Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-17
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

THERE are over POO building and loan as- sociatioRs in Cook County, H., with S0,OOo share-owncrs.
 IT is predicted that tho iron product of Washington Territory will soon exceed that of Pennsylvania,
 TEN-CENT fan are now decorated and sold for one dollar. It is not the raw ma terial, but the art that costs.
 TIE annual copper production of the world is 215,O0O tons and the French syndicate IS said to control 215, ,0O0 tons of it.
 THEIRS are, it is said, at least 250,OOO wom- en in Massachusetts alone who are earning q living by industrial occupations.
 CAsToRs made of leather are new inven- ton, suroto prove useful A sound leather castor will save many rug or carpet.
 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, is the great fur niture-making center of the United States. It has forty-two furniture factories, which employ l2,0O0 men.
 TIE United States possesses SS4 paper factories, Germany S09, France APO, Great Britain 361, Italy 220, Russia 133, Austria 220, Australia i.
 IMPORTANT platinum discoveries have been made in Maricopa County, A T. The ore yields ten per cent, which is perhaps the largest in the world.
 AN organ with glass tubes is the work of IEONlu6uCC Nh. 1.l luNCutOr, duu lG IS claimed to be superior in tone and volume to those of metal, and much cheaper.
 Two HUNDRED and eight miles of huge piping is to be laid between Chicago, H., and Lima, O., at q cost ot seven thousand dollars per mile, for the purpose of trans hitting coal oil
 As CHINESE immigration is now prohib- ited tho Chinese launGlymen of California have combined to advance the price of washing, no longer fearing competition from their countrymen.
 THERE is said to be one house in Chicago which maintains seventy commercial tray cIers in q single State, and whose yearly ex- ! pcnses were made SlO,00O greater by the passage of the Interstate Commerce law. TIE best genuine Vanilla beans are pro- duced in the Misautta Valley, Mex, and they command SIP to $14 a pound There were exported from this valley last year about sixty million beans, most of which were sold in New York.
 ACCORDING to prominent newspaper di- rectory of all the papers, including dailies, Weeklics, etc, now published in the United States, r., 520 print not more than 1,500 copies each issue; 2,029 print 5000; 579 print 25, 900; S7 print 15,000; and only 25 print over 100, 900 copies each issue.
 INDIANS in the United States last year cultivated 227, ,265 acres of land, and raised ! 734, Sos bushels of wheat, 934,973 bushels of ! corn, 512,137 bushels of oats and barley, 1 134,010 bushels of vegetables, and 101, ,S2S tons of hay. They also owned 35S, ,334 horses and mules, Ill 407 head of cattle, 40,41 swine, and 1,117,213 sheep.
 IT is estimated that 2,560 GOO 900 irL crackers are exploded in this country each year. A box of fire crackers costs 65 cents in China, each box containing 2,56O crackers, neatly packed and subdlvided, all ready for the retail trade. 4 million of these boxes were imported by the trade for last season and were all sold.
 4 MACHINE is said to have been patented in Milan, Italy, for type-founding and com posing which, by means of q keyboard, casts the letters in the order required, planes them, and capacities them into the composing stick and all this by the revolu- ton of main cylinder The typefounder- man or bOy-operating the machine thus becomes also typesetter.
 VERMONT was the first State to announce the result of the maple sugar season of lSS6. The output Is estimated at 15, GOO pounds, the value of which is $1, ,250, 900. To obtain that amount of sugar 5,000, ,000 trees were tapped. It is thought that were all the full grown maple trees in the State utilized, the sugar production would be 5O,- 000,000 pounds-15O pounds to every inhablt- ant of the State.