The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-09-02
BUSINESS ANo INDUSTRIAL.

ing.
England has 1903, 4OG domestic scr.
wants.
Kansas has an orchard containing
1,07s acres.
New York city has s1O,O0O,OOO in
vested in clubs.
The worlds railways are worth $780,
600, 900, 600.
Electrical machines for weaving silk
are in use in Germany,
Germany sells s10,O00,000 worth OF
toys in England annually.
Tho Bell Company controls fifty-thrco
telephone companies.
Pennsylvania has the greatest anthra-
cite deposit in the world.
There were twenty three theatres open
in Philadelphia last season.
In Southern Europe $4,000 oranges
have been picked from one tree.
Soiled clothes are done up in the
laundries Of Philadelphia at cents Q
pound.
The Bank Of England requires sixty
folio ledgers for its daily accounts.
The diving apparatus is one of the
latest objects to which the telephone
has been applied.
Philadelphia is the only city in Penn
sylvania in which retail liquor license
cost 81, 900.
The amount Of whalebone taken an
nually does not now much exceed 2OO,.
600 pounds.
A patent fishing rod handle is made
to contain a half pint of whisky to bo
used in case Of sickness.
The newest fuel consists of solidified
petroleum, which is claimed to surpass
both petroleum and coal.
In some Of the brickyards at Spring
wells, Mich, scores OF women. it is said,
dig in pits and carry the molds.
Cuban BARRIERS lather their patrons
with their hands from bowl made to
fit under the chin. No brush is used.
The yearly consumption Of milk at
the Hotel Metropole London, is rs, 900
quarts, and of water 20, 900, 900 gallons.
Pineapple culture is rapidly extend
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upon the islands off the southwest coast.
All of the mills in Taunton, Mass,
viii pay their help at the rate of sixty
hours for fifty eight hours work per
week
Out Of thirty-two cities with popula-
tiens ranging from 200, 600 to $4,000 all
but ono are using the electric railway
system.
II is calculated that within ninety
years, ct the present rate of increase,
Australia will contain about forty mil
lion citizens.
Telephones in service in the United
States number nearly S12,500, and the
total length Of line is over quarter Of
. million miles.
One man in Middletown, Del,
shipped to New York 1000 bushels Of
corncobs to be used in the manufacture
Of pipes.
The capitalists Of New York live on
apd between Madison and Fifth avenues,
above Washington Square and below
Central Park.
:. One million three hundred thousand
pounds worth of pickles and sauces are
exported from England to other coun.
tries yearly.
A good many farmers in Kansas will
buy canned fruit this year whose hogs
feasted on peaches and apples last sea-
son.-Kansas City Star.
The exports of grain since January /,
1899, are nearly %, 200, 600 bushels, .
gain over the same time last year Of over
81, 900, 900 bushels.
OF the thirty stores in Machias, Maine,
six are owned and conducted by women,
and are the most successful business es-
tsblishments in the town.
Six successful hospitals have been
founded for women by women phys
icians in Philadelphia, New York, Bos.
ton, Chicago, San Francisco and Min
neapolis
Fifty Silesian miners have started for
China, where by contract they are to get
1915 per day for working six hours.
That is not " Chinese cheap labor"
The bank clerks Of Denver jointly own
cottage in the Rockies, fifty miles
away, where they all pass their vacations,
occupying it in detachments during the
summer.
In this conutry $4,000, 600 acres of
land are being farmed by irrigation.
France owes its wonderful success in
gardening to this system, and in late
years Italy has spent over 5000, 900, 900
for this purpose.
OF the 100000 women in Italy
nearly 100000 are employed in indus
trial labor and over 8, 900, 900 in agricul-
ture. They are in the majority in the
cotton, linen and jute industries, and in
the silk trade there are 1T, 900 women
employed and but 1900 men,
The best isinglass comes from Russia,
where il is obtained from the giant
sturgeon which inhabits the Caspian
Sea and the rivers which run into it.
This fsh often grows to the length of
twenty-five feet, and from its air blad-
der the isinglass Is prepared.
A foreign paper states that the Cat
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