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Statistics Concerning Queer Articles Eek.
ported To the United States.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Oct 22-Some interesting in.
formation has been received at the State Depart
ment from our representatives in foreign coun-
tries concerning the declared exports for the
United States during the first and
second quarters of the present year. Tt
shows the kind and amount of imported goods
the American people consume and the prices
paid therefor by the importers Among the
many items are some unusual ones, viz: from
Senegal, portion of Africa during the quarter
ending with March last, there were exported to
this country 10 snakes, valued at $64 81 monkeys
at 500, and 200 parrots at $400 1t is ascertaned
that the bulk of ginger root which is sold by the
grocers throughout this country comes from the
Kingdom of snakes, monkeys, etc., and that dur
ing the same time of the other expectations we
received GOO pounds of ginger root, which
was valued at $4,000. We received leopard
skins, appraised at $21, along with the snakes
and monkeys. The figures show that coffee is
appraised at 81 bushel in Liberia A
large proportion of diamonds worn by our
people come from Cape Town on the south coast.
year
amounted, from Cape Town, to $4,000 At the
same time we received $272 worth of everlasting
flowers, which seem to have found market in
this country. Large quantities of wool come
from Cape Town also, and ostrich feathers arG
sold here in considerable bulk. East London
supplied US with 1889 goat skins, valued at
$6 S97, during the quarter ending June 80 last.
Port Elizabeth, adjoining, sent US 124, 669 goat
skins during the preceding quarter valued at
SOL, 697. All through the vouminous statistics
are found reports Of immense quantities of goat
skins.
1t might indicate that this country was very
bilious one, when we consider that in one quar-
ter of this year we received from one port alone
Is, 1872 pounds of aloes. Zanzibar, on the eastern
coast, exports ivory in very large quantities to
the United States. OF course the bulk
of our coffee is from Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, and amounts to probably $50, 0o0,-
600 year. Other ports export coffee largely
to US, but that mentioned is by far the leading
one. Although the prices of coffee have very
materially deprecated here during the last four
or five years, the export appraisements from
points where it is produced disclose quite dis
parity between their figures and ours Log
wood comes from Hayti; also the bulk of other
dyestufs. We continue to get great deal of
silk good from Canton, China, as well as Mar
settles, France. Prussia comes to the front with
exports of wool, aGeregating over half million
of dollars. Despite the fact that lower Cali
fornia and Florida produce largely of oranges
and lemons, Italy continues to send in more
than So 000 coo worth of these articles annually.
Rrimstone, that awful reminder of the future,
is sent to US from Girgenti, France. and aggre-
gates about 81, 200 900 annually. The exports of
Cognac brandy from France almost touched a
million dollars last year. British Columbia has
become one of the most firm rivals OF the
American farmer in the production of hay, tan
ming barks, eggs cattle and barley. She pro-
duces the greatest portion of the latter article
for our distilieres The Canadian barley is con-
sidered a superior article by the distillers, and
brings about Is per cent higher price than that
produced by our farmers.