The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-04-08
INDUSTRIAL BREyITlES.

Bottles are blown by machinery at
Vineiand, n. j.
Uncle Sans boys have $50, 900, 900 Of
capital invested In Hawaii.
The Angora goat supplies the hair
which adOrne ordinary dolls.
Te ephone chat oOsJs 81 for three min.
utes between Paris and London.
There are now nearly 200 women prac-
ticlng dentistry in the United Sta es.
Eighty-six Of the 355 towns in Massa-
chusetts contain no resident physician.
There are in the United States more
than 200 distinct and separate railways.
The L,tchfeld Gar Works in Indiana
are about TO be moved 10 Birmingham,
Ala.
Over 100 electric cars are to he built
at once at Plttsburg Ior Chicago com
pany.
New England capitalists have pur.
chased $75 900 worth Of Texas tim Der
lands.
Several fleets Of river boats are 10 be
established this year on the Western
rivers.
The Armour Packing Company has in.
corporated in New Jersey; capital, 81,
100000.
Wooden-soled shoes are being slowly
introduced in the cheap shops.-PhiLa-
dolphin Record.
The novelty OF the Columbian stamps
is wearing off, and the old-timers are re-
turning 10 favor.
Makers OF maple sugar in Vermont say
that the supply this year will exceed
100000 pounds.
The Lingham gold mine in Belmont,
Hastings county, Ontario, is proving
highly profitable.
In some OF the Eastern shoe blacking
cellars you can have your high hat pol
ished by electricity.
Canning factories, it is reported. are
being erected in large numbers in vari-
Gus parts OF Georgia.
1t is reported that Melbourne, Aus
tralia, is overilowed with men who want
work, but are unable to secure it.
Chautauqua county, N. Y, has $4,000
acres OF bearing vines and 500 acres OF
young vines not in bearing.
For filty-two consecutive miles on the
Boston and Albany railroad, it is said =,
there is not a grade crossing.
An ounce Of pure gold is worth 500. GA !;
therefore, a ton Of pure gold, which con-
tains 24,0y0 ounces, is worth S495,360.
Last year there was borrowed out OF
banks and trust com panes in New York
and Brooklyn on rea estate SIS, ,0O0, 900.
1t is said that 5000 miles OF electric
road will ne added this year. One road
in Pennsylvania is to be eighty miles
long.
A Clearfeld Pa lumberman, Simon
Flynn, will run 35,G0J,00J feet OF logs
down the Susquehanna river to the saw
mills.
The turpentine gatherers of Georgia, it
is estimated, have during the past five
years destroyed 5000, 100000 worth OF
pine timber.
Millions upon millions of herring are
taken every year 1t is said that there
are more herring eaten than any other
kind of fish.
1t is estimated, the Pittsburg Dispatch
says, that Al 800, 900 cottages could he
erected out OF the standing timber in the
State OF Washington.
There came into New Orleans in two
days of last week nine steamers and one
schooner, bearing 100000 punches of
bananas and $4,000 cocoanuts.
The largest pumping plant in the
United States was that placed in mine
at Iron Mountain, Mich. 1t pumps
1900, 900 gallons in twenty-four hours.
Now that the Pennsylvania miners
have an eight hour law, some people are
inclined to think they will have to keep
we'll organized to get any good out of it.
A strong effort is being made in New
Jersey to defeat the law which makes
fl ty-tive hours the limit of weeks
work. 1t is claimed that the law is un-
constitutional.