Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-31
INDUSTRIAL BREvITIEs.

Japan women load the vessels.
Detroit is building electric boats.
There are $500 electric plants in Ger
many.
There are twenty five national banks
in Chicago.
Twenty eight thousand patents were
Issued IN 1892.
Steam power is successfully applied to
the telling OF trees
Petroleum engines made of aluminium
are to drive balloons.
The dynamite industries OF this conn-
try are worth s6,000,0OO.
A street car can be rented in The CITY
of Mexico for $3.50 day.
There are estimated to be S,4OO street
cars in use in this country.
The men employed upon the railroads
OF the United States number 1884, 0o.
A patent has been granted for device
for tapering fingers and reducing joints.
In Wyoming county, N. Y, farmers
are hiring hands at $25 month with
board.
The census OF 1890 gives to the United
States 32,O67, $3.50 men and 3o,554,37o
women.
During the last ninety-six years S43,-
gl5 600 pounds Of gold we're coined IN
France.
Tennessee is going into the canning
business, and many canneries are pelng
started.
The President OF the United States re-
ceives his salary in monthly instaliments
Of "a, 1867.
| Government statistics place the aver
age income OF American farmers at 81
cents day.
Cincinnati has some eight harness
factories, and their yearly output is
about 5000. 600.
The next big fruit farm to be organized
in Missouri will comprise l2,C0O acres
near Brandsville.
A hog at Fayetteville, N. G., owned by
John Garrison of that town, is said to
weigh $40 pounds.
sugar beets, weighing on an average
of sixteen pounds, have been grown In
Floyd county, Ga.
A number OF farmers in Western Kan.
sas sowed fall wheat in February, and
expect to get big crops.
According to the treasury compute ior
the Presidential salary of $1,000 a veal
is at the rate Of $l3S.Ss day.
1t Is said that Ireland sends annually
&c, goo tons OF eggs-some so, 10000 il
round bere-to England alone.
The Florida coast has floating hote
which moves from place to place, wher
ever the best fishing happens to be.
Silk sheets are now p oduced eas I
luxury" with the expec alton that Their
may grow up large demand for them
There are at the Sault hatcheres il
Michigan $4,000 900 whltefish eggs, 400,
90 OF salmon trout and 100000 brool
: trout.
The State OF Ohio manufactured z, 800,
90 pounds of maple sugar last year
rank ing second in the amount OF pro
duction,
r OF the 10, 255, $40 tons OF pig iron pro
: duced last year the South furnishes
} 2,1ln, 1856 tons, or more than in any pre-
vlous year.
| The forty. one collieries in the Secon
: sylvania last year produced 6,087 81
Z tons OF coal.
The annual expectation OF India rub
Der from Para is said to be upward G
. COCOON 0 pounds, worth from $4,000, 90
( to 10000
= new method of manufacturing glas
( vessels which will not break under sud
I den changes OF temperature is announce
from Germany.
n More than $33,000,0 600 worth OF sea
4 skins have been taken in Alaskan water
3 since the American ownership of th
{ sealing grounds.
1 Recently compiled statistics show tina
the locomotive building in the Unite
I States in 1892 was about 10 per cent les
than in the year 1891.
: A large party of Eastern manufactul
/, ere recently started on a tour throug
Mexico Tor the purpose OF introducin
American goods into that country.
The licorice plant is chiefly grown O.
D the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates
9 in localities where for three months dun
7 ing the prevalence of hot winds the TEN
perature reaches 1O4 degrees and fo
i three months often reaches so degree
a below at night. The remaining 81
8 months are moderate and healthy.