A French Poultry Farm.
The French excel in poultry. Inoed
inc. There is something in their
active, sanguine, vivacious teinpera
nv nt akin to the fussiness of fowls,
and, as like seeks like, the French peo
ple raise more fowls and produce more
eggs than any other nation. The ex
port of eggs from France to England
amounts in value to several million dol
lars' w orth yearly, and the home con
sumption ot poultry largely exceeds
tint of any other nation. Poultry in
some shape or other, openly or dis
guised by their inimitable cookery, is
upon the Frenchman's table every day,
ami the omelette or an confiture an fines
ht iltes is a standard and delicious part
of ihe usual meal. It would do an
American farmer a real good to see
how well and delicately a Frenchman
lives on what the former either wastes
or n.'gleets. The fat. boiled pork usual
in our farm houses, is there rarely seen,
and where it is, it is brought up in such
a form and of such a quality as to make
it un objectionable to the weakest
stomach! Poultry and eggs are in
realitv the cheapest products of the
farm under the best management, and
we might well take a lesson from the
French both in mauaging poultry w hile
alive, and in using it to the best ad
vantage after it is slaughtered.
We owe some of our most popular
breeds of fowls to the French. The
lloudan, the Crevecour. aud La
Ficehe. are purely French, and have
len found so satisfactory that we have
not as yet undertaken the usual Ameri
can process of "improvement" with
tlwni. But to see French fwwls in per
fection one must see them in their na
tive homes, for the best of us must ad-
rait that in their excellent methods of
raring for their fowls we are far sur
passed. Among other methods of
management, that of colonizing is
peculiarly French. A peasant woman
who has but a dozen or two fowls will
have her separate coops, each shaded
by an apple tree or by a vine or plum
trse; aud the largest professional
poultrvman or amateur will still have
his colonies. Here is a great advan
tage at the outset, because all the evils
which come through, crowding are
avoided, and good health a grand re
quisite to success prevails.
Wo find in a French journal a .de
script ion of a French poultry establish
ment, that of M. Lemoiue, of Crosue
Department Sine-et-Oise who was
awarded the "prize ot honor given
for poultry, for his exhibit at the great
Parisian show. This gentleman began
to keep Doultry in 1S72. His first ex
pedience was one that is usual with all
successful poultry men. lie began with
the common tarmlowls ot mixed blood,
out soon abandoned tnese tor pure
breeds, as being the only .profitable
kinds to be kept. Careful selections
were made of perfect specimens of each
breed, and these were bred with care
and crossed with each other in such
a wav as soon to obtain superb birds.
Twfnty-spven different varieties ol
fowls are kept by him. 1 hese are kept
in "parquets'" of SO to UK) square
meters each a trifle over as many
American yards in which they have
freedom, and fiud grass, insects and
gravel. Each yard has a garden or
plot of green turf, shrubs. fiUit trees
and sanded paths. The low shrubs
give cool shade.and the, earth beneath
it hem absorbs and decomposes the drop
pings, and furnihes dusting places for
the fou ls. The young chicks early in
the season are raised iu a long building
in which they have warmth aud are
conveniently attended to. As soon as
the heat of the sun makes this house
too warm, the chicks aud brooding hens
are removed to coops placed in ihe
"parquets" under the suade of fruit,
tree. ,
A peculiarity of the system followed
by Mons. Lemoine, is to raise hi hiek
from large eggs and to produce the
heaviest possible birds. The result has
been that his fowls have always been
awarded first prizes. He has ibuud
that a superior sire and an inferior
dam produce a second-rate progeny,
and that to procure the best ofls-pring
t lie dam must be the very best, while
the sirp may be of secondary character
without injury. As to the scarcity of
lare eggs, M. Lemoine says: "This is
not astonishing when we consider how
frequently fowls are permitted to de-1
generate through negligence in killing
oil' the liens indiscriminately, sacrific
ing those which lay large egjjs equally
with those which produce small ones."
