The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-04
WORLD OF LABOR.

| WORLD OF LABOR.
Echoes from the Work Shop and
the Busy Mill.
News and Happenings of Interest in the
Fields of The Mechanic and
Artisan.
Calais is lace centre.
Chicago has 6,G00 saloons.
/ Edison is worth So 900, 600.
Dairy schools grow in favor
Chicago will have an L road.
Frisco leads in cable roads,
London has 700, 900 houses.
Cotton is ginned by electricity.
Uncle Sam has 49, 600 Chinese.
! False teeth are made for horses.
The South will try tea planting
California has girl blacksmith.
An electric machine counts coin.
| We make 30, 900 watches week.
Brooklyn has copper dwelling.
| Indians work on Michigan farms.
The woman physician is spreading.
Venezuelans pay 800 barrel for -four.
Telegraphy is taught in Michigan's jail.
1t takes five years 20 tan az elephants
skin.
| Glasgow's underground road is nearly
ready.
! China made the first suspension bridge
A ~fr1n
preached.
apolis
An electric road will connect Antwerp
and Brussels.
| Georgia took in 100000 on watermslons
this season.
| England employs 5000 women and girls
In and about its coal mines.
Chinese control almost the entire shoe
making business In California.
Krupp's great gun works at Essen con-
sumo l, $3.50 tons of coal and coke day.
| In the Italian silk trade there are III, 600
women employed and II, 700 men.
| A company has been organized in New
foundland to gather ice from icebergs.
In Saxony about 40 per cent. of the work
ingmen earn less than $3.50 per year.
| An adult laboring man wastes five ounces
OF muscle in the course of his daily labor.
The lands in Germany devoted to grain
used in beer production would support So
100000 people.
The world consumes 1900, O00 600 pounds
OF paper In year, and is supplied by $500
paper mills.
1t is estimated that 40 per cent of those
who start in business fall, March being the
slackest month for business.
Last year one colored man graduated
from Harvard college This year three
young colored men graduated from Am
herst.
California mineralogists believe that
there is excellent chance of California be-
coming great diamond producing region
at some time.
The highest viaduct in the world has just
been erected in Bolivia, over the Lea river,
9. 1913 feet above the sea level and 400S feet
shove the river.
John A. Cockerill AYERS that 'sfor any
legitimate business enterprise guaran tee
ing 4 per cent profit S100,OOO0OO can be
raised in New York city in twenty four
hours.
A Maiden man has invented device for
lifting the lid of street letter box by
placing the foot on treadle al the foot of
the post to which the box is attached.
u
the Bowery in New York, with no money
and little to eat, was next met In Paris,
luxuriously enjoying an income of 81 400
day.
Out Of total of 73, 324 paupers in aims
houses in the United States in the year
covered by the eleventh census 81. Is per
cent. were white and S.S5 per cent were
colored.
Harvest hands must be scarce in Orland,
Cal, when women have to work at hayine
There were two women dressed in mems
clothing hauling hay into that town last
week.
According to published guide to the
railroads of the United States there are, or
lately were. seventeen different gauges in
the country, varying from feet to feet
inches in width
1t is the custom among Berlin bakers to
sell bread at fixed price. The sterding
price of a loaf of bread in the Prussian
capital is about IL cents. On the other
hand, the loaf has no fixed weight, but rises
or falls in the scale with the price of -four.
The longest railroad is in this country,
or rather in Cansda-the Canadian Pacific
the main line OF which is nearly 1900
miles long. The company controlling the
largest mileage is the Atcnison, Topeka g.
Santa Fe: it contains 1884.
A Japanese soldier has invented a gun
which enables the possessor to send "a
cloud of binding DUST into the eyes of
foe at distance of II feet. 1t is said that
the poor Zoe is thereby absolutely deprived
of sight, and, therefore, of course, at the
mercy of his assaiant.
The largest boat ever built on or for
fresh water will soon be under construc-
ton at West Bay city. Mich. The contract
for it was closed few days ago. IL will be
$50 feet keel and 45 feet wide Her ex-
IRENE length will be nearly 400 feet, and
she will carry on 16 feet of water not less
than 4, 500 tons Of dead weight.
FINE BATHING.
A q la Pa rlr rocnrt IN tho I2ia l,.aade