St. Paul daily globe., 1892-11-21
Happenings of Special Note
in the Various Fields Of
Industry
Where Mechanic and Artisan
Hold Sway Night
and Day.

Maine raises the best sweet corn.
Chicago handles 1900 trains daily.
Parisians eat snails as delicacy.
Electric heaters give satisfaction.
The average watch has ninety-eight
pieces.
There are 800 shades of false teeth.
Australia makes 100 kinds of wine.
Berlin Will have an electric l. road.
Japan has thirty-four cotton spinning
mills.
Our $50 electric roads cover 1000
miles.
The electric loom was invented in
1854.
Curling irons are heated by electric
Borneo makes beer from the pepper
plant.
The Lake Superior district has 1OC
mines.
Lord st. Leonards is the grandson of
barber.
A Puget soundranch has 100000
chickens.
London handles 25O,OO0 letters annu-
ally.
We have one pauper in every 1000 in
habitants.
Fifty-year-old Tokay costs from SIS
to $50 bottle.
Emperor Charles V. carried a twenty
seven-pouDd watch.
Colorado is to have Dutch colony of
1900 families.
Physicians carriages have the right
of way in Berlin.
Jarrah, of Australia, is the most inde-
structibie wood.
Japanese wOrkmen are building the
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1t costs 50 for q five minutes talk by
telephone from New York to Chicago.
Electricity was first transported from
place to place i'll portable form in 1881.
There are now in the United States
tWenty-one law firms composed of hus-
bands and wives.
Two Siamese monkeys have been
trained by Goshen, n. Y, farmer to
pick cherries.
Whisky may be made from molasses,
beetroot, potatoes, tomatoes and nfary
other substances.
Wire glass is about onefourth of an
inch thick and in it is imbeddeda a mesh
work of strong wire.
All the pawnshops in Moscow, Russia,
owned by Hebrews are shortly to be
closed by orGer of the government.
Eectrotyping has been applied in an
ingenious and effective manner for the
preservation of lace forms in metal.
Sheet iron kites, to enable vessel
when in distress during a storm to COM
lmunicate with the shore, have been sug-
gested.
The oceanis more productive than the
land. An acre of good fishing ground
will yield more food tnan an acre on the
best farm.
.Nt1 E,sa ~ Nf a
Y, are provided with an automatic de-
vice that shows the name of each street
lust before it is reached.
A hippometer, to record the number
of horses PAGES, and the distance he
has travelled. has been invented by an
officer in the French army.
The highest viaduct in the world has
just been erected i'll Bolivia. over the
River Lea, 1888 feet above the sea level
and 4,00S feet above the river.
Gold is SO very tenacious that piece
of it drawn into wire onetenth of an
inch in diameter will sustain weight
of 500 pounds without breaking.
The first ship canal OH the line of the
present SueZ canal was projected by
Necho. all Egyptian king, about 600 B.
e. The two seas were actually united
27O B. G.
California fruit growers, who have so
successfully competed with the prunes
of Bordeaux and the raisins of Valencia.
have now attacked the fig trade of
Smyrna.
A society was organized in New York
in 1865 for the encouragement OF Amer
ican woolens. The society rules for
bade eating mutton OF lamb, or the
slaughter of sheep.
The new iron monuments being placed
on the national boundary line in Ari-
zona and New Mexico are seven feet
are placed five miles apart.
In New York the fastest elevators are
in the Union Trust company's building
on Broadway, near Wall street They
shoot up or down, carrying 5000 pounds,
at speef 0t 600 feet a miunet.
Miss s. T.. Fuller, of New York city, is
the first Woman 10 receive government
contract 1or engraving. She is practi-
cal wood engraver and prepared the first
manual of instruction in that art.
In 1860 our product of hardware was
valued at $190.000,000; i'll 1888 at $780,
100000. The annual addition to the out
put was S6,000,000 year between 1910
and 1860, and S25,000.000 year between
1860 and 1888.
The youngest barber known to work
in shop is Nellie Wick. aged fifteen, in
the Globe toilet saloon, Kings road,
Chelsea, London, states an exchange.
She recently shaved five men in twelve
inmates, and received silver medal for
SO doing.
A French electro-metallurgical COM
pany, which employees the Herault-Kil-
ian aluminium process, asserts that it
will be able to sell the aluminium at a
price equivalent TO less than Is cents a
pound, provided it is in a position to
dispose Of a yearly output OF 5000 tons
of the metal.
The furnace with its belongings at
the great iron works of Siegen has been
raised seven and half feet. 1t weighs
100000 tons. The staging had been
erected in the most solid manuer, and
it took only five hours to raise that
enormous weight to the required level.
In the limited space between Worth
street and the Battery, IN New York
city, where there are many large whole
sale houses. it is stated that $4,000
women are employed as stypeWriters. A
single tyDeWriting machine company
finds employment, through its various
offices, for 10000 women year.
The Southern Pacific company has
just completed the ferryboat SOlano.
which cen carry forty-eight loaded
freight cars at time. She is 424 feet
long, with beam of 116 feet. On her
decks are four sets of tracks, and her
two vertical engines are fed by eight
steel boilers, each pair with separate
smokestack.
In Cass county. Idaho, there is mar
bic quarry fifteen miles one way by
twenty miles the other, and in some
places 800 feet in thickness, making it
the largest deposit of marble in one
body in the world. Not one but twenty
kinds of marble are to be found within
the boundaries of this vast field of un-
hewn headstone.
FIVE hundred hands are at work on
the bridal veil of Princess Margarethe
of Prussia. The veil is made OF 500 diff
terent pieces, all the work being done