Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-08-25
BUSINESS BREvITIEs.

. The tin-plate factory at Elwood, Ind
= has resumed work, giving employmer
U to 500 men.
Canada supplies nearly all the plum
bago used by Amrican manufacturers {
: lead pencils.
Four hundred and forty persons Il
this country live on the labor of ever
100 workers.
There are seventy-seven zinc mines il
Prussia, which produce one-half tn,
worlds zinc.
1t is stated that women hold 156,0Sl
shares in Philadelphia building and loar
associations.
The distance from New York to Mel.
bourne via San Francisco il II, 265 miles
to Hongkorg, I0,590 miles.
Glass bricks are made so cheaply that
it seems only a matter OF time when
glass houses may come in fashion.
During the last three years English
capitalists have invested 1913, 000, 600 in
Mexico and American capitalists 1885,
900, 00O.
British manufacturers of agricultural
machinery and hardware acknow ledge
that the United States is in keen COM
petition.
Fiity-six years ago the block on which
the Chicago postoftice now stands was
sold at auction for 1905. Ii IL now worth
as, zoo, 600.
The Amoskeag mills, which has closed
Tor the month OF August according to
vote OF its directors at Manchester, n.
H., employs 5000 hands.
Tho t.,r.s H.. =. Al.
the black fox OF kamtchatka. These an
imals are scarce and hard to kill, and
single skin sells for about 81 900.
Toboggan expresses have been feat
ure in the bowlder district OF Montana
the past season, and have been very use
iul in conveying freight TO points off the |
main ROAD.
The smallest horse in the world is 1
named General Tom Thumb. He be- |
longs 10 museum out West. He is
three feet high, and weighs only eighty
1--we pounds.
The salaries paid TO persons in the
civil service OF the United States amount
TO 500 900, 900 annually. This amount
pays the wages OF 10000 persons. The
average is $500 year.
The fast train over the New York Cen
trail and the Lake Shore between New
York and Chicago must, il Is stated,
carry seyenty-iive through passengers to
pay the cost OF running it.
In round numbers the total amount of
lie insurance written by the different
companies of the world is
900. OF this sum IS, 800 Co.,
100 are placed in the United States.
Soil in Egypt Is titled by exactly the
anne kind OF pillow AS that used there
1000 years ago. The burrows made are
extremely shallow, and the clods are
urther broken up with big wooden
'udgel.
Notwithstanding the worlds great me-
hanical progress there are wine districts ,
n France, Spain and Italy where the ,
rapes are still trodden with bare feet
nder the idea that the wine is better
ghen made 20.
The British insurance companies dur.
ng the year 1892 received in premiums
~ ,blS,O67, and paid out in losses ELL :
o2 HoI. The expenses and commissions
aid by forty companies are placed at !,
yer e5,700000.
Electric street railways in the United
tates have in operation mileage which
xceeds the sum of street railways run c
other powers, viz. 5,939 miles run v
y, electricity, AGO by horses, GAG by
able and go by steam. a
A writer has figured out that the II
'nited States produces 1900 pounds OF
rain 70 each inhabitant; Denmark, G
oo5; Canada, 1900; Russia, 1900; p
oumania, l,l50; Spain, LOO; France.
" Sweden, $50; Argentine Republic, ii
70; Australia, 200; Germany, ZOO; Bel. 9,
nm, GOO; Portugal $50; Ireland, 500;
'otland, 490 England. 800. a