paid, $50,
7O7, O,9 to g6,i75 miners value OF coal mined,
4 heavy wood and coal firm of 81, Paul have
bought upward of 5000 acres OF land In the
great hardwood belt Of Emerald, s. Croix
county, and intend crcctinga mammoth mill at
an early date.
II is snid by lumbermen that three foarths of
the good black walnut In this country has been
consumed within the last ten years The price
for some kinds is $3.50 per 1000 feet AS 100 years
are required to grow black walnut tree large
enough for lumber, not many of this age will
have any knowledge of the next crop Forestry
ms popular science may well claim the atten'
tion Of the people,
The longest single line of fence In the world
will be the wire fence extending from the Indian
Territory west across the entire Pan Handle of
Texas and thirty-nvc miles into New Mexico.
We are informed that eighty-iive miles of the
fence is already under contract, 1t course will
be In the direction of the Canadian river and It's
purpose Is TO stop the drift of northern cattle.
According TO u parliamentary return Just Is
sued, tho amount OF sugar consumed In brew
Il, hal fnitaI X iuvlnn tina A linp
September 80, 1850, was US follows; England,
London, i7S06, log pounds; the provinces, 95,.
81, 00S pounds; Scotland etS,2io pounds; Ire.
land, AIS COS pounds, making total for the
United Kingdom of liIyOd, lag pounds. In 1856
the total consumption In the United Kingdom was
only ii, 40, $40 pounds. The whole amount con.
sumcd In the twenty-five years from 1856 TO 1850
inclusive was l. l0S2ii l7S pounds.
The hard, black German slate pencil has been
pencil OF clay slate, Az the quarry near Castle
ION, Vermont about thry-hyo workmen
produce about 5000 pencils daily, and II
Is proposed TO increase the daily output
TO 10000, The blocks when Quarried are
sawed Into pieces seven by twelve inches,
split TO the thickness OF half an inch and
smoothed by planer, The block Is passed I'M
der scmcircular knife, and, after having been
turned over the process Is repeated. The result
Is my seveninoh pencils "A particle, OF quartz
IN the block would break all the pencils They
arc pointed by a.grindstonc, turned, assorted,
and sent 10 market In boxes OF q hundred
It's reported from Deer Isle that four canning
HOLSTERS, and that u large business Is expected
this season. Lobster, however are becoming
scarce along the coast OF Maine, and the prcdic-
ticn is made that very few will be packed after
up every lobster factory, in Maine, unless some.
thing Is done for the increased production Of
Holsters, the present law being entirely inclec.
,ual The total quantity Of Holsters caIgh! dur,