Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-23
THE iSDusrR1AL FIELD.


An exhibition of food and comestible deli
cacies is to be'belo in Berlin next year.i
was in Getrnany in the midst OF the har-
vest time, said Murat Halstead, in his Gin
cinuati speech You know something OF the
wages Of the laborers in the harvest fields OF
this country. cannot go into the details OF
these affairs, but will say that the wages
of the harvest hands in that part of Germany
where spent my time are 6S pfennings per
day. They getup at o'clock In the morn
ing and are in the fields until in the even
ing, and they have so far to walk that they
have TO leave home an hour before they go
to the fields, and have another hour TO re-
turn. They have an hour recess at noon and
half an hour for breakfast. A pfenning is
the Tooth part of mark, and mark is %
cents. II you figure that out you will find
that the wages in the harvest fields for nj
teen hours labor is something less than 10
cents per day. A great part Of the work Is
done by women, and their wages is one
third less, or about Is cents. That is what
the imperial splendor of the most majestic
empire results IN when it comes down to tho
laborers on the soil.
1t is said that the ramie plant is destined
at no distant date to take the place of flax in
in England and America, but is we'll known
in China. where for hundreds of years it has
been made into fishing nets, also into stufs
and limitations of silk. Several new frc-
tories, to employ an aggregate of 1, 900 men,
are to be started in the cotton manufacture
ing districts of England for manufacturing
its fibre.
A number of laborers while at work near
% , ,,,sa ,h,p l,ar
tanning, among other things, lamps with in
| scriptions showing that they existed 1000
years before the christian era. They were
! so perfect that the workmen used them for
| the purpose of lighting.
The employers of the Indianapolis stone
| cutters have granted the men the eight-hour
| day. 1t is stated that persistent agitation by
1 the union brought the contractors to terms,
and that under the agreement by which the
strike is ended, none but members of the
union will be employed.
The steamship tiremen employed by the
| Red Star Steamship company at Antwerp,
| Belgium, who went on a strike some time
since for higher wages, have returned TO
work at the old rates.
| The wages of the men in the plate mill of
| Glasgow Iron company ut Pottstown, Pa,
| have been advanced per cent. This affects
about one hundred and sixty operatives, in
| cluoIng those III the mill. laborers and out
| side men.
An anti-sewing machine guild has been
| formed by the Chinese tailors of Hong Kong.
| A Chinaman who had joined the party of
progress and had been using the sewing ma
chine was recently waited upon by deputa-
ton from the guild and requested to pay to
| its members 30 taels as compensation for
| using the "foreign devil" He refused and
was instantly assailed. The police saved his
| life, but he is not quite so eager now to use
| the sewing machine.
1t is said that the common cowcatcher at
tachment to locomotives is about the only
article of universal use that was ever patent
| ed. It's inventor was d. b. Davies, of Coum-
bus, who found its model in the plow. Red
| lights on the rear car of trains, 1t is further
said, were adopted at the suggestion of the
late Mrs. Swisshelm, after railway acci-
| dent in which she had narrow escape.
There is new industry in Trenton, N. ].
| the making of dynamite guns Sixty of
these guns are now being constructed by the
New Jersey Steel and Iron company. The
| guns are to be fifty feet long, eleven inches
in diameter and will be made in three sec.
| tions. They will be constructed of cast and
steel plates oolted securely together. The
guns are to be completed by January /, next.
Chill has just sent colonel on q special
mission to Germany to order of Krupp
| twenty heavy cannon to be used for coast de-
fense Ten similar cannon were ordered
some time ago. Chill Is also making compet-
tive trials of the Krupp and Bange cannons,
| and, as soon as she decides which she wants,
| will order twenty batteries.
The English tenant farmer, says London
correspondent, unlike his Irish brother, does
| not cling TO tho soil, or wait to be evicted
when he finds rents too high. He 'leaves'
incontinently, probably because he makes it a
| rule TO put no permanent improvements ''on
| the farm"