Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-08-23
GENER4L NEVIS.

oOO worth or Chlldrens toys every year
 Goldsmith's Deserted Village" ha
 been translated into the tongue of tn
 HindOo race.
 t China's solitary railroad is S1 mile s long and cost s9OOO a mile, It use { American locomotives.
 8 The Confederate Veterans Home al
 Atlanta will be completed in Septem
 Der. The question is how to maintain
 it.
 JohnstOwn confirms more inha bitants , to-day than she did before the disaster
 which drowned 26O0 of her people a year
 ago.
 Nnly two of nearly 200 people buying
 Maria Bashkertseff'a book ir New York house could pronounce the girls name. A reduction of postal rates in Japan
 was expected to cause decfiit in the
 revenues, but instead they showed an increase.
 sum of $53,0OO has been collected
 by Americans for the furtheranee of
 the higher medical education of women
 ar the John Hopkins University.
 ] A whealty bank of Columbus, Ohio.
 
 he had been drawn for jury duty, took
 the first train to get out of the state.
 The owner of @ new tire, made of hol-
 low spring steel, circular, oval, or square,
 thinks that it will succeed rubber tires for wagons or bicycles. It can be fixed
 on so that it can never come of. The Sultan, which lately ran on some Mediterranean rocks and sand, has been raised at the cost of f500OO. She | cost f485,O 1000 originally. f25O,OOC more
 for alteration and maintenance and will cost f5O,OcO more repair. Total, S,175,- l 900.
 Russia is to have long distance cleo tric railroad from St. Petersburg to Archangel, a distance of five hundred miles. The estimated cost of the road, including rolling stock, will be s15,OOO per mile.
 Among the large estates, three adver- tised for sale in Queensland may be | considered. The first has an area of 454 | square mile, of which the rent is S1,6OO. | The second has 648 square miles, and | the third, 553. The one most advan- | tageously situated is "within 100 miles | of the railroad"
 There are now thirty electric launches lying on the river Thames, and more are being added almost daily. Even some river house boats, it is reported, are to be electrically equipped. There is inn mense interest being felt in this new method of propelling pleasure boats, and the makers are kept busy right along.
 A company has been formed by Russian and French capitalists with capital of s20,OOO for the purpose of making canal between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea- The proposed canal will be 73 miles long, 70 feet wide, and F feet deep on an average. The com pany obtained a concession for working the canal for 91 years.
 The Italian Government intend to purchase in the next five years about 600 railway engines, also numerous passenger cars. It seems to us here is field for American competition that should not be overlooked by our me- chanics.
 Electricity is used for felling trees with great rapidity, and a small amount of labor in Gallicia, Austria. The ma chinery consists of combination of augurs propelled by a small electric motor all mounted on a small carriage, and the tools are given an action like that of mortizing machine. {
 Silk from paper-pulp is made smooth and brilliant, with two-thirds the strength of ordinary silk, and about the same elasticity.
 In the matter of railways, Japan a-d ( pears to be going ahead tolerably fast over 1000 miles are already in operation, which will equal quantity is under construction or surveyed, and will be opened within 8 year or two from now. The projected railways exceed 700 | z miles in length, with capital exceeding , 
 One of the deepest coal mines ia the world IS at St Andre du Poirier, France, and yearly produces 3O0,OOO tons of coal. c The mine is worked with two shafts. ' The latter shaft IS now being deepened, and will soon reach the 1000 foot level, | The remarkable feature in this deep f mine IS the comparative low tempera- ture experienced, which seldom rises ( above 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
 A short time ago it was revealed, in the. course of 8 lawsuit, that stock in S baking powder company in New York S had reached the enormous value of four { thousand two hundred dollars a share, the original value of such shares being Ons hundred dollars. A few days ago a man sued his wife, and { 1t was stated that forty nine shores O the patent medicine had paid the enormous dividend of forty nine thousand dollars in one year.
 A new system is being considered as : B means of transporting mail matter be- tween Buenos Ayres and Monte Video in South America. Postal communica = ton between the two cities is now main tained by way of the Platt river, but \ the service is necessarily slow and full ' of delays. The new proposal is to erect < B small, overhead electric railway, on which will run cars capable of carrying postal matter and other light freight. The distance between the two cities is about one hundred and eighty miles.
 According to the Springfield Union, a I large manufacturing concern near Cin- clnnati has practically solved the labor problem. It employs many operatives and has an industrial village of its own, adopted profit sharing some time since, and has just declared a semi-annual T amounting to 151S per cent. on e the wages of the operatives, or 30 per | cent. per annum. That makes very handsome addition to a workingman's income. It is needless to say there are no labor troubles in that concern. The I men have no disposition to strike, and the employers find that the increased activity and industry of the men fully | them for the large dividend of the profits paid to them.