Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-18

on november l. The capacity per week on December was 165, ,762 tons, and on Mo- vember 1e2, ,666 tons.
 Not many years ago oranges were re- garded as luxury. They cost and 10 cents piece. Now they can be bought at cent pece-that is if they are bought by
 the box. It is strange that housewives do not buy them by the box, as they do other fruit and vegetables. They can be bought by the box at just one-half what they cost
 by the dozen. They can be kept just as
 well as other fruit and vegetables by giving them plenty of air and sunshine. Bradstreet's publishes table showing
 the total bank clearings in ninety five principal cities of the United States and the
 percentage of increase or decrease for last week, as compared with the corresponding week of last year. The total increase is
 12.6 per cent. Birming gham's clearings for the week were S3S2, ,066, an increase of 42 per cent oyer last year. Only five other cit les in the list showed so large increase, | and nineteen cities showed a decrease. The financial stringency from which the country has suffered does not appear to have affected tbe Virginia state peniten-
 tiary, as the report of it's superintendent for the year ended September 30 shows a
 net profit of S34, 239. The superintendent recommends that each county should em- ploy it's short term convicts upon the pub lie roads, as this would aid in relieving
 the crowded condition of the prison, and would be just distribution of the burden of maintaining the public highways. The total corn crop in the fourteen south- ern states amounts to 4S3, 423 900 bushels, which is AS, GOO 000 bushels more than was raised in the same states last year. The
 cotton states increased their yield more | than the others. Three fourths of the en- ia in the fiUa afafaa of Ia. bama, south Carolina, Mississippi, Texas | and Arkansas. While the south has in | creased her corn production the west has fallen off. The exports of corn from the United States for this year is 40 GOO ,000 bushels and for 1893 4S ,602, ,000.
 The bird fancer near Elyton is finding
 ready sale for his birds just before the holi- days. He has a bird farm on which he
 raises hundreds of birds every year. His stock on hand consists of canaries, mock ing birds, sparrows and other household pets. He tried raising and training par rots, but gave 1t up as unprofilable. The ladies are his best customers, and they don't like parrots because they talk too
 much. He sells pair of canaries for s5. His only market is Birmingham and neigh | boring towns. It is pleasant sight to see l the large cages filled with hundreds of | beautiful birds.
 The Mobile Register publishes figures tending to show that the working of Ala bama's oyster law during the four years it has been in operation has not been a suc- cess in developing that industry. In 1891 | tne gross receipts from licenses and ::1x | were S6173, and from this tLsre mas been l yearly decrease i;utii, Tn 1884, the gross re- | ceia.s were only $1013, the number of li- I censes having decreased from 285 in 1891 to | 162 in 1894. The receipts in four years ag- | gregated S12, ,156. The state has paid out | in salaries during this time SS545, leaving | balance in the treasury of $3611. .88 to her | credit for four years receipts. The law is | receiving the attention of the general as- | sembly, and will probably be so amended | as to be productive of the best results in the | future.
 Pensacola is the largest pitch pine, tim | Der and lumber market (eXporting) in the | world. One hundred and seventeen of the | vessels which cleared there in 1893 were for | Great Britain, carrying 137 525 cubic feet of | hewn timber, S6 481 900 feet of sswn tim | Der, 10 ,05S, 900 feet of lumber and 66lO bales | of cotton. One hundred and fifty nine | clearances were for the continent of Europe | ports and nine for Africa, carrying to the continent 308, 57S feet of hewn and 36, ,694, | 900 feet of sawn timber and 52, 292, ,000 feet | of lumber, and to the Africas 3812 feet of hewn and 29, 47O 1000 feet of sawn timber and 2,459, 1000 feet of lumber. For South | America and West Indian ports there were | 152 clearances, laden with 49 1885 1000 feet of | lumber, 90, GOO tons of general cargo-com- posed of bread and feedstuffs, packing | house products, etc.-35, ,000 feet of pine | billings, 5000 tons of coke and 45 ,000 tons of | coal. Coastwise, the clearances numbered | eighty vessels, carrying 23,94S, ,000 feet of | lumber, 20, ,000 tons of coal and 5000, 1000 | cypress shingles.
 Are vou in A hurrv with the biecuii?