Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-23
THE BUZZ OF BUSINESS.

READY-MADE underclothing can be bought today for about the price of making it twenty years ago.
 THE cultivation of pineapples is rapidly extending to Southern Florida. One grower will have 1o6,OoO pines to ship this season.
 ACCORDING to statistics just issued there were 1,4O1, 3S2 barrels of apples ex- ported from the United States and Canada during the season of 18S8-S9.
 A SHOE jobbing firm at Portland, Ore., lately placed an order with Rhode Island company for 1000 cases of rubbers. It will require thirty cars to transport them. .=,
 A MAN who lives near Platt. Sullivan County, Pa., claims to have scheme where by he can manufacture shoes with movable soles, so that when one sole wears out the old one can be replace with 8 new one without any trouble.
 A SAN FRANCISCO firm has built the largest wine cellar in the world. It is capable of holding 5000, 900 gallons of wine. Its cost was S250, 1000. This is one indication of the rapid growth of wine production on the Pacific coast.
 SOUTH AFRICA may yet rival our own great West in it's gold product. In 1885 it's export of gold was valued at &S47, 800; two years later the value had risen to s1, ,1eO.- 900. Last year it was nearly four times as large, amounting to s4, 4,5S1 ,OO0. During the first four months of the present year, &C., cording to a South African paper of the date of May l, the value of the gold exported was g, 10000.
 FROM France comes the announcement of newly invented printing machine, which Is said to print, superpose and fold publica- tions from two rolls of paper, if so desired. Suitable devices are provided-there are four cutting and folding cylinders, two of which cut and fold the sheets from one roll, while the other two operate the remaining one. Each of the two pairs of cylinders is, however, capable independently of cutting and folding the sheets.
 A NEW method of preserving oysters in the shell, so as to transport them to any distance in perfectly fresh condition, has been tried at Oxford, Md. The process is of the simplest description, consisting wholly in single turn of iron wire twisted tightly around the shells 50 as to keep them so closely shut that none of the juices of the oyster can leak out It appears that it Is the opening of the mouth of the oyster when out of water that causes 1t to "spoil There is evidence that oysters olamped by wire by this method have kept fresh for several months. Arrangements are already made for the shipment of about 20, 900 oys- ters day to Liverpool.
 ANOTHER device or method has been added to those heretofore proposed to prevent the burning of cotton when being conveyed in vessels. The safeguard now brought for. ward consists Is wrapping each bale of cotton in wire gauge instead of the usual covering of jute bagging. It has been, 1t is claimed, subjected to all kinds of tests. in- cluding hooks and compressions, and. it is alleged, has proved itself equal in all re- spects to jute bagging, the cost of the new material at present being about the same as that of jute bagging The principle in- volved is that flame will not pass through very small holes, according to the we'll known construction of the Davy safety lamp.