, 1889-12-12
Ill.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.

(Signed) DON PEDRO DE ALcArNARA.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.
New York has 1-cent coffee
booths. So
Wales supplies the worlds tin
plate.
AT Deadwood, 8. d., hay costs
$50 per ton.
Tacoma has fifty lawyers and
eighty doctors.
Detroit has the worlds largest
stove works.
Michigan saw-mill hands get 81 25
to W per day.
Boston dealers protest against
counterfeit linseed oil.
a substitute for lard is made of
Cochin cocoanut oil.
A huge carpet mill is to be erected
at Florence, Ala.
Maryland's 80 oyster crop will
reach 10000, 900 bushels.
A Massachusetts law compels
weekly payment of wages.
"Anti-squeakn shoes are made of
a substitute for leather.
A Detroit church was built out of
the savings of n hired girl.
November 80 will be the twen-
ticth anniversary Of the X. of l..
A McKeesport firm will make
bricks of stone, and without straw.
Iowa's potato crop this year Ia
2O,OOO,OOO bushels and lcads the
country.
We make the best brushes, but the
bristles come from Germany and
Russia.
A Melbourne omnibus company
has just shared Sl7,500 with its
employees.
Edwin f.. Simpson of Philadel-
phia offers to move his 22,0O0-spin-
die mill to Houston, Tex.
At the Connecticut Central Poul-
try Society's exhibition $500 in
prizes will he awarded.
A New York furniture union will
give Christmas presents to the chill
dren of Its members.
The sugar trust has thrown hun
dreds out Of work In Boston. The
hands employed get 80 25 week.
The phosphate lands of Florida
are to be developed by New York
company. They are said to be very
rich.
The Maine cotton mills are doing
"A good business, their total spindles
being 5000 more than two years ago.
More than thirty ship yards have
been in operation in Maine for the
last year, with nearly 1000 men en-
ployed.
1t Is stated that English capital is
now invested In Pennsylvania bust
ness interests to the amount of over
$lOO, 900, 200.
Turner, the New York working
man, who ran against u millionaire
for congress, was defeated by only
159 votes in 1000.
Pennsylvania iron companies are
raising the wages of the employees
Mt their furnaces, In consequence of
the advance I'm iron prices.
A government report says that In
Germany 1000 spindles require the
work of twice as many operatives to
do the same work rs in England and
the United States.
Tho importation Of eggs during
the past nine months has amounted
to llO,O0O,OOO eggs. During the
month of September alone tile inn
portation Of eggs WAS nearly
%, 10000
A Pittsburg company, with cap
ital of $8, 500, 900, will build new
town near Mexican, Penn, which is
to have, besides other industries,
the largest plate glass works in the
world.
Ten dollars week Is the average
wages Of the Boston typewriter girl.
With her board and clothes and ear
fare paid out of 1t, she has a smaller
margin left than the maid-of-all-
work.
OF 100000 barrels of salt an
nually consumed I'm the United
States, Michigan furnishes two
siyths, New York onc-sixth, ten
other salt-producing states one-sixth,
and twO-siXths are imported.
The Federal Steel company, the
gigantic corporation formed for the
purpose Of combining all the wire,
wire nail and barbed wire manu-
featuring plants of lhe country, has
been formally organized.
The past year has been the most
prosperous one on record ut Fall
River. The dividends, after making
various Improvements and paying
off some dents, amount to almost 10
per cent on q capital total of
1858, 900.
The great revival of the wOolen
industry in Ireland is fast becoming
n matter of much interest and i'm
portance. Within the past few
years enterprlsing men have worked
energetically In this direction and
there are now 5000 people laboring
at Irish looms.
There are 1906 women operators In
the great operating room of the
Western Union In New York. In
this room u husband and wife are
working side by side. They are per-
fectly matched In skill, but the man
gets Sis more month than the
woman. There's the rub.
The employe who IL honest, in
dustriOus, who meets all the require
ments of true manhood, who ftilfills
his duty to himself, his family and
his neighbors, Is entitled to all the
honor that attaches to his wealthy
employer who possesses like quail
ties. Washington Post.
The tin mines I'm the Black Hills
| are attracting a great deal of inter-