Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-11-19
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Boston has a cat asylum.
Languinite is a new metal.
China has / 200 Americans

Boston has cat asylum.
Languinite is new metal.
China has 1 POO Americans.
There are 4.965 daily papers.
China takes most of our cotton.
Chill has female car conductors.
Germany has 10000 locomotives.
Uncle Sam has 10000 millionaires.
Rattlesnake oil is worth SIG an
ounce.
Each ocean steamer employs $50
men.
In Sweden locomotives use peat for
fuel.
Florida will ship 4,OoO,o 900 boxes of
oranges.
London carpenters have been out
seven months.
Superior has turned out 5o,0OO,OOO
feet of lumber this season.
Union men are steadily gaining rec
ognition and increased wages in New
York.
Governor Knapp estimates the pro-
duction of gold and silver in Alaska at
81 100000.
OF the immigrants to this country
Germany sends more than twice as
many as Ireland.
In the city of Berlin, with a popula-
ton 1,315 ), 600, there are but 20, 500
dwelling houses.
A New York clergyman has married
12, 900 couples and received over $780,
600 wedding fees.
1t is estimated that the cereal crop
of Canada has been damaged fully
S3S, 100000 by insects.
Over 100000 worth of pearls were
found in mussels on the Sugar River,
| Wisconsin. last summer.
The Michigan copper mines are said
to be yielding a larger amount OF
silver the deeper they go.
Owing to the salmon industry the
| Columbia river is said togive out more
wealth than any other in the world.
Coal mining requires an average
sacrifice of two lives per day. OF each
$50 men working in the mines one
must lose his life within a year.
Boston masons, builders and brick
layers unions will establish evening
schools for teaching regular appren
tices in the science of their trades.
| Banker Eugene Kelly, who is wortl
So. .OOO, 900, earned his passage to thi'
country, by driving a jaunting car IL
his native place, County Tyrone, Ire
land.
The average salaries of ministers il
the United States is under S4OO |
. year, and very much more is require'
OF those who receive S400 than thos
} who receive S4 900.
Stewartsville, Mo-, reports pumr
! kin weighing 10S pounds. By littl
, kitchen calculation this will make a
, least 200 pies, and these cut int
great big quarters will make so
people happy.
The first large quantity OF America
! sponges ever sent to European maj
: kets was recently shipped from PhIls
delphia. The lot comprised 600
pounds each of two kinds OF sponge
from the Florida coast.
; The British Admiralty claim to hav
y produced in the new war ship Blak
! the largest, swiftest and most powe
!, full cruiser in the world. She rs cos
. 2,5OO,OOO, and If official hopes
, confirmed she will be cheap at I'll
price. She is guaranteed to steal
twenty-five knots an hour. Her boi
ers will develop 10000 horse powe
and she has phenomenal coal-carryir
capacity.
n Some prominent New York otficia
" receive very generous salaries. Chaul
cey NJ. Depew, as president OF the Ne
II York Central railroad, has $1,000
A. Stewart, Jr., president OF the Unite
1t States Trust company, $4,000;
r B. Hyde Of the Equitable lnsuran
Company has 100000; W. II. Beer
president of the New York Lille lnsu
N ance company, $4,000, and +.
y Alcot, president of the Central Tru
lcompany, has also $50 900.