Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-24
BUSINESS BREvITIES.


The tin-plate factory at Elwood, Ind,
has resumed work, giving employment
TO 800 men.
Canada supplies nearly all the plum
lbagco used by Amrican manufacturers Of
lead pencils.
Four hundred and forty persons in
this country live on the labor Of every
100 workers.
There are seventy-seven zinc mines in
Prussia, which produce one-half the
worlds zinc.
1T Is stated that women hold l56, 6,08l
shares in Philadelphia building and loan
associations.
The distance from New York to Mel
bourne via San Francisco IL IL ,265 miles I;
to Hongkong, 1880 miles.
Glass bricks are made 30 cheaply that
II seems only matter Of time when
glass houses may come in fashion.
During the last three years English
capitalists have invested 1913, ,O00, 600 in
Mexico and American capitalists $345,-
000,00O.
British manufacturers of agricultural
machinery and hardware acknowledge
that the United States is in keen COM
petition.
Fifty-six years ago the block on which
the Chicago postofiice now stands was
sold at auction for 1905. 1t is now worth
10, ,000,000
The Amoskeag mills, which has closed
Tor the month OF August according TO
vote OF its directors at Manchester, n.
H., employs 5000 hands.
The most expensive fur is the skin oi
the black fox OF Kamtchatka. These an
imals are scarce and hard TO kill, and a
single skin sells for about $1,000.
Toboggan expresses have been feat
ure in the bOwlder district of Montana
the past season, and have been very use
iul in conveying freight TO points off the
main road.
The smallest horse in the world il
named General Tom Thumb He be-
| longs TO a museum out West. He il
three feet high, and weighs only eighty
| five pounds.
The salaries paid TO persons in the
civil service OF the United States amount
TO 10000, 900 annually. This amount
pays the wages OF $780, 900 persons. The
average Is 5000 year.
The fast train over the New York Cen
tral and the Lake Shore between New
York and Chicago must, il is stated,
carry seyenty-five through passengers tc
pay the cost OF running it.
In round numbers the total amount o
life insurance written by the different
insurance companies OF the world IL
| $4,000. 10000 OF this sum Sc, 800, 900.
900 are placed in the United States.
Soil in Egypt IL titled by exactly the
same kind OF plow AZ that used thcr,
5000 years ago. The burrows made are
extremely shallow, and the Clods are
further broken up with big wooder
cudgel.
Notwithstanding the worlds great me
chanical progress there are wine districts
in France, Spain and Italy where the
grapes are still trodden with bare fee
under the idea that the wine il bette
when made 10.
The British insurance companies dur
ing the year 1892 received in premium
el7,5lS,067 and paid out in losses eli,
662,O67. The expenses and commission
paid by forty companies are placed n
over G5,700,000.
Electric street railways in the UnitcC
States have in operation mileage whicl
exceeds the sum OF street railways rur
by other powers, viz: $3.50 miles ruI
10y electricity, I,i6O by horses, GAG b,
cable and $40 by steam.
A writer has figured out that tn,
United States produces 2,2O0 pounds o
grain to each inhabitant; Denmark
2,O05; Canada, 1900; Russia, l,2O0
Roumania, 100; Spain, LOO; France
300; Sweden, 0S0 Argentine Republic
S50i Australia, 7G0; Germany, 799i Bel
gium, 6O0 Portugal 800; Ireland, 800
Scotland, 400; England, $50.