The Iola register., 1891-07-10
FUGITIVE fAcrs.

The population of Alaska Is about
ss. 600.
Vice President Morton b said to be
spending more money in the way Of
building and improvements in Washing
ton than any other man in public life.
Governor elect Russell, aged 33. is not.
the youngest man who has been elected
Governor of Massachusetts,. George g
Boutwell, was chosen Governor when he
was 80 years old.
Early in the present generation OF
business men there were but five mill
ionaires in this country. They were
John Jacob As.or and Stephen Whitney,
of New York; Nicholas Longworth, of
Cincinnati; Stephen Girard, of Phia-
delphia, and William Gray. Of Boston
There are now 500 millionaires in New
York alone.
Nickel is a modern metal It was not
in use nor known of till Ills It has
now largely taken the place of silver in
plated ware, and as an alloy with steel
it is superior to any other metal, for it
is not only noncorrodible itself, but it
transfers the same quality to steel; even
when combined as low per cent it
prevents oxidation.
A year ago the average yearly pro-
duction of petroleum in Pennsylvania,
according to the Philadelphia Times
was 60, 900 barrels Now it is 5000
The prime cause of this increase was the
advance to a dollar per barrel in the
price when the production fell to go, 600
barrels, and the effect of the increase to
81, 900 is drop in price to 20 cents =
Three thousand millions of pounds is
the estimated yearly production of paper
The United States has s84 paper mills
and LOG paper machines; Germany
e69 mills and 891 machines; France 40
mills and 525 machines; England 361
mills, 541 machines; Scotland SO milel,
9s machines; Ireland 13 mills, ID ma
chimes; Russia 1873 mills. 1877 machines;
and Austria 900 mills, go machines. *.
The coal business in the West presents
two striking features The first is that
the Rocky Mountains are full and run
ming over with a good quality of coal.
and the second is that in every city and
town of Nebraska coal is scarce and
high. Here is a commercial anomaly
that Western enterprise and capital
ought to be able to remedy in the inter
est of eyerybody's comfort and prosper
ty.-[Omaha Bee.
The Astronomical Society. of the
Pacific has published an account OF the
recent work in lunar photography at the
Lick Observatory. The photographs
obtained by means of the great equa-
torial are greatly enlarged, and when SO
treated exhibit the moons surface In
great clearness and detail Professor
Holden states that in the best pictures
taken at the observatory. parallel walls
on the moon, whose tops are no more
than 200 yards or so in width, and which
are not more than 1000 or 1900 yards
apart, are plainly visible. <.sE Gsss-=Ssa..
The census reports 400. 600 acres under
vine culture, with 300. 900 acres bearing.
The value of vineyards and wine. cellars
is estimated at S155. 900 600 California
has $50, 900 acres In New York there is
vast area OF vineyards about Lake
Keuka and Canandaigua Lake; much
wine is produced. but most of the grapes
are sold for food. California puts seven
eighths Of her grapes into wine. Nearly
4o. 900, 900 gallons of wine will be made
this year in the United States -'-rr ~
The Cincinnati Price Current ssti-
mates the worlds wheat crop this year
at g. .o40, 600 600 bushels, about 60 600. .oOo
bushels or 44 per cent in excess of the
deficient quantity last year; but it is not
in excess of the average product of q
series of years The largest on record
is that of 1sS4-2. 1s5, 600, 900 bushels,
and the next largest, that of 1857
2, 125. 600 600 bushels In the estimates
of 1890 the aggregate production of the
United States and Canada is given al
40. 600. 900 bushels, which is 81, 000, 900
bushels below the crop of 1889
Tie imports of -four from the United
States at single Brazilian port (Sao
Pedro) declined in q recent 10 months
8 800, 600 pounds. The people there
have begun to import wheat and make
their own -four, and the next step doubt.
less will be the growth of enough native
wheat to supply all demands. Indeed,
nothing is more probable than that
South America will, at no distant day,
cease to draw upon the outside world
for breadstuffS New York Hardware.
The project to build line of railway
through Alaska to Cape Prince of Wales,
to connect with the Russian railway sys-
tenn through Siberia. thus linking the
Old and the New Worlds with rail-
road, is attracting attention in Alaska
But there is giant obstacle in the way
Of one unbroken line connecting the two
hemispheres. and that is Bsring Straits.
Captain Emery, Of the United States
ship Thetis, stated the only practical
means of crossing these straits at all sea-
sons of the year Is by tunneling under
them "-[Bradstreets
Owing to the increased trade between
Philadelphia and Liverpool the firm Of
Peter Wright & Sons have decided to
have the entire fleet Of American Line
steamers refitted and practically trans
formed into new vessels Immediately
upon the completion of the Illinois the
Pennsylvania will be fitted up in the
same manner. The improvements to
the Indiana have just been finished at
Glasgow, Scotland The Ohio was re-
fitted. nearly three yeas ago.-tPhilar
delphia Ledger.
The largest gold coin now in circula-
ton is said to be the gold ingot or -loof'
Of Anam, French colony in Eastern
Asia 1t is fiat, round gold piece, and