The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-22
WORLD OF LABOR.
Resonant Echoes from the Busy
Mill and Workshop.
News and Happenings Of Special Interest in
the Various Fields ofthe Mechanic
and Artisan.

chants.
Last year we issued 220S0 patents.
Astor's income was $1,000 an hour.
Toledo gas is 80 cents per ZOO feet.
Scranton has a 400, 900 pound wheel.
Russia has one playing card factory.
Our watches are crowding the Swiss.
Electric mining machines are successful.
South America has its first electric car.
Germany is experimenting on paper rails.
Maine ships millions of apples to Eng
land.
England will join France by postal tn De.
China clsims to have made the first
suar.
Georgia will ship 5000 cars of watermel-
London has secondhand tombstone mer-
chants.
Clocks are regarded as curiosities by the
Rindoos.
Southern Roumelia sends most of our
altar Of roses.
Part of the Southern Pacific road is bal
lasted with salt.
a silkworm's thread is one-thousandth
part Of an inch thick.
Huntsville, Ala. is to have third cotton
factory, costing 100000.
A street car line in Leavenworth, Kan,
is 10 be run by compressed air.
In China, slips of mulberry bark serve as
money in the interior towns.
A Florida firm is making for foreign po-
tentates cigars that cost $500 a thousand.
The wheat crop of this country is pro-
duced on less than per cent. of its land.
successful device has been patented
for doing away with the smoke from tug
boats.
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furnish four-tifths OF the cloves consumed
by the world.
A clipper ship for every day in the year
is required to remove Calfornias surplus
wheat 20 Europe.
An ancient copper mine, which was first
worked /, lS3 years ago, is about to be re-
opened in Musashi, Japan.
French reporters now take notes at
night by the light of a tiny lncandescent
lamp attached to the pencil.
About three hundred organ grinders ar
rive in London every June from Italy, and
leave again about October.
The Greensboro (Ky) Wooden Mills
company is now nearly ready for business.
Their agents are already contracting for
wool.
Duluth, the zenith city of the unsalted
seas is the center of one of the most valu-
able and prolific iron ore bearing regions
of the world.
The Salvation Army publishes thirty-one
weekly newspapers and five monthly
magazines, with total annual circulation
of $4,000 GOO copies.
A man in Harrisburg claims to have in
vented an underground system for pro-
peliiag street cars, which is really the
trolley system reversed.
War is expensive in the single item of
powder. A statistician has figured it out
that the British feet fired of 800 pounds
of gunpowder at the battle of Trafalgar
bay.
a stenographer In circuit court in
Michigan the other day wrote from dicta-
ton 1924 words of unfamiliar matter in one
minute. This is at the rate of five and 8
half words a second.
Kansas City is now experimenting with
q system by which cold air is to be con-
veyed by pipes into business houses and
dwellings. and ice made in refrigerators at
one-third its present cost.
Cornish miners are the most expert in
the word, besides being in other respects
desirable immigrants. Thousands of them
have come TO the United States, and have
greatly assisted in developing the mineral
resources of the country.
The question comes up: "Are Mr.. Edi-
sons patents Validl" With the pull on the
patent Office which Mr.. Edison has he
ought to be able to make them valid, If they
are not-and there may be reason for the
doubt.
The tea plant can be grown as well in
many parts of the United States as in any
district of China, but until the American
laborer can live on 3 or cents day, no
one need expect that tea will become an
extensive article of production in this
country.
1t is said that four-ffths of the steam
engines of the world have been constructed
within the last twenty five years. The
total horse power is estimated at 80 000, 600,
Of which the United States has Z 500, 600
Great Britain, 100000; Germany, 4,50O,-
600; France, 100000, and Austria, !, 500,-
OOO.
A curious aud profitable business ha s
grown up in the Maine woods about the
sawmills, IN the utilizing of the immense
quantities Of sawdust by compression.
Thousands of tons of sawdust are pressed
into compact blocks ano bales, and in this
form is finding ready market for kindling
and fuel in the eastern cities.
The largest wooden bridge in the world
is that at Two Medicine, on the ST. Pau
and Manitoba railway. 1t is 751 feet long
aud 2ll feet above the water. In this
bridge are $50, 600 feet of lumber, and any
one piece can be removed and replsced
when worn out without disturb ing the rest
Professor Elihu Thomson, in a recent
article states his belief that 100, 600 horse
power at 100000 volts can be transmitted
R40 miles through three wires about as
large as 6 good-sized knitting-needle, and
moreover, that this can be sent under
ground through q small pipe, using only
cotton and cheap oil as an insulator.
An old restaurant bill, printed in Rich
mond, Va. in January, 1854, gives The
wartime prices In confederate money
soup, Sl.50: chickens, $3.50; roast beef So
ham and eggs, So; raw oysters, 81; coffee
81; bread and butter, Sl.50: a bottle o.
champagne, 500; drink of rye whisky
81. bottle of ale, S12 and cigar g.
II the most advanced continental glass
factories the blowing is no longer don,
by the mouth, but by compressed air
improvements to other departments o
manufacture have also been introduced
Where lead is used in mixing the workmel
wear masks, in which are inserted sponge
on level with the nose and mouth, so tina
the danger OF poisoning will be reduced t
q minimum.
THE NEWEST P0KER LEGEND.
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