Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1892-02-27
THE WORLD or LABOR
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There are paper quilts.
Steel is supplan.ing iron.
/ Georgia raises red cotton.
/ Ammonia runs street cars.
Lisbon, Ill, has turtle farm,
France sends the best fal-e hair
! Porcelain is made from asbestos.
| Wood fibre understanding il new.
! Great Britiae has 10000 land
lords.
Europe uses sa,ooo,ouo matches
daily.
Russia make, $4,000, 900 wooden
spoons year.
/ Norway has a waterproof paper
church
| Switzerland is erecting its first
sugar factory.
Baltimore compels all plumbers to
be licensed.
/ A 50-foot Whale was hooked at
Santa Barbara
Grsac Britain has 2Os, 300 acres of
orchards.
Indianapol $ demands competing
lines Of street cars.
L IS Than 500 persons own half
the soil of Ireland.
The worlds passenger cars can
seat 100000 people.
The great Hsmet dam at San ia
cinto, Cal is the largest dam in the
world.
Fifty tank steamers are now car
| rying oil in bulk from this country
to Europe.
Memphis dealers were indicted for
selling cigarettes to boys under Is
years of age.
The colossal statue Of the Repub-
lie at the Worlds Fair will be fe-
male figure IS feet high.
Three times as much spirits are
consumed in Scotland, according to
the population, as in England.
A national associa ion has been
orr anized in New York to extend
the Industrial scheme of pro6t-shar
ing.
BY recent appliance to kitchen
ranges the refnse from the kitchen
is thoroughly died. conyerte into
CHARCOAL and used.
A daughter of Congressman Bak
err, of Kansas is said to own farm
which she tills herself. sometimes
putting OH mans attire to work in
the field.
The largest raisin vineyard in the
world now in bearing is owned by
A. 3 Butler, of Fresno, Cal. 1t
contains 6l0 acres. The annual in
come from this vineyard has reached
$500 900.
In the ninsh century European
kings wore wooden shoes. In those
days, in fact, a monarch did not
possess one half the creature COM
forts and luxuries that tie humblest
peasant can now obtain.
Mount Washington is to be cap
ped with the largest electric search
light ever made, and the highest
beam of artificial light in the world.
Under proper conditions it is claim
ed that it can be seen from Boston.
La 1890 the only States that pro-
duced more than a million pounds
of paper daily were New York, Mas
sachusetts, Pennsylvania and Ohio,
but in 1891 two more States, Maine
and Wisconsin, were added to the
list.
The report of the Census Bureau
shows that the average earnings of
all persons employed at the gold and
silver mines during the year 1889
were $725 a year, while the average
output per man amounted to $l,723.
To give an example of the great
poverty in London, in an Eastern
board school with an average attend
ance of 100 children, the school
master says that 100 come without
any having had any breakfast, and
with small prospects of any dinner
or tea. either.
Weaving appears to have been
practiced in China more than 1000
years before it was known in Europe
or Asia. The Egyptians ascribe the
art to Isis, the Greeks to Minerva
and the Peruvians to the wife Of
Nance Capac. The Savlour's vest
or coat had not seam from the top
throughout in one whole piece.
The construction of the world s
longest railroad is progressing rapid
| ly along the river valleys and across
the steppes of Siberia. The western
extremity of the road is the mining
town of MASK, on the eastern side
of the Ural range, and its terminus
is at Vladivostok, on the sea of ia
pan, making total length of 4,785 |
miles, which is nearly twice the |