Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-01-20
INDUSTRIAL BREvITIEs,
The Cotton Mills Of the South and New
England Close One Of the Most
Prosperous Years.

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Very few boots and shoes are imported
into Mexico. There are many tanneries
in Mexico and superabundanceo OF shoe
makers making to measure.
A drying house for timber has been
erected at Ottawa, in which electricity
IL the heating power. This is the first
establishment OF the kind in the world.
The cod-liver oil naagnate Of the Lotto
den Islsnds, off Norway, is Peter Mul-
Ter. who employs $4,000 people in fiah-
cries, factories, bottling, packing and 80
on.
Champagne owes it's quality to the
soil, q mixture OF chalk, silica, light clay
and OXIDE OF iron, and to the great care
and delicate manipulation In msnufact-
are.
MIRA. Increase Sumner OF Starke, Fla,
yaises her own tea. She gathers three
crops year, and the bushes furnish her
tea which In China would cost her a
large sum.
An unsuccessful attempt has been
made in Paris 10 employ women in the
telegraph Office In the Avenue do Pop
era, but the work was found much too
heavy for them.
The new brewery tar IL causing gem
eral depression In the beer business In
Germany. The Altoona Brewery Union
has already raised its price three pien-
nIgs the half liter.
In England clerks OF large provincial
bank jointly own cottage by the sea,
fifty miles away, where all pass their
holidays, occupying 1t In detachment
during the summer.
Bishop Hurst says that ninety-t two
acres, bought in Washington for site
for the proposed Methodist University,
have increased In value until they are
worth half million.
The fact was developed ct the hearing
oil q case ut the Tomhe. New York, that
nodcarriers can be found In that city
willing to work for % cents Q day and
work on Sunday at that.
Waco, Tex, 10 reported to have the
largest artesiAn we'll In the United States.
II IL I, $50 feet deep, with = diameter o,
ten inches, and throws ,bO,. 600 raliops
= day OF perfectly pure hut hot water.
1t is estimated that England's wheat
| crop Tor this year ID about b5,W0, 0Nl
| bushels, or less than two bushels for each
nhabitant. She must buy at least 100. :
00b.0W bushels more from some outside
source.
This seasons traffic through the Sault
Ste. Marie canal exceeds by 20 per cent.
he tonnage OF any previous year. In
October alone ,l35 steamers, 1896 sailing
vessseis aud II rats passed through the
Sault.
| Aluminium 10 found combined with
1876 other minerals, and therefore con.
stitutes large part OF the crust Of the
earth, but until recently has been very
expansive because OF the difficulty o
| separating IL.
| II is estimated that II costs the we'll.
TODD people in this country $l25, 00O, O0t
annually 10 support charitable Institu
tons. while at least $5OO, tO0,0CO is in
vested in permanent buildings where the
needy are cared for.
| The people OF this country us d dur
| ing the last fiscal year more than Il, 900,
000. 900 postage stamps, and paid near J
| $50 000, 600 for them. They are all man
niactured by the American Bank Nots
Company in New York.
The cotton mills OF the South, as vel
AZ those in New England, have close
nne OF the most prosperous years In thei
aistory. Within three years there ha,
been development In the industry
amounting to fully rs per cent.
/ The vanderbilts are making strenuous
efforts to extend the Wagner sleeping
car service beyond the Missouri river
Heretofore the Pullman Company ha
virtually had monopoly OF the sleeping
car business west Of Kansas City.
The State OF Oregon has thirty eli,
nurseries, covering 1875 acres and con
tanning about 9,U 0 900 young trees. ans
orchardists have upward of 100, 900 acre
OF growing trees. One half Of this acre
age lie in prunes, one-fourth in apple
and the remainder in various kinds O
fruits.
l.. S. Coffin OF Fort Dodge, Ia, state
that he has distributed 80, 900 white but
tons among trainmen since last May
The button 10 symboiical of total sbsti
nence from intoxicf.nts. The rules gov
erning the Brotherhood OF Locomotiv,
Engineers are very strict. Last month
there were nearly thirty explosions.
The oldest whaler In the United State
is said to be the Rousseau, now LYNN,
dismantled at New Bedford wharf
This vessel was built IN 1901 for Stephei
Girard OF Philadelphia by Nicholas Van
dusen, and was launched on the DeIs
ware. Its last voyage was made in 1866
when 1t returned with $3.50 barrels o
sperm and lSo barrels OF whale oil.