The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-02-17

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.


Newmarket jockeys earn S15, 600
ye"f
European locomotives have no head
lights.
There are $4,000 Western Union
Offices.
North German railway cars are not
heated.
The South's rice crop is 225, 000,0OO
pounds.
London has horse accident preven-
tion society.
British India has 10,417 licensed
opium shops
Five million dollars is the cost of
Scotch palace.
Tine world railroads employ 109, 900
locomotives.
A ton of coal yiolds nearly ten thou
sani feet Of gas.
The worlds steam power equals 49,
coo 900 horse power.
The yearly consumption of coal in
London is II, 600, 600 tons.
a revolver has been invented that
shoots seven times q second
The dyeing of one piece of linen re-
quires eighteen distinct processes.
Perfumes made in this country are
Just rs good rs the French article.
The railways OF the country repre-
sent capitalization of S9,S71, ,37S,3S9
Four.fi fifths of the engines now work.
lug in the world have been constructed
during the last 20 years.
In making champagne the grapes
are squeezed six times, each press ure
making wine of o different quality.
The arid region of the United States
comprises 1900, 600 square miles, or
near,y one-third of the entire country.
Electricity is used for making forg-
ings, augurs, railroad spikes, ball bear
ings aud other articles hitherto made
by hand.
The Languedoc Ship Canal in France,
by short passage of 14S miles, saves
sea voyage of 1000 miles by the
straits of Gibraltar.
The total number of persons en-
ployed by our railways is 749,301, ex-
elusive Of the employees Of express
companies connected with the roads.
Very few boots and shoes are inn
ported into Mexico. There are many
tanneries in Mexico and superabund-
ance Of shoe makers making to meas
ure.
The Danes lead the world Is butter
makers. Danish butter has taken the
first prize at most of the Worlds Fairs,
including the Philadelphia Centen-
NAL.
A German scientist proposes disin.
fection of rivers and sewers by cleo
tricity. He would pass current
through the fluids and kill the
germs.
The COZ liver oil magnate Of the Loft
oden Islands, off Norway, is Peter
Muller, who employs 70, people in
fisheries, factories, bottling, packing
and so on.
Champagne owes its quality to the
soil, mixture of chalk, silica, light
clay and oxide of iron, and to the
great care and delicate manipulation in
manufacture.
Small electric lamps are being tried
by the London police in place of the
old-fashioned oil bulls-eyes. The ex-
periments have proved highly satisfac-
tory thus far.
In England clerks of large provincial
banks Jointly own u cottage by the sea,
fifty miles away, where all pass their
holidays, occupying it in detachments
| during the summer.
Granite for columns, balusters, round
posts and urns is now worked chiefly
| in lathes, which, for the heaviest work,
are made large enough to handle blocks
25 feet long and feet in diameter.
Waco, Texas, is reported to have the
largest artesian we'll in the United
States. 1t is 1850 feet deep, with
| diameter OF ten inches, and throws
| 1,500,0 900 gallons day of perfectly
pure but hot water.
There are in existence, it is claimed,
| specimens of paper made from rags as
early as the Fourteenth Century, the
| oldest extant being, it is reported, o
| letter from Joinville to Louis x, of
| France dated A. d. 1915.
The people of this country used
during the last fiscal year more than
| 1000, 900, 900 postage stamps and
paid neary $50, 900, 900 for them. They
ure all manufactured by the American
Banknote Company in New York.
The State of Oregon has thirty-six
nurseries, covering 1,576 acres, and
containing about 9,O0O,O 900 young trees,
and orchardists have upward of 100,-
900 acres of growing trees. One-half
OF this acreage is in prunes, one.fourth
in al pes and the remainder in various
kinds of fruits.
Furnace Stag, or the refuse of blast
furnaces, only some two or three years
ago, was the source of the greatest
annoyance to makers of pig iron, for.
as nobody would accept it as o gift, it
occupied valuable ground, and at the
same time was most unsightly heap.
Since then it has become an article of
value and of considerable commercial