The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-25
TEE WORLD OF LABOR
Echoes from the Workshop and
the Busy Mill.
INDUSTRIOUS FOLKS GOSSIP.
News and Happenings of Special Interest
in the Fields of the Mechanic
and Artisan.

Blind men tune pianos.
There is buckwheat trust.
Dairy schools are spreading.
Beer mugs are of aluminium.
Chilean money is pasteboard.
A Pullman coach costs $4,000.
a prince drives Moscow cab.
Killarney is paved with marble.
A Zulu prince is an Ohio waiter.
Frisco Chinese refuse to register.
Chester, Ill.,, has female butchers.
Uncle Sam has 476, 1856 telephones.
a sheep costs 33 cents at Antonio.
Louisiana uses molasses for fuel.
Flour is $50 ton in New Zealand.
Flat irons are heated By electricity.
Long Island has Chinese farmer.
The ship Texas will cost 100000
India has the largest masonry dam.
Our telephones employ S, 465 persons.
Germany eats American dried apples.
Germany raises $50. 600 canaries year.
England has 1875 year-old grape vine.
Rubies are more valuable than diamonds.
Ireland has 40, 600 one-room mud cabins.
I Kansas has TWEEN ty-two women editors.
A device registers the weight on scales.
Brick is made from Clipped granite and
clay.
New Y ork Italians have q fruit exhibi-
ton.
We mined 100000 barrels of salt in
1891.
A New South Wales bank owns S,5O0,0OO
acres.
In Canton 10000 people live in house
boats.
Australia has the longest rope-10,67O
yards.
A Texas woman runs a 100000 acre
ranch.
America has ffty-three telephone COM
papies.
A New York clock contains "a. 900 pieces
Of wood
The wealth of the United States is $685.
GAS 100000
NewZealand miners have furnished $3.50
0O0 900 of gold.
Corsets sold for penny at GAINESVILLE,
o., during a cut war.
In Bruins wick, Germany, they feed cattle
on the surplus asparagus.
The editor of the Yarmouth Herald has
had charge for sixty years.
For every 4 shillings spent in England
on drink only half-penny is expended on
education.
The railroad dining cars in this country
earn more money than the sleeping and
baggage cars together.
The railway companies Of the United
Kingdom pay e3, 500 day as compensation
for injuries done to passengers.
There are more Jews in three of the
twenty-four wards in New York city than
in the whole of Great Britain aud Ireland
French florists are cultivating a plant
which bears flower that is white in the
morning, red at noon and blue at night
A Riverside, CAL, paper is authority for
the statement that California fruit is
sold for less price in London than in River
side.
Aluminium is practically unattached by
fruit Juices, condensed milk and the various
constituents of preserved meats and vege-
tables.
The highest viaduct In the world has
just been erected in Bolivia. over the river
Lea, 1888 feet above the level of the sea
and zoos feet above the river.
OF fourteen frst-class racers now on the
Atlantic, four are German built, one halls
Belfast, ard one from the Mersey.
Within the memory of men now living,
we've passed from the prairie schooner"
TO the Pullman car, and from the tallow
candle to the electric light.
Nitric acid will produce black spot on
steel--the darker the spot The harder the
steeI-while iron, on the contrary, remains
bright if touched with thai acid.
The population of the United Kingdom
may roughly be divided into two parts,
one-fifth and four-tifths. The one-fifth
contains the rich. the four-hfths the poor.
A laborer named Hoffman has cele-
brated his 101st birthday at Buedingen, in
Hessia, and asserts that ne Is as spry as he
was forty years ago. AT any rate he has
not yet given up work
No whistles are used by the carriers in
London. Instead they use the postman's
double knock, which is made by giving two
distinct raps on the door. Every door is
provided with knOcker
An engineer resident in Glasgow has,
after nineteen years labor and experiment
tation devised an arrangement in an en-
CINE by which ne returns all the steam
back to the boiler after doing its work in
the cylinder.
Platinum vessels for concentrating acids
are now made on an improved plan, the
new feature being that OF coating the pleti-
mum with gold. Such a coating, it is
found, adds materially to the life of the
vessel.
Railroad tine is rapidly getting down
toward the mile-a-minute rate. The En-
pire state express has just beat the record
making the trip from Albany to Syracuse,
a distance of AS miles, in 1917 mnutes
Five minutes were taken in the stop at
Utica. This makes the time really one
mile per minute.