The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-08-04
BUSINESS BREvITIES.

1t is estimated from the census Of 1890
that the insect pests cost the fruit grow
ers OF the United States about IA, 600, 600
a year.
Statistics are said TO show that the in
PRODUCTION Of machinery into manufac-
tories has decreased the number Of the
unemployed.
The Wagner Company owns 200 par
lor cars and sleeping coaches, valued at
SIC, 800, 900 1.-THE Pullman Company 2, ,366,
valued at $3S,O0O,000.
To make | 900 cubic feet OF illuminate
ing gas eight pounds Of coal, costing 2
cents, and four gallons Of naphtha, cost
ing IL cents, are required.
In the five or six months OF the year
during which the sardine fishery lasts
600, 900, 900 Of these little fish are caught
of the coast of Brittany alone.
The entire number Of locomotives
owned by the German railways in 1892
was l4,788. The number in the United
States in 1891 amounted to 33,563.
There are over 1000 miles OF com
pleted electric railway in the United
States, and in year to come there is
little doubt the total will be doubled.
AT the Maple Sugar Laboratory at
Montpelier, VT, during the past season
4,750,762 pounds Of sugar were tested.
The bounty on this output will amount
to about $72,50O.
In the central part Of the State OF New
York over 5000 people are engaged in
the cultivation Of more than 1000 acres
Of grapes, which produce annually from
10000 to 10000 tons.
The average wage per week Of women
in Kansas and Wisconsin is $b.27; in
Minnesota &c. In Indianapolis the sum
paid for shirt-making ranges from 80
cents to 80 cents dozen.
Admiral Belknap thinks that "since
steam and electricity have taken posses
sion OF the naval soul seamanship is al
most decried as a lost art by the rising
generation Of naval men,"
The area planted in cotton the present
year is estimated at 10, ,70l, 1856 acres, an
increase over last year of 7.20 per cent
and about the same as in 1887; also
showing very little difference from 1888.
The $4,000, 900 which the hat manu-
facturers Of the country have to hand
over to the inventor OF the t-band
used on hats affords striking iilustra-
tion Of the value Of genius when it makes
a hit.
Women do o fair share OF farm work
in nearly all European countries. They
are especially efficient in Norway and
Sweden. Too many men are withdrawn
from profitable occupation to serve az
soldiers.
The total receipts at the New York
for the fiscal year that
ended June 80 were $l38, ,O32, OPS. .94, com
pared with $l2, 1872 ,6l3.90 for the previ-
GUS fiscal year, or an increase OF nearly
$l7 300, 900.
Thelargest State buildingin the United
States and the seventh largest building
in the world is the State capitol Of Texas.
Itwas begun in 1881 and finished in 1883.
1t cost $3,500,000 and was paid for by
100000 acres Of public land, decided to
the capitalists who had the work done.
In 1890 there were about 275 600 women
engaged in money-making occupations,
as follows: One hundred and ten law
yers, 165 ministers, 800 authors, 588
journalists, 2,06l artists, 2, 1856 architects,
chemists and pharmacists, ,108 stock
raisers and ranchers, 5,l35 government
clerks, 2,438 physicians and surgeons,
1882 professional musicians, 56,SO0
farmers and planters, 2l,07l clerks and
bookkeepers, l4,465 heads OF CONNER
cial houses, 5000 public-school teach
ers.
Mrs. 0rmiston Chant, the well-known
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