The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-11-11
TRADE ITEMS.
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The average number of rainy days in
Alaska Is 2l5 in year.
Ten thousand and lorty.' even persons In
Kentucky are now drawing pensions from
the government.
Victoria, British Columbia, has received
two carloads of eastern oysters for propa-
CATION.
There will DO 100000, 600 cigarettes made
In America during the ensuing year.
Knoxville, Tennessee, produce dealers
expect this year to handle over 5000 600
pounds of dried fruit.
Mr.. Casanova, president OF the Pitts
hurgh Electric company, offers to light
Jacksonville, Florida, Tor So pc: week.
Three chicks were Matched ut the ostrich
farm near Anaheinl, last week. The first
chicks hatched-fve In number-died.
A Wilmington, $. c., mechcnio has
built buggy on the bicycle principle,
the spokes and tires being OF steel. II
works nicely.
Tennessee has a population Of l,5il 900
and pays about So per capita as revenue to
the state and general government.
A COMPANY has been organized at Chi
osgo with a capital OF 100000 for the pur-
pose Of introducing hanson cabs there.
No northern salmon have been taken In
the Delaware for five years past, and the OK
pertinent OF stocking the river has proved a
failure.
The Boston Advertiser SAYS: 1.-THE mer.
ohandlse markets have been even more dull
than week ago, aud II Is seldom that the
absence OF business has been any more
marked"
Tho total number Of persons holding
liquor licenses In Great Britain Is go 99T
aud the revenue from these licenses during
last year was nearly $l0,0OO0O0.
Spanish mackeral and some other fish
only TO be found IN the spring have recent.
ly been abundant in the waters about Sa-
Vannah. The llsh dealers say the cause OF
their appearance at this time is the late
long drouth.
Captain Patterson has invented an air
ship, to be completed next August, which
will cross the Atlantic In three days, and
the inventor assures the world that with il
mankind can completely discover the
North and South poles Of our globe entire "
A rural inventor claims that he can make
papar cut OF grass, lie says that grass
paper is stronger, softer, more transparent
than lines stock, aud considerable cheaper
According to his figures one acre OF gras
| will produce S.7ll pounds OF paper.
A number OF Boston capitalists have &C
quired lease OF the gutta'percha forest
/, OF Dutch Guiana for term of thirty-thre
al lNhApN hhh huNN aAANhNl NNkhu hbflhAANh
there upon an extensive scale. This leas
covers one million acres, and the qualit.
J. OF the gum Is said To he equal to that of th
best East India product.
This appears 10 be good year for lit
! insurance companies. OF one company ri
NOR says that its volume OF new insu
n RANGES for 1888 will reach $4,000 900 T.
l t72, 100000. And as S62 262, go was tn
} Highest figure ever before reported by an
one life company the world ever saw, II
. Obvious that the business must be boon
i ing.
!, An eastern exchange remarks that W
entered the month OF November with
0 daily production of IL 600 TO 5000 barre
less, but with 100000 barrels more o
) than q year ago; that the average produ
y ton of wells now IL 10 per cent. less tina
Y one year ago, but that the number OF well
u under way IN the oil regions OF peunsy
T. vania and New York (omittng Russi
i California aud other seotions) is los per cel
greater than on November l., 1882, VIII
u the price Of oil during the past thirty dal
n was Is cents per barrel higher than Tor q
l, corresponding period OF last year,