The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-03
GOSSIP EBOUT INDUSTRIOUS FOLKS.
News and Happenings of Special In
tcrcst Il, tho Various Fields Where
the Mechanic and Artisan Hold
Sway Night and Day.
POruia has one newspaper.

Parisians eat 1000 horses week.
Electric drills are used in mines.
Algeria leads in cork production.
The Vatican has an electric plant.
New Zealand exports rabbit skins.
Uncle Sam has 5l2, 407 telephones.
The Cremationists have a journal.
Artificial ivory is made from milk.
China has only 40 miles OF railroad.
Electricity will run farm machinery.
There are 125 varieties of strawber-
ries.
Texas has 7Oo,OOo-acre cattle ranch.
Emperor Williams train cost $780,
900.
Chinese, gardeners are tho most OK
pert.
day.
home.
Telegraph operators are scarce in
Brazil.
frances bookkoepers arc chiefly
women.
The German governmentruao corn
meal plant.
Springfield has the largest United
States arsenal.
Aiolaeses and corn stalks is substi-
tute for coal in the South.
Electricity runs part OF the New York
alavotaI rniiroad ayHtem
It is predictcd that aluminium will
be sold Tor 10 conts u pound.
The sight of the city of Boston was
sold in 1886 by John Blackstone for
$3.50.
Boston proposes to take half Of all
earnings OF its street railways above s
per cent
Dried fish was formerly and is still to
some extent medium Of exchange In
Iceland.
GunpoMder was discovered from the
falling OF spark in some materials
mixed in mortar.
The great Cathedral in the City of
Mexico is the largest IN America and
cost nearly 100000.
A curious industry in Paris is that of
selling toads to gardeners, to be used as
insect destroyers.
The largest floating dock in the world
is at Bermuda. 1t ia SSl feet long and
123 feet in breadth.
The Everett wash. Herald reports
the erection OF the largest sawmill in
the world,in that six-months-old town.
Hackney coaches were forbidden our
ingthe reign of Charles II. on tho ground
that they destroyed the kings highway.
All but one OF the forty-two cities in
the United States with populations OF
from $4,000 to 200, 900 have electric rail-
ways in use.
Durincth past year Chicago spent
over S5f,00O,0OO for 1855 buildings,
while New York expended over $50, O0O,-
600 for 1897.
An Australian correspondent writes
that his country no longer offers good
opportunities TO the skilled artisan or
the industrious laborer.
It may, interest reformers to know
that the total manufacture of cigarettes
in this country last year was 5000, 000,-
600. as against 100000 in 1878.
The largest and longest stone bridge
in tho world is over an arm Of the China
sea. 1t isLfive miles long and has 800
arches, each seventy feet high.
In about sixty years walnut tree,
grown IRON the seed, will attain a
diameter of four fect, and il properly
cut and seasoned will BIO worth 500.
The last census returns showed $4,000
coachmc1' and grooms, $4,000 male do.
nestle servants indoors, and !, 700
female domestic servants, or 1850, 1000
in all.
When cotton thread was first made,
$40 yards OF it weighed one pound.
Hence it is number one: Apound con.
tanning twice that number OF yards is
number two, and SO on.
Tho special interest in the news from
Kennebec, Me-, that shipbuilder there
Is almost ready to lay tho keel Of big
steol sailing ship, lies in the fact that
this ship will be the first OF its kind
ever built in American shipyard.
Anew form Of fastener for woodwork,
designed to take tho place of nails or
screws, has been invented. Tho device
consists Of small plate of corrugated
steel sharpenod at tho bottom and driv-
en- like nail into the. wood across the
joint to be fastened.
Two new alloys are being used in Eng
land for boring and cutting tools, They
equal steel in hardness and retain their
temper whom heated by friction. These
alloys are mado OF pig iron, forro.mag-
anese, chromium and tungsten in proper
proportions, melted together under
charcoal and calcined borax, the mix.
turo aftcrward being treated to small
quantities OF nickel, copper and alum
mum.
Tho railway Year known as "Placer
County on Wheels" Ia travelling com.
bination intended primarily to adver.
tise tho prolific fruit region OF Northern
California; is lighted interiorly and ex-
ternally by sixsy-ive incandescent
lamps, which are operated by COM
plete lighting plant in corner Of tho
car. The service is SO satisfactory that
Mr.. Leak, tho owner, is now figuring for
the equipment Of an entire train with
similar apparatus.
AFrencR paper reports that tho mi.
ctophono has been successfully used in
st. Petersburg in case OF suspended
animation; where the patient was given
up for dead. AS a last resort tho physi-
clan applied a microphono to tho region
of the heart, and was enabled BY this
instrument TO hear a faint beating,
which proved that lilo was not extinct.