Telegram-herald., 1888-08-05
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

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en IL Massachusetts Gl0ze VIE ale earning
EYiHg by Industrial oocup upStlens
CAsgoRs made cf leather are new inven-
tea, sure e prove useful A soane leather
castor WI save naRy : rug or osrpst
GRASB RAFIBs. Aich., is the great fur
niture- E< E<Eing center of the Ualled States.
IL mas fer.y-tNo furniture factories. wheh
employ l2,os0 mea-
TsE Uuitcd States possesses 80 paper
factories. Germany eys, fr4Rce 80. Great
Britain S5l, Italy 2za, Russia Ios. Austria
z3e, Australia 4
IsrokT.sr platinum discoveries have
been made IN Asrioopa County, a T. The
ore yields ten per cent, which is perhaps
tAe largest IN The world
As organ with glass tubes is the work Of
. Providence lR L. inventor, and IL Is
claimed 10 DC superior in tone and volume
10 those Of metal, and much cheaper
Two HUNDRED and eight miles OF huge
piping is 70 be lad between Chicago, III, f,
asd LIMA, O., st cost OF seven thousand
dollars per nile, for the purpose Of trans
mitting co2ioil
As CHNEsE immigration lie now prehib-
fted the Chinese lanncrymen Of California
have combined 70 advance the price Of
washing, no longer fearing competition
from their conntrymen.
THERE is said TO be one house IN Chicago
which maintains seventy commercial tray
eiers ia q single State. anc whose yearly ex-
penses were made $1,000 greater by the
passage of the Interstate Commerce law.
TEE best genuine Vanilla beans are pro-
euced in the Nisautta Valley, Mex, and
they command <l2 to sl4 pound. There
We're exported from this valley last year
about sixty million beans, most of which
were sold in New York.
ACCORDING TO a prominent newspaper d.
rectery OF al the papers, i1cluding dailies,
weeklies. etc, now published in the United
States, 1880 print not more than J 500 copies
each issue: 2,o29 print 5000; 51S print %. 0o0
81 print 1900, ana only 25 print over 100 600
copies each issue.
INDIANS in the United States last year
cultivated ~. SS5 acres OF land. and raised
az, ,95S bushels OF wheat, SS1,e72 bushels OF
corn, 512, l97 bushels of oats ana barley,
524,0 ,0l0 bushels Of vegetables, and l0l.s2s
tons of hay. They alss owned 35S, S3z horses
and mules, lll.sN head Of cattle, 4917l
swine and /, III, ,273 sheep.
IL is estimated that 2, Sc, ,0oo, 900 fre
crackers are exploded in this country
each year. box of fre truckers costs 65
cents in China, each box containing $3.50
crackers, heStly packed and subdvioed, all
ready for the retail trade. A million OF
these boxes were imported by the trade for
last season and were oil sold.
A MACHINE is sid to have been patented
in MllsA, Italy, sor type founding and com
posing which, by means of a keyboard,
casts the letters in the order required,
planes them, and expedites them into the
composing stick and all this by the revolt
tion Of main cylinder The typefounder-
man or boy-epcrating the machine thus
becomes also typesetter.
VERMONT was the first State 70 announce
the result of the maple sugar season Of
1858. The output is estimated al Is 900, 600
pounds, the value of which is 81 30, 900.
To obtain that amount of sugar 5000, ,0e0
trees were tapped. II IS Thought that were
all the fun grown maple trees ia the State
utilized, the sugar production would be 90
oO0, 900 pounds-150 pounds TO every inhsolt-
ant Of the State.