Scientific American Volume 08 Number 03 (January 1863) . 0 550,000 150,000 3,200,000 200,000 250,000 500,000 200,000 50,000 500,000 500,000 1,555,100,000The immense traffic in tea is one of the mostremarkable illustrations of the enterprise and energyof modern commerce. The trade in tea now givesemployment to upwards of 60,000 tuns of Britishshipping, and about £10,000,000 sterling of Britishcapital, producing a revenue to the State of £5,500,-OOdsterling. Of all foreign imports, tea is the mostimportant in Russia, and the whole of this comesto the fair of Nijnie Novgorod, with the exception o
Scientific American Volume 08 Number 03 (January 1863) . 0 550,000 150,000 3,200,000 200,000 250,000 500,000 200,000 50,000 500,000 500,000 1,555,100,000The immense traffic in tea is one of the mostremarkable illustrations of the enterprise and energyof modern commerce. The trade in tea now givesemployment to upwards of 60,000 tuns of Britishshipping, and about £10,000,000 sterling of Britishcapital, producing a revenue to the State of £5,500,-OOdsterling. Of all foreign imports, tea is the mostimportant in Russia, and the whole of this comesto the fair of Nijnie Novgorod, with the exception ofthe very small quantity of sea-borne ten, which isbrought to Odessa. The middling! classes make amore frequent use of this beverage than the declared official value of the tea introduced intoRussia is about £1,500,000 sterling.—London Grocer. A silver United States half-dollar was sold atauction the other day in Charleston, S. C, for$1 45, and a gold dollar for $3 15, paper cur-rency. 11863 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC. Mkt Mwtiik ^mmtmx. 45. jSSUKD FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Reported OJjicially for the Scientific American. »,» Pamphlets giving full particulars of the mode of applying forpatents under the new law which went into force March 2, 1861, sped*ylng Bize of model required, and much other information useful tonventors, may be had gratis by addressing MUNN & CO., Publishersof the Scientific American. New York. The lists of claims for the weeks ending December30th and January 6th, had not been received at thisoffice at the hour of sending the Scientific Ameri-can to press. We are very sorry not to h ave eitherof these lists to publish this week; and can accountfor the official omission to furnish them only on theground that the officers were absent from their desksduring the holidays. We shall probably receive theclaims for the past two weeks in time to publishthem in our next issue. DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS ABROAD. The following are some of the
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