The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-15
WORLD OF LABOR.
Resonant Echoes From the Busy
Mill and Workshop.
News and Happenings of Special Interest in
the Various Fields of the
Mechanic and Artisan.

| Duluth Is building ten whalebacks.
Berlin offers an artificial stone sole.
Maxim is making flying machine.
Eiffel made SIC, 1000, QUO Oh the tower.
Uncle Sam has 5000 women printers.
Irish lace manufacturing is reviving.
Cotton states have reduced their acreage.
Overheating breaks down brain workers
Our railroads own 27,G00 passenger cars.
The sugar trust clears s25, coo, 900 year.
Clothing is to be made from wood pulp
Secretary Rusk will experiment on rub
Der trees.
Our railroads get s22,O0O,OOO year for
carrying the mail.
The United States produced over 10, Geo.
600 barrels of salt last year.
Coffee is gradually overhauling tea in
their race for the popular verdict.
1t costs New York city more than 800, 900
year for stenographic services.
Electricity has been applied for the first
time to the ginning of cotton in Georgia.
The great cathedral in the City of Mexico
is the largest in America, and cost nearly
-, 100000
Gunpowder was discovered from the fall
ing of spark in some materials mixed in q
mortar.
An inventor of Jackson, Mich, proposes
to use trained eagles instead of gas in
aerial navigation.
The hardest known wood is said to be
cucus wood. 1t turns the cage CT an ax
! however well tempered, so it is claimed.
1t has been ascertained the cost pc,
family for food in the United States is
s243. 20 year, against 1922 in Europe.
An English syndicate is projecting one O.
the biggest railway terminal schemes in the
country at Duluth. MINI.
a blacksmith's tools of the present dal
are almost Identical with those used in thu
same trade over 800 years ago.
Most of the men in the islands of South
western Japan lead lives of idleness, anC
are cheerfuliy supported by the women.
A Bible recently issued from the Oxford
university press is only 50 inches in length
215 inches wide and IS OF an inch in thick
ness.
Germany's railroads have a trackage o.
"a, SAB miles, 5000 mere than exist in Grea
Britain and Ireland, the early home of the
railway.
The people of Paris have consumed with
in the year 21,29l horses, 229 donkeys anC
40 mules, the meat weighing, according tc
returns, 1913 tons.
More than fourth of the gold and NOR,
than q third of the silver produced throug h
out the world in the year 1891 was minet
in the United States.
A Chicago man has invented remark
able sewing machine that seWs through
layer of brass ore-eighth of an in CHI thick
placed between two pieces of leather.
The Spaniards luckily struck the aur
ferrous portion Of the globe. More gold ha
been obtained from Spanish America thai
from any part of the world.
Auctions in Japan are conducted mucl
like primary elections. The bidders writ
their bids and names on slips of papers
which are put into box for the auctionee
to open.
In olden times, when every part of tn
body had its price, the beard was valued y
70 shiliings-a large sum for the time
while the loss OF leg was only estimates
at II shillings.
Algeria is the. greatest cork producin
country in the world, having 800, 0O0 acre
of cork forests, of which 10000 acres ar
made to yield regular crops. The fines
cork is obtained from that province.
This country has ample space and doe
things on large scale. The greatest tish
way in the world is in the course of con
struction on the Potomac at Great Falls
When it is completed it will carry fish owe
!, vertical fall OF y feet.
Statistics of the iron trade last year sbo,
3 the production in the principal countrie
was as follows: United Ststes, S219, $40
Great Britain, 1928 1876 Germany, 4, 452, o.!
France. 1919, 1856; Belgium, 6SS, U56 Toti
q %, SCI, 626 tons.
4 Forty-four families at Junction City
, Kas., have been conducting co-operatiy
kitchen for year past, and find from To
f annual report OF the treas Grer That the toti
o cost was $1,000, an average of S113.60 pc
: family, or little over 81 per week
A letter from q Brooklyn traveller i
y Barcelona, Spain, says that two vessels
! similar to the ships used by Columbus o
, his voyage Of discovery to the Now World
will soon be constructed to cume TO th
!. United STATES 10 take part in the celebrs
ton of the Worlds fair.
= The Philadelphia and Reading Coal
+ Iron company, at East Buffalo, N. Y, hG
n an iron franc building, all under one ROOT
which covers nearly five and one half acre
A or $3.50 square feet more than the s.
" Pancras roof. The Buffalo building is 81
' feet long by 354 feet wide, and is % fee
, high from floor to under side of roof tru
u ses. To give an idea of the capacity of tn
!. building in contains four of Browns NOV
d able shed tramways and two elevated rail
e road tracks the full length of the build NJ
! and storage capacity for 250,0O0 tons
i hard coal.
: When Sheffield first became famous f
its cutlery, peculiar shaped knife, dc
signed for a variety of uses, was made wit
l great care and sent to The agent of II
u Cutters company, il London. On one
: the blades was engraved the followir
j challenge:
: Toudon for 1bv- life