Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-12-27
INDUSTRIAL BREvIrIEs,
Liquor Made From Common Mushrooms
in Africa-Algeria as a CORK
Producing Country.

The Krupp works have 6,542 furnaces.
Indelible ink lie made from banana
juice.
Reading, Pa, made 100000 cisars
this year.
Georgia taxes every cigarette seller
$500 year.
This country mines %, 10000 barrels
Il salt year.
Mexico exported 43,750,OO0 pounds Of
coffee last year.
In India the government runs the
opium business.
Consolidation OF the lead and oil In
terests is contemplated.
The annual liquor bill for the United
States 10 81, 4S4, 100, 600.
There are several jockeys at Newman
ket earning $l5, 900 year.
The hog pack this year will exceed
that OF last by 10000 hogs.
The Union Pacific railroad lie figured
on 10 have cost slc8 778 per mile.
An electric cigar lighter has been In
vented for the benefit Of smokers.
There Is more money spent for eggs
than for -four in the United States.
The whaling season has been success,
the catch being valued at II 500, 900.
The movement OF the cotton crop for
the season to date is over / 800, 600 bales
short.
Russia produced in the past ten years,
it Is said, S7S,6s0, 400 gallons of pure al
cohol.
The aggregate of salaries of postmas-
ters appointed by the President is 49,
$4,000.
Alexandria, Ind, lie to have a IS ,000,-
600 glass plant, the largest in the United
States.
There are about 100 duly qualified fe-
male medical p actitioners in the United
Kingdom.
The Lincoln paper mill at Lincoln,
Neb., has been sold to the paper trust
for 100000.
The damage to wheat and oats in
Michigan by smut this year is estimated
at 81 100000.
Glass in oven doors lie something new.
The cook can see what che or he and the
fire are doing.
The natives Of Liberia prepare sin.
gularly intoxicating beverage from com.
mon mushroom.
A New Hampshire man has invented
a machine that trims and punches belts
in one operation.
The production OF distilled spirits Of
all kinds in this country last year was
III, 1856, ia gallons.
Dublin claims to have the largest
brewery in the world; st. Louis the big
gest in the United States.
Ten million pounds of tea were
brought into the United States last year,
an increase OF nearly third.
1t has been discovered that the weight
required to crush square inch of brick
varies from 1900 to $500 pounds.
The mines OF the world produce
twenty-five tons OF gold every week, and
yet the precious metal remains as scarce
ever.
Most heavy tunnel work Is now done
by machine drilla, driven by com pressed
air, which also serves to ventilate the
works.
Algeria is the greatest cork producing
country in the W, rid, having $500, 900
acres OF cork forests, OF which SOC, 900 are
made to yield regular crops.
Electric heating has made great prog
ress in Ottawa, Canada, and hotels and
private establishments are rapidly
adopting this new convenience.
The oyster dealers Of Baltimore agree
that the oyster supply this year will not
be sufficient to keep their packing.
houses running on even half time.
A drying-house for lumber has been
ere cted at Ottawa, in which electricity
is the heating power. This is the first
establishment of the kind in the world.
The shortage of the hop crop in Otsego
and Schoharie counties, N. Y, is said to
be unprecedented. Twenty-three cents
is offered, but growers are holding their
stock for 80 cents.