The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-12-10
INDUSTRIAL BREvITles.
Number OF Pounds OF Pap Consumed
Yearly in the World-The Yield
OF Corn in Kansas.

The pepper plant Of Borneo lie used to
make beer.
There are over 100 mines in the Lake
Superior district.
Thirty four coiton-spinning mills are
in operation in Japan.
Thirteen hundred railway trains are
handled daily in Chicago.
The railroads are still short OF suffi.
cient cars to move the Western crops.
1t takes 100 gallons of oil a year to
keep q larHe-sizsd locomotive in running
order.
The SIS electrical railroads in the
United States cover more than 1900
miles.
England spends ninety-nine times
more money in intoxicants than in edu-
cation.
In 1850 our prodnct Of hardware was
valued at $l9o,Oo,0 900; in 1855, $780,
oO,I0l.
The saloons OF London, il set side by
side, would make . distance OF seventy
i've miles.
The Black Hills promise to supply the
pure tin needed in this country at NO
distant day.
There are now in ths United st ties
twenty-one law firms composed of hus-
bands and wives.
Whisky may be made from mola.ses.
beet root, pc stoes, tomatoes and many
other substances.
The world consumes 5000, OOO, O(sN
pounds OF paper year. and is supple
BY 4, 500 paper mills.
The National Lead and Linseed Oil
Company will continue In q trust with a
capital OF $lS.0OO, o0O.
Talk is no longer cheap. 1t C ,st 50 for
i've minutes use OF the telep phone from
New York 10 Chicago.
The various English bicycle manuiaet-
nrers make s5.Ooo,0 600 annually by the
sale OF their machines.
Wholesale saddiers have been advised
by their national organ zation to make
tine display at the Worlds Fair.
Pittsburg capitalists have leased a
large mai mill at Georgetown, giving
employment to 500 men and boys.
Electroplating has been applied in an
ingenious and effective manner for the
preservation OF lace forms in metal.
1t is estimated that 500, 00O, 900 have
been spent in road Improvements in
Pennsylvania during the past fifty years.
the value of the honey and wax pro-
dueed in the United States during the
past year has been estimated at 81, CO.,
0Oo.
Sheet-iron kites, to enable q vessel
when in distress during a storm to com.
municate with the shore, have been sux-
gested.
The electric street cars OF Albany, n.
y. are provided with an automatic de-
vice that shows the name OF each street
just before it is reached.
The Board of Agriculture shows that
the total yield OF corn throughout Kan
sas last season was I3S, 65S, 6ol bushels.
or "A "a Bushels to the acre.
The highest visduct in the world has
just been erected in Bolivia over the
river La, 1888 feet above the sea level
and 4,NS feet above the river.
In New York the fastest elevators are
in the Union Trust Compauy's building
on Broadway near Wall street. They
shoot mp or down, carving 900 pounds.
at speed OF 8 0 ieet IN mute.
Judge Shepherd. the newly appointed
Chief Just ce Of the Supreme Court of
North Carolina and SAID to be the Young.
est mao that ever held the position, be-
gan business lite as tele. raph operator
in Washington, d. C.
The salary of the Prince of Wales is
s2o,UO per year; Duke OF Connaught,
SIPS, 900; Duke of Edinburgh, sl25 600,
and the Duke OF ambridQe, the Queens
cousin, $4,000. The ROYAL family costs
British taxpayers $40 900 a week.
Miss Alice Barth, a promising young
artist OF Baltimore. has just com pleted
fine oil painting of the venerable Enoch
Pratt, which he will prese 10 the Pratt
free school at North Middleboro, Mass.
founded by him about thirty years ago.