Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-07
WORKS AND WORKERS.

COLONEL FoRsYTH. in San Francisco Re-
port: i saw in Venice the most skilled lace
workers in Europe, and the highest wages
they were receiving was so cents day,
without board. l saw in Austria and in
other parts of Europe girls from eighteen
to twenty years of age carrying heavier
hods> 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
2211 cents day, without board or lodging.
l saw women cleaning streets, chopping
wood and carrying coal around, working as
hard as the common laborer.
ENGLAND has 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 root.
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 Orders.
| They measure sixty two feet in length and
weigh 10000 pounds each.
| BERLIN has a street with three rows Of
electric lights, one in the middle. Trees
also form a line in the street.
WORLDS coal production in 1855: 400 600, :
600 tons; United States, 100, 600; Penn
| sylvania, n, 100000.
New HAVEN Comm plumbers now work
eight hours three months and nine hours
| nine months.
| Hartford, Conn, has the biggest fire-en-
CINE, being twice theordinary size, and self.
propelling.
! SACCHARINE, three hundred times sweet
er than sugar, is taking the latter's place in
Germany.
NEW York paint manufacturers talk OF
running white lead plant to oppose the
trust.
MASSACHUSETTS now claims to make soft
steel equal to the famous German article.
THE 5000 <. of l.. plumbers and gas-fit-
tiers talk of forming separate union.
NEW HAMPSHIRE country shoe-workers
report less hours and better wages.
THEY say the worlds /, 40O,0 900, 900 people
could stand in ten miles square.
LONDON parks, alleys and streets are
crowded nightly with the homeless.
THE California law fixing the limit OF
land ownership is constitutional
WOMEN and children are not allowed to
work over ten hours in California.
A FUEL called petrole is made from saw.
dust compressed with coal-dust.
KENTUCKY raises 00,000,000 pounds of TO-
bacco, half of our production.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass, is now a union shoe
town, and 200 people rejoice.
A SAN FRANCISCO cable company has
raised wages to So so day.
TWENTY-FIVE States cast smaller vote
each than New York City
TACOMA CIV. IT, hod-carriers are out for
| $3.50; mortar men for S.
COUNTRY buyers help to keep back the
half holiday at Toronto.
New York Italians will build monu
ment to Columbus.
WE have $4,000 Indians, 1850 of whom
live in houses.
BALTIMORE has an order for brick from
California.
BUFFALO has fifty-one miles of asphalt
pavement.
THE Chicago brick-makers work eight
hours.
AT St Louis 100000 ENJOY the half hoh
day.
CHINESE farmers make IS to s14 per year