The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-14
TRADE ITEMS.

ONE hundred thousand salmon eggs have,
been received at HenrY's Matching house,
Rangely, New Hampshire, from Fish Com
missioner Stanley. When Matched, they
will be put in the Rangeley lake.
The postal cards are made at IIoly0ke,
Massachusetts,, by forty men, who turn out
about 100000 daily. They have dimin-
lshed the consumption of writing paper by
from Sl2 100000 to $l3,000, 600 year.
The cigar trade OF the island OF Cuba is
concentrated at Havana, from which port
there were shipped to the United States in
1852 cigars OF the declared value OF 81, al, =
7D4i, The great bulk of the shipments
was to New York, the value being 1857
6lS.90. The shipments to Boston amounted
to $l4l COB g.
The demand for refined oil manufactured
from cotton seed is assuming gigantic pro-
portions. The Montgomery Union Rein
ing company have manufactured about %, q
OO barrels SO fur this season, mostly Tor
| eastern cities and South America.
San Francisco claims to make more and
better chocolate than any other place in the
world. The ingredients are sugar from the
Sandwich Islands, cocoa from Ecuador and
vanilla raised in California.
The Southern Telegraph company, which
was organized in New York last year, with
a capital of S5,W0,0O0, is constructing lines
with great rapdity, and will connect Wash
ington and New Orleans about September,
London uingland) capitalists have writ
ten Il letter To the commissioner OF agricul-
| lure asking whether half million acres
could be purchased in Tennessee for the
settlement of large English colony soon
10 be brought over, and IL is thought that
lnc amount OF land can be obtained in East
Tennessee.
The orchards and vineyards of California,
IN spite Of their wonderful productiveness
and occasionally enormous profits, are
likely to bring their cultivators to grief
The business is being overdone. Some lands
nave been sold at as high price rs 81 600
per acre, and too many people are going
into such enterprises.
Nashville Banner: Mrs. Overton, wife of
ColontI John Oyerton, living six miles
south of the city, has realized, this season,
SS'O on turnip green's, the result of the per
sonal attention she gave to the patch her O..
sell, IN having 1t properly attended to, The
green's, being OF the very best quality, nj.
ways had good demand in the market
| chemist OF Vienna asinyented glass
which contains no slick potash, soda, lime
or boraN. In appearance IL is common
crystal, but more brilliant; IL is transpa-
rent, white and clear. and can be cut and
polished. IL is insoluble in water, and is
not attracted by lluor acid but can be
corroded by hydrochloric and nitric acid.
When III a state Of fusion il adheres to iron
bronze and zinc.
by n process similar to that used for pre-
serving other FRUITS oranges have recently
been successfully canned and shipped The
FRUITS peeled and broken into its natural
sections before canning, and when taken
out is Just ready Tor use. An eastern ex.
change thinks this is likely to become an
important industry in the orange growing
districts OF California and Florida
"A process by which planks can be manu-.
mctured from straw has been perfected and
in Chicago building six stories high and
ocoupyingan entire block is being erected loI
the new industry. The board is manuiac-
tured by converting straw pulp into thin,
paper-iike sheets which are passed through
u bath containing certain chemicals in SO.
luton. They are subjected to enormous
pressure, and finally to u thorough drying
process.
A French journal devoted to the drug
interest saws that olive husks are used on
large scale TO aduterate pepper. They
are known IN commerce as polyrotte. For,
merly they were used as fuel or manure
now they sell at SIS to SO per 200 pounds
in consequence il is said OF their usefulness
Tor the purpose indicated. When cleaned
drled and ground they resemble pepper in
appearance, and the microscopic s,ructur,
OF the cells is SO similar to that of the huss
pepper ,hat only close comparison will in
d.cate the difference.
The trade in tropical fruits, particularly
bananas, has increased wonderfully in Gin
cinnati during the past few seasons. On,
house in that city, which only handles
l,Voo punches three years ago, last year dis
posed OF 6oOOO punches. Another estab
lishment, which ten years ago did u bust.
ness in tropical fruits amounting to $40 900
now carries on a business amounting Il
500 700 annually.
Arkansas is becoming noted for raising
superior apples, the specimens from tina,
state on our iruit stands being unusually
lair and worthless. Benton county, Arkan
sas, produced 100000 bushels OF such ap
pies last season, while Washington, Carroll
and Boone counties We're not far behind
growing altogether 100000 bushels. A
paragraph is now going the rounds, stating
that last year over 5000 600 pounds q
dried apples were exported from this coun
try to the markets of China, India, Egypt
Southern Africa, Australia, and also &c
England and Scotland" and it is added
that the exporters gather them up from
all portions Of the country, the best, 1t |,
said, coming from North Carolina"
The Journal des Debats Paris Is au
thority for the statement that the umbrella
industry In France has made a long stride
In the last half century. IL is related that
10 1850 the humber Of umbrella. makers In
Paris was ll5, ana that the value of their
products did not exceed 5000, 600 per annum
or, OF the total French umbrella trade
not VI 100000 q year. In iSi7 the total
number of Partisan umbrella and parasol
makers was 3OS, and they made 81 0oO, 10,