The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-06-02
BUSINESS BREyITIEs.

ANEW medicine bottle indicates the
hours ut which the drug is to be taken
The deposits at American saving,
banks amountedinl 1891 ~ ,654, ,0OO, 600
Sixty per cent Of the shoes used in the
United statesarem madein Massachusetts,
The coal and coke business of Colorado
is now in the hands Of four great com
panies.
The exports Of petroleum from th,
United States last year were 682 200, ,00(
gallons.
1t Is estimated that Butte, Mont, will
produce l3O,00O,00O pounds Of copper
this year.
The gold and silver product of Mexico
is about $40, 100000 per annum, princi
pally silver.
The cost Of boots and shoes worn on
in the United States every year is more
than $400, 100000.
Seventy per cent of the people OF Cey
lon live by agriculture. The percentag,
in Britain is 1914.
Glassworkers are so scarce at Pitts
burg that employees dictate what kind o
glass shall be made.
During January and February Of thil
year 902,082 punches Of bananas wert
imported to this country.
Near Cordoba a Mexican syndicate |,
experimenting with tea-planting. Chi
nese labor is used in part.
Steamers and sailing vessels under tn,
British flag number almost 1900; un
der the United States flag, 3,297.
The newspapers in Germanyare large
ly sold by women, and the small newsboy
OF America is unknown in Berlin.
In the Island of Ceylon 100000 acre,
are devoted to the cultivation of cocoa
nuts and 40,500 acres to cinnamon.
The Edison Electric Illuminating Com
pany OF New York has increased its cap
ital stock from s6,500,000 to $l0,0000 900
The Chaplin iron mine at lshpeming
Mich, has decided to add 800 men to Id
force and increase production to 500, ,00l
tolls Il year.
The product Of pig iron in this coun
try has very greatly increased during th,
past few years, while that Of Englant
has largely decreased.
In With, East Africa, they are maxim,
sugar from cotton seed that is said to b,
fifteen times sweeter than that mad,
from Louisiana sugar cane.
Senator Mills says that for ten year
the railroads Of Texas have been oper
ated at an actual loss Of 81 ,000, ,000a yea
to the railroads themselves.
For the twelve months ending Apri
30, 1893, $50 national banks were estab
lished in the United States, with an ag
gregate capital Of $l4,325,000,
A German journal states that in tn
year 1889 the quantity Of cotton pro
duced in the whole world amounted t,
IL 400, 900 bales, while in 1870 ii reache,
only 6,200,O00 bales.
In the past twelve months $50, 100000
of the silver notes issued under the lay
Of 1890 have been added to the circula
ton, while the gold certificates in circu
lation have decreased $4A 100000.
There are three large porcelain iacto
ries in Great Britain, viz. Derby, Wor
cester and Stoke-on-Trent. The one Il
Derby employs something like 00hands
and many eminent artists are engaged il
designing and painting for it,
The cocoanut tree is the most valuabl
of plants. Its wood furnishes beams
raiters and planks, its leaves umbrella
and clothing, its fruit food, oil, intoxi
cants and sugar, ats shells domestic uten
sils, its iibers ropes, sails and mating.
The coffee fields Of Brazil cover q
area Of 100000 acres, and contain up
ward Of S00,000,0O0 trees-that is, 40
per acre-each tree producing on an Nv
erage one pound Of berries per annum
The industry finds employment for owe
500, 900 men.