"Those who know their best iuterests
will guard carefully and kep for year
these producers of large eggs and weed
out their flocks, adding, by purchase of
eggs 6f ' the best types, new blood
through which the most profitable re
sults may be obtained." In conclusion,
M. Lemoine mourns over the extreme
scarcity of the best quality of poultry
in ho French market, observing that
"it is only by accident that one can
tiud a satisfactory fowl offered for
sale."
If this is said of the French markets,
which are so far ahead of ours in this
respcet, what might be thought or said
of ours, where to procure a decent fow l
would be impossible without a long
continued search which, after all,
might be unavailing? And yet it is
not for want of w illing purchasers who
do not grumble at high prices bo long
as they can procure what they want.
Jinml Neio Yorker.
gomistic.
Black and White Marble Cake.
The White: Three cups of white
sugar, the whites of eight eggs.beaten
to a froth, one cup of butter, one-halt
cup of sour cream, one teaspoonful of
soda, and two of cream-of-tartar, one
cup of bweet milk, one ten spoon ml of
lemon extract; flour enough to make it
rise nicely.
The Black: Two cups of brown
pugar, one cup of molasses, one cup ot
butter,' one-half cup of sour cream,
yelks of eight eggs, one half cup ot
sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda,
two tjiblespoonfula of cinnamon, one
te spoonful of clovo?, one teaspoonful
of allspice, and one of black pepper.
Put in adayer of the black and white
alternately till it is all in. Draw a fork
through it two or three times to. mix it
a little, or leave, it as you put it in, if
you like.
Boston" Brqavx Bread to ra
Bakud is'a Buick OVEN.-Iakea
quart of rye-meal and the Ba me of
. .. : warm water.
wbite nour. juix mn
Take also a gill of molasses or sviup,
a small teaspoonful of soda, a large
teaspoonful of bait, nnd half a gill oi
yeast. Such bread is improved oy ine
addition of a gill of boiled pumpkin or
winter squash. Make it as stiff as can
. i t it
easily be stirred witn a spoon, urreasc
a deep brown pan thickly, and put the
bread in it, and dip your hand in water
and smooth over the top. This will
rise faster than other bread, and should
not he made over night in tne summer.
The quantity can be doubled for two
loaves. Bakelougin brick oven and
long accordingly in stove.
Rice Pudding'. To five quarts ot
milk allow one and a half cups of
nicely washed rice; three-fourths of a
cup of "A" sugar, or a little more it
you want it sweeter; put in a pan cold
with as many raisins as you like, and
bake one and one-half hours, stirring
two or three times carefully while it is
baking. This should have a pretty hot
oven and not be stirred for the last
half hour of baking, so as to form a
nice brown crust or covering on the
top. This pudding is a little nicer
when cold, and 1 always bake one large
enough for two dinners in cool
weather.
Breakfast Disii.-Scrape and clean
thoroughly a pig's head; boil for four
hours, or until the meat will slip from
the bones; remove all the bones; skim
the grease from off the liquor in the
kettle and return the meat, which
should be chopped fine; season highly
with salt, pepper and sage, if liked;
thicken with Indian meal until of the
consistency of soft mush; let boil for
an hour or more; pour into dishes and
set in a cool place; slice and fry for
breakfast in winter.
Sxovr Balls. Boil rice till tender;
press into small tea-cups, and when
npifect.lv eold turu into a dish; make a
boiled custard and pour over a half
hour before serving.
Procts of Mannacturimj liuhhers.
The first operation, after receiving
the crude gum from the importer, is to
cleanse it! To facilitate thi process
the rubber, which comes in lumps re
sembling in size and shape a soldier's
cauteenis cut into thin slices by means
of a large circular knife, revolving
with great speed and constantly wetted.
Theu these slices are cut into small
pieces by means of a chopper a ma
chine which resembles in its action a
common hay-cutter and afterward the
pieces are reduced to minute particles
in another machine, which, at the same
lime, washes out all the dirt and sand.
