Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-13
WORKS AND WORKERS.

COLONEL FORSYTH in San Francisco Re port: I saw in Xencc the most skilled lace workers in Europe, and the Highest wages they were receiving was 30 cents day, without board I saw in Austria and in other parts of Europe girls from eighteen 70 twenty years of age carrying heavier nods of mortar than our American hod- carriers do, and these girls carried these loads to the top of four-story buildings All that they got for their hard work was 2215 cents a day, without board or lodging. I saw women cleaning streets, chopping wood and carrying coal around, working as hard as the common labOrer.
 ENGLAND has a coal canal sixteen miles long, between Worsley and St. Helens, which is underground from end to end. The men lie on the coal and propel with their feet against tho roof
 BELGIUM, of all the nations, has the greatest density of population, the largest diversity of occupation, the most uniform distribution of wealth. and the minimum of pauperism.
 LONDON Iron says that most of us not yet fifty years of age have probably lived in the most important and intellectually progress i've period of human history.
 Two BILLION dollars are invested In dairy ing, more than the value of the country's banking and commercial interests com bined.
 NEW YORK claims the biggest girders. They measure sixty-two feet in length and weigh o,OO0 pounds each.
 BERLIN has street with three rows of electric lights, one in the middle. Trees also form line in the street
 WORLDS coal production in 1888: 43O 900, . GOO tons; United States, 13O,OOO, 900; Penn sylvania, 71,0O0,0OO. NEW HAVEN (Conn.) plumbers now work eight hours three months and nine hours nine months. HARTFORD, Conn.,, has the biggest fre-en. zine, being twice the ordinary size, and self propelling. SAccHAR1NE, three hundred times sweet CT than sugar, is taking the latter's place in | Germany. NEW YORK paint manufacturers talk o1 | running white lead plant to oppose the | trust.
 l steel equal to the famous German article.
 THE 15, 900 K. of l.. plumbers and gas-at ters talk of forming a separate union. | NEW HAMPSHIRE country shoe-workers report less hours and better wages.
 THEY say the worlds l, 400, ,OOO, 900 people l could stand in ten miles square. l LONDON parks, alleys and streets arc crowded nightly with the homeless.
 THE California law fixing the limit o1 land ownership is constitutional. 1 WOMEN and children are not allowed t< work over ten hours in California.
 A FUEL called petrole Is made from saw l dust compressed with coal-dust.
 KENTUCKY raises 30O,OOO 900 pounds of to bacco, half of our production.
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass, Is now Q union sho' town, and 200 people rejoice.
 A SAN FRANCISCO cable company ha raised wages to $2.5O day. l TwENTY-Two States cast a smaller vot each than New York City.
 TACOMA (W. T.) hod-carriers are out fo $50; mortar men for 8.
 COUNTRY buyers help to keep back tn half holiday at Toronto.
 NEW YORK Italians will build Q monu ment to Columbus.
 WE have 25O,OOO Indians, 2l,5OO of whom live in houses. BALTIMORE has an os9er for brick iron California.
 BUFFALO has fifty-one miles of asphal pavement.
 THE Chicago brick-makers work cigh hours.
 AT St. Louis 100000 enjoy the half hol day.
 CHINESE farmers make sS to $l4 per year
 NEW YORK has 10000 Roumanians. IRELAND has 97 woolen mills.
 CHICAGO has 60,OOO Swedes.