The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-03-29
THE wOnnD or LABOR,


There are 5000 lighthouses,
Indians first utilized petroleum.
Worth's cheapest dress is $3.50.
A ton OF gold ia worth S495,36O.
Hats are polished by electricity,
Chicago has | 1900 grade crossings,
The emerald supply is decreasing.
China has bridge So miles long,
Uncle Sam has AGO electric roads.
Silk is TO be made from wood pulp,
Chicago will exhibit an Irish village,
Tho VandorbiIts have $4,000 in lace,
New Orleans reports an anti-treat
club,
swedca will cultivate 10000 Florida
acres,
At Calgary beer costs twenty-five
cents glass.
Russians get drunk on watermelon
juice,
Savannah leads in naval storea trade,
Leather comprises 4s,O96 American
firms
We sent England 100000 letters in
1892.
Hawaii has ssO,Ooo,oOO of American
money.
Electric road, have displaced $4,000
h orsea.
Tacoma is building an electric steam
or.
A Chicagoan suggests a titty.story
building,
a London clock dial is twenty-threc
feet in diameter.
Jarrah is the most nearly indestruc-
tible wood.
The woman chemist is getting more
numerous.
Pepper production averages $4,000
tons year.
Inauguration visitors left s9.5Oo,OoO in
Washington.
A Gloversvillo IN. " man runs a
la-pound locomotive.
Sixty.five million admission tickets
will DO ordered ior the Worlds Fair.
Berlin has tho widest train roof on
the continent, that at Anhalt Station,
which Is los feet inches.
Notwithstanding modern improve
ments, it costs more per 1000 feet "a
manufacture lumber than it did forty
ye ars ago.
The banana seeds only in one small
spot on earth, tho Andaman Islands.
Everywhere else it must be raised from
suckers.
A Canadian has invented contriv.
anCe to do away with holding the tele-
phone receiver to the ear while talking
over the wire.
1t is estimated that during the last
five years the turpentine gateress Of
Georgia have destroyed $2OO,0OO,0O(
worth OF pine lumber.
In Denmark it is the law that all
drunken persons shall be taken to their
homes in carriages provided at the ex-
pense Of the publican who sold them
the last glass
The bones OF the whales that the Ger.
man kaiser slaughtered in tho North
sea last summer ara to be turned into
furniture for the Norwegian boat-house
at Potsdam.
A hay saver, consisting OF three
sided device, which enables tho horse t
insert his head into tho manger, bu
does not permit any lateral movcmen
OF it, is late invention.
A newspaper has Just been started il
London, which is printed on n posta
card. The frat number has four illus
tration, comic tragedy, n few Jokes
and puzzles and some advertisements.
The list of steamships which hav
used oil to calm unusually heavy sea
is growing larger every month. Tit
oil is towed in stout bags, which cxude
it slowly and evenly as the vesse
moves.
Tho longest cannon ever forged in
America was completed lately at the
Bethlehem iron works. Tho double six
inch gun tube is sixty.two feet long, ant
required 400 tons OF iron for its material
1t Is claimed that this is tho finest pee
OF gun forging that has been accom-
plished.
In Germany 100000 families are sun
ported from tho care OF the forests, Of
which about $4,000 900 is expended an
nually, S00O,00O people more fndin
employment in the various wood indus
riolOf tho empire The forest acconn
shows an annual profit OF between So
and SG,OoO0O0.
Work is in progress on go buildings
to be used as hotels, in tho immediat
neighborhood Of tho Worlds Fai
grounds. These structures are OF wood
brick or stone, and will contain totG
Of 33,0i5 rooms. They will cost nearl
| Sl0OO,00O. With this abundance OF &C
commodations It is believed that hote
ratios will not be excessive.
Electricity is now used in traction, il
illumination, in telegraphy, submarin
and torrcne, in engineering, In modiCin
and surgery, in agriculture, hortiCultur
aud Horticulture, in manufacturing, |
heating, in cooking, and in yet otho
service There arc thousands Of mile
OF electric railway; u now electric shi
Is nearly completed ut one Of our PaciG
ports; aud we have promise OF ne
kind Of electric balloon.
An enormous planning machine has r.
Gently boon completed in England, On
pablo OF planning block thirty fec
long, twelve wide and ten feet high ovC
five oil It's sides at one setting.
pianos tho top aud sidos Simultaneous
with four emitting tools. two being Gu
ried by tool boxes OH tho cross alidu
aud on Oach side Ia the boxes workin
vertically. There thrco faces arc ther,
ioro dressed In tho usual manno' by til
longitudinal motion OF the table All