Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-23

TIE United States Is the owner OF more
live stock than any other country in the
world.
ABOUT $1,000 cords OF birch wood has been
manufactured into sp0ols at Foxcroft, Me-,
the past few years.
OVER a thousand women and girls in
Pittsburgh work in the iron mills, principally
making barbed wire.
THE State of New York is the second bar
ley producing State in the country, and the
largest producer of hops.
MORE than sixty per cent. of English
women, married and unmarried, are work
ing for daily subsistence.
CRYsoLTTE is mined in Greenland and
shipped to Philadelphia for making candles.
Extensive copper MINES have been worked
for long time in Finland.
IT is claimed that Shetland ponies and
donkeys can be raised at such little cost as
to give twice as much profit, in proportion
70 capital invested, as is derived from rails
ing horses.
a PORTLAND (Me.) firm is manufacts ring
"potpourri' for rose Jars on large scale,
One concern has bought !, 900 pounds of rose
petals OF them this year, and last year they
sold 10000 of the dainty cans.
-FOUR thousand boxes of California raisins,
sent this fall to London, brought better
prices than the famous layers from Malaga.
and, as happy consequence, orders have
come to California from Amsterdam. Vienna
and Australia.
A MAINE genius has discovered that
spruce sawdust is an excellent substitute
for sand in making common mortar fer
plastering houses. He has used it in max
ing house in Greenville, and other ma
sons in the State are experimenting with it.
GRENADILLo wood Is a cabinet wood
brought from the West Indies, and used ex-
tensively in making flutes because of it's
compact fiber, in which respect it is far
superior to rosewood. Ebony, for similar
reason, is also utilized in the manufacture of
flutes and flies.
TEE Black Hills country is making name
for itself as horse-growing country, and
it is predicted that within ten years it will
be as famous for its horses as the blue
grass region. 1t already boasts many fine
horses of the best breeds known in the
world.
The 1000 women employed in laundries
In Chicago work nine hours day and av-
erage not less than nine dollars week
The introduction of machinery has made
their work comparatively light the only
hardship endured being the intense heat in
the summer
THIS country now leads the world in the
manufacture of perfumes, an industry in
which the French have long excelled.
American perfumes can be bought in Lon
don, Paris, Hong Z ong, Rio de Janiero
Siam, Australia, and even the Philippine
and Sandwich Islands.
MAcARoNI is now largely manufactured
IN this country, only one pound in ten of
That consumed being imported. The indus
try, however, is solely in Italian hands and
under Italian control. One popularity of
this staple article is that it is almost proof
against climatic changes and influences.
Iris stated that new industry in the man
ufacture of 'The Universal Chain,n made
of wire, is about to be established at Spen-
Ger, Mass. One machine is said to turn out
500 feet day in two sizes. The chain can
be used in sash grooves instead Of cord, and
gains its name from the variety of uses to
which it can be applied. The smallest size
can sustain a weight Of 400 pounds, and it
can be sold cheaper than cord.