American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-01-10
FACTS AND FIGURES,


Selma, Ala, receives over 1000 bales ;
of cotton daily. -
~EvERf day in this world the births
exceed the deaths by $4,000. = 60
RETAIL whisky houses are taxed
S1O, OUo' each in Greensboro, Ga. a.
ALLfGHENY q County, Pa, is using
about ~ 600 tons of iron aweek f~
The New York Elevated Railroad car
ried 3o,0o0,0O0 passengers last year.
TffE number of foreign firms doing
business in China is So and the, total
foreign population is 1914. Of these
England stands at the head with go
firms and 1 1913 persons. The Ameri-
can ditnls number 50, and the total num-
Der of AMERICANS resident in China is
Az ii iif.. asa ..!.s. - -Js..,.. s,s.- 10
!. TnRe lowest point to which wages
have yet fallen Is five cents an hour, and
the places where this has occurred are
Hartf6fd, c6fli., and Providence, r. L.,
tsp of the wealthiest cities in the coun--
try. -Aehssa- tass. poor OF those cities APP
ply TO the authorities for relief they are
reaqir1 f6Gf il By ch9pping kindEng,
wood in the municipal wood-yards at
fifty cents day, and-a workingman's
day down Esst Iisrtenf hours.
| 1THoUsANpsf of tens of Limbulger
cheese are produced every season, most
ly in the States of New York and Wis
consin, lit q cost Of less than half of the
imported article. 1t finds its market,
and is Consumed mostly by our German-
American population. 1t is more profit
abie tOithe farmer and maker than any
other-kind of cheese, because from a
given quantity of milk more weight is
obtained, and better prices are realized.
T.. SIX carloads oil. silkworm eggs lately
came across the Continent, having been
/ shipped this way from Japan to italy.
They are in charge of five Italians, who
make a profitable business of buying
the m Of the Japanese raisers and selling
them to farmers in Italy. One of these
gentlemen said to a San Francisco
Chr'o,ncl reporter; &c We make the jour
neyievery year, leaving Italy in May or
the early part of june, and arrive back
aboutlthe first of the year. We usually
ship by thelI SuezJ Canal, but this year
the weather was cool in Yokohama, and,
as it is desirable to- preserve an equable
tenn ssmp , Y for the eggs, we shipped
5'1N France only, Children, over, u can,
be employed regularly in factories, ex
cepting in certain special trades, which
are fismed, at which those of 10 years
lsald may work. but only 6 hours q. day.
t-Night-work is only allowed to those
over 16, and to girls over .21. With few,
exceptions, children under 10, girls and
women can not be employed in lsubter-
fanean labor. In Germany the age at
which children maybe sent to work in
factories is fixed at 12s years, and in
Switzerland at II. In the United States
similar laws exist in only three States.
In Massachusetts, children under 10 are
forbidden to be employed regularly in
factories, while in Rhode Island the
limit is fixed at II, and in Pennsy iyania
at 49, ,.t,.s4- ~ ~, r 49,, -. r !,
1ItRl .Engineer1 describes, under the
title, "a i'taparing Fighting Island.,' a
lion Of wkich.a Scotch shipbuilding firm
has received an order. This vessel is to
be 500 feet long, to hayea displacement
lSof II 600 tons, and to be propelled BY
engines indicating IL, 900 horse power.
With an average draught of % feet, this
craft will have a beam not much less
than Is feet to get the stated displace-
ment. She will be like no other ship.
She will show no side to the sea, as her
,uppern deck, rising from the waters
Edge to, the middle, fatty curved, will
form both side and deck, and resemble
the upper shell of a tortoise. She will,
in n word, resemble floating island,
hp whose sloping beach the waves Wal
wash9 rather than ship. -a'' - e s''i.-"
THE average age, to which men of
different occupations live is shown by
statistics to be as follows: Agate pol
lshers, 45-4S years !; blacksmiths, 55.1 |;
bone, boilers, etc Ga; brass founders,
60.4 brass workers, 81 2 brewers, SOC !;
Britannia workers. 42.2; buekram-
I makers, 63 L; butchers, 500; cabinet
makers, 40 8; carpenters, 55.7; catgut-
Flnakers, N6O.62; cement-makers, so I;
Dchimney-sweeps, AS; eloth-weavers,
81. $50; workers in, coal, SOL; confec-
I TONERS, 57.f; eoppersmiths, 1876; cotton
operatives, 47-50; diamond cutters, 81
7-l2; dyers, 63.7; engravers, 54.6; fell
mongers, 50.5;g fertilizer makers, 81 ;
/ file cutters, 54 -fullers, COS; gasmen,
glass makers, 57.3; goldsrniths, A ];
workers in gold, sos; grave-diggers,
| $3.50; workers in gum, 81 /; hatters, 81 6 !;
laboreIs in arsenic mines, At; laborers
at artificial flowers, 40; laborers in
| observation-disclosures 2-53; in color-works,
49,; opperforgers, COS day laborers,
52.4 lead miners, Al; laborers in lead
| smelting works, Al laborers in distiller-
I fes, 63.5; labdressiins quicksilver mines,
50; laborers in silver smelling works,
s4s.5; laborers in sugar of lead works,
As; 1ocksniiths, 49.1; machinists. and
stokers on railroads, So; machinists and
stokers on steamships, 81; workers in
madden, SO; masons, $50; millers, As 4;
mirror makers (male), 1876; mirror
makers Gemale) 36.2; needle polishers,
so; workers in oil, Ga; painters, 81; pa
per makers, SIG; workers in paraffin,
| 6O.62; porcelain makers, 40 s.; porcelain
turner's, 50; potters, 53.1 ; printers, 54.3
railroad emaleYysss, sri sri refners, 20;
boilers, 81: workers in salt, IA; workers
in sandstone, 40; scavengers, $3.50;
workers in turpentine, 81 3-8; slate
makers, 50.4; slate quarries, Ga CT !;
stonecutters, 36.3 !; tanners, 61.2; work
| ers in tar 60. 81 ;stihkers, ~ .T;sworkersi in
! tobacco, 5S.3; turner's, ga; varnishers,
t45; vinedressers, 523; watchmakers,
500 weavers, 51,9; weu-diggers, 58.3;
wigmakers. $40; wine-makers. 52.7.
The Difference in People.