Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-20
BUSINESS BRRvITIEs.

Il It has been figured that Philadelphi
took about 100000 baskets OF peache
this season.
! The Aztecs filed quilts with gold dust
sealed them and passed them from han,
to hand as coin.
New York claims the distinction O
being the only State that produces boil
rock and brine salt.
Apaper has been invented in German,
from which ink writing may be erased
with moist sponge.
The aniline dyes were invented in 1926
and now over 81 ,000, 900 worth are annu
ally used in the United States.
Female tramps are disposed to claim
their share Of business which has here
tofore been monopolized by men.
The largest gold coin in circulation is
the "loof" of Anam, which weighs as
much as 1926 United States dollars.
Pennsylvania ranks first in the cigar
output of the country. New York, Ohio
and Florida follow in the order named.
The largest gold nugget ever known
was the Sarah Sands" found in Aus
tralia. 1t weighed 1888 pounds ounces
troy.
Reports Of increase of street railroad
earnings where electricity has superseded
mule power in large cities average 90 per
sent.
More than 10000 tons OF salmon were
packed by the canneries on the Frazer
river, b. g., this season. II took nearly
30, 600, 900 cans.
Among the curious products OF the
State of Maine are wooden bottles. These
are made not for liquids, but for pills,
powders and tablets.
Cuba has 1872 coffee plantations, 700
sugar plantations, $500 tobacco esta ties,
$500 cattle farms and 200 small farms
devoted to various products.
The silver product of the United States
Is about So per cent OF our total min
eral production, which according to the
census was in 1880 1857, 230, 1852.
Commander Ludlow OF the Mohican,
which has been patrolling Behrng Sea
all summer, estimates the product OF pc
lagic sealing this year at 10000 skins.
The stoppage Of silver mining will re-
duce our annual supply Of gold by one
third. just about 80 per cent OF the
yearly yield Of gold is taken out Of silver
mines.
A telegraphic printing instrument, re-
Gently perfected, threatens not only to
supersede the telephone as at present
employed, but to revolutionize telegra-
ply in general.
Counting the bearing and non bearing
orange trees in Florida, there are esti-
mated to be 10000 900 trees. California
Is credited with having 6.000, 600 trees
md Arizona about 1,0OO,0
One tow boat on the Mississippi in
good stage OF water can take from st. |
louis to New Orleans tow carving
10000 tons OF grain, a quantity that
vould require fifty trains OF ten cars
ZACH.
The whaling industry has fallen off SO
much as to play but small part in the
worlds commerce. The latest figures
'btainable show the production to aver
ge between $4,000 and 10000 tuns of
~ gallons each per year.
+. P. LOOMS, formerly United States
'onsul at st. Etienne. says that from an
he made he finds that about
1000 Americans OF the better class visit
europe every year, and that they spend
bout $100, 100000.
Erastus Wiman Is reported as saving
n late address that there are $4b5. 0O0.-
90 in the forty-one savings banks of
Jew York and Brooklyn, held by more
han 200, 900 depositors, and the capt.
al OF all the national banks in the coun-
ry Is only 800, 900.