Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-09-04
WORKS AND WORKERS.

COLONEL FORSYTH, in San Francisco Re
port: l saw in Venice the most skilled lage
workers in Europe, and the highest wages
they were receiving was 80 cents q day,
without board. 1 saw in Austria and In
other parts of Europe girls from eighteen
to twenty years Of age carrying heavier
hoda Of mortar than our American hod-
carriers 90, and these girls carried these
loads to the top OF fouP-story buildings.
All that they got for their hard work was
2211 cents day, without board or lodging.
l saw women cleaning streets, choppipg
wood and carrying coal around, working as
hard as the common laborer.
ENGLAND has q 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 the roof
BELGIUM, Of ali tho nations, has the
greatest density Of population, tho 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 ecm'
bined.
NEW York claims the biggest Orders.
They measure sixty-two feet in length and
weigh Il, 900 pounds each.
BERLIN has q street with three rows Of
| electric lights, ppe in the middle. Trees
also form line ia the stpest,
! WoRLD's coal production in 1888: 49, 600, ::
! 600 tons; United States, 100, 600, 600; Penn
sylvania, n 10000
NEW HAVEN (Cona.l plumbers now work
| eight hours three months and nine hears
nine months.
HARTFORD, Conn, has the biggest fire.en.
CINE, being twice the ordinary size, and self
propelliug.
SACcHARINE, three hundred times sweet
eF than sugar, is taking the latter's place in
Germany,
NEW YORK paint manufacturers talk OF
running a white lead plant to oppose the
trust.
MASSACHUSETTS now claims to make sof,
sGsel equal to the famous German article.
THE Il, 0o0 K Of L. plumbers and gas-fit
ters talk of forming separate union.
New HAMPSHIRE country shoe-vorkerl
report less hours and better wages.
THEY say the worlds ! 400, 0O0, zoe people
could stand IN ten miles square.
LONDON parks, alleys and streets ar,
crowded nightly with the homeless.
The California law fixing the limit o.
land ownership is constitutional.
WOMEN aud children are not allowed Il
work over ten hours in California
A FUEL called petrole is made from saw
dust compressed with coal-dust.
KENTUCKY raises 10000, 900 pounds of TO
bacco, half of our production,
NORTH ADAMS, Mass, is now union sho.
town, and ZOO people rejoice.
A SAN Francisco cable company hal
raised wages TO s. 20 day.
TWENTY-FIVE States cast q smaller vot'
each than New York City.
TACOMA Nv ~ hod-carriers are out To-
$780, mortar men for s..
COUNTRY buyers help to keep back th.
half holiday at Toronto.
/. NEW YORK Italians will build monu
ment to Columbus.
WE have 10000 Indians, 1850 Of whom
live In houses.
BArFNoRE has an order for brick from
California.
BUFFALO has ifty-one miles of asphal
pavement
the Chicago brick-makers work cigh
hours.
Arst Louis 10000 ENJOY the half holl
day.
cmrEsn farmers make IS to si4 per yeal