Omaha daily bee., 1893-09-17
LIBJR AND INDUSTRY.

Michigan leads in iron ore production.
Colorado is to have an eighty-six-mile ir-
rlgation canal.
Law in England provides that no person
unier Is years shall be employed about Il
shop for longer than seventy-four hours, IN
GLIDING meal times, in any one week.
Something like $50, 900 square miles of
looking glass are manufactured annually in
Europe.
An English mechanical genius has devised
a method of indicating and stopping a leak
by the use of compressed air.
The Iron Age denies that Krupp at Essen
Germany, Is the greatest producer OF cruel
BILE steel in the world, and gives that honor
TO a Pennsylvania concern.
M. Kempclon, n Hungarian, ted n
speaking machine in London just after
the Crystal Palace worlds fair which could
pronounce every letter perfectly except d, X,
4 and t. 1t pronounced long words and sem
fences distinctly.
A novel tunnel is projected for the Neya al
st. Petersburg. Ii is to be cylindrical in
form, forty-thrce feet in diameter, and to
have four floors or decks for pedestrians,
vehicles, cars and telegraph cables respec-
lively.
A new department for drop forging i
being added to the plant of the TrimOnt
Manufacturing company, Amory street, RoX-
bury, Mass. Three machines have been put
in, which will add materially TO the facilities
of the concern.
Some solid silver tableware is now whole
sailing as low AS 81 per ounce, and there are
manufacturers of silver who expect, as an
outcome of the present silver situation, thai
forks and spoons and other simple utensils
will yet sell at a much cheaper rate. Some
prophesy that plated ware in small articles
VIII give place TO sterling III the homes of
persons moderately well-to-do, and that with
the cheapening of silver viii come a much
wider use of the metal in the arts. This, of
course, is the view of those who hope and
expect that the financial world will come to,
and abide by, a single gold standard.
The development OF the California fruit
trade proceeds apace. From the southern
counties n considerable increase Of fruit was
sent east in carloads. Sacramento has dis
patched almost one-third more than last
year, the total quantity up TO the commence
ment OF this month being $50 carloads and
the increase $50. What this amounts to as
a contribution of TINS state To railroad traffic
may be conceived. The east cannot well
escape being impressed with California as an
orchard region.
The twenty-sixth annual report Of the bu-
reau Of industrial statistics of Rhode Island
states that the work of the bureau last year
was chiefly devoted TO the building trades
and To abandoned farms. Four hundred and
seyenty-four employers responded TO the in
quiries addressed to them. They report the
employment of 5,679 workmen, Including APP
prentices. Wages paid men average from 81
cents TO IS a day; to boys and apprentices
from SO cents To 81 day. Six hundred and
seyenty-three returns from employees were
received, each stating the amount Of wages
received, the amount paid for rent, the cost
OF living, whether money was saved or lost
during the year, and other particulars. The
annua wages average from 800 TO 81, 200
the cost OF living from $500 to 81 400; the
amolnt paid for rent from s36 TO $3.50. Out
of 500 reporting, 1853 own their homes 40S DO
not. Only one-fourth belong to a trades
union; thirty-eight report An increase Of
wages, fifteen a reduction. Less than one
half have accumulated money during former
years, while 1856 have run in debt during the
last year.