The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-07-15
BUSINESS BREVITIES.

Thirty million dollars worth Of ready
made clothing is produced in Paris
yearly.
Coal that IL gold for 80 cents a ton IL
mined in large quantities in Lebanon
county, Pa.
New York has a population Of work
ing women reaching in round figures TO
about 100000.
Another bonanza lode Of silver with
ore worth $1,000, 900 in sight is reported
at Chihuahua.
Steps have been taken for general
reduction in the force OF employees OF the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Last year only 1888, 600 hogs were
killed in the West for packing-the low
est figures in twenty-five years.
In Great Britain the daily cost Of a
laborer's food il 40 per cent OF his wages !;
in the United States 30 per cent.
Thirty firms in Pittsburg each do a
business Of over 81 100000 a year, Car
negic leading with nearly sl0,OOO,OO0.
In Manchuria dogs are raised for their
skins, A fairly prosperous Manchuran
dog farmer will own thousand or more
dogs.
Germany has one postofice TO every
LIZA inhabitants. In proportion TO pop
ulation the United States has twice as
many.
There are sixty-four steamers doing
excursion business out Of Chicago this
summer, but 50 far none has made ex-
penses.
According to Bradstrcet's the income
Of American life insurance companies
rose from So, 450, 900 in 1861 TO $lO9, ,5O0,-
900 in 1886
b. w. Jones, Secretary OF the South
Georgia Pear Growers Association, says
the yield in that section this year will
be over 10000 barrels.
An English matchmaker exhibits an
engine OF l22 distinct pieces mot includ-
ing thirty-three bolts and screws) which
could be hidden in lady's thimble.
new cigarette machine has been in
vented by man in Winston, n. c., that,
it is said, will feed, roll, paste and make
10000 perfect cigarettes in ten hours.
An electrically driven rotary planer
that is operated like a lawn mower is
used in some OF the ship yards in Glas-
gov for smoothing the decks Of vessels.
And now comes a project to build a
six-track railroad on the viaduCt plan
from New York city forty miles north,
to cost $35, 800, 900, right Of way $75, ,000,-
600.
A society of ladies is forming in Lon
don for the adoption OF day servants,
who will come into the house by the day
only and return at night to their own
homes.
In Bengal, India, there are three har-
vests reaped every year; peas and oil
seeds in April, the early rice crop in
September and the great rice crop in
December.
Most of the transportation in Havana,
Cuba, is furnished by little horses
hitched to a victoria. There are 5000
of those rigs in that city and but one
horse-car line.
In the central part OF the State of New
York over $1,000 people are engaged in
the cultivation OF more than 20, 900 acres
of grapes, which produce annually from
40, 900 to $4,000 tons.
In its manufacture the knife is han
died by seventy different artisans from
the moment the blade is forged until the
instrument is finished and smoothly
wrapped up for the market.
Practically all cheap paper is which
wholly or in part from wood pulp which
comes from the forests of Maine, the
Adirondacks and Pennsylvania. Wood
pulp was first made from poplar trees
altogether, but spruce makes stronger
and better stock.