Beside the accidental admixture of
foreign substances with the sap, the
natives are in the habit of throw ing in
sand and ashes to increase the weight.
This grit, unless completely removed
from the gum, will slrow itself in the
shoe, impairing its smooth surface; aud
hence much of the tine finish depends
upon the care taken at this stage.
The small particles of rubber, all
clean, are now shoveled into another
machine which rolls then together into
rough sheets. These sheets are then
taken to the dryiug-room, wlwre they
remain about three mouths to admit of
the complete evaporation of the mois
ture. It is an important poiut thor
oughly to extract the moisture of the
gum, for if it is made up into shoes
before it is sufficiently dry, the watery
particles will expand under the heat of
vulcanization aud cause blisters. After
the gum is sufficiently dry it is carried
iuto the. grindiug room, and fed into
machines called grinders, where pas
sing between heavy iron rolls, heated
with steam, it is softened so as to per
mit of the admixture of the vulcanizing
material. The call for low-priced
goods has led to extensive cheapening,
by which less expensive material than
rubber is added to lessen the cost.
oal tar, lampblack and other cheap
and bulky articles are thus sometimes
used. The gum is then run inio long
siieets between calenders. The sheets,
as delivered from calenders, after beiug
cut into convenient lengths, are carried
to the cutting machine aud cut into
uppers aim soles by means of patterns
and sharp wet kuiVes in the hands of
skilled workmen. The uppers and
soles are now ready to be lasted. Mean
while, in another department, the
linings whether of purple stocking net
for shoes, or of woolen fleecy cloth for
"Arctics," or of heavy felt for boots
are coated on one side with rubber, by
passing a batch of gum in company
with the cloth between steel rolls in
another calender, and, after being cut
into various sizes, many thicknesses at
once, with dies in a drop press, are dis
tributed to those who make up the
boots and shoes.
After affixing various strengthening
pieces of cloth stiffenings, etc. the
rubber upper is carefully laid on sticks
fast to the rubber on the cloth, with a
light pressure and smoothing move
ment of the hand. No pegging or sew
ing is required. The edges are then
trimmed, the sole is put on and rolled
down firmly, so as to adhere closely in
every part. The shoes are now col
lected and carried to the varnish l oom,
where a coat of elastic varnish is quickly
applied, and the shoe, now of a greenish
brown color, is hung in the heater.
This varnish, beside imparting the
luster and finish, protects the rubber
from beiug injured by the intense heat
of vulcanization, and further protects
the shoes when in use from the effects
of the atmosphere. It is found that
goods which are made up with a dull
finish, and not having the protection of
the varnish, do not last so long as the
varnish goods.
The heater is a large fireproof room,
heated by means of a large number of
steam-pipes. In the evening, when
the heater is full of goods, the doors
are closed, the steam turned on and the
baking begins. The heat is gradually
run up to nearly three hundred degrees,
under the supervision of experienced
bands who remain all night carefully
watching the progress of the baking, as
indicated by thermometers hung up in
side but visible through small windows
in the wall of the heater. Too much
heat renders the rubber brittle and
rotten, and not quite enough heat de
tains the sulphur in the shoe, and
causes its appearance afterward when
they become what are called "white"
go. ds. These white or sulphurous
goods are really better to wear than
. hose completely cured. During vul
canization the gum becomes very soft
and runs together into one homogenous
mass, and finally, when a higher point
is reached, it hardens again. After
remaining in the heater a sufficient
time about eight or ten hours in all
the shoes are carried, at an early hour
in the morning, into the packing room,
where, after being removed from the
lasts, they are laid in long, glittering
rows ou the table. Then comes along
the inspector, who examines every pair
very closely and passes judgment ac
coruing to the character of the work
manship. Trade Circular,
Dam on the Ohio. The United States
engineers are busily at work on the dam
on 'the Ohio just below Pittsburg. Two
hundred men are now at work on the
dam, but when the shore wall is. begun,
in the neighborhood of 1,000 men will
be employed. Alter the dam is finished
the shore wall for the lock will be be
gun. This wall will be 17 feet high, 8 J
feet thick, and 685 feet long. The dam
will slack water up as far as the first
dam in the Monongahela, and as far as
the Garrison ripples in the Alleghany,
with a minimum depth of six feet at
the breast. The great benefits which
will accrue from thia source in saving
of coal, of transportation, etc., are
scarcely calculable. The importance
ol this work to the country at large is
in the fact that it is the first attempt in
this country to use a dam with movable
bottom or of such a character that at
high water the dam may be lowered so
as to give an uninterrupted channel,
while at low water the dam can be
raised and the locks used to pass boats
through. The dam has movable
wickets, which can either be raised and
lowered by means of a shaft and engine
or by one or two men in a boat. This
system is now in use in the Seine, in
France, the llhtne, and other rivers in
Europe.
