Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-09-15
BUSINESS BREyITIEs.

\
: Over 100 kinds of wine are made
n Australia.
An aluminium bridge over Gibralts
is proposed.
:. There are 81 900 lady telegraphers i
the United States.
New South Wales has over 5000, 90
acres OF tin-ore fields.
Belgium has 10000 "schnapps
houses and 5000 schools.
Europe has 5,S45, 600 acres in beets
: producing 40, 400, 600 tons.
Wine CHARTERS in France use NOR
than 50 .000, 900 eggs year.
More than 3,OO0. 0O0, 600 cigarette
were sold in this country last year.
The soldering OF glass and porcelain
with metals rs a novel French process.
| The average wages paid in the Clyde
ship yards are reported at cents per
hour.
The State of North Carolina has mined
nearly $i0,0Oo.000 worth Of gold since
1874.
American cotton goods are gradually
taking the place Of the English produc,
in Hayti.
II costs but % cents to transport ton
OF coal by water from Buffalo TO Duluth,
900 miles.
The weight OF the rail used on the
American roads has been increasing
steadily during the last twenty years.
Sixty million dollars worth OF leather
IL required every year 10 provide boots
and shoes for the inhabitants of Great
Britain.
The steam engines OF the world repre-
sent the work OF .0o0, 0O0. COO men, or
more than double the working popula-
tion OF the earth.
The three Northern States OF New
England will receive government bonn
ties amounting 10 $40, zoe on this YEARS
maple sugar crop.
The cigarette smokers are doing their
best to keep the government IN funds.
They dropped 100000 into Uncle
Sans strong box last year.
Chill is the most prosperous agricult-
ural country OF South America. There
are 7,olu.OD acres under cultivation, OF
which l,lo0.0o0 are irrigated.
In the opinion OF the Portland Oregon
ian this is good timeto pay small debts,
a. 400 viii pay & 900 Of debts in one
day II kept moving actively"
The total product OF the Mexican sill
YER mines from their opening hv the
spaniaris TO the Independence of the
country in 1891 was 2,36s, 952 900.
by the tenth census 100000 inhabi-
tants OF the United States were sup
ported by agriculture, II $40, 900 by
manufactures and l5,620,00o by COM
Inerce.
Homestead farmers in this country
earn $ per cent of the total earnings OF
the nation, and their farms and stock
represent 7 per cent OF the national
wealth.
Chamberlain, S, d., has the largest
artesian well In the world. The flow is
$500 gallons a minute. The well is eight
inches In diameter, and the water il
thrown fourteen feet above the top Of
the pipe.
Daily consumption of something like
5000, coo needles all over the world makes
a pretty big total. Every year the WON
en- OF the United States break, lose and
use about 500, 001,0 900 Of these little in
struments.
A new dredge, said to be the largest in
the world, has been put into operation
ON the Mersey at Liverpool. II is $40
ieet in length, and IL is calculated that il
viii raise 24.0O0 tons of matter daily
from the bar at the mouth of the river. |
Germany's average annual production
OF wine during the last thirteen years
has been 5000, 900 gallons. The area of
land under vine cultivation has varied
but little in that time, being about 800
600 acres. A third OF the total produce
ton IL made in Alsace and Lorraine.
The most important engineering ope- !
rations now being carried on in the
world are the building OF the Manehes-
ter ship canal, upon which already al .
most $So, 100000 have been expended, |
and the opening OF the Iron Gates of the
Danube, which will cost when done from
5000, 900 to $2o, 000. 900.
The countries relatively richest in
horses and horned stock are Argentina
and Uruguay; Austria has the most
sheep Servia the greatest relative num-
Der OF pigs 10 population. The poorest
n horses is Italy in cattle, Portugal in
sheep, Belgium; in hogs. Greece.
The French government. controlling
he pearl islands OF the Pacific, has re,
emily prohibited the use OF diving ap-
'aratas by pearl hunters. This is be-
'ause there has been such demand for
he beautiful pearls OF the Pacific that
he supply is being depleted, and in
little while apparently there would be
lone left. I,