Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-13
TRADE IOPICS.

THE annual consumption of feathers in
this country Is 100000 pounds.
1T IS estimated that nearly two million
electric lights are now in use in the United
States.
THE export of bananas from the Island of
Jamaica 10 the United States last year
amounted to nearly 2oo, coo punches.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY is setting up for
the Pennsylvania of the Northwest. Btu
minous coal ia large quantities has been dis
covered near Port Townsend.
TIE consumption of wool IN the United
States increased from 1870 TO 1880 about
seventy per cent. The population increased
IN the same time but thirty per cent.
THoUGH Philadelphia has not succeeded in
finding natural gas, she now has an estab-
iIshment that manufactures it at six cents
hundred, and enthusiastically prououuces
it ''the fuel of the future. y
THE largest single shipment of opium that
ever reached San Francisco arrived there
aboard the City Of New York froIa Hong
Kong It weighed 1890 pounds, and at SO
per pound netted the Government in duty
S164.600.
THE exports of Mexico last year were s49,-
19i $50, or gain of about SIX million dollars
over the year before, the exports of coffee
alone to this country having increased to
the extent of million dollars. Hennequln
tobacco, gum and vanilla all show great
increase, exceeding all previous figures.
Hides and gold and silver form important
items in our Mexican purchase.
THE genuine Mocha coffee comes only from
the province of Yemen, a province of
Arabia, north of the Gulf of Alden, of which
Mocha is the principal place on the sea
coast. No coffee is grown in Mocha Some
thing over ten thousand tons of coffee are
annually exported from Mocha, but no small
part of it is not the product of Yemen, but
is grown in the East Indies and sent TO
Mocha, whence it is reshipped.
IN 1886 our imports from Brazil amounted
IN value to al ,9O5 ,5S2, of which coffee
more than S26 100000 worth-was the chief
item. During the same period the United
States exported to Brazil goods TO the value
Of but $3.50, 73S, showing an overwhelming g
/ balance of trade against us. Brazil, like
most of the South American countries, Is a
! great consumer of foreign -four, and i'm
I ported from the United States in 1886 542,-
! 499 barrels, worth 50, cd, ,327. or considerably
/ more than one-third of the total of our ex-
! ports to that country
! BosToN is reckoned the best market of
| any city in the country for Florida oranges.
! Last season over 250,000 boxes were shipped
/ there, and the number increases each sea-
son. The Boston dealers consulted with
tue Board of Health recently to ascertain
what the chances were of the fruit from
| Florida being interfered with in case it
was sent here. They were informed by the
| health officials that no restrictions would
be placed on its distribution in Boston, as it
| was not deemed probable that oranges
would convey yellow fever.
THE figures for the fiscal year 1857, Just
published, show that 7i7,74S,S54 gallons of
malt liquor were consumed in the United
States during the year. Nearly all of ii
was produced in this country, only 9, 800, ,000
/ gallons being imported The per capita
now reaches 1199 gallons, nearly eight
times what it was in 1850. The consump-
ton of hard liquors, on the contrary, has
steadily decreased. OF distilled spirits Il,
064. .733 gallons were usei in 1857, less than in
1850 when the population was only half as
large. Those who know say that American
beer has almost altogether taken the placS
OF Medford rum and Kentucky whisky.