ijtmwrotts.
The toot assemble a. bugle call.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
In driving a hen a woThan is slow
but shooher. Boston Globe.
A son-net your neighbor's pretty
d an gh t e r. Boston Tran script .
Now did Job Baxter get his pretty-
wife? you ask. Why, Job Baxter, of
course
The cheapest way to settle back
rents is to buy an ulster. Cincinnati
Commercial.
Every dog has his day, but the
nights belong to the cats. Philadelphia
Chronicle.
A Boston man has stolen S,000
worth of water from the Mystic Water
Company. lie had the best milk route
iu the city. T'urners Falls Reporter.
A pretty girl down East is a "mind
reader." She said to a bashful beau
the other night: "La! I believe you
are going to kiss me !" She was right.
"That boy will make his mark in
the world some day," said a parent
of his du.lest child. So he did. lie
never learned to write. Edinbury
Herald.
John writes to inquire how the Ark
was propelled. We would say to John
that the Ark was a row-boat and was
propelled by an Noah." Whitehall
Times.
Unexpected gratuity Waiter
" Beg pardon, sir, but I think you've
made a mistake. This is a halfpenny."
Old gent, grandly " Oh, dear, no; not
at all ! I never give less." Punch.
Xew wars come up in Europe before
the old ones are settled. Soldiers are
scarcely allowed to sit down for a
moment's peace, and that is why they
keep standing armies. New Orleans
Picayune.
2 lovers sat beneath the shade.
Ami I un; the other said:
How 14-x that you he'J
Hath siulied upon this suit of mine:
ii a a neari, u pnips yon
Thv voice is inuti melodv
"It's v to tie Hi) loel l.
Say oy nymph, wilt many me?"
Then" lisped she soft. "Why. 'Sly"
St. Louis Journal.
Puck has plunged into politics.
Here is one of his splashes :
"Don't be afraid to challenge a
voter. Challenge him to fight a duel
at live paces, and kill him before he
votes.
Get out the vote! Then get it in!
Do you want billiards to advance
two dollars per bill? and opera tickets
ten dollars per tick? and ulsters sixty
dollars per ulst? Then vote the oppo
sition ticket.
Do you want to live in a four-story
cottage with a big back yard, and no
back rent? Then stand on the ground
all day and vote the whole ticket.
I'.' S. Don't scratch unless you
have personal occasion to."
The Michigan tramp does not sit
still and let moss accumulate on his
back, while all the rest of the world
goes ahead. Yesterday a genuine
specimen of the iron-plated traveler of
highways called at a house on Second
street and asked for dinner.
"No food to spare," was the reply.
"Can't you give me an old coat?"
"Xo."
"Or a pair of old boots?"
"Xo."
"Can't you spare me even a pair of
socks?"
"Xo."
"Nor a piece of bread?"
"Xo."
"The fellow's chin fellas he fumbled
in his pocket, and his voice had a lone
some sound as he pulled out a small
autograph album and said:
"Well, if you can't do any better,
I'll have to be satisfied with your otter
graff I Please use blue ink!" Free
Press.
