The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-11-28
THE ADVOCATE.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

gardeners, 226 women plumbers ana
345 women dentists.
In Malaga workmen are allowed 10
minutes leisure in every hour to
smoke cigarettes.
The production Of paper from the
hops waste in breweries is being con-
sidered in Germany.
The preliminary surveys Tor the
Pacific Railroad required four seasons,
and cost over 100000.
Experiments are being carried on at
Vermont University looking to the
conversion of culm into fertilizer.
Nearly all of the chamois skin in
this market is made of sheep skin or
goat skin from England and France.
BThe Pacific Ocean is supposed to
cover 6S,OOO,OO0 square miles, or fully
one-third of the whole earth's surface.
A bedroom suit of wood, elabor-
ately carved, made in Michigan, and
exhibited at the Worlds Fair, is val
ued at $1,000.
An English firm claims to have used
band saw Al feet long, since 1870,
the deepest cut being seven feet
through oak,
The contract for the piercing of the
Simplon Tunnel in Switzerland has
been awarded by the government for
$l0,9OO,OOO.
Since 1876 there have been exported
from Cape Colony, South Africa, 3D.
100000 carats of diamonds valued at
about $35O,O00,OO0,
During July there was exported
from the United State, 5,67O,4Oi
ounces of silver bullion, and during
August 8, III, 443 ounces,
Smoking carriages for women have
been placed on Russian railways from
complaints that the non-smoking car
riages were ell tainted with cigarette
smoke.
One outcome of the coal scarcity in
England, caused by the miners strike
has been large increase in the use of
gas and oil engines for power pur-
poses.
The weekly consumption of cotton
In England is now ITO, 900 bales of 400
pounds each, against 10000 bales of
like weight at the corresponding time
last year.
There are in the United States up
ward of $4,000 hotels, exclusively Of
what may properly be termed inns
and taverns and what are commonly
known as apartment houses.
The new Kudlicz method of burn
ing fine coal dust with forced draught
has been applied already to 70 boilers
at several iron works in Germany
with satisfactory results.
handkerchief were first made for
market at Paisley, Scotland, in l743,
and sold for about 81 each. Last
year it is computed that SO,OOO,OOO
dozen were sold in the United States.
1t is stated that here are more than
300 companies in the United States
that employ electrically in mining OPP
erations for light and power. Fully
one-third of the copper refined in this
country is treated electrically.
The proportions of passengers killed
and injured on British railroads dur
ing 1892 from all causes were one in
6,7O1, 049 killed, and one in 64l, 272 in
iured. In 1891 the proportions were
in S,2OS,3S5 killed and one in 524,3Sl,
injured.
A telegrapher in Boston recently
sent So messages in the unprecedented
time OF 80 minutes. The messages
were such as occur in the regular daily
transmissions of business, and avera-
ged 10 words, exclusive of the address
and signature, were also sent.
The most expensive railway system
IN the world is the "Inner Circle" line
of London, which cost, including the
Of land, from $3,OOO,OOO to
s5. 10000 per mile. The last con-
structed mile, between the Mansion
House and Aldgate, cost altogether,
including ''compensations," nearly
100000 600.
The highest smoke stack in the
.4.a ctafaa is nrobably that recently