The Coconino weekly sun., 1892-02-11
NOTES OF INTEREST.
Brief Items from the Four Quarters
 of fha Elnha


 Wood fiber underwear is new.
 Chicago has SO,OO0 unemployed.
 India has forty women doctors.
 Our railroads cover III, ,O00 miles.
 Chicago has woman's baking com pany. .-... t.
 Labor bureaus are in twenty-eight states.
 Denver has a builders and Laborers' Union. ..
 Germanium is worth sixty times its weight in gold.
 Twelve average tea plants produce one pound of tea.
 The English Government is con structing steel plants in India.
 A light steel telegrap pole has been patented by Wisconsin man.
 Only citizens who can read and write are allowed to vote in Bolivia.
 Immense bituminous deposits re- gently have been found in Alsace.
 A home for aged tailors is talked of by the International Union of TailOrs.
 Kansas City freight brakemen won q strike for extra pay for extra switch ing.
 Nearly four-fifths of the sugar plan tatious of Hawaii are owned by Ameri- cans.
 Poor persons are supplied with spec tacles free of charge by Boston so- ciety.
 The pin factories of the United States manufacture about 1S,00O, ,000, ,0O0 pins a year.
 There are 10000 women in the United Kingdom who earn their living by nursing.
 The largest bean ranch in the world is in Ventura county, Cal, and en- braces 2,2OO acres.
 Sixty gas motors were shown at the last Paris exposition. In 1863 only three were exhibited.
 The profits of the Thomson-Houston Company for the past ten months were $l, zoo, 900 it is stated.
 The recent strike in Southern France cost S650,0 ,000 in lost wages, though it only lasted fifteen days.
 The Atlanta, Ga., Telephone Com- pany proposes to construct an under ground conduit system for its lines.
 The Pope's way, in part, of celebrat- ing Christmas was to bcstow Sl0,000 for distribution among the poor in Rome.
 A telephone wire has just been com pleted between Melbourne and Adel- aide, iu Australia, a distance of 800 miles.
 Recently at Amador, Cal, block of marble weighing 100 tons was quarried and cut up into columns for a new theatre.
 Siberia is soon to have a railroad from the Ural Mountains to the Sea of Japan, distance of 4,7S5 miles, cost ing sls3, ,S25,O0O.
 In Ireland less than 800 persons own one-half the land; 492 members of the House of Lords own 14.2j0,0l2 acres, which rents for S57 7,S6I,6S0.
 It is said that three-quarters of the entire manufacturing capital of the United States, or $6,000, 900, ,000, is di- rectly or indirectly based upon patents.
 An electrical stop watch has been tested m bicycle race, where it de- termined the winner, although he was only one-hundredth of a second ahead.
 A new lead headed nail for use on corrugated roofs has appeared in Lon don. The head hattens under the blow of the hammer, and prevents leakiug.
 A sugar fifteen times sweeter than cane sugar and twenty times swceter than beet sugar has been extracted from cotton seed meal by German chemist.
 It isrcuortel that on English ship 6WIdm- aut hos received au order fnr a steamship to carry 5000 tons cargo, the largest freight vessel yet con- structed
 TacaP approximate eosrot aistbo roti- ing stock 0u au tha railroads jn lhe ugjs1u ,+rltcs ioa,> 1p ,5Yo,oa9.VoJ a sum much more than enough to pay the national debt.
 The postal card factory in Shelton, Conn.,, is turning out 2,500,00 cards q day. The biggest days output SO far is one of few days ago, when 2,S0o,- 900 were printed.
 The Lancashire miners have now in their union between 1000 and i2,000 miners. The union miner wears a medal, hence the comparatively few goats are easily picked out.