Some Instructions Goes with
Them. A shrewd Granger came into
Fremont the other day, with a span of
horses which in appearance were para
gons of animal beauty. A horse-trader
caught sight of them, and offered to
buy them at once. The Granger was
willing to sell, consequently the bargain
was soon closed, the money paid over,
and the horses delivered to the new
owner. The Granger then looked at
the horseman with a wicked twinkle
in his eye, aud remarked: "Mister,
there's some instructions goes with
them horses."
"What are they?" inquired the
horseman.
"Well, sir, when that critter lies
down on his right side, you has to turn
him over before he can git up. He's a
left-handed brute, and can't use his
right side. The t'other animal was
born backward, and he doesn't pull
well any other way. When you hitch
him to a wagon, just reverse ends, and
he'll pull a mountain up by the roots."
After delivering these instructions
the Granger walked off, chuckling like
a loose cog-wheel, and the horseman
was sorry that Beecher had abolished
Hades before this Granger's time to
die had come. But the horseman was
resolved not to be beat in this way,
and began to look about for a victim.
He soon found oue in the person of a
promiuent lawyer, to whom he sold
the team at a fancy price. After get
ting his money, he delivered the " in
structions" as he had received them;
and now there's a lawyer on the ragged
edge, who is casting his eyes wistfully
around for some other 0an wishing to
buy a beautiful team. He'll sell cheap,
and throw the "instructions" in.
CURIOSITIES Of THE AMERICAN
EXPORTING TRADE.
American enterprise in the struggle
for supremacy in the world's' market
has been handicapped by six serious
drawbacks. These nre, lack of means
of transportation, high rates of interest
on capital, high rates of marine insur
ance, carelessness in packing, waste of
material in manufacturing, and an
omission to make concessions to the
local prejudices of outside barbarians.
A good time will probably come when
these will all be removed, and then
adieu to Communism, pauperism, half
time, over-production, and all the other
real or imaginary evils of the day.
Greenbacks will advance to a premium,
gold will be a nuisance, subsidies to
steamship lines will be regarded with
contempt, and many other equally in
credible things from the present point
of view will come to pass.
Meantime, Yankee pluck, even with
all the odds above mentioned against
it, is making a gallant race, and is fast
closing upon its antagonists. This is
especially true of the past few years
since 1875.
Taking the figures of 1875-0-7 as a
basis, we have advanced at the rate of
.4'ti 000,000 iu two years. Our exports
to-day are more than double those of
1800, in- which year there was a very
heavy export trade, the one article of
cotton alone amounting to over $100,
000,000, more than twice the cotton
export of 1855. In the fiscal year end
ing June o0, 1878, the increase over
1877 was nearly 05,000,000, .or about
11 per cent., and this notwithstanding
the greatly lessened demand for war
material consequent upon the cessation
of hostilities abroad.
The possibilities of the future are
enormous. To say that our progress
promises to equal that of the pat three
years is to claim too little. The least
we may look for will be an expansion
on the compound interest plan.
Our dry goods are superior to those
of England, and are preferred wherever
they are entered into direct competi
tion with them. Xot to put too tine
a point uK)ti it, English cotton
goods are composed of one part cottou
and three parts clay or other filling,
while those manufactured here are
without make-weight of any kind.
American iron is naturally of three or
four times the tenacity of English iron,
aud so on to the eud of the list.
In variety or excellence of raw ma
terial, no country on the face of the
globe can begin to compete with us
European mechanics bear no compart
son iu skill or intelligence with ours.
An American will turn out four times
the quantity of work that a German or
an Englishman will in the same time.
and he will do it much better. Wages
and the price of liv ing have become so
reduced on this side of the ocean that
in many instances they are lower than
in Europe. We have the aid of an un
limited variety of labor-saying ma
chinery, a great deal of which is not
known abroad, and nearly all in use
there has been imported from this
country.
