The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-21

sons. The value Of tho States products has
increased from so. 600 IN 1880 to nearly
$lO2, 600. 900 IN 1887.
The salt trade in Cheshire and Worcester.
shire has become alarmingly slack, owing TO the
increased development of the German salt
mines.
The underground system Of railways in Lon
don England. has length of over twenty
miles nearly three quarters of which is abso
lutte tunneling.
The Canada Labor Commission, after visit to
the Con vent of the Good Shepard at Montreal.
saws that the work done there does not aHect
similar work done outside
The capacitv of a locomotive is seldom rated
by the horse power, but rather by tbs number
OF pounds or tons load il will haul at given
speed on q level or on given grade.
FIouring-rnills are becoming more numerous
in Eas. Tennessee. New mills of large capaci-
ty have recently been erected at bfis.oi ana
Home Depot, and others are 10 De quit AZ
White sburg and Newport
Investigation by the Canada Labor Commits
sion shows that III some factories the bosses
have whipped boys and girls ana placeo tnem
in the black hole for hours without 1000. a
girl OF eighteen was spanked
Sigismund Splitter is at the head OF a COM
pany that intends manufacture starch oy
new process. The fret mill will be erected on
the outskirts of San Francisco and others Will
be built in cities along the coast.
The Chace thread mill at Fall River. employs
40 hands. turns out $500 pounds OF materlai
every day-5,000 pounds Of Irvine ana I.ooo
POUNDS OF Datbns. largo storeuouSO =, 90
built on the grounds in the mill yard 1t Is loo
by 80 feet and % feet high. 1t is 10 have Ca
pacity of 49, 600 feet of floor surface
There are three great anthracite coal mining
regions in Pennsylvania-in the Sehuylkul. Lee
high and Wyoming valleys respectively They
cover 400 square miles of territory, give en-
ployment directly to los, 900 men, and produce
annually about So 900 600 tons of coal, though
the product varies greatly even in these big hg-
The longest railway tunnel in England is the
Stand Edge Tunnel, on the London & North
western railway, from Liverpool and Man.
chester to Huddersfeld and the north, ita
length being three miles and sixty yards. The
next longest is at Woodford, on the Manchester,
Sheffield & Lincolnshire railway, three miles
an sixty feet long,
The CONSUMPTION Of grocers bags in 1886 was
over 1000 900, 600: the yearly increase is 10 per
cent hands employed $780, value of materials,
So, 027, no; value of proaucts. 50, 726 000 Tho
Bethlehem Pa. Times say: "The first patent
issued for paper bags issued to a
Bethlehemite in 1852. and since then Bethlehem
has led the world in this industry"
Electric lights are being placed in the Hoosic
tunnel The men have imperative orders to
cease work soon as train is heard approach
ing and TO seek safety in the manholes the
sides of the tunnel. They also compelled
to remain there until the smoke shall have
partially cleared away. About sixty miles of
wire will be used for main ca BILE and lamp con-
nections There will be $50 lamps Of twenty
five candle power each.
The head of the firm that man ufactures postal
cards for the government Ia Z. &. Woolworth,
of Albany. In January Mr. Woolworth's con-
Germ, which is the Fort Orange Paper Company,
made the largest delivery to the governments
that it has ever made in a single month. Is
amounted to nearly 81, 0o0 900 cards. or almost
for every man. woman and child In the
United States The weight OF these cards was
about 160 tons. three tons to the million
cards.