The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-03-24
INDUSTRIAL BREvlTIEs.
The Wages Paid to Chinese Laborers in
China-Buggy With Pneumatic.
Tired Bicycle Wheels.

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The four great ocean routes employ
100 steamships.
All the street cars OF Toledo are pro.
pelled by electricity,
Less than / cent is the value Of the
raw material in violin.
More than 100000 men are employed
in American journalism.
A New York Central locomotive Ia TO
go eighty-two miles an hour.
There were 6OO,OOO,c0O passengers on
American railroads last year.
About 1900 miles of railroad track
were laid during the last year.
A Maryland canning factory put up
1900, 900 cans Of corn last season.
Ohicagoans expect q $4,000, 900
Worlds Fair revenue from cash admis-
sions.
The contract for the construction Of
the South Gila canal In Arizona has Just
been let. The work when completed
will cost $2,000,00O.
An English company has been incor.
porated with $4,000 capital to manu-.
fscture electric bicycles. The storage
battery is to be used.
An Englishman has invented a combi-
nation folding bed billiard table, settee,
table and bureau-sll taking up no more
room than an upright piano.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Western Union Telegraph Company has
over 7S9 600 miles Of wire and nearly
2l,0O0 offices, it opens an average OF eco
new offices annually.
The twin-screw and triple-screw steam
ships with improved engines develop
more power with less coal than the sim
gle-screw engines. The Etruria burns
about 800 tons day.
Engineers are discussing water-stor-
age project for better supply Of water
to the Erie canal, involving a dam 1870
feet in height across the Genesee river
at cost Of $2,760OO0.
1t is stated that in England those parts
OF 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 o mile is the cost the Ninth
avenue (New York; street.car line re-
Gently ran torage-battery experiment
car for. The car weighed six and one.
hall tons, and carried LA storage cells.
A clerk in bicycle store in Kansas
City has designed and is building a new
buggy with pneumatic-tired bicycle
wheels and a number Of improvements
to add strength, lightness and
speed to the vehicle.
Carroll D. Wright, chief Of the United
States bureau Of statistics, reports that
wages in Massachusetts average $1.7O to
every dol ar paid in England, while the
cost OF the same mode of living is SLIT
here to 81 In England.
An alkaloid prepared from atropine
IAN active principle Of belladonnal
which is used by opthalmic surgeons to
expand the pupil Of the eye, is said to
sell for $2,100 a pound. The cost is Of
itself enough to make one open his eyes.
The wages paid to Chinese laborers in
China are about 8 pence per diem, with
rati0ns. The workers are easily con-
tented, demanding only the plainest Of
lood, while for housing they are satisfied
In winter to creep altogether under a
long, low mat shed with a solid back to
the north wind.
Within q six-mile radius Of Charing
Gross, London, there are 270 miles Of
railway and 255 stations, and within a
twelve-mile radius over 400 miles OF line
and 30l stations. The average number
,f passengers carried on week day by
The public conyeyances Of London, in
,luding omnibuses, is 2,500,O00. The
iotal for last year was ri, 100000.