The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-05
NEWS PARAGRAPHS FROM MANY
CENTRES of INDUSTRY.

CENTRES of INDUSTRY.
Driving belts are of paper.
Japan operates its railroads.
Glass coated bricks are announced.
Paris has eighty seven daily papers.
London has is, foo newspaper women.
Glass is now used as a filling for
teeth.
The States have 1857 distinct rail
roads.
Japan uoos Amorical-nlaGo street
cars.
Baltimore bricklayers work eight
hours.
Chinese gold miners in Nevada get
So a day.
Uncle Sam boasts two negro women
lawyers.
Great Britain has 217,6OO union mine
workers.
American looms are on the increase
in England.
Tennessee will have State Fedora
ton of Labor.
-Fireflies in jars furnish light in the
West Indies.
Poles in Prussia want Polish taught
in the schools.
The tmnnest tissue paper is t-1OOth
of an inch ir thickness.
New York Hebrews will parade on
May 1st for eight hours.
A Nevada man claims a gun that
fires fifteen shots second.
Around Oldham, England, there are
l0l cotton mills.
Spain has consolidated the postoffice
and telegraph business.
"A new coal field has been discovered
in Luzerne county, Pa.
Erie socialists want poor school chill
dren fed at public expense.
Mails may be shipped by electricity
from Brooklyn to New York.
Conditions are favorable for good
wheat crops in France and Hungary.
The area of the oil fields of Northern
Pennsylvania is 1900 square miles.
-Sacra mento union men will boycott
non-uniun hats made in Philadelphia.
New York granite cutters will have
$1,000 monument at the Worlds Fair.
In Boston brch..ayers' apprentices
are not full journeymen until they be-
come Of age.
1t is possible to draw platinum and
silver into wire that is finer than the hui
man hair,
A colony Of 2.7OO people from the
Middle States are soon to locate in Linn
county, Ore.
The Unite States has capacity for
producing about 15,25O,OOO pounds of
paper annually.
The Carriage and Wagon Workers
Union of Denver, represents % per cent
of the trade.
Everything from glass of beer to a
glass of champaign is % cents at Y oko-
hama, Japan.
Baltimore unions have introduced q
bill in the Legislature making nine hours
day on city work.
Chicago has steam engine plant
which cost 81 100000, and is said to be
the largest in the world.
Waste glass is now mixed with silica
and tale and fired. 1t then becomes an
effective building material.
The grand total of charitable be-
quests in England last year, excluding
Baron Hirsch's, was SIS, 100000.
The United Kingdom has $50, 600
land owners, who possess between them
the whole of tho landed possessions.
Wood pulp Is now employed in the
manufacture of bath tubs, the material
being subjected to powerful hydraulic
pressure.
Sheet iron kites, to enable vessels to
communicate with the shore when in
distress, have been suggested.
The wine crop of California for 1891
is estimated at 100000 gallons, of this
about $4,000 gallons are sweet wines.
1t is the custom in Brooklyn for ply
scians to render services to priests and
to attend them professionally without
charge.
"A mechanical letter stamper worked
by electricity. which stamps 10000 let
tiers minute, is now used at the Post
Office in Washington.
Rhode Island X. of l.. want the Leg
islature to make fifty-four hours a weeks
work in manufacturing, mercantile and
mechanical concerns.
The increased demand for platinum
for electrical purposes has raised the
price of the metal to about S1GO pound
or eleven times the value of silver.
The sewing machine for turned
shoes, with one man, will sew $50 pairs
in one day. 1t would require eight men
working by hand to sew the same pun
Der.
"A syndicate of British capitalists
have made an application to the govern
ment of the Argentine Republic for the
privilege of exploring the PatagOnian
coast for minerals.
The Spanish Prime Minister is en-
deavoring to secure Sunday rest for the
workmen and to prohibit the employ
ment of children under 10 years of age
in factories OF mines.
In some German telephone offices an