Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-10-05
BUSINESS BREvITIES.

In Paraguay all the field work Is done
by women.
As rule European railroads have no
grade crossings.
Eight thousand banks still do business
in this country.
Americans smoke more than 2, ,OOO, 900, :
600 cigars annually.
Over 1000 cars are used on the street
railroads Of New York.
Nearly 300 men are employed by the
New York custom-house.
Funerals in the United States cost up
ward of $25,OOO, 600 year.
Sheep and deer will be raised on a
l,OOO-acre farm at Halifax, Vt.
One hundred thousand seals represent
the catch for the season OF 1893.
About $3.50, 200, 900 of American capi-
tai finds employment in Mexico.
The estimated cotton crop for 1898 is
6,7l7, l42 bales, the smallest since 1867.
Silver agitation in the United States
has not affected the Mexican silver mar
ket.
Land il titled with the same kind of a
plow in Egypt that was used 5000 years
ago.
1t takes 5000 Of the kind Of chickens
that are raised in Kansas to make a car
load.
The property valuation OF New York
city has increased $500, 900 900 in twelve
years.
Over 80,000,000 eggs are estimated to
be used every year by wine CHARTERS in
France.
Figuring corn at 40 cents bushel, the
American crop was worth in 1892 $780,
100000.
The wine crop of this country, it is cf.
timated, will exceed 26,0O0,O0O gallon,
this year.
The worlds supply OF diamonds is
twenty times greater than it was thirty
years ago.
Lloyd's reports 1,008 vessels lost in
1892, OF which 2i0 were British and IN
American.
The Merrimac river is Haid to prope
more machinery than any other Ameri
can stream.
An Englishman has patented sub.
marine gas stove for heating the wate'
in bath tubs.
Over l30,000 motherless chickens ar,
daily turned out by incubators in the
New England States.
The inventor Of the rubber tip for leac
pencils is said TO have realized 100000
for this apparently trifling device.
The latest labor-saving machine cleans
fish. Now, il there were only one tt
catch one, the anglers outfit would ir
truth be complete.
Averaging the whole country, there
are in round figures five cows per square
mile; in New England there are twelve
cows per square mile.
Steel has been in use for ship building
only fourteen years, yet it IL estimated
that 06 per cent OF the vessels built Al
the present day are Of steel.
1t IL just $50 years since the first hand.
kercheis were made. They were manu-.
factured at Paisley in Scotland, and were
originally sold for 81 apiece.
The life insurance companies OF the
United States, taking no account OF as
sessment corporations and societies, hold
assets to the value OF about $3.50, 900, 600
A London inventor has projected Il
vast water scheme TO enable the gold de.
posits in the interior OF Western Aus.
tralia to be worked with advantage
this by means Of artesian well water.
Hunters of alligators in Florida are
paid less than 81 for each good skin by
the tanners. In 1880 the State shipped
away 10000 alligator skins, but in 1890
the number had dwindled to 10000.
Yeast for bread-making was first man
ufactured in 1884. 1t is computed that
over 1900, 900 pounds enter into the daily
bread of the people of this country,
while double this amount Is used in Eu-
rope.
Pens can be made out of eight metals
steel, brass, copper, gold, silver, plati-
mum, amalgam and aluminium. Alu-
minium pens are still novelty, and are
said to last much longer than any other
metallic pens.