The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-04-01
INDUSTRIAL BR GylrIES.
Japan women load the vessels.

Japan women load the vessels.
Detroit IL building electric boats.
There are 4,5O0 electric plants in Ger.
many.
There are twenty-five national banks
in Chicago.
Twenty.eight thousand patents were
issued IN 1892.
Steam power ia successfully applied to
the ielnng Of trees
Petroleum engines made Of aluminium
are 10 drive balloons.
The dynamite industries OF this coun-
try are worth gB,O00,000
A street ear can be rented in the City
OF Mexico for $3.50 day.
There are estimated 10 be 80, 40) street
cars in use in this country.
The men employed upon the railroads
of the United States number 784 ,0O).
A patent has been granted for a device
for tapering hngsrs and reducing joints.
In Wyoming county, n. Y, farmers
are hiring hands at S25 a month with
board.
The census OF 1890 gives to the United
States 32,O67, $50 men and 30,554, $40
women.
During the las. ninety-six years 343,-
9l5,OOO pounds Of gold we're coined in
France.
Tennessee is going into the canning
business, and many canneries are being
started.
The President Of the United States re-
ceiyes his salary in monthly installments
OF 81, 1867.
Government statistics place the aver
age income Of American farmers at 50
cents day.
Cincinnati has some eight harness
factories, and their yearly output is
about f3,000.O00.
The next Big fruit farm to be organized
in Missouri will comprise l2,00J acres
near BrandsviIle.
A hog at Fayetteville, N. c., owned by
John Garrison OF that town, is said to
weigh so pounds.
Sugar beets, weighing On an average
~ % 'fNNVVh pOuhNs, nave DcCH EIOhu III
Floyd county, Ga.
A number OF farmers in Western Kan
sas sowed fall wheat in February, and
expect to get big crops.
According to the trea ury computa' ion
the Presidential sa ary of 500 OC0 year
is at the rate OF Sl38.6S day.
1t is said that Ireland sends annually
10000 tons CT eggs-some $50, 10000 in
round mum bers-to England alone.
The Florida coast has a floating hotel
which moves from place to place, wher.
ever the best fishing happens to be.
Silk sheets are now D oduced "as 8
luxury" with the expec alton that there
may grow up large demand for them
There are at the Sault hatcherles in
Michigan 35,0OO,0OO whIteish eggs, 400,-
40 OF salmon trout and 2j0.0OO brook
trout.
The State OF Ohio manufactured . 2,500,-
20 pounds OF maple sugar last year,
ranking second in the amount OF pro-
duCtion.
OF the 10, ,255, $40 tons OF pig iron pro-
duced last year the South furnished
:, llH,9S tons, or more than in any pre-,
v.ous year.
The lortv one collieries in the Second
An hraclte district of the State OF Penn
sylvania last year produced 6,0S7 ,526
tons OF coal.
The annual expectation of India rub
her from Para is said to be upward OF
2O,000,0 0t0 pounds, worth from $6,000,0 900
to $9,CW,0y0.
A new method of manufacturing glass
vessels which will not break under sud-
den changes OF temperature is announced
from Germany.
More than $4,000, 600 worth OF seal
skins have been taken in Alaskan waters
since the American ownership of the
sealing grounds.
Recently compiled statistics show that
the locomotive building in the United
States in 1892 was about l3 per cent less
han in the year 1891.
A large party of Eastern manufacture.
ers recently started on tour through
Mexico for the purpose Of introducing
American goods into that country.
The licorice plant is chiefly grown on
the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates,
in localities where for three monthe dur
ing the prevalence of hot winds the tenn
perature reaches 1o4 degrees and for
three months often reaches 80 degrees
below at night. The remaining six
months are moderate and healthy.