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A florin is about 40 cents,-and a kreutzer two-thirds of one cent, or 
one-sixtieth of a florin. These exports to the United States exceed in 
‘value those of any previous year. The several values indicate an in- 
crease in every article exported over that of the preceding year; of 
leather, by 222,598.10 florins; of corsets, by 214,262.32 florins; of cot- 
ton goods, by 43,187.55 florins; and of colors, by 57,665.42 florins. On 
account of the cheapness of female labor in the rural districts, corsets 
and embroidered cotton goods are manufactured at a cost which defies 
competition. It is stated that in the upper rural districts $,146 persons 
are employed in embroidering, at from 12 to16 cents perday. Embroider- 
ing is done by machinery as well as by hand, and in the district of Ravens- 
burg machines with two hundred and sixteen needles are severally 
worked by three hands, with a productive power equal to that of 25 
hands. Under the head of leather, in the above list, kid-gloves ‘are 
represented by a value of 64,142.36 florins. The manufacture of these 
for exportation is rapidly increasing. Those manufactured at Esslingen 
(from which city alone, in Wiirtemberg, they are exported to the 
United States) are beginning to compete with the kid gloves of Vienna. 
The increase in the export of colors to this country over the preceding 
year is represented by 57,665.42 florins. This branch of chemical indus- 
try, the production and improvement of cofors, (aniline, tar-colors,) is re- 
ported as making rapid strides and yielding immense profits. The great 
increase in the export of leather, and doubtless of some other articles, 
is to be accounted for, in part, by the fact that previous to the Franco- 
Prussian war, leather manufactured at Ulm and Reutlingen was first 
transported to Paris and shipped thence to this country as a French 
manufacture. 
WEALTH OF WURTEMBERG.—In astatistical report, Doctor Rumelin, 
president of the statistical bureau of Wiirtemberg, reaches the conclusion 
that the private property in the kingdom averages 6,300 florins ($2,520) 
for every family, and 1,337 florins ($533) for every individual in it. This. 
conclusion is deduced from the following facts and estimates, represented 
by figures in round numbers: The kingdom contains—2,731,816 acres. 
of fields; average value per acre, 210 florins ; total, 573,000,000 florins; 
881,607 acres of meadows, 315 florins, 275,600,000; 121,504 acres of 
gardens, 420 florins, 51,000,000; 79,964 acres of vineyards, average 
value per acre, 500 florins; total, 40,000,000 florins ; 228,931 acres of 
pasture-ground, 60 florins, 13,700,000 florins ; 1,880,425 acres of wood- 
land, 120 florins, 225,600,000 florins; mining lands, value, 35,000,000 
florins ; 422,990 buildings, 640,000,000 florins ; railroads, 120,000,000 flor- 
ins; personal and movable property, 700,000,000 florins; capital rents, 
400,000,000 florins; total, 3,074,000,000 florins. Deducting 774,500,000 
florins for the property owned by the state, townships, and corpora- 
tions, in saline-works, forests, &c., and estimating the number of fami- 
lies at 565,000, there would be left 6,300 for each family. The average 
amount for each individual in the kingdom appears to have been found 
by dividing the total of private property by the number of inhabitants, 
which is not given. 
The same statistician estimates the annual income of the people at 
276,000,000 florins, averaging for each family (not reckoning interest on 
dwellings) 756 florins, ($302.40,) and for each person 160 florins, ($64.) 
The parts of this income are represented in values and percentage, as 
derived from the following sources: From rural industries, 126,000,000 
florins, being 45.9 per cent. of the whole; of which 111,500,000 florins, 
40.5 per cent., are from agriculture and cattle-raising ; 6,000,000 florins; 
