Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-05-26
BUSINESS BREVITIES.

Great Britain has more than twenty
thousand trained nurses.
There are nearly sixteen thousand
miles OF railroads in Canada.
Great Britain levies a tariff on about
twenty articles of commerce.
The streams OF Wisconsin yield $780,
600 worth OF pearls in year.
There are 20,006 American publica-
tons, gain of 1,292 in year.
The money circulation of the United
States is estimated at 81 800, 100000.
OF the 81 900 breweries estimated to
be in the world $4,000 are in Germany.
Fully 25 per cent OF all the champagne
made is lost by the bursting of bottles.
1t requires more than 1000, 900 sheep
to supply the mutton consumed in Lon
don.
April saw three bank failures in Aus
tralia, representing liabilities of $780,
100000.
The nine rum distilleries OF this coun-
try put out about 100000 gallons
annually.
Cleveland carpenters will be paid 80
cents an hour for nine-hour day, be-
ginning May l.
1t is estimated that there were 1858
papers published in this country and
Canada last year.
The domestic rice crop of the country
for the current season is estimated at
225 100000 pounds.
According to the Wade's Fibre and
Fabric the cotton acreage of 1894 will be
us short as that of 1898.
A total destruction by fire in the
United States for eighteen years before
1892 was $l,760,9 44, 617.
Eight hundred and thirty-eight pairs
OF corsets for men were made by one
firm in England last year.
1t costs $50 to decorate a room properly
with flowers for almost any entertain
ment.-Philadelphia Record.
A dollar loaned for 100 years and COM
pounded at n per cent, will amount in
that time to $2,55l, 100, 404.
An uptown genius has invented slot
machine that will furnish small brick
OF ice cream.-Philadelphia Record.
The roll of paper as used in the Hoe
press on which the Bulletin is soon to
be printed, Is from four to six miles
long.
Alaska produced 100000 in gold
last year, and California $l2 ,000, 600. The
gold product OF the United States was
$50, 000,0 900.
The hot-house peach crop has not
failed, but man who bought enough
for a large dinner party did.-Phiia-
delphia Record.
A company OF colored people is being
formed at Charlotte, n. c., for the pur,
pose OF building cotton factory to en-
ploy only negroes.
There is still an enormous quantity of
gold in the banks and among the people
varlously estimated at between 5000
100000 and S700,000,000.
Kansas City tailors propose to make
an effort to SECURE large home patron
age. They complain that too many
people send East for their clothes.
The largest piece OF copper ever taken
out OF the Michigan Upper Peninsula
was brought to the surface from the
Quincy mine. 1t weighed about nine
tons.
In 1892 the total number of persons
employed in and about all the mines in
the United Kingdom was 72I, sos. of
whom $3.50 were females, working above
ground.
In the five or six months of the wear
during which the sardine fishery lasts
something like s60O,O00 900 of these
little fish are caught off the coast OF
Brittany alone.
Some idea of the amount of gold
mined every year may be had from the
statement that European goldsmiths
make up $24 100000 into gold plate and
lwelery annually.
Charleston is considered the first
phosphate market in the world. In ls0i
572, $40 tons of phosphate rock, valued
at S4,270,oOO, were taken from the
South Carolina mines.
1t is said to cost less to send the mo
duct OF an acre of wheat from the STATE
OF Dakota to England than it does ~
manure an acre OF land in England IN
that 1t can grow good wheat.