The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-26
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Florida green corn is in tassel
Arizona has about twenty newspapers.
| The lands in Texas capable of producing
sugnr are placed at 900, 600 acres.
Delaware Gamers are contracting for to-
matoes at 81 ton.
Numbers of turtles are being shipped
from Cedar Keys to st. Louis.
Sdgar-cane in Florida yields 500 per
acre IN sugar, not counting the strip.
A few days ago the ice In Lake Winnipi-
sogee New Hampshire, was thirty'two
inches thick.
A very large number of hides are being
received at Lampasas-the result OF last
winters freeze.
AT Fort Calgary, NJ. T., coal oil is worth
70 per gallon and flour $l5 per 100 pounds.
IL is reckoned that the daily sale OF nbt-
nral flowers in Paris realizes about So,
600.
About 10000 crates of tomatoes have
been shipped from Key West since the LIST
Of January.
The Hudson river, every year, carries
down to New York 100000 tons OF pro
duce and merchandise, worth $75OO0,OOO.,
Over eighteen thousand head of buffalo
have been killed east OF the Yellowstone
river, in Montana territory, this season,
There were $250,0O0,00O worth of beer
drank in this country last year, being %
OOO, 600 gallons.
Five hundred acres of land at the head of
Esquimalt harbor, near Victoria, Il. o.,
have been sold tor $4,000.
earn Il Co., of Ellenton, Fla, have feali2'
ed $500 from one acre of land planted III
beans on January 3.
The oldest oyster stand in this country
is in Fulton market, New York. IL was
pAlnnllAh aiytV.npp ypurg apO.
The news o, rich mineral discoveries IN
Alaska has started an exodus OF miners TO
the place from Nevada, Colorado, Montana,
and California.
Two experienced French gentleman are
arranging to establish an ostrich farm in
Medina county, Texas.
Florida alligator culturist has LOO OF
the animals ready for shipment to various
sections OF the country from which he re-
ceived orders for them.
| The fishing season on the Potomac, which
MAS very backward this year, Is now improv-
ing, AMI shad and herring are caught IN
large numbers.
The Putnam county Journal says that
between $1,000 and 81 600 worth OF oranges
were sold from l50 trees on the De Barry
farm.
Tue number of Edison lamps in use in
America at the end of last year was more
than 1000 and IN Europe at the end OF
February there were nearly DOOO.
The damage to apple trees In Iowa is said
to be greater than was at first reported.
The trees in the northern portion OF the
state were damaged less than those in the
central party, because they were OF hardy
| varieties.
Bees are kept in Mexico chiefly for the
wax they produce. Beinga Catholic coun-
try, large numbers of candles are wanted
for burning in the churches, and the au-
thorities allow no material to be used in
making them but pure beeswax.
During the last thirty years the Califor-
mia quick silver min have produced lOO,-
ODD ,267 lbs. of which 81 ,39I 800 lbs. were ex-
ported. California produces one-half OF all
the quicksilver in use less throughout the
world.
rwenty-one cities and towns in New Jer-
sey have been provided with water works
alta total cost of $l2,e00000, The share of
Jersey City Is 81 ,9lS ,l03, of Newark So $780,
600, and OF Patterson Sl,4l5,007.
Mr.. Walsh, Il Mississippian, has invent
Ell and patented an ingenious quilting.
frame by which the work can readily be
done by any sewing-machne.
Every mineral except crysolite is round
in Mexico Mexico has produced five -ninths
of all the known gold and silver, and this,
too by mining in the most primitive fash
, ion without machinery, and Mt this time
Is producing 10 per cent OF the precious
metal OF the world.
Truck farmers of South Georgia are said
to he shipping cabbage and realizing from
live to seven cents pound. They make
from $40 to 800 per acre on them. The
seed were sown last summer and the plants
set out In the fall.
, Perhaps the deepest coal-mine ON this
continent is at Pottsville, Pa. The shaft
e is $40 feet deep-nearly n third OF a mile
Every day during the busy season tive
hundred cars, containing tour tons each
are sent from below to the upper world
/ the time Of each trip being little over 1
minute.
| During the month of March, - vessels o
. various nationalities were reported missing
, or these II were wrecked, 4 abandoned, I
r missing, . foundered lcapsized, aud SUM
or, 3 ships, l0barks, brigs and II scroorerS
3 A coop Olive rr.ire hens from the I'm
8 ted States was forwarded u few Gays sine,
from Liverpool TO the queen at Windsor
. A similar consignment has been sent to tn,
4. prince OF Wales at SandrinEham. The bird
, are to b. turned into the royal preserves IL
, order to try and acclimatize them.
, West Point, Miss, with two thousand In
} habitants, has recently raised $50, 900 for
nhuOnNl Nnuk, Vou,uUu loT COtlOU-seeu OIL
MILL increased It's ad valorem tax list 800,
! 900 in one wear, established a cotton ex
change, voted 5000 to railroad aud il
talking Off 500, 0V0 cotton factory.
Wooden mills established in New Xealant
. have proved highly successful, and alread,
: consume over 5000 balesa year. The mos
Z important are within ten miles OF Dunedin
the capital of 0tago Province. Much OF tn,
=, machinery employed is American.
Some cannon were recently made at Lii,
of much less than ordinary weight, but III,
breech, after being cast, was carefully
7 wound round with silk threads, which
, were aiterward covered with protection
Of rubber. It's thought that the tenacity
|, of the silk will be even greater than that Of
the steel, with much greater elasticity.
No other country in the world offers such
facilities for tippling as the popuous and
polished kingdom of Belgium, whose O.,
00O, 900 inhabitants annually consume about
90 100000 quarts of alcoholic liquors. There
isan average Of ole public house to every
twelve male Belgians, and in some parts
ofthe country the supply is nearly twice
as great.