A German gentleman informed the
writer that, wishing recently to estab
lish a branch house in his native city,
Berlin, he employed the carpenter wiio
has the patronage of the court, and is
t heretore supposed to be of unexceptional
skill, to put up lor him a wood and
glass partition similar to those used in
counting-houses in this country. The
job occupied six weeks, whereas here
six days would have been sufficient.
All the mouldings had to be made by
haud with clumsy, old-fashioned tools.
and the workmen seemed to be more
machines running in a gjroove, and
ambitious only to accomplish as little
in a given time as possible.
An American lady in Vienna, in a
hurry to catch a train, went into a
saddler's shop trunk stores arc un
known there to order a strap for her
trunk. She was told that it could uot
be made in less than a day. In Xew
York, supposing there were none iu
stock, a special machine would have
turned it out in two minutes. Incidents
might be multiplied indefinitely to illus
trate this branch of the subjeet.
Every American who has ever trav
eled abroad can furnish several from
his personal experience. Should proof
be needed that all that has been said is
true, it may be found in abundance
in the columns of the English news
papers. These are filled with com
plaints of American competition aud
consequent loss of home trade. One
paper the British Mail tells of a
house in Birmingham which is manu
facturing "Yankee pattern household
sundries, such as egg-whisks, nutmeg
graters, etc.," and placing them on the
market as American goods. In another
we learn that severalextensive padlock
makers in the South Staffordshire dis
trict are 4 'busy at work upon an order for
padlocks made upon a favorite United
States pattern," and American manu
facturers are warned to immediately
register their trade-marks in Great
Britain under the new treaty. Could
any plainer acknowledgment of defeat
be given than this?
In all American exports including
breadstuffs since the foundation of the
Republic, three commodities have stood
forth prominent in amount and value
cotton, tobacco, and cheese, and of
these cotton has been the king. Yet
will it be believed that in 1784 an
Americau ship which carried eight
bags of cotton into Liverpool was seized
on the ground that so much cotton
could not be the product of the United
States?
In the fiscal year 1860, during which
the largest crop was raised and the
greatest quantity was exported, 1,707,
686,338 pounds were sent abroad, over
1,265,000,000 going to Great Britain.
Tobacco to the amount of 55,000
pounds was exported as early as 1621.
Since 1790 we have sent abroad 9,529,
123 hogsheads, equal to 13,000,000,000
pounds. To transport this vast pro
duct would, it is estimated, require
19,058 ships, carrying 500 hogsheads
each, or a yearly average of 216 vessels
of that capacity. Will somebody put
this in his pipe and smoke it?
Last year, according to the official
report of the Commissioner of the
Internal Revenue, a greater quantity
of manufactured tobacco, and more
cigars and cigarettes, were removed
directly from the manufactories for ex
portation than during any previous
year of which an account has been kept
by the Internal Revenue Office. The
excess in tobacco over the year preced
ing was nearly 3,090,000 pounds. Of
the total amount, England takes over
1,000,000 pounds; Australia comes next,
Germany next, and the United States
of Columbia next. There is scarcely
any spot in the civilized world to which
we do not export our manufactured,
tobacco direct.
In Germany the clippings or refuse
of the cigars made in this country have
recently found a profitable market at
from t.wo to five cents per pound.
Formerly theseclippings were allowed
to accumulate In American manufac
tories for months, until some speculator
happened along and took the lot for a
song. Now agents have been sent out
through Canada to buy up all they can
find, with a view to shipping it Jo
Europe.
Immense quantities of American
made ctgars have, within the past year,
been sold in England, where they are
eagerly purchased as cheaper and more
suited to the popular taste than any
cigars heretofore imported into that
country. On one day in March last a
single shipment was made aggregating
141,000, and it is estimated that the
trade already returns at the rate of
$4,000,000 per year, equal to an annual
profit of $120,000. r One firm in this
city has even started a factory ex
clusively for the making of cigars for
export to England.
