The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-08-26
BUSINESS BREYlTIES.

The tin-platc factory at Elwood, lad. 10.
hnH resumed work, giving employment
| 10 500 men.
Canada supplies nearly all the plum.
bago used by Amrican manufacturers d
lead pencils.
Four hundred and forty persons in
this country live on the labor Ol every
100 workers.
There are sevcnty.soyen zinc mines IN
Prussia, which produce one.half the
worlds zine.
II IL stated that women hold lb6,0Sl
sharcs in Philadelphia building and loan
associations.
The distance from New York to Mel
bourne via San Francisco Ia II, 265 miles
to ii0ngkong, lO,b9O miles.
Glass bricks are made ~ rhcaply that
! II seems only q matter Of time when
glass houses may come In fashion.
During the lust three years English
capitalists have invested $2l3,00O, 900 in
Mexico and American capitalists S3i6,
0OO. 900.
British manufacturers Of agricultural
machinery and hardware acknowledge
that the United States Is in keen com.
petition.
Fiity-aix years ago the block on which
the Chicago postolce now stands was
sold at auction Tor S5O5. 1t is now worth
10, 900, 600.
The Amoskcag mills, which has closed
for the month OF August according to
vote Of its directors at Manchester, \.
H., employs 5000 hands.
The most expensive fur Is the skin OF
the black fox Of kamtchatka. These an
imals are scarce and hard 30 kill, and u
single skin sells for about 81 900.
Toboggan expresses have been feat
ure in the bowldcr 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 10 museum out West. He Is
three feet high, and weighs only eighty
five pounds.
The salaries paid to persons in the
civil service OF the United States amount
to S00,0OO,OOO annually. This amount
pays the wages OF $1,000 persons. The
average il $500 a year.
The fast train over the New York Gem
trail and the Lake Shore between New
York and Chicago must, it is stated,
carry scycnty-iivc through passengers Ia
pay the cost OF running it.
In round numbers the total amount Of
life insurance written by the different
insurance companies OF the world IL
sl2, 900. 900 600. OF this sum 80 800 OO0,-
600 are placed in the United States.
Soil in Egypt is titled by exactly the
same kind oi plow rs that used there
5000 years ago. The burrows made are
extremely shallow, and the clods are
further broken up with n big wooden
cudgel.
Notwithstanding the worlds great me-
chancal progress there are wine districts
in France, Spain and Italy where the
grapes are still trodden with bare feet
under the idea that the wine il better
when made so.
The British insurance companies dur
ing the year 1892 received in premiums
El75lS,067, and paid out in losses Ell,-
662,9G7. The expenses and commissions
paid by forty companies are placed at
over G5, 0,000.
Electric street railways in the United
States have in operation mileage which
exceeds the sum of street railways run
by other powers, viz; $3.50 miles run
by electricity, AGO by horses, 64B by
cable and 620 by steam.
A writer has figured out that the
United States produces ZOO pounds Of
grain to each inhabitant; Denmark,
2,0O5; Canada, 1900; Russia, 1900;
Roumania, ,l50; Spain, l, 100; France,
800; Sweden, $50; Argentine Republic,
$50; Australia, 760; Germany, 700 Bel
GUM, 600; Portugal $50; Ireland, 500 !;
Scotland, 400; England, 800.