Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-09-28
BUSINESS BREvITIES.

About l,S50,000 square miles Of look
ing glasses are manufactured annually
in Europe
About go per cent Of the copper pro-
duced in this country comes from the
Lake Superior region.
On lower Broadway, New York, in
corner plots land is worth from $4,000
to $4,000 per front foot.
A lump Of nickel weighing $500
pounds, exhibited at the Worlds Fair,
is worth half as many dollars.
Boston was the first American city to
produce an American-made umbrella.
That was over eighty years ago.
An Antarctic whaling and sealing com.
pany, designed to operate on a large
scale, is being formed in Dundee.
During the period beginning July 1 ,
1856, and ending June 30, 1877, the net
exports OF gold amounted to $357, ,270, =
600.
A government check for | cent, given
during the war TO correct an error, il
still in the possession OF New York
man.
NJ. Marie OF Paris is known as the
"dog barber" He daily clips from ten
to thirty dogs. The price of clip is 2
francs.
During the present century the food
supply OF all the principal nations has
Increased in a much greater ratio than
the population.
The Paris Exposition represented an
outlay OF something like 100000 The
Chicago Fair represents an outlay Of
over $50, ,000, 900.
OF the 04G papers and magazines pub
lished in New York city exactly one-half
-473-are issued monthly. The dailes
number forty-six.
The greater part OF the worlds supply
OF needles comes from Redditch in Eng
land, where there are 10000 people en-
gagged in the industry.
There are annually killed in Africa
minimum Of $4,000 elephants, yielding
the production Of raw ivory, the selling
price Of which is R850,000.
The silver product Of the United States
IL about 50 per cent Of our total mineral
production, which according to the CEN
sus was in 1889 1857, ,230.6
The biggest diamond in the world, re-
Gently found at Kimberly, South Africa,
weighs over 800 curats, and il 30 vaiua-
BILE that it was insured for 81 ,250, 900 for
transmission TO Europe.
The valuable whales have about all
disappeared from the North Pacific.
Behring and Okhotsk Seas no longer con-
tain them, and the Arctic Ocean is the
only recognized whaling ground left.
Steel pens were first made in 1903
The annual sales at present in the
United States are estimated at 80, 600, 600
pens, while the world annually consumes
200 900, 900.
The report that Prince Max Of Saxony
has become II priest is confirmed. The
young man, who is n nephew OF the
King Of Saxony, was serving in regi-
ment OF Uhlans, when he suddenly left
his command, dismissed his servants and
entered a monastery at Oschatz.
The value of farming lands in this
country is greatest in New Jersey. In
1888 1t averaged: New Jersey, sos;
Massachusetts, $50; Ohio, SAC; New
York, S44; Vermont, 500; Maryland,
1892; Wisconsin, 1923, and in some West
ern States less than 80 per acre.
The growth of the orange industry in
Florida has increased from production
of 10000 boxes in 1885 to 3,500,O0 for
the season just closed, and according to
conservative estimates the combined
crop will be fully 100000 boxes, of
which over 4,000 900 will be marketed.
The average price received by growers
the past season was $l.3l per box.