Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-10-10
BUSINESS AND 1NDusTRIAL.

Humboldt, Tenn, has the biggest spoke
mill.
The last cotton crop amounted to $685.
600 bales.
It takes 60 fremen on the steamship
City of Paris.
A hotel will be erected on Pixies Peak
-14,2OO feet high.
A seat in the New Y Drk Stock Exchange
is worth about $25,OOO.
Philadelphia leads the country in the
manufacture of quinine
New York cigarmakers have won
nearly 100 strikes in a year.
The German idea makes every man
who fells tree plant sapling.
Oleo manufacturers at Chattanooga
have combined to raise the price.
The American railways employ 1000
locomotives and 1,730 900 freight cars.
Young women employed at the Brit
ish Museum receive Id per folio for copy
ing.
A $500 foot tunnel drains a subter-
ranean lake in the Centralia, Pa, coal
basin.
A new spool factory in the town Of
Alpena, Mich, turns out $4,000 spools
daily.
The United States consumes more tin
plate than all the rest of the world COM
bined.
Henry @. Byers, of Jackson county,
Ind, is setting out 80, 900 hills of nutmeg
melons.
The number of passengers carried by
all the railroads in the world averages
$500, 900 day.
England produces nearly all the 562, 900
tons of tin plate per year, and this coun-
try imports 100000 tons.
The government of France has prohib-
tied the employment of engineers and
stokers over 10 hours day.
There is pig at Junction City, Kan,
which weighed 1889 pounds. 1t is be-
Ieved to be the largest in the world.
A Texas shingle mill recently sold co.
600, 900 shingles to one concern, the larg.
est sale of shingles ever made in Texas.
In Newark waist factory there are
bath rooms, and each employee is allowed
80 minutes for ablution. Meals are served
ct actual cost.
The time is coming in which the man
who earns his bread by the sweat of his
brow need not work very hard in order to
doit.-[ Richmond Recorder.
Miss Amanda T. Jones, of Chicago, il
president of the Woman's Canning and
Preserving Company, which is said Il
have capital of $1,0OO,0OO.
A New York German Typographical
Union has fixed the wages for setting the
chirography of certain editor at 25 cent!
a thousand above the usual price.
The inhabitants of Rhode Island seen
to be putting aside little sum for the in
evitable rainy day. In that State they
have $47O per capita in the saving
banks.
The output of North Carolina pine dur
ng this year is expected to be about 500,
100000 feet, worth 100000, besidet
300, 900, 900 feet of cedar, poplar, cypress
holly, ash, and gum, worth about 81,
100000.
According to the Boston Transcript
the production Of paper in the entir
world is estimated to be 100000, 00
pounds per year. There are 1874 pape
mills and 1,1O6 paper machines in thi
country.
Nearly 10000 newspapers are printed
in the United States and Canada; enough
it would seem, to keep the population Oh
of mischief. The division between tn
States isn't exactly lair, though; New
York has 1858 papers and Alaska jus
three.
Between 10000, 100000 and 1OO,OOOy
900, 900 codfishes are taken from the Sc
around the shores of Newfoundlan,
; every year. But even that quantit,
seems small when we consider that
single cod yields something like $500 90
eggs each year and that over 100000,
600 eggs have been found in the roe of
single cod. A herring Of six or sevel
ounces in weight is provided with 80,
10000 ova. After making all reason
able allowances for the destruction O
eggs and of the young, it has been cal
Culated in three years single pair O
herrings will produce 154,OOO,0O0.
Ed. HOwe's Philosophy.