The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-11-24
BUSINESS BREvITIEs.

| In Japan s4S,562 cotton spindles are
twirling.
Last year l,s76 vessels were built in
this country.
A revival Of Mississippi river COM
merce is expected.
| Virginia produces annually 2,o0O,OOO
bushels Of peanuts.
| Electric railroads, now 30 common, are
not yet ten years old,
Carnegie has a new steel casting that
weighs sixty-four tons.
It cost the government $2,42S,622 to
feed the regular army last year.
The operating expenses Of the rail-
roads last year were $3.50, 1907 1895.
Cape Colony, South Africa, has $780,
600, 900 invested in State railroads,
The oyster beds OF Chesapeake Bay
give employment to $4,000 persons.
One beekeeper Of Reno, New, shipped
$4,000 pounds Of honey to St. Louis.
Eighty million dozen pocket handker-
chiefs were sold in this country last year.
The first consignment Of corn ever
sent to Europe from Mexico is about to
be shipped.
Marquette, Mich, with population
Of 1000 people, pays only 81 per 1000
feet for gas.
The total number Of employees in the
service Of railways in this country last
year was S2l ,4l5.
Near st. Louis 400 acres have been
given up to raising willows for willow
ware mandatory.
Two cotton mills in Shanghai are ex-
clusively in Chinese hands and founded
on Chinese capital.
Two-thirds Of all the cotton duck pro-
duced in the world is made within twen-
ty miles Of Baltimore.
The young cotton-seed.oil industry
has scored q yearly record Of 100000
barrels, representing 1900 tons Of seed,
There are ITO women lawyers in the
United States, and eight have earned
the right to practice before the Supreme
Court.
They do say that Lower California,
where land is very cheap, is as well
adapted for lemon culture as the $1,000
an acre groves Of Sicily.
By the sale Of their lands to the United
States government some OF the Indian
tribes are worth from 5000 to $4,000
per capita, man, woman and child.
A Chicago building society has in
creased its capital from 100000 to
$50, 900, declares the National Loan
Herald. Present assets are $780, 900.
1t is estimated that the richest Of civ
ilized people is the English, with 81 l,236
per capita. In France the average is
said to be 81 ,102; in the United States
$1,02s.
A fiourishing new Baltimore export
industry has been started by ex-senator
Henry G. Davis-that Of shipping West
Virginia coke to the silver-mining regions
OF Mexico.
About 800 to 1000 bolts are used in a
single freight car, and about 1000 are
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addition to the 800 required in two good
six. x.wheel trucks.
Upon recent purchase OF 10000 tons
OF raw sugar, not more than two weeks
supply, the American Sugar Refining
Company will net, it Is estimated, a
profit Of $2360OO.
The tenth census shows that %, ,0l0, 900
inhabitants Of the United States are
supported by agriculture, IL $1,000 by
manufactures and 15,620,000 by COM
merce.
One hundred years ago the United
States imports aggregated $3l, ,000,0
to-day, 1886, ,38l ,421. One hundred years
ago the exports we're valued at 9,109,-
600; to-day, $S47, ,5OS,OA.
There are patents for making paper
from eawdust and shavings, from this
ties and thistledown, from tobacco stalks
and tanbark. 1t is said that there are
over 1000 patents in this country cover
ing the manufacture Of paper.
Over 5000, 900 women are earning in
dependent incomes in this country.
There are some $500 practicing medi-
cine, 5000 managing postoffices, 275
preaching the gospel, and in New York
city alone q, 900 Of them are supporting
their husbands.
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