The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-12-24
INDUSTRIAL BR:VITIES.
New and Efficient Process Of Obtaining
White Lead by Elec ricity Dis
covered by a Frenchman.

Maine expects large ice crop.
Germany makes aluminium CT v4ts.
The best isinglass is made in Russia.
Paper bottles are made and utilized In
Germany.
China has twenty seven American
merchants.
Pennsylvania woolen mills employ
3d. 600 hands.
Europe is reported to have $1,000
match factories.
Over 1900 styles of silk goods are
known TO dealers.
Nearly half the worlds railroad mile.
age 10 within the United States.
A Vienna brewer is doing a profitable
business. lie is worth $40,000,0O0.
Lottie Collins pay amounts to $3.50
Tor every minute she is on the stage.
The number OF sheep in Ireland has
Increased by over 900, 900 since 1889.
A sewing machine weighing 572 tons
ia doing good work in Leeds, England.
About 100 iron mines are at present in
operation in the Lake Superior districts.
-Four messages can be telegraphed on
one wire by means of the quadruplex
system.
The total production OF maple sugar
in this country last year was 32,959 927
pounds.
Glass-lined iron tubing adds immense
ly to the enduring capacity of the
structure.
A pneumatic cushion, to be placed on
the ends OF telephone receivers, is some
thing new.
1t is estimated that the capital in
vested in the electrical industries in this
country is $729, 100000.
The Japanese use no instrument for
extracting teeth, INT lift them out wich
the thumb and forednger.
There are reported to be 5000, 900
commercial drummers in this country,
only three OF whom are women.
The population Of many South Sea
Islands manufacture their entire suits
from the products OF palm trees.
On a Montana sheep ranch {, 900 sheep
dropped $500 lambs. This is remark
able record for 80 large a number.
The value OF the 745 ll2 pairs OF boots
and shoes exported during the tiscal year
ended June 80, 1892, was $9l4,974.
The national debts OF Europe amount
to total which is equivalent to $55 for
each inhabilant OF the continent.
A syndicate OF United States capital
lists has secured control OF all the btu
minous coal trade in Lower Canada.
A new gaslight burner is made with
out cams or springs, the gas being turned
on and lighted by operating the key.
No less than 65, 900 incandescent lamps
are manufactured every day at an aver
age selling price of about rs cents apiece.
The three largest railroad centers in
the United States in order of their i'm
portance are Chicago, Indianapolis and
st. Louis.
The annual expectation of India rub.
Der from Para is said to be upward of
2O,0O0,0 600 pounds, worth from $4,000, 900
to $9,000,000.
Cargo steamers are growing In size. A
9,000-tonner was launched two weeks
ago, and another one similar in size is
being laid down.
Pennsylvania makes fifty-two out of
every 100 tons of rolled iron in the
United States and sixty out of every 100
tons of steel rails.
A Frenchman is said to have discov-
cred new and efficient process OF OBJ
tanning white lead by electricity. The
action is electrolytic.
The fleece of ten goats and the work
of several men for half year are re-
quired to make a genuine cashmere
shawl yard and half wide.
Japan has gone energetically into the
cotton-s spinning business, thirty-three
mills being now at work in that king
dom, employing 81, $50 persons.