The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-03
WORLD OF LABOR
Resonant Echoes From the Busy
Mill and the Workshop.
GOSSIP FOR WORKING PEOPLE
News and Happenings Of Special Interest ii
the Various Fields of the Mechanic
and Artisan.


Chicago high liceues is 5000.
There is no rice in rice paper.
Bricks are made Of plate glass.
Oberweisenthal has no lawyers.
Women druggists are increasing.
Chicago handles 1860 trains daily.
Bailoting by electricity is promised.
New York has a one-armed bartender.
London will have electric omnibuses.
Norfork supplies the worlds peanuts.
Millionaire Dillon was a messenger boy
England's $4,000 barmaids average 50 a
week
There are 9, 100000 bee hives in this coun-
try
London has Hose Accident Prevention
society.
Henry Willard thinks electricity will dis
place steam.
United States factories make $4,000
watches week.
Only one person in every go, 600 in Japan
is pauper.
The Chicago Globe of last Sunday con-
sisted OF 100 pages.
An electric typesetting machine sets
1900 types an hour.
There viii be 1000 extra window glass
Journalists in England will have to pass
examinations in the future.
Women were employed in printing Offices
as long ago, it is said, as 1929.
Managers of the Lockport Coal exchan ge
were convicted Of conspiracy.
Poor persons are supnlid with spectacles
free of charge by Boston society.
There are probably q thousand women in
Pittsburg, Pa, who work in iron mills.
The oldest paper mill in the United
States was erected at Norwich, Conn, in
1765.
The average weight of the locomot tive
engines is from twenty-five TO thirty five
tons.
Dudley's dynograph car registers track
fluctuations and curves at forty miles an
hour.
The Oldest building in the world is the
Tower of London. 1t antedates CRsar's
conquests.
There are 1000 oil wells in the United
States, and their Caily output is 10000
barrels.
A man Of science in Germany maintains
that it is from Deteors that all our dia-
monds come.
The drive well, one of the simplest of in
ventions, has yielded its inventor s., U0O,-
GOO in royalties.
One of the Furnishing Industries in Cairo,
Egypt, is the manufacture of paint from
mummies.
Edison has invented a torpedo with
which twenty five men can hold fort
against l ,0O0, GOO enemies.
There are 1850 men and more than $500
women engaged in the retail liquor bust
ness in Chicago.
Boston is the second wool market in the
world and the greatest In the United
States. London is first.
In India the native BARRIERS will shave
you when asleep without awakening you,
the touch Is so very light.
Salt has become ore of the leading pro
ducts of Kansas. About TOUR years ago
this industry was unknown to Kansas.
Everywhere throughout the west are
lost mines. Every state and territory that
has gold or silver has several of them.
in Cincinnati recently street railroad
cable weighing sixty tons was hauled on
level ROAD. it required forty horses to do it.
An average of 2.00O immigrants day,
Sundays included, arrived in the United
States during the business year just clos
ing.
Prof. Rogers says that every pound of
coal COZ tains g dynamic force equal 10 the
amount of work man viii DO in day.
The first regular passenger railroad built
in the world was the southern portion of
the Baltimore IL Ohio, built in 1921
Ii is estimated that il the population of
Idaho We're evenly distributed over the
state, each person would have a mile of
room.
In California bands of coolies have
rented large tracts of land for the purpose
of raising vegetables for the San Francisco
market.
Servant girls in California receive On
an average s25 per month. Nurse girls are
paid from $13 to $50 and good cooks from
$50 upward.
IL used TO take one man thlrty-fve days
to make carriage. 1t is now made by the
aid Of machinery with the work of one
man in twelve days.
There are 81, 200, GOO, 900 in gold in cirou-
larion throughout the world, and good au-
thority asserts that 81 ,000, 600 of that is
lost annually by wear.
The island of Jamaica sells annually to
the United States bananas exceeding in
value the entire apple, peach and cherry
crops of this country.
The famous Treadwell mine in Alaska.
which has yielded more than So 000, 600 in
gold bullion, was purchased by the man
for whom il is named for $500.
Last year Minneapolis received 5S, DOC. 900
bushels Of wheat, turned out s, 0OI, coo bar
rels Of -four. and manufactured over $780, |
0o0,000 worth Of products.
A recent English invention is that of
mixing rabbit hair with cotton or silk and |