The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-07-01
SOME THINGS AND OTHERS.

100000 tons.
Canada cider is being largely sold
in the States.
Bleaching by electricity has been
successfully carried out in Belfast,
Ireland.
A Wallingford, Conn, firm has just
made fifty silver urns for the KhedIve
of Egypt.
The longshoremen of Gladstone,
Mich, have struck against loading
-four for 30 cents an hour.
The export of tea from Annoy,
China, to the United States during
the last season was 1929, SIT pounds.
Thus far during the present year
there has been remarkable avoid
ance of strikes.
Nearly forty-five hundred girls
and women are employed around the
Oppela mines, many of them at night.
The value of the mineral produc-
tion of Canada during 1887 was 81
429,712 more than that of the previous
year.
The largest flour mill in the world
will be established at Duluth, MINI.
The capacity will be 5000 barrels a
day.
The bricklayer's strike at Omaha
for eight hours has been lost. The
men will work nine hours a day for
$3.50.
We used to get our shipping ropes
from France, but now we manufac-
ture them ourselves, and get small
quantity from Canada.
Grand Rapids, Mich, is the great
furniture making center of the United
States. 1t has forty-two furniture
factories which employ 1900 men.
The whole value of fences in the
United States may be set down at
$4,000, ,000, 900, and it costs $1,0O0,000,-
900 annually to keep them in repair.
It is ian ill wind that blows nobody
any good" Traders in New York and
Boston are reaping quite pecuuiary
harvest in selling red bandanas.
The orange crop for this year, it is
predicted, bids fair to be the largest
ever raised in Florida. Judging from
the quantity of fruit now on the trees.
The Knights intend to start CO.
operative colony on several hundred
acres of ground near Glenwood
springs, Col. Canning factories and
other establishments will be oper-
| ated.
Railroad construction for 1888 will
probably not fall much below $4,000
miles. Last year the construction
was the greatest ever known in the
country, being little short of 1900
miles.
The capacity of the Findlay, Ohio,
natural gas wells squirting already is
80, 600, 900 feet, and it is claimed that
if all the beds were developed, suffi-
cient oil could be obtained to supply
the world.
Calico print works at Providence,
r. L, are running night and day, and
with an extra force of 300 hands, to
fill ansorder for 100000 bandanas.
The manufacture of all other goods
has been stopped.
Not one day laborer in Amsterdam
owns his own home. The idea that
skilled workmen in this country may
earn enough to buy houses for their
families is incredible to artisans of
the same class in Holland.
Peanuts are becoming o popular
and profitable crop in Georgia. The
peanut plant makes good forage and
rich and nutritious hay, and 125
bushels to single acre will raise and
fatten many pounds of bacon.
Maryland's oyster output comes
from about two hundred miles of
fisheries. The annual production is
over one million cases of oysters
worth about S5,000,000, of which
about 100000 is made by the 5000
employees.
Thirty cobblestone PAYERS employed
by the city Of Brooklyn struck week
before last, for 81 day IN the place
of $3.50. The men have been working
eight hours day. In New York city
the PAYERS get 1926 for a 1O,hour
day.
| The workingmen of Indianapolis,
held mass meeting week before last,
at which resolutions were passed de-
nouncing the contractor who has the
contract for laying the natural gas
pipes, for employing Italians, who
work for GO cents day.
i The output of the Birmingham,
England, pin mills is 100000 day.
| Other factories in that country have
q capacity of II, 600, 900 pins per day.
France turns out about 20,000,0O0 a
day and Holland and Germany TO-
100000 each. The pin machines cut
the wire to pin size, head, point,
polish, sort and stick them in the
papers.