The foreign demand for American
cheese exhibits a growth unparalleled
by any farm product, except, perhaps,
cotton. As recently as forty years ago
the exports amounted to but 411,338
pounds. Last year they reached the
enormous aggregate of 107,364,666
pounds. If this were loaded ou drays,
each carrying one ton, and occupying
eight yards, the line would extend 244
miles, or a greater distance than from
Washington to New York. If the
shipment were regular during every
secular day in the year, the daily move
ment to the wharves for shipment would
exceed 172 tons.
The quantity of milk used in the pro
duction of 107,000,000 pounds of cheese
may be computed by those having
leisure and sufficient agricultural knowl
edge. Nine-tenths of this vast amount
finds a market in Great Britain, which
formerly stood pre-eminent in the re
putation of her dairy products. Our
dairymen have succeeded in imitatiug
the size, general appearance, and even
the flavor of the English production so
closely, that being able to sell at a much
low-er price, they have actually beaten
the Englishman on his own ground.
New York State, by the way, deserves
the major portion of the credit for this
triumph, over seventy per cent of the
cheese manufactured in this country-
being the product of her factories. In
Germany a demand for American
cheese has also sprung up, but it has
been too recent to permit of the presen
tation of the results accomplished.
Ou the subject of breadstuffs there is
no need to enlarge here. Every child
knows that this country has been for
some time the granary of the world.
Nor will the ordinary newspaper reader
require to be informed that American
fresh meat and mutton, both slaugh
tered and on the hoof, have, within a
comparatively short time, to quote an
English newspaper, "deprived the Eng
lish farmer of his last resource, his
stalwart ox," and made the national
roast beef a common thing in many a
Jin tish household w here it was a rarity
before.
Our refrigerator tonnage, whfrh was
but 8,0(i0 tons in 1876, is now 28,000
tons. llus covers oysters, butter,
fruits, eegs, canned goous, and a thou
sand and one other per isi table articles
ot food, the export trade ot which is
increasing enormously from year to
year. If this thing keeps on it will not
he long before America is the butcher's
shop and grocery store as well as the
granary and manufactory ot the world.
What will be thought of the United
States shipping plum pudding to Eng
land, potatoes to Ireland, oatmeal to
Scotland, toys to X'urenberg, and lager
beer to Germany t let such are the
facts, and they are no more astonishing
than the now thrice-told tale of the
regular and profitable sale of American
cotton goods in Manchester, and Ameri
can cutlery aud hardware in Birming
ham. The business of making aud canning
plum pudding lor export is regularly
carried ou at D over, Del., and else
where. The trade is not a new one,
aud exports are regularly made to
Eugland. A Philadelphia firm sell
large quantities of mince-meat in the
same count ry .
Steamer agents say that potatoes to
Ireland are the commonest thing iu the
world, and the business of shipping
them has been of long duration.
On April 23 the Devonia took 1,100
bags of oatmeal to Glasgow, from
which it must not be inferred that this
is by any means an isolated instance,
but the first one the writer happened
upon in his search for an example.
The export trade in toys, wh'ch
amounted last year to over 1,000,000
began some five or six years ago
through some presents sent abroad.
Now nearly every steamer carries large
quautities. The priucipal articles of
export are the mechanical or "clock
work" aud the steam toys, but there
are also large shipments of tin and
wooden toys, most of which class were
formerly exported from England or
Germany. Wood is much cheaper in
America than in Europe, and machines
work taster than hands.
Very few mechanical toys are now
imported, and only the finer French
and Austrian work for show-pieces in
windows. American ingenuity has also
multiplied the varieties of mechanical
toys, and the American manufacturers
of the clock mechanism have met all
overtures for the purchase of the de
tached works by European dealers by
demanding prices which are practically
prohibitory.
In May last a firm of German brewers
sent a cask of American lager beer to
Count Bismarck, and in due time re
ceived a letter from him through the
German Consul thanking them. Since
the reception of the letter the firm have
received several orders from German
houses for samples of lager beer, and
the head of the concern has sailed for
Europe to make arrangements for its
regular export.
