Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-15
OF WORK AND WORKERS
- ACTS AND FIGURES FOR WORK
ERs EVERYWHERE.
--latest News and Information From
sae Centres Of Industrial Effort
in This Workaday World.

.sAS hLahuiaStuiS W o'0oin Po"ot O"i
.saons,ll writes: THE cost 0 Fthe manufac-
tarer's yarns is 40 pence a pound, or 20
censs all round, dyeing included; a pound
and Aquarter to the yard, 12i pence, or
% censs. The cost Of manufacturing,
including wages and expense, delivered
free ON board, is u pence, or Is cents.
A snm total ~ net cost of 40 cents The
weaver gets lis yarn and delivers the
finished carpet, oil ready for shipment,
without any othetA charges to the manu-
facturcr. That is 10 say, he does the
warping, and all of what is contained in
incidental labor in power weaving, and
for the completed and delivered work he
gets 5 pence or 10 cents a yard. The re-
-~anining 5 cents cover what, IN our esti-
nate, is contained in incide::als and a
mall profit charge. He has SO loom
'xers, winders, spoilers, Wrappers, ate, to
nay, no engineer, no coal for poweS, etc.
The interest on capital is not heavy as
mo great capital is required"
During 1887 III. 74s. S54 gallons of mat
liquors were drunk i'm the United States,
and $40, 967, 72O in 1886. Only 9, 800, 600
gallons were imported. The consump.
ton for each person is ll.9S gallons
eight times what the per capita was in
1850. The wine consumed was 81, 6lS,-
800 gellons, and that in 1856 was %, 700
= gxllons. The per capita was 54.llO
OF . gallon. The consumption of distilled
.spirits was II, O74, 1873 gallons, being less
chan last years drinking and below the
figures of 1860. In 1860 the German
drank almost all the beer, but now other
~.nationalities have shown their liking for
al.
In London, liverpool and other Eu-
ropean cities they have furnaces in which
the garbage OF the towns is burned.
Wheeling, w. Va, and Chicago also have
these crematories. AS DR., Litter says.
THE great majority 81 cities still 20 on
sowing the seeds of epidemic diseases in
their Accountable and pestilential dump.
ing grounds, aud ere long nothing can
prevent their reaping "A large harvest in
thc shape of some frightful scourage
which shall make desolate many hearts
and homes
The Toronto master plumbers are still
importing workipgmcn for The places of
the striking iourneymen. Some who were
brought from Scotland on a written agree.
ment 70 pay one shilling per day of nine
hours and FIVE on Saturday left their Jobs
vShe0 The strikers explained their case.
Men from cities III the states also left
when they were told the situation. Forty
three igom New York city were recently
put 10 we y.
The agitation of the nnights has
brought about the abolition of contract
labor ia minnesota. The law takes effect
On September /. At present the convicls
are working on sacks, because the pres
ent supply comes from Scotland, and
therefore does not compete with home
laboi. At California, Cleveland and De.
troll the prisoners work only at one Kind
of manufacture Our -, 600 convict la
borcrs average about - cents per day.
The 100 hands of IA Baltimore box fac.
tory struck because the firm put in nail
ing machines during the busy season.
The men are afraid that they will be
kept for AL time if they once get a foot
hold. The machine needs four men and
can nail q, 900 boxes per day. The aver
age man can nail only 225 boxes per day.
Sobn McCune, who develops more oil
wells than any other man in the trade,
left lrcl&nd with hardly a dollar. He
got y job at oil drilling at Bradford, Pa.
and afterwards invested i'm some oil lands
which made him worth 81. GOO. 900 in a
short time. Since then his wealth has
gone up TO so, 900, 600.
The wrappers in a Woonsockct, Conn,
miiI struck because the pay was changed
from day to piece work. The firm says
that the roo workers would make extra
money by the change. The new rate
will pay 81 a day for eighty cuts per
week. Some produce 100 >uts a week.
The st,,am of gas that shoots from IA
+. shaft of blue steel. They say that the
any IA the world. When the gas was
struck tools wei Ching 3 1000 pounds were
blown before it like feathers.
AZ Ceylon, the great reservoir, which
covers seven square miles, has been re-
paired, and the valuable work of irriga-
tiou which il accomplished even as far
back as the fifth century, is again going
ON. The reservoir supplies towns and
villages for fifty miles around.
Il ne sisters of Charity of L%eavenworth,
Ksn.. have announced thai Tor $40 per
year any person will be taken care Of in
their institution at any time nc may take
sick. They announce that the charge is
made because the hospital is at present
not self sustaining.
The g~restest cattle market in the world
is at Deptford, near London, and, of
course, the statistics show that the Amer
lean beeed is in the greatest demand, de
spite the finely built Dutch and Portu-
gucse cattle.
Bangor. Me, receives $50, 600, 600 feet
of lumber yearly down the Pcnobscot
river, the value of which is | cent per
foot. Names lumber production is worth
Is, 900 900 per year.
The London correspondent OF the Mems
sOutfitey says. The Irish Exhibition
shOw WIS some very perfect specimens of
sinea collars and cuffs. The best hosiers
of New Bond street tell me thai the Irish