The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-12-31
RIVER OREGON. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 81 1892
INDUSTRIAL BREylTIES.
Liquor Made From Common Mushrooms
IN Airca-AlgerIa as Cork.
Producing Country.

The Krupp works have 6,5i2 furnaces.
lndelible ink is made from banana
Iuce.
Reading, Pa, made 100000 cigarf
this year.
Georgia taxes every cigarette seller
800 year.
This country mines -, 100000 barrels
of salt II year.
Mexico exported 43,7,OOO9 pounds OF
coffee last year.
In India the government runs the
opium business.
Consolidation Of the lead and oil In.
terests is contemplated.
The annual liquor bill for the United
states is 81 ,4Si ,OO0,0 900.
There are several jockeys at Newman
eet earning $4,000 n year.
The hog pack this year will exceed
that OF last by 100000 hogs.
The Union Pacific railroad is figured
on 10 have cost tlCS,77S per mile.
An electric cigar lighter has been In.
vent, d Tor the benefit OF smokers.
There is more money spent for eggs
than Tor -four In the United States.
The whaling season has been su ccess,
the catch being valued at 81 100000.
The movement of the cotton crop for
the season 10 date Is over 800, 900 bales
short.
Russia produced In the past ten years,
It is said, S7S, $50, 400 gallons Of pure al
cohol.
The aggregate Of salaries OF postmas-
ters appointed by the President is t5,-
306, 900.
Alexandria, Ind, Is 10 have a S., ,0O0,-
600 glass plant, the largest in the United
States.
There are about 1870 duly qualified fe-
male medical p actitioners ia the United
Kingdom.
The Lincoln paper mill at Lincoln,
Neb., has been sold TO the paper trust
for 100000.
The damage TO wheat and oats in
Michigan by smut this year is estimated
at 81 900, 900.
Glass in oven doors IL something new.
The cook can see what she or he and the
lire are doing.
The natives OF Liberia prepare a sim
gulariy intoxicating beverage from COM
mon mushroom.
A New hampshire man has invented
Il machine that trims and punches belts
in one operation.
The produc, ion OF distilled ppirits of
all kinds in this country last year was
III, 1856, ia gallons.
Dublin claims TO have the largest
brewery in the world ST. Louis the big
gest in the United States.
Ten million pounds OF tea were
brought into the United States last year,
an increase OF nearly a third.
1t has been discovered that the weight
required to crush square inch OF brick
varies from 200 TO 4,500 pounds.
The mines of the world produce
twenty-five tons OF gold every week, and
yet the precious metal remains as scarce
ever.
Most heavy tunnel work is now done
by machine drills, driven by compre seed
air, which ALEC serves to ventilate the
works.
Algeria Is the greatest cork -prodAing
country in the world, having 2,5OO,0
acres OF cork forests, OF which 300, 900 are
made to yield regular crops.
Electric heating has made great prog.
ress in Ottawa, Canada, and hotels and
private establishments are rapidly
this new convenience.
The oyster dealers of Baltimore agree
that the oyster supply this year will not
be sufficient to keep their packing
houses running on even haif-time.
A drying-house for lumber has been
erected at Ottawa, in which electricity
is the heating power. This is the first
of the kind in the world.
The shortage of the hop crop in Otsego
and Schoharie counties, N. Y, is said to
be unprecedented. Twenty-three cents
ia offered, but growers are holding their
stock for 30 cents.