Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-06
BUSINESS BREvITIEs.

BUSINESS BREvITIES.
: In Paraguay all the field work Is dor
by women.
As rule European railroads have Il
grade crossings.
Eight thousand banks still do bushes
in this country.
Americans smoke more than 2, 200 900
0OO cigars annually.
Over 1000 cars are used on the stree
railroads Of New York.
Nearly 300 men are employed by tn
New York custom-house.
/ Funerals in the United States cost up
ward Of $4,000, 900 year.
Sheep and deer will be raised on
l,0O0-acre farm at Halifax, Vt.
One hundred thousand seals represen
the catch for the season Of 1898.
About $3.50, 000, 900 Of American CAPT
tai finds employment in Mexico.
The estimated cotton crop for 1893 Il
CITY, 142 bales, the smallest since 1867
Silver agitation in the United States
has not affected the Mexican silver mar.
ket.
Land Ii titled with the same kind OF q
pillow 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, 000, 900 in twelve
years.
Over $4,000, 200 eggs are estimated to
be used every year by wine CHARTERS in
France.
Figuring corn at 10 cents bushel, the
American crop WAS worth In 1892 1850,
900, 600.
The wine crop Of this country, II is e..
tlmated, will exceed 26,000,00 gallons
this year.
The worlds supply OF diamonds il
twenty times greater than 1t was thirty
years ago.
Lloyd's reports 1,00s vessels lost In
1892, OF which 249 were British and 1875
American.
The Merrimac river IL said to propel
more machinery than any other Ameri-
can stream.
An Englishman has patented SUBJ
marine gas stove for heating the water
in hath tubs.
Over 10000 motherless chickens are
daily turned out by incubators in the
New England States.
Tho inventor OF the rubber tin for lead
pencils IL said 10 have realized 800, 900
Tor this apparently trifling device.
The latest labor saving machine cleans
hsh. Now, II there were only one to
eatch one. the anglers outfit would in
ruth be complete.
Averaging the whole country, there
sre In round figures tive cows per square
mile; In New England there are twelve
'ows per square mile.
Steel has been in use for ship-building
'nly fourteen years, yet II IL estimated
nat M per cent OF the vessels built at
he present day are OF steel.
II Is just $50 years since the first hand
ierchiefs were made. They were manu-
actured at Paisley In Scotland, and we're
originally sold for ~ apiece.
The life insurance companies OF the
United States, taking no account OF as
essinent corporations and societies. hold
assts to the value OF about $3.50, 600, 600.
A London inventor has projected a
'ast water scheme TO enable the gold de- |
'osits in the interior OF Western Aus
ralia to DO worked with advantage
his by means OF artesian we'll water.
Hunters Of alligators in Florida are
aid less than 81 for each good skin by
he tanners. In 1889 the State shipped |
way 1000 alligator skins, but in 1890
he nnmber had dwindled to 10000.
Yeast for breal-makng was first man
factnred in 1884. II is computed that
yer 2,OO0, 600 pounds enter into the daily
real OF the people OF this country,
lille double this amount Is used in Eu-
ope.
fens can be made out OF eight metals
steel brass, copper, gold, silver, pati-
um, analgam and aluminium. Alu-
linium pens are still novelty, and are
nd 70 last much longer than any other
'etaliic pens.