The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-08-19
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.
Pumps go by electricity.
Bricks are of plate glass.
Aluminium is used in saddles.
Mirrors were made Of metal.
England has 80, 900 barmaids
London has an electric launch.
Electricity tempers gun springs.
Frisco has an $4,000 gold brick.
New York has 1857 millionaires.
Our street cars employ 10000 men.
In Siberia frozen milk is the thing.
In Japan tile women load the vessels.
Lemons are being used in soap.making.
Very pretty lawns are made with arti.
fetal grass.
Great Britain has 2O2. 300 acres of or.
chards. .... .......
We produced 10000, 900 barrels Of sal,
last year.
Iron ships are sometimes struck BY
lightning. .|
Minneapolis makes 5000. 900 barrels Of
flour year.
The average Philadelphia house costs
$3.9a5 to build.
The street cars of this country employ
over 70, 900 men. ,.........
Tiffany & Co. will erect 81, 900, 900
factory in Newark.
Great Britain has 1s, 900 landlords and
$4,000. 900 tenants.
Japan has 10000 paupers in q popula.
ton Of a37 ,O0O. 900.
Russian tea is said to be gaining foot.
hold in this country.
New York has 1000 more licensed 50.
looms than Philadelphia.
The losses by fire In this country last
year aggregated sl43,764,l5o.
More than half the coffee consumed in
the world is grown In Brazil.
The arc light is not blue. but is prac-
tically the same color as daylight
Paper treated with mixture Of cam.
phor and linseed oil, becomes water.
proof.
Dudley's dynograph car registers track
undulations and curves at 40 miles an
hour.
The English letter carrier hires cab
when he finds more than 81 pounds on
his route.
Out Of the 1000. 900 that inhabit New
York and Brooklyn, only $4,000 own
their own homes
Electricity. in its various forms Of ap
rlication, is said to give employment tc
5000, 900 persons.
The total manufacture Of cigarettes in
this country last year was 5000, 900 900
as against 24O. 900 in 1873.
Patchell, Of Pennsylvania. heads syn
dictate which has bought 10000 acres ol
oil lands IN Virginia.
1t il said that three.fourths OF the en-
tire manufacturing capital OF the United
States is based on patenta
| 1t is stated that Mr.. Edison employ!
cOO women in the more delicate details
Of his electrical inventions.
In the Chicago postoflice loo, 900 letter,
are sorted, stamped aud bagged in thirty
tive minutes by 2l7 men.
The Guadaloupe bees lay their hone,
| in bladders of wax, about US large as |
pigeons egg, and not in combs.
There are so, 900 barmaids in England
whose hours average fourteen daily for
wage Of ten shillings per week.
Fall River produces CO.,, $50. 900 yard
OF cloth per annum, and consumes $50,
800 bales OF cotton in the same period.
There are about 700, 900 houses in Lon
don which on cold days consume 40,O0
tons Of coal, emitting 4s0 tons OF sulphur
China has 4l9, 900 square miles Of coal
fields or more than twenty times the ag
pregate of the carboniferous strata o
Europe.
| Late statistics show that out Of Lon
don's 100000 inhabitants more thar
SOC, 900 earn less than three shillings
family a day.
During the present fiscal year tn
bounty of cents pound has been pai'
to the producers OF 12.000, 900 pounds o
beet sugar and II, 100, 900 pounds Of sor
ghum sugar.