Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-07-07
BUSINESS BREvITIEs.

New York State is said to have more
newspapers than the entire Southern
Hemisphere.
The Merrimac river is said to move
more machinery than any other stream
in the world.
The American Aluminium Company
will erect manufacturing plant near
Clayton, Mo.
There are twcnty-eight passenger
trains daily from New York and Phila-
delphia to Chicago.
About $20,000,000 are annually sent
by Italian laborers in this country to
their families in Italy.
There are less than 1000 Spaniards,
Greeks and Portuguese in any one OF the
chief cities of the country.
Half million patents issued by this
government bear excellent testimony to
the country's inventive genius.
1t was only 1lG years after the discov-
cry of America that the first glass works
were established in the colonies.
A smelter has begun operations at San
Luis Potosi, Mexico. 1t is the only
smelter in Mexico working copper ore.
England bears the palm over all coun-
tries, even the United States, in the
number of women employed by govern
ment.
The Philippine Islands export more
than 100000 cigars annually, almost
3 900 tons of coffee and 100000 tons OF
sugar.
Europe produces almost as much to-
bacco as does the United States, Austria
supplying about one-third of the Euro
pean crop.
The corn exported to Mexico from the
United States during the recent famine
would fill q solid train seventy-seven
miles long.
Last year New York city paid for its
school bill $4,000 000 for its amusement
bill, 81, 000,000 and for its drink bill,
$60, 100000.
Gutta percha was first introduced into
Europe from Malaga in 1852. The an
nual consumption now amounts to A 200,
600 pounds.
The average cost of travel on the Lon
don roads is only 10 of cent mile, and
the Great Eastern comes at GAG OF a
cent mile.
Japan's foreign trade during 1892 ex-
ceeded that of 1891 20,000,000 yen. The
principal increase was in the values OF
silk and tea.
There are $4,000 Chinese inhabitants
in the chief cities of the United States
1000 of them in San Francisco and
5000 in New York.
Grand old Missouri is without a rival
in the world in the amount of lead out
put. The annual lead product of the
State is 100000 tons.
There are several dozen men in Lon
don who earn their living by catching
rats. They are mostly employed at no.
tells, clubs and restaurants.
The schooner Good Intent, which was
launched at Braintree, Mass, in 1918, is
still in service, plying between Bangor,
Me-, and neighboring ports.
The orange industry OF Florida has in
creased from 100000 boxes in 1885 to
5000, 900 for the past season. This year.
crop will exceed 100000 boxes.
The fluctuations of the stock market
few months after Jay Gould's death
increased the value of his estate to $780,
000 900, and afterward reduced it to SOL, :
100000.
This country exported 10, 675, 900 yards
of cotton goods to Brazil during the
eight months to March |, an increase OF
over 90 per cent over the same period a
year ago.
The New Hampshire experiment farm
finds that milk from the best cows costs
| = cents a quart; from their poorest,
41e CENTS, as it costs just as much to feed
the smaller producer.
The whole length of the main Siberian
line is 400 miles and it's estimated cost
4l96, 900, 900. The line, with branches,
will cover 5000 miles, to be built by an
expenditure of $200000,000
The total production of silver in the
world during the last year was placed at
l45, 900, 900 ounces troy, of which the
United States produced 60,000,000
ounces, or upward of Al per cent OF the
whole amount.