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Show FIGURES OF TOIL. The manufacture of cigarettes has increased, in thirteen years, from 238,-270.S17 238,-270.S17 to 2.877,792,440. A clipper ship for every .day in the year is required to remove California's surplus wheat to Europe. The mines of the world produced twenty-five tons of gold every week, but the precious metal remains as rare as ever. The largest cotton crop in the southern states prior to th.- war was in IStW, when 4,099.770 bales were produced. pro-duced. -In 1S71 'it was 4,052,017 bales. In 1W1 the produAion reached 8,032.507 bales, and G0.".C(l bales of the production produc-tion were consumed In Southern mills. |