Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-24
INDUSTRIAL BREvITIEs.
The Wages Paid to Chinese Eaborers In
China-Buggy With Pneumatic
Tired Bicycle Wheels.

The four great ocean routes employ
LOO steamships.
All the street cars of Toledo are pro
PEELED ny electricity.
Less than | cent is the value OF the
raw material in VIC in.
More than 2, $1,000 men are employed
IN American journalism.
A New York q. MIRA locomotive is to
go eighty-two miies au hour.
There were 500, 400, 90 passengers on
Amt rican railroads last year.
About 900 miles OF railroad track
were lad during the last year.
A Maryland canning factory put up
4,0b,,OO0 cans OF corn last season.
Chicsgnans expect $lO,c0o,0O0
Woriu's Fair revenue from cash admls-
SONS.
The contract for the construction OF
the South Gila canal in Arizona has just
been let. The work when completed
will cost $2,O0o,000.
porated with $4,000 capital to manu-.
facture electric bicycles. The storage
battery is to be used.
An Engishman has invented combi-
nation folding be d billiard table, settee,
table and bureau-sll taking up no more
room than an upright piano.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Western Union Telegraph Company has
over 739 900 miles of wire and nearly
81, 900 offices, 1t opens an average OF $40
new Offices annually.
The twin screw and triple-screw steam
ships with improved engines develop
more power with less coal than the sim
gle-screw engines. The Etruria burns
about 800 tons a day.
Engineers are discussing water-stor-
age project for better supply of water
to the Erie canal, involving dam 1870
ieet in height across the Genesee river
at cost Of 70, $50, 900.
It is stated that in England those parts
of locomotives which are liable to rust
are made of galvanized iron, and that
this includes the inside OF tender tanks
and also the coal spaces.
Nine cents mile is the cost the Ninth
avenue (New York; street-car line re-
Gently ran storage battery experiment
car for. The car weighed six and one
half tons, and carried IA storage cells.
A clerk in a bicycle store in Kansas
City has designed and is building new
buggy with pneumatic tired bicycle
wheels and number of improvements
calculated to add strength, lightness and
speed to the vehicle.
Carroll d. Wright, chief OF the United
States bureau OF statistics, reports that
wages in Massachusetts, average $1.7O to
every dol ar paid in England, while the
cost OF the same mode of living is LIZ
here to 81 in England.
An alkaloid prepared from atropine
Gan active principle of belladonnal,
which is used by opthalmic surgeons to
expand the pupil of the eye, is said to
sell for so, 100 a pound. The cost is of
itself enough to make one open his eyes.
The wages paid 10 Chinese laborers in
China are about pence per diem, with
ratlons. The workers are easily con-
tented, demanding only the plainest of
food, while for housing they are satisfied
in winter to creep altogether under a
long, low INST shed with solid back to
the north wind.
Within a six-mile radius OF Charng
Gross, London, there are 270 miles OF
railway and 255 stations, and within a
tive ve-mile radius over 40 miles of line
and 30l stations. The average mum Der
OF passengers carried on a week day by
the public conveyances OF London, in
Guiding Omnibuses, is 2,50n,00). The
total for last year was III, 100000.