The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-01-30
Things in General.

The manufacture and sale OF mems
clothing is one of the most important
industries of New York city. 1t EN-.
ploys twice as many persons as any 9th
er occupation, and the 800 establish
ments in the city have a capital Of $685.
00O, 900, employ so, 900 operatives and
pay out wages amounting to $15,0O0,-
900 every year. Clothing made in New
York is worn by workingmen in every
State and Territory in the United
States, and much of it is exported to
foreign countries.
The arrangements for the establish
ment OF an Irish colony in Utah are
about completed. Mr.. John Dillon and
Mr.. Parnell have entered into the
scheme with vigor, and a tract of 100,-
600 acres of land has been secured. II
was the original intention to devote the
settlement exclusive to Irish immi-
grants, but that scheme has been aban-
doned, and poor people of all national
tiles will be welcomed and assisted to
obtain a foothold, and then allowed to
pay for the land they occupy as soon az
they can.
The floor of a large skating rink in
Indianapolis is composed Of paper. It
is made by FASTING and pressing straw
boards together under a powerful hy-
draulic press, in the same way q the
discs of the paper car wheels are made.
When these blocks are properly sea-
soned and dried they are sawed up into
flooring boards and laid with the edge
OF the paper forming the surface of the
focr. The floor is without joints, per-
fectly smooth.
Concerning the question, what shall
We do with our young women the White
hall Review says we must first cast
away the notion that the only thing we
can do with our young women is to
marry them. If the idea of the necessity
of marriage gets firmly fixed In her head,
ayoung woman will speedily answer the
question as to what is to be done with
her by resolutely and systematically
doing nothing at all besides alternately
flirting and moping.
English landowners arsmenaced with
the same impecuniosity as French lit
terateurs. No less than 30,00 acres
vainly demand tenants in Essex. With
in 30 mules OF London ITO acres were
lately sold for 92,4O0, for which 95,-
600 was refused 10 years ago. Lady
Catherine Gaskell, a great aristocrat,
proposes in an English magazine arti-
Gle, as q remedy for all this, that farm
ers and their wives and daughters
should cease to be educated, should
avoid pianos and decent clothing, rise
at 3 o'clock in the morning, and spend
all day among the beasts In the field.
She points the moral by bringing for.
ward q model farming family, whose
| chief popularity is that they speak
atrociously bad English, and eat meal
once q week.
A system of compulsory Insurance. i
to be inaugurated in Germany Decem'
Der /, under which the benefits to b.
derived by the sick or disabled work
men are g~ratuitous medical attend.
ance, medicines and appliances, and aftel
the third day 4 money allowance equa
to half the daily wages, SO long as ]
does not exceed rs cents per day for l:
weeks. In case of death, q burial al
lowance will be made amounting to q
times the daily average wages IN the 10
cality. 1t is expected that the local an
tthhorities throughout the empire vii
give hearty corporation to the scheme
as its effects will be to keep down pau
perism.
A northern business man, just re
turned from a trip in the south. says
Mississippi and Alabama are coyere,
with mortgages from one end to th'
other, and they are both PRACTICAL,
owned by merchants of New Orleans
The planters of those states have . Gus
tomof mortgaging their crops befor
they are grown. They grow deeper sn'
deeper in debt, and the result is that thei
estates have fallen into the hands Of thei
New Orleans brokers. Land Is yer
cheap in Alabama and Mississippi now
Some good timbered property can b
gotten as low as 80 cents an acre.
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