The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-08

/; syndicate is confirmed, and parties in n
position TO know say that majority of the
stock was purchased on basis OF $3.50, 900.
| me Lowell people will at once take the
heId with practically unlimited backing.
Inc national Sugar Manufacturing com
pennsylvania, TO make sugar from beets,
expects % uBe 5000 tons of beets per sea-
son, ana manufacture therefrom 1920 600
pounds OF sugar and $4,000 pounds of
molasses. ' VI
The deliveries Of California quicksilver at
San Francisco for the month of February
amounted TO 4,770 ilasks. There was also
seVehty-hye TASKS received from Portland
oregon, February Goth, per steamer State
One of the ostriches at Woodward's gar.
1ehs mas commenced to lay 81 pound eggs,
. inches III longitudinal diameter by al
inches in lateral diameter SO far she has
laid Two, with SO more TO hear from, if she
noes her duty, laying on alternate days
from February 18th to the end OF June
Inc city of st. Paul, Minnesota, last
year enjoyed an unwonted degree of pros.
perity The exchanges OF the banks. which
indicate the volume of business transacted.
were IN 1852 $9l, 5T7, 45O, against $69, 800, 900
IN inc preceding year; the wholesale and
topping trade expanded $40, 800, 795, the
nai Ne Oh business blocks constructed was
vi ZoO,0OO more than in 1881, and of private
residences $206l, 200 more than in 1881
The Nature reports that there seems 10
De serious decline in the once fourishing
oyster fisheries of Denmark. Last wear
only about 100000 oysters were taken,
when ID lar below the average, nor was the
quallty so good rs usual There were no
new banks discovered during the year. The
most important are those in tho Guli of
Vend'el aud at Fladstrand. This scarcity
OF oysters on the continent of Europe, at n
place which used to supply an active and
remuneratlve market in England, will, no
trade. java
A nautical mile, or an English admiralty
knot, is $3.50 feet. The United States coast
survey, always most accurate In such
things, has adopted 1858, 2i8 meters. or D.
OS0.2l feet as the standard mile, which is non.
ularly "a minute OF latitude" but more nc.
cnrately the sxtieth part of degree on
the great circle of n sphere whose surface il
equal to the surface of the earth. A min
ute OF latitude, according to the head of the
coast survey, would be 1861 ,G55 meters AT
the poles, and ,Si27S7 meters at the eaua-
,or: One minute OF the equator would be |
800 Ao meters, or 6,0S7. Is feet.
Not content with making coffee ont of |
date stones the inventive genius of the aee
promises to produce us cheese which has
never seen the inside of a dairy. For a
ioig tlme past, 1t appears, the Chinese and
Japanese have INDUCED, with much salts.
faction In very remarkable kind of bean
which grows in that region, but some en-
ergetlc European has found out that this
bean, owing to the greasy matter and the
albumen which it contains, can be worked
up into an excellent cheese. The bean il
therefore to be imported into the south of
france, and If It thrives We are promised
cheese which will rank with nothing less
than the very best Parmesan,
The amount Of blank paper consumed
during the census year, from July |, 1870,
10 June ~, 1880 In the publication of news.
papers, says Woodcock's Weekly Gazette.
was 4,S2S ,0SO reams, weighing l7S, lG5, 95l
pounds. Its estimated value at o cents per
amount to $l6,034 ,935 so. The
amount OF blank paper consumed by daily
newspapers aggregates, per Issue, during
. me census year, 1851 reams weighing 207,-
l9o pounds-an average 32il pounds for
each daily; value $267S3s2. The total
quantity OF blank paper used by weekies
anu all other classes (dailies excepted), per
issue, was G3,S3 reams, weighing 2,90S,6Sl
pounds, an average 3l2 pounds for each
journal OF all classes named; value of paper
mus used per issue, $2Gl ,7Sl 20.
Nominally carload is 10000 pounds.
u is also 20 barrels of salt, 20 of lime, 90 of
Hour, 90 of WHISKY, 200 sacks of flour, 9
cords of soft wood, Is or 90 head of cattle,
~ or 90 head Of hogs, 90 to 100 head of
sheep, 1900 feet OF solid boards, 1900 feet
Of siding, 1900 feet of flooring; 40 600 shin
giles, one-half less hard lumber one.fourth
less green lumber, one-tenth less of ioist,
scantling. and other large timbers, $40
bushels OF wheat, 400 of corn, $50 OF oats,
iOO OF barley, 800 of flaxseed, 40 OF apples,
and 43O OF Irish potatoes, 800 of sweet pota.
toes, LOCO bushels of bran.