Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-25
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.
THERE is newspaper in Dakota for ev-
cry twelve hundred population.
In Kentucky last year yearly five MILL
ion bushels more of corn were raised than
in 1885.
NEARLY twenty five million dollars worth
of candy was made in California during the
last year.
Mr.. GAY, one Of the millionaire Congress
men, has about 81, 500, 900 invested in sugar
plantations in Louisiana.
ONE of Cincinnatis chief industries is the
manufacturing of lead, fifteen million
pounds of which are made every year.
NEAR Toronto is being constructed the
first steel steamer ever built in Canada
The engines, however, are being made in
Scotland.
IL the matter Of raising crops cheaply, it
is safe to lay down the principle that large
crops cost less to the acre than small ones.
Chicago Journal
A NEW industry recently developed in
Hancock County, Maine, is the gathering
of white pine and spruce cones for French
and German markets.
DURING the year 1886 American mills
produced 1850, 900 tons Of steel rails, val-
ued at $4,000, 900. The prospect for 1887 is
still better.-Pittsburgh Post.
THE amount of capital and capital stock
put into new industrial enterprises IN the
South during 1886 is reported at SIPS, 000,-
000 as against sec, 000, 900 in 1855 Chicago
Journal
IN Montana during the winter cowboys
make living by killing mountain lions, for
which a bounty Of eight dollars per head is
paid. The animals are ferocious, and some
are very large.
THE slaughter Of Holsters at Prince Ed
ward Island is something astonishing.
There were exported the past season 81, 900
cases, mostly to Europe, which involved
the killing of 35,oOo, 900 Holsters.
NEGRO hands have been found valuable
in the new cotton mills of the South. They
take readily to the light work and endure
the hot and close air Of the mills better
than the white employes.-Chicago Journal
THE sausage-cutter imported from Ger
many in 1853 is still in use at Canajoharie,
N. Y. 1t is said that nearly every one who
has ever lived in the village has had the
use Of the machine at one time or ano other
Utica Herald.
''SUPPosE that two haif-days be taken out
Of the school week Of every scholar in the
grammar schools Of Boston and devoted to
industrial education. Would it not be de-
cidedly for the benefit of the pupils?" asks
the Boston Hsrod.
THERE is money in wood pulp, Judging
from the demand One mill in Brunswick
Me-, has hard work 70 keep ahead of it s
orders, running night and day, and pulp
made there has gone to Boston and re-
turned in the shape of newspapers within
forty-eight hours.
JAMES G.. RICHARDSON, of Lake City,
MINI, has invented several contrivances
SO that while lying in bed, by pulling wires,
he feeds his horses, lights the kitchen fire,
and opens draughts of the base burner in
the sitting room. Nj. Richardson is from
Connecticut.-N. 7. Sun.
A New YORK housekeeper writes that
she has maid-servant now working for
fourteen dollars month who had several
thousand dollars in railroad stock, which
she has accumulated. She reads the news,
dresses we'll and does good work, from
scrubbing to cooking or sewing.
a PITTSBURGH natural gas company is the
largest one in the country. It supplies over
four hundred manufactures and over seven
thousand dwellings with the entire amount
of fuel consumed. The total area of pipe
leading into Pittsburgh is given as 1,34l 500
square inches. Pittsburgh Post.
THE decline of the silk industry in
India, for which various causes have
been assigned, has at length been prov
en- by Mr.. Wood Mason, an English
naturalist, to be due to destructive para
site disease Of the wo.ms. The affection
seems to be Identical with ''pebrine,"
which ravaged French silkWorm nurseries
from 1919 to 1865 and was eradicated from
Europe by the discoveries of Pasteur.-
ArkanSGac Trassler
FIXED wages for ''day's work. is not
the proper mode Of contracting. There is
as much difference 10 days work between
individuals as in the value of products Of
the farm Nor can any method be devised
Tor determining the value of a days work
on farm until the labor has been per-
formed. Whenever work can be done by
the piece it should DO the rule, though this
can not well be the case on a farm.-AL
bang Josa'nqI
CALIFORNIA made in 1886 q, 900 900 gal
Ions of wine, against but 800, 900 last year
The San Francisco Cal saws 10000 900
pounds Of grapes have been shipped East
as table fruit 5000 900 pounds made into
raisins, 20, 000, 900 pounds made into brandy
and over 215 9o0, o00 pounds made into wine.
The eastward shipments of lemons. lines
and oranges Will be twice as large as they
were last year, 1t is said, owing to redpc-
ton in freight charges.
THE winter wheat belt has been pushed
westward almost three hundred miles in
the last three years, according to Frank
Wilkeson. of the New York Sun, and this
is due entirely to climatic changes. These
changes he considers due to the extensive
irrigation along the eastern base of the
Rocky Mountains, the wind, according TO
his theory, taking up moisture from the
immense irrigating bitches and distributing
it where before. il had bees unknown