Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-09-29
BUSINESS BREvITIEs.

: About $50, 900 square miles Of look
ing glasses are manufactured annual
in Europe.
About so per cent of the copper pro
duced in this country comes from thu
. Lake Superior region.
On lower Broadway, New York, IL
corner plots land is worth from $4,000
to s20, 600 per front foot.
A lump of nickel weighing 4.50t
pounds, exhibited at the Worlds Fair
is worth half as many dollars.
Boston was the first American city tc
produce an American-made umbrella
That was over eighty years ago.
An Antarctic whaling and sealing com
pany, designed to operate on large
scale, is being formed in Dundee.
During the period beginning July l.,
| 1855, and ending June 30, 1877 the net
exports OF gold amounted to 1857 ,270,
600.
A government check for cent, given
during the war to correct an error, is
still in the possession of New York
man.
M. 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 much greater ratio than
the population.
The Paris Exposition represented an
outlay OF something like s5, 000, 900. The
Chicago Fair represents an outlay OF
over $3O,000,000.
Of the GAG papers and magazines pub
lished in New York city exactly one-half
--473-are issued monthly. The dailies
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 a
minimum OF $1,000 elephants, yielding
the production OF raw ivory, the selling
price of which is ES50,000.
The silver product of the United States
is about 81 per cent of our total mineral
production, which according to the CEN
sus was in 1880 1857 ,230. 1862.
The biggest diamond in the world, re-
Gently found at Kimberly, South Africa,
weighs over 900 carats, and is 30 valua-
BILE that it was insured for 81 ,25O, 900 for
to Europe.
The valuable whales have about all
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 &c, 000, 600
pens, while the world annually consumes
Boo, 000, 200.
The report that Prince Max OF Saxony
has become Il priest is confirmed. The
Young man, who is nephew of the
King OF Saxony, was serving in q regi
ment OF Uhlans, when he suddenly left |
his command, dismissed his servants and |
entered 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, $40; New |
York, IA; Vermont, 1886; Maryland, |
f32; Wisconsin, s23, and in some West |
ern States less than So per acre.
The growth of the orange industry in
Florida has increased from production |
Of 600, 900 boxes in 1885 TO $500, 900 for |
the season just closed, and according to
conservative estimates the combined !
crop will be fully 100000 boxes, of
which over 100000 will be marketed. |
The average price received by growers
The past season was $l.Sl per box.