The Englishman has longhad Ameri
can turkeys regularly at Christmas,
and he likes them. In January last a
famous English house sent an agent to
this country, with orders to ship regu
larly every week fifty barrels of the
finest quail, prairie hens, grouse, wood
cock, wild turkeys, canvas-back ducks,
and other American game that he
could procure. The . enterprise has
proved a great success. Buflalo and
antelope' meat, venison and salmon are
also among the innumerable articles of
food sent from this country, not only
to England, but to nearly every other
civilized nation.
It would be unpardonable to close
this paragraph, incomplete as it neces
sarily is, without a mention of the fact
that a Boston company are turning
out 8,000 cans, equal to 24,000 pounds,
of baked beans and codfish balls daily,
and that it finds a large demand for
both specialties in England, France,
West Indies and South America.
Room is lacking to pursue the sub
ject to the extent it deserves, but there
are numerous other points in the
American export trade that must be
both novel and curious to the general
reader. Take the item of coffins, for
instance. Coffins and caskets in the
latest styles have long been among the
regular articles ot shipment, abroad,
aud they command a large sale among
the subjects of the effete monarchies.
A warehouse containing 2,000 of Amer
ican make was recently opened in Lon
don. Think of exporting hoop-skirts
at this late date. -Twenty-two dollars'
worth went abroad last year.
Berlin has sent a large order for
corsets to Worcester, Mass. , and another
for American silk to Rockville, Conn.
Will any one question the good taste
of the German ladies after that?
Essex, Mass., exports steel pens to
England.
An American firm have made a com
plete outfit of locks for the new Impe
rial Post Office in Bremen, where the
American system of lock-boxes has
been introduced.
Two cargoes of American coal were
recently sent to Italy, and were sold
readily at 7.72 per ton, which covers
cost and freightage and leaves a fair
margin of profit. Heretofore, over
200.000 tons of English coke per annum,
at 11.58 per ton, has been used in the
Mediterranean basin.
A staple article of export to South
America and the West Indies is patent
water-closets. Another is American
confectionery.
Peanut oil, from North Carolina,
sells well in Italy, and cotton-seed oil
has almost taken the place of olive oil
throughout Europe. The export of
this latter commodity jumped from
281,000 gallons in 1S76 to-1,705,000
gallons in 1877.
American jewelry goes everywhere,
and American watches have nearly if
not quite driven Swiss and English
made watches ut of their own markets.
The British government purchased 200
stem-winders in December for the use
of conductors and engineers on one of
the State railroads in India, and in
February an agent of the Rotherham
Watch Company, of England, visited
this country, and ordered a number of
sets of the tools and machinery used
here.
A Newark, N. J., sash and blind
manufacturer tided a large order for
shipment to Tui key in June. A Troy
bell-founder has recently fitted out
churches in Constantinople and Bang
kok. American locomotive manufacturers
are hard at work filling orders from
Russia and South America. Our car
riages, street cars, and vehicles of all
sorts are lieing sent in all directions.
Our petroleum lights the world. Statu
ary and paintings are regularly ex
ported from this country to Europe.
Think of it!
Among other important items of ex
port are books, scientific instruments,
wines, pianos, carpets, furniture, toilet
soaps, line and coarse boots and shoes,
glassware, scales, stoves, leather, writ
iug inks, slat-is, marbles, pins, and
tools and machinery of all kinds. And
the best of it is these things sell on
their merits, and not on account of
their cheapuess. But the list is un
ending. jY. Y. Times.
Two thousand Spanish pilgrims
recently arrived at Civita Veechia,
Italy, in a steamer from Barcelona ;
but iu view of the general yellow fever
fright, the health officer of the port
quarantined them for four days before
allowing them to proceed to Rome.
It is not a misfortune for a young
lady to lose her good name if a young
man gives her a better one.
To Let a Cold Have its Own
Way, is often to assist in laying the
foundation of Consumption. To cure
the most stubborn Cough or Cold you
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