The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-28
WORK-A-DAY WORLD.
Ecohoes from the Laboratories
of Muscle and Science.
Novel and Curious Things, Interesting aud
Useful to Be Stored in Memory's
Warehouse.

Warehouse.
ALASKA is raising hops.
One ostrich egg is meal.
Aluminium is now soldered.
There are paper table cloths.
Russia invented wood paving.
Didynium costs 81. 500 pound.
Illinois leads in railroad mileage
Rice paper Is not made from rice.
Chicago handles 1863 trains daily.
Our vessels lead in Mexican ports.
Uncle Sam has S, 955, 612 dwellings.
The states contain 46, 900 oil wells.
Gold production-25 tons per week.
West India people eat alligator eggs,
Nuremburg leads in toy manufacture.
Gastonia, N. c., has 26-pound potato.
Egyptians used spoons $500 years ago.
A machine makes 100, 600 bags day.
Half OF Indiana's population is German
New York has 200, 600 working women.
A ton of coal yields nearly 10, 900 feet Of
gas.
There is 500. 600. OOOivested in electricity
Puget Sound furnishes sixty-poun6
oysters
England claims first place in glass max
ing.
Americans use 400, 600 postal cards {
year.
The matches made yearly are worth
s1S5, GOO, 000
immigration last year amounted to 6l9,
800 souls.
German clerks are 20 per cent. slower
than English.
Advertising costs London firms $4,000,
900 q week.
In race Truckee barber shaved man
in 45 seconds.
Russia has ordered -3,500,000 handker-
chiefs for the army.
The original Bell telephone patent ex-
pires in March, 1893
There are nearly 1900 stitches In a pair
of hand-sewn boots.
Statistics show that trade does not de-
cline in presidential years.
A hundred years ago the best oysters
were sold at i've for l cent.
Four times more Irishmen reside IN the
United States than Englishmen.
In Columbia women searching for gold
wade in water up to their waists.
Canada whacks duty of cents dozen
on eggs imported from the United States.
OF the fires of 1891, Ga per cent. were due
to lamps and only 4 per cent to electric ty.
The cables of the world if stretched in a
line would cover half OF the distance to the
moon.
The manufacture of cigarettes has in
creased in thirteen years from 2SS, 600, GOO
to 2,S77, 900, 900.
The four largest paper machines in the
world are under construction in Worcester,
Mass, for the new paper mill at Rumford
Falls, Me. One is 135 inches wide, two lbs
inches wide EACH one liz inches.
The area of the worlds coal fields in
square miles is as follows: China and
japan, 1000; United States, 194, 600: In
dia. So, 600; Russia. $1,000; Great Britain,
5000; Germany, 1900; France, 1,S00; Bel
GUM, Spain and other European states,
], 500
The Bowie of the White Star line, re-
Gently launched from the yard OF Harland
& Wolf of Belfast, is claimed to be the
largest freight steamer afioat. She has a
length of 40 feet, 50 beam, 1915 feet depth
of hold and gross registered tonnage of
about six thousand.
The Chicago Paper Trade club gives the
following statistics with regard to the pa
per mills in this country: Yearly product.
8 coo, 000, 600 pounds at a valuation Of Sf75,-
900, 000 The forestry division of the de-
partment OF agriculture, in its report Of
1890, gave the annual capacity of wood
pulp paper mills as ] ,2s3 loo, 900 pounds
and the authority above quoted gives the
product Of these mills for 1891 as 1,400,-
100000, valued at $50, COCO, 600.