The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-26
WORLD OF LABOR
Resembling Echoes from the Mill
and the Work Shop.
INDUSTRIOUS FOLKS GOSSIP
News and Happenings of Special Interest in
the Various Fields Where the Mechanic
and Artisan Hold sway.
INDUSTRIOUS FOLKS GOSSIP

An electric tricycle. goes.
Paris has 400 policemen.
Flour is made of shavings.
Bergen has paper church.
Kansans plow by electricity.
Irish emigration is falling off.
Idaho mas mica inexhaustible.
There Is an electric tuning box.
Baltimore announces a steam wagon.
Denver is building 350-foot chimney.
Edison has patented over 600 inventions.
Great Britain has 6, 112 women in mines.
Diamonds cost Americans 100000 a
year.
Compressed air runs Lesvenworth street
cars.
Uncle Sam mas 600 commercial drum
mers.
A cigarette-h holder has platinum mouth
piece.
The Baltimore Belt line will be run by
electricity.
In Wisconsin there are seventy-seven
post Offices kept in saloons.
The cotton acreage is 1900, 900 acres less
than last year.
More thnn % per cent. OF the freight of
the country is coal.
Pan, founded in Gil.
A pneumatic tube is used for the mail be-
tween Paris and Berlin.
Great Britain has about Is 600 landlords
and 81, 600, 00J tenants.
The average daily earnings Of railway
locomotive is about $780,
There ere said to be 1913, 900 families in
London living in single rooms.
4l,, IL i
ents in this country receive $50, 100000 an
nually.
The Germrns prepare capital substitute
straw berry plant
A single plant of Turkey corn bears 5000
seeds; the sunfower, 1000; the poppy,
B., 900 and tobacco 10,3
Artificial teeth are 80 much in use now
a-days that it took 100000 of them to
supply the demand last year.
A German has invented an incandescent
lamp apparatus for showing the interior of
boilers while under steam.
An ingenious lock hss been invented by
which doors. etc. may be locked and un-
locked from distance electrically.
Hackney coaches were forbidden during
the reign of Charles II. on the ground that
they destroyed the kings highway.
The largest and longest stone bridge in
the world is over the arm of the China sea-
five miles loug, 300 arches, each 40 feet
high.
There is garden in China with an area
Of 50, 900 square miles-as large, in fact, as
New York and Pennsylvania comb iued.
What will be the larsest electric locomo-
tive in the world is being constructed in
Baden, Zu-:ch. IL is to develop 1900 to
1000 horse power, and will makes its trial
trip in few months,
Out of 149 .3O1 railway employees in the
United STATES, 2,45l were killed lsst year
OF every 3O6 was killed, aud one in every
thirty was injured.
g, The Rothschilis have doubled the wages
Of their cashiers. They think it will be
cheaper to do so than to have to lose time
and money in pursuing and convicting them
after they have absconded.
A pneumatic inner sole for boots and
shoes has recently appeared in London. 1t
is inflated with air or gas under pressure,
the external protective covering being can
vas, linen, or some other suitable material
that can withstand the pressure.
The Russians and the Chinese are behind
the rest of the civilized world in many
things. but bell-founding is not among the
HuHlDtT, 4OI liz DGiio OY DOlD
nations are not only the largest but among
the best OF those made by any nation.
A new storage battery is being employed
on tbs Chesapeake & Ohio railroad for use
in connection with electric lighting of it's
cars. Twenty four cells are placed under
each car, and they supply eight 16-candIe
power lamps on the round trip from Gin
cinnati TO Washington.
The summary of new enterprises organ
lied during the past week, as given in the
c-rrent issue OF the Mdnufdcturers' Record
of Baltimore, shows the following among
the more important items: A S25, 600 Cotton
Compress company at Birmingham, Ala:
s50 600 Tool company at Pensacola, Fla :
81, 200, 600 Electric Light and Railway
company at Tampa, Fla. a $4,000 Electric
Light company at Rome, Ga. a $50, 600
Saw Mill company at Louisville, KY. "a Sl5,-
{ 90 Grain Mill company at Richmond, KY 81
$500, 600 Lumber Mill company at New
Orleans, La; $40 900 Asphalt Works
company at Washington, DC; S6U, GOO
Brick and Terra Gotta company at Column
bia, S. c.: a $3.50, 900 Machine Manufacture
ing company at Hartman, Tenn; $780,
600 Abattoir company at Dallas, Tex; q
100000 Nursery company at Fort Worth
Tex; csc, 600 Compress company to build
al Mineola, Tex: $4,000 Dairy company
at Alexandria, Va; a $4,000 Brake Manu-
featuring company at Charlottesville, Va. /;
and S25, 900 Tannery company at LIano,
lex.