Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-05-31
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Colonel r. W. Pope, Of Boston,
fixes the price Of all bicycles sold in
the United States, and receives a roy
atty on each machine. His business is
enormous, his profits large, and his
wealth among the millions.
There are now employed in the en-
tire fisheries of the United States
6,605 vessels, of tonnage Of POS, 299
tons. There are 44,S04 boats, valued
at 81, S22,G COS. The apparatus, gear,
and outfits are valued at IS, l45, PSI.
The total amount invested, inciuuing
wharyes, buildings, etc., is 1885,
$40, and the annual product when ready
for the market is S43,04G,0j3.
One of the most attractive objects ex-
hibited at Turin during the late EXPOSE
ton was a burgh Of the medieval age.
together with its little town, construct
ed with the most painstaking fidelity.
All the buildings and rooms were,
down to the smallest details. construct
ed according to historical account, and
exhibited domestic life and trades Of the
fifteenth century.
A gondola voyage across the Adri-
attic, from Venice to Trieste, has been
made inyoluntarily by the Comte de
Bardi, nephew and heir Of the late
Comte de Chambord. Whilst the
Comte was boating on the Venetian
lagoons with an artist friend his gon-
dola was suddenly blown out to sea,
and although the little vessel was only
intended for canal navigation, she
crossed the gulf safely to Trieste.
An outbreak of the japanese vol
cano, Fijiyama, is feared, and a Gov
eminent commission has been sent to
ascertain the facts. The people living
in the neighborhood believed an erup-
ton to be imminent because, while the
snow on the mountain had begun to
melt two months before the usual time.
all the wells at the fort became dry,
and difficulty was experienced in pro-
curing water.
During the last century the yearly
increase of the population of Denmark
was nearly 1000; after 1910, 1900.
Copenhagen had, in 1910, $4,000 in
habitants, while it now has 1900.
The provincial towns rose in thc num-
Der Of inhabitants from AS, 200 in lS4S
to 304, 900. Early in the century, at
the accession Of King Frederick w., the
national wealth could be computed at
530,000,00o crowns; in lS4S, at the
accession Of Frederick VII, at l.000.-
000,000 at his death, in 1868, at
$500, 000,0 and now at 100000
600. Denmark cannot any longer Justly
be named, as formerly by the poet, "a
poor little country"
At present the Rothschild family con-
troll the quicksilver supply of the world,
but new mine has now been found at
Schuppiastena, near Belgrade. There
are only few quicksilver mines known,
the two largest being in Spain and Cali
fornia. Both are owned by the house
of Rothschild, who only permit sup
ply, but never a glut Of the market to
issue from their mines, and thus they
control an immense and very profitable
monopoly. The yearly consumption Of
quicksilver is cut down to 100000 bot
ties, the larger part Of which comes
from California, while Spain furnishes
about 10000 bottles.
Everywhere in Europe the women do
heavy share Of the labor-often the
toughest and most burdensome-while
the wages are one third and one half
smaller than for male labor. At the
same time that the number Of women
working at agriculture, manufacture,
etc., is smaller in the United States
than in Europe, the number en-
gagged in superior industrial occupations
are more numerous in America than
anyw here else. OF the 2, 700. 900 women
engaged in various occupations, SOS, 900
(mainly colored women in the South are
engaged in agriculture, 632. 900 in man
ufacture, $4,000 are milliners, and
$4,000 are tailors. During the past
decade women have crowded into the
learned professions. There are 2,473
female surgeons, as against 525 ten
years ago IS lawyers, as against Z {;
and los clergymen, as against GO.
lin other words, in America" OBJ
serves the London Queen, women are
assigned only to the lightest work, are
given perfect equality with men in the
higher grades Of work, but protected
from the severe and arduous labor as
signed to them elsewhere"