The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26
THE WORLD OF LABOR.

Norway has a waterproof paper
church.
Great Britain has 10000 acres of
orchards.
Lowell spinners average SO and $40
week.
Russia makes 100000 wooden
spoons year.
Switzerland is erecting its first sugar
factory.
Less than 800 persons own half the
soil Of Ireland
The worlds passenger cars can Sc at
100000 people.
The great Helmet dam at San ia
cinto, CAL, is the largest dam in the
world.
An umbrella twenty-One feet in di-
ameter has been constructed for King
of the Africans.
Three times as much spirits are con-
sumed in Scotland, according to popula-
ton, as in England.
The colossal statue of the Republic
at the Worlds Fair will be a female fig
ure seventy-five feet high.
The first consignment off camel skins
for commercial purposes ever brought to
this country reached New York some
days ago.
Recent improvements in wire draw
ing have made it possible to draw plati-
mum and silver into wire that is finer
than human hair.
In Australia no newspapers are pub
lished nor railroad trains run on the Sab
bath. Telegraph offices are closed and
all business is suspended.
The microscope shows 700 muscles
in the body of the common caterpillar,
and that the eyes of the dragon fly con-
tains $4,000 polished lenses.
"A daughter of Congressman Baker of
Kansas, is said to own farm which she
tills herself, sometimes putting on mans
attire to work in the field,
There are 1000 female compositors
in the department of the Seine in
France, and a school for teaching type
setting to girls has been opened in
Algiers.
There are only four authors who
earn $4,000 year with their pens, and
these lucky ones are William Dean How
ellis, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark
Twain and Mrs. Burnett.
"A German has invented a means of
propelling canal boats by the trolley
system, employing electricity as the
agent. The wires are in the forms of
cables placed beneath.
The effort to obtain electricity di-
rect from heat, without the Intervention
of boilers, engines and dynamOs, goes
on, but without satisfactory commercial
results as yet.
"A velocity as high as 2,SS7 feet per
second has been obtained by a projectile
from a rapid fire gun. This is at the
rate of 1858 miles an hour. 1t is the
highest velocity yet recorded.
The largest raisin vineyard in the
world now in bearing is owned by A. B.
Butler of Fresno, Cal. 1t contains 610
acres. The annual income from this
vineyard has reached 100000.
"Oh! sir, the good die first" "Well I
never could see why they did, unless
they were peculiarly subject to cold, and
had always been too good to use Dr.
Bulls Cough Syrup.
Mount Washington is to be capped
with the largest electric search light ever
made and the highest beam of artificial
light in the world. Under proper cOndi-
tons it is claimed that it can be seen
from Boston.
In 1890 the only States that produc-
ed more than 100000 pounds of paper
daily were New York, Massachusetts,,
Pennsylvania and Ohio, but in 1891 two
more States, Maine and Wisconsin were
added to the list.
The report of the Census Bureau
shows that "the average earnings of all
persons employed at the gold and silver
mines during the year 1889 were $725 a
year, while the average output per man
amounted to l,723 year.
In the coming Crystal Palace Elec-
trical Exposition, upon the payment of a
small fee, persons will be able to listen
through the telephone to the music per-
formed at theatres in London, Birming-
ham, Manchester and Liverpool.
To give an example of the great
poverty in London, in an East End
boarding school, with an average atten-
dance of LOO children, the school master
says that 700 come without having had
any breakfast, and with small prospe ct
of any dinner or tea either.
The construction of the world s
longest railroad is progressing rapidly
along the river valleys across the steppes
of Siberia. The western extremity of
the 70 I'd is the mining town of MASK, on
the eastern side of the Ural range, and
its eastern terminus is at Vladivestok, on
the Sea of Japan, making total length
of a, 7Sj miles, which is nearly twice the
length of the Canadian Pacific. 1t will
cost 1888. $780, 600.
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