Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-05-25
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.
Whalebone grows dearer yearly.
Watches are now made in Japan.

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Watches are now made in Japan.
A New York duck farm is profita
ble.
There are no locks in the Sue;
canal.
Houses are built of glass bricks ir
Japan.
Chinese are satisfied with paper
handkerchieis.
There are 10000 Touring mills in
the United States.
There are 11s.453 physicians in the
United States.
Twenty-four thousand patents were
issued last year.
Germans are the greatest potato
eaters in the world.
An underground electric railroad
is to be constructed in Paris.
Seventy-fve per cent. of the New
Workers live in rented houses.
1t requires the services of sixty SER
ants to satisfy Queen Victoria.
Natural gas in a very few years will
be virtually thing of the past.
The American railroads carried
750,OO0,OOO tons of freight in 1893.
The annual average acreage Of corn
in this county is 1881 ,610 acres.
The unemployed in London number
more than one hundred thousand.
Japan is now manufacturing mod
ern war material for western nations.
Railroad conductors in Turkey and
the Holy Land are paid $27 per
month.
OF every 100 miles OF railway in the
world forty-one are in the United
States.
Tailors in St. Louis expect to beat
the sweaters by organizing co-opera-
tive shops.
A recent contract calls for 100 con-
victs in the Missouri penitentiary to
make cigars.
Manitoba claims to be able to grow
enough wheat to supply the needs Of
the world.
Some of the largest ocean steamers
can be converted into armed cruisers
in thirty hours.
The total iron ore production last
year was only IL 1,5O7 GOT long tons
less than since 1887.
The Turkish laboring day is from
sunrise to an hour before sunset, with
an hour for prayers and dinner.
Australia is experimenting in the
sending Of large supplies of poultry
and game to the English markets.
American meat dominates the
markets OF Europe. If shipments are
delayed three days the price goes up.
A 1000 acre orchard at fremont,
Kansas, belonging to Judge Well
house, is believed to be the largest in
the world.
The exports of coffee from all Bra
lillian ports the current year are esti.
mated at $4,000 bags, valued at $780,
100000.
A farm OF more than 1000 acres,
near the Delaware Water Gap, is de-
voted entirely to the cultivation ol
celery.
During the quarter ending February
1st the State of South Carolina made
a net profit of $4l, 900 on gross sales
of $3.50, 900 worth of whiskey.
South Dakota has $4,000 farms
valued at $7O,OOO,OOO, on which are
raised about 100000 bushels of
wheat and 100000 bushels of corn
and other cereals.
The potato, so long q staple food,
has developed almost innumerable
varieties. Forty are easily distin-
guishable, but there are many others
with slight and almost imperceptible
difference.
The manufacture OF fikons, the sacred
images 80 universally vsnerated by
orthodox Russians, is one of the largest
household industries OF Central Russia,
where 100000 are turned out every
year.
The assets OF the American life in
surance companies how exceed ST.
600, 100000, and their surplus funds,
after providing for all liabilities,
amount to $121, ,527 1856, an increase
in the last year of So, ,9OO,525.