The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-01-20
INDUSTRIAL BREvlTIEs,
The Cotton Mills Of the South and New
England Close One Of the Most
Prosperous Years,


in Mexico and asuperabundancs Of shoe
makers making to measure.
A drying house for timber has been
erected at Ottawa, In which electricity
is the heating power. This Is the first
establishment Of the kind in the world.
The cod-liver,oil magnate OF the Lotto
den Islands, off Norway, is Peter MuI
Ter, who employs 10000 people in fish
cries, factories, bottling, packing and 30
on.
Champagne owes Its quality TO the
soil, q mixture Of chalk, silica, light clay
and oxide Of iron, and to the great care
and delicate manipulation in manuiact-
ure.
Mre. Increase Sumner Of starke, Fla,
raises her own tea. She gathers three
crops year, and the bushes furnish her
tea which in China would cost her q
large sum.
| An unsuccessful attempt has been
made in Paris to employ women in the
telegraph office in the Avenue de Pop
era, but the work was found much too
heavy for them.
The new brewery tax is causing gem
eral depression in the beer business in
Germany. The Altoona Brewery Union
has already raised ita price three pien-
nigs the half liter.
In England clerks Of large provincial
bank jointly own cottage by the sea,
fifty miles away, where all pass their
holidays, occupying it in detachments
during the summer.
Bishop Hurst says that ninaty-two
acres, bought in Washington for site
for the proposed Methodist University,
have increased in value until they are
worth half q million.
| The fact was developed at the hearing
of case at the Tombs. New York, that
hodcarriers can be found In that city
willing to work for rs cents day and
work ON Sunday at that.
Waco, Tex, is reported to have the
largest aFtssian wellin the United States.
1t Il $50 lest deep, with q diameter Of
ten inches, and throws ], 900, 900 gallons
a day Of perfectly pure but hot water.
4 II is estimated that England's wheat
crop for this year Ia about $4,000, 900
bushels, or less than two bushels for each
Iinhabitant. She must buy at least 150,-
COO, 900 bushels more from some outside
souxca.
This seasons traffic through the Sauli
Ste. Marie canal exceeds by 20 per cent.
the tonnage Of any previous year. In
October alone /, ,I36 steamers, 3g5 sailing
vessels and II RATS passed through the
/ Eault.
Aluminium ID found combined with
i 1856 other minerals, and therefore con
4 stitutes large part Of the crust Of the
earth, but until recently has been very
expensive because Of the difficulty q
separating it.
4 1t is estimated that 1t costs the well.
todo people in this country s125 ,0OO, ,00t
annually to support charitable institu
tiona, while at least $500, ,000, 900 is in
vested in permanent buildings where ths
needy are cared for.
the people Of this country used dur
ing the last fiscal year more than Il, 900,
600 900 postage stampa, and paid nearly
, s30, 1000, 900 for them. They are all man
ufactrred by the American Bank Not
Company in New York.
J The cotton mills Of the South, as vel
ss those in New England, have closet
one Of the most prosperous years in thei
history. Within three years there hal
been development in the industr,
amounting to fully rs per cent.
II The Vanderbilts are making strenuou
efforts to extend the Wagner sleeping
: car service beyond the Missouri river
Heretofore the Pullman Company ha
! virtually had a monopoly Of the sleeping
! car business west Of Kansas City.
The State Of Oregon has thirty-Hil
nurseries, covering 1.576 acres and con
: tanning about 1900, 900 young trees, AM
orchardiats have upward Of 100, 900 acre
of growing trees. 0ne-half Of this acre
: age is In prunee, one-fourth in apple
/ and the remainder in various kinds Q
fruits.
II LIS. Coffin Of Fort Dodge, la, state
! that be has distributed 80, 900 white but
tons among trainmen since last May
The button ID symbolical Of total absti
nenee from intoxicants. The rules gov
: erning the Brotherhood Of Locomotiv
!. Engineers are very strict. Last mont
! there were nearly thirty expulsiona.
q The Oldest whaler in the United State
q ID said to be the Rousseau, now lyin
a diemantled at New Bedford whar
j This vessel wac built in 1901 for 6tephe
Girard Of Philadelphia by Nicholas Vai
: dnaen, and was launched on the Dell
4 ware. Its last voyage Was made In 1856
|, when it returned with 1880 barrels |
J sperm and 1870 barrels Of whale oil.
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