The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-03-18
INDUSTRIAL BREvrrlES.
The Wages Paid to Chinese Laborers In
China-Buggy With Pneumatic.
Tired Bicycle Wheels.

The four great ocean routes employ
100 steamships.
All the street cars OF Toledo are pro
PEELED by electricity.
Less than l cent is the value Of the
raw material in violin.
More than 1900 men are employed
in American journalism.
A New York Central locomotive 10 to
go eighty-two miles an hour.
There were 6OO, 0OO, 100 passengers ON
American railroads last year.
About 1000 miles OF railroad track
were laid during the last year.
A Maryland canning factory put up
4,ON,0 900 cans of corn last season.
Chicagoans expect $4,000, 900
Worlds Fair revenue from cash admis-
sions.
The contract for the construction OF
the South ella canal in Arizona has Just
been let. The work when completed
will cost $o,OOo,OOO.
An English company has been incor.
porated with $4,000 capital to manu-.
tacture electric bicycles. The storage
battery is to be used.
An Englishman has invented comb.
nation folding bed billiard table, settee,
table and bureau-all taking up no more
room than an upright piano.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Western Union Teleg graph Company has
over 759 900 miles of wire and near v
2l,0t0 offices, it opens an average OF o Q
new offices annually.
The twin screw and triple-screw steam
ships vita improved engines develop
more power with less coal than the sin.
gle-screw engines. The Et,uria burns
about 500 tons day.
Engineers are discussing a water-sto--
age project for a better supply of water
to the Erie canal, involving a dam l3u
ieet In height across the Geneses river
at q cost OF 81 76o, 0C0.
1t is stated that in England those parts
oil locomotives which are liable to rust
are made OF galvanized iron, and that
this includes the inside OF tender tanks
and also the coal spaces.
Nine cents = mile is the cost the Ninth.
avenue New York. street-car line re-
Gently ran a storage battery experiment
car Tor. The car weighed six and one.
nall tons, and carried IA storsge cells.
A clerk in a bicycle store in Kansas
C.ty has designed and 10 building a new
buggy with pneumatic tired bicycle
wheels and . mum Der Of improve
calculated to add strength, lightn ess an d
speed to the vehicle.
Carroll d. Wright, chief OF the United
states bureau OF statistics, re ports that
wages IN Massachusetts, average 81. 10 to
every dol ar paid in England, while the
cost OF the same mode Of living is sll7
here to 81 in England.
An alkaloid prepared from atropins
an active principle OF belladonna,
which IS used by opthalmjc surgeons TO
expand the pupil OF the eye, is said to
sell for So, 100 pound. The cost 10 Of
Itself erolsh to make one open his eyes.
The wages paid to Chinese laborers in
China are about p4nce per diem, with
rations. The workers are easily con-
tented, dem ndlnz only the plainest OF
food, while Tor housing they are satisfied
In winter 10 creep altogether under a
long, low INST she'd with solid back to
the north wind.
Within a six-mie radius OF Chariuy
Cross, London, there are 270 miles OF
railway and 255 stations, and within a
TIVE ve-mile radius over 40 IN les OF line
and 3Ol stations. The average number
Of passengers carried on a week dav BY
the public eonveyances OF London. in.
Guiding omnibuses, 10 $500, OOD. The
total Tor last year was 777.oo0,oc0.