Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-21
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY.

GROWING and shipping oysters is becom. ing Q lively business at Pensacola, Fla.
 DURING the last year 3, ,960, ,615 cotton hand kerchiefs, besides many linen and silk ones, were imported into Japan.
 WE exported last year more petroleum than ever before, G12, ,OOO O0O gallons, of the estimated value of S49, 9,47O,S17.
 A DIsTILLERY firm within three miles of Boston, Mass, has a contract to supply 5000 gallons of rum daily to Africa for the next seven years.
 THE total value of exports of mineral oils from the United States for the year ending June 30 was $49 ,S17, as against SAG, ,5S5, ,551 in the previous year.
 JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, the Standard Oil millionaire, is the head of a syndicate which is said to have bought up all the Detroit brick manufactures.
 AT least twenty thousand pieces ot prop erty were advertised for sale in a recent number of the Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald for non-payment of taxes.
 NEW YORK now manufactures an imita- tion of every mineral water of any merit, and they are bottled, labeled and sent out as if coming from the different springs.
 THE wheel used by lapidaries is fiat cop per disc charged on the edge with powdered emery, or a steel disc charged With diamond dust It is used in the same manner as a circular-saw.
 LIVERPOOL bought 100000 barrels of American apples and London $50, 600 barrels during the season recently ended. The i'm portation of American apples by the United Kingdom is on rapid increase. DURING the past year over $10O, ,00O, 900 were expended by English capitalists in the purchase of American industries. These industries are principally breweries, steel xporlkS nd furnanac and 1nnhar PERHAPS the greatest single industry of any city in the world is the carpet manu- l featuring carried on in Philadelphia. The 1 establishments engaged in this industry employ 1850 looms and 17,SOO workmen. Last year they manufactured H, ,5OO,OOO yards of carpet, the value of which was s5O, 100000.
 1 OLIVE oil is being so extensively adulter- ated with cottonseed oil that the olive in- dustry in the South of France is being fast destroyed. The French Government is anxious to stop this adulteration, the extent of which may be inferred from the fact that 2,OOO, 900 gallons of cottonseed oil are annually shipped from the United States to Marseilles.
 l THE establishment at Chicago of a large ship-yard to build steel vessels for employ ment in la ke commerce marks the growth of an important industry in thls country. The water routes now transact large share of the Western carrying trade, and this is increasing, owing to the improved class of vessels engaged in the business. | IT would not seem that sheep or sheep's products would ever be taken to Scotland, that country famous in history and modern times as the home of the sheep, but a cargo 20, ,OO6 carcasses of frozen mutton were re- gently received in Glasgow from the valley of the Platte river. This is the first impor- tation from the Argentine Republic, and the meat arrived in the very best condition. | WHAT becomes of all the paper9 There are 1000 pulp and paper mills at work the year round. But the newspapers and mag azines consume vast quantities of 1t. The Century Company takes nearly 200 tons a month for their publications, and their paper bill amounts to 100000 yearly. Harper & Brothers take 25, ,O0Q reams, Rob- ert Bonner 10000 reams at q time. Two
 cheap literature firms buy $500, 900 worth of paper a year. One patent medicine firm buys $500, 900 worth of paper every year.