The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-01
GEORGE J. KEATIN0,
Kansas CITY, Special Partner.

mer water proof garments. The Gossamer
rubber clothing com any, of Boston, Mass.
turns out 600 garments a day, oud their
drying table cover 40 acres of ground. The
goods are sold in Australia and south Airi'
ca, in Europe and Asia, South America,
and In the Sandwich Islands.
The cigar trade OF the Island OF Cuba Is
concentrated at Havana, from which port
there were shipped to the United States in
1SS2 cigars of the declaI cd value OF S3,3il,-
40, Al The great bulk OF the shipments
was TO New York, the value being $2,3s1,-
Gas 90 The shipments to Boston amount
ed to $lil ,G03Gl.
A coop OF live prairie hens from the Unit
ed States was forwarded, u lew days since,
from Liverpool to the queen at windsor.
a similar consignment has been sent TO the
prince of Wales at Sandringham. The birds
are TO be turned into the royal preserves,
IN order to try aud acCimati2e them.
The first mandatory in north Dakota,
of greater importance than a saw mil, IL
talked OF in Bismarck for the manufacture
of stl aw. board, which is expected to take
the place of lumber. One ton OF any kind
of straw will produce Thousand feet Of
boards that may be handled us any lumber.
The standard size is 81 inches in width, T.
feet in length ,and the thickness the same
as average surface boards. This lumber, 1t
is said can be produced and sold in compe-
tition with wide walnut, at about one-half
the cost of the latter.
Time, the destroyer OF most things, gives
to violns an almost indefinite value and
importance. The Joan Carlino violin is
800 years old, and is in an almost perfect
state of preservation. Two thousand dol
lars is n common price for Stradivarius.
On one occasion | 800 acres OF land were
given for Stainer violin, and, as portions
OF the city of Pttsburg are now built upon
the land, IL may well be said to have been
the largest price ever paid tor violin.
Canal-cutting, all over the world, il cpl.
demic. The canal through the lsthmus of
Corinth may be finished in four years. it
will be jus, four miles long and OF the same
dimensions as that of Suez, namely-sev-
entytwo feet wide and twenty.six feet deep
throughout at low water. Vessels from the
Adriatcports will save lS5 miles and those
from the Mediterranean % miles by passing
through the canal, besides avoiding the
dangerous coasts about Matapan
An extraordinary project has been sug-
gested in Paris. Ii is to connect the CAPT
tai with the city of Rouen by tunnel. The
length OF the work would be over rs miles.
while the cost is calculated at GO, 000 0C).
The projectors contend that there are great
strategic as well rs commercial advantages
connected with the scheme, but sober
minced critics regard IL as the mere dream
of n visionary.
The exports of domestic produce from
New York during the past week were of
fairly satisfactory proportions, their total
being ~ sol S2l, against So, l6l ,i0l for the
same week last year. The ship
ments OF flour are very moderate, though
other breadstuls are moving out to fair
extent. The exports of provisions and
cotton are about up to the usual average,
and there was an increase in the shipments
of petroleum compared with the previous
week, but the latter are not unusually heavy
Since Jan. the exports aggregate 500 $685..
037 compared with $SS 1888 ,23l for the cor
responding period of 1882.
ing at an unparalleled rate. During the
month of March thirty.nine vessels left
the port of New Orleans, carrying ,7S6 Gl9
bushels Of corn and 5l3 SGi bushels OF " heat,
u total of $500 ,5S3 bushels OF grain, against
3oi All for March last year-an increase Of
about 5C } per cent. Among the departing
vessels was the Briscoe to Belfast with No.
500 bushels of corn, equivalent to s 100 tona
TIT largest grain cargo that ever left the
port OF New Orleans. -Since September LIST
the grain exports have been 3,l3i, pa bush
els OF 'orn against Cos $50 last year. and o.
O75, 400 bushels of wheat, against 592 Q27 in
1882, New York had better look to her
laurels.