Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-12-14
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.
Missouri has 3GJ coal mines.


Missouri has 3Gj coal mines.
Water proof velvet i. something
new.
Chicago claims 10 have POI million
aires.
Aluminium violins are making them
selves heard.
There are now 10000 camels used
in Australia.
The sword is the oldest manufac.
tured weapon.
The cost of the Mexican war wa.
about $lOOOO0OOO.
There are 5,S3S building associa-
tions in thi. country.
The new lemon-hued Florida Or
anges are very sour.
New England shoe-shops are sure
OF full winters work.
Destruction Of forests is modifying
wv >i'hihbN vi -htAItO.
The worlds production of gold in
1893 was ,J23, 1862 ounces.
The most abundant free metal in
the earth's crust is copper.
American corset factories represent
an investment Of 100000.
About 22O,OOO,OOO cigars are an
nually exported from Havana.
1t requires twenty hours for ship
to pass through the Sious Canal.
1t is estimated that one crow will
destroy zoo, 600 insects every year.
Over 30 per cent. of the business of
the United Slaves is done by checks.
Raw silk of the value of $29, S3G 600
Was imported during the last fiscal
year.
There is a movement in Providence,
X. L., in favor of Scent loaves of
bread.
About 20 per cent. of the inhabi.
tants Of the United States are engaged
in farming.
The gross value of British mari
time interests amounts to slightly
over $lO,O0O,OOO,O0O.
The genuine Damascus blades that
could be bent into circle cost from
$500 to $1,000.
Engineers have estimated that the
total water-power of Niagara falls is
100000 horsepower.
st. Louis is to have the largest to-
bacco factory in the world, to cost ST.
100000 and employ 5000 men.
China's foreign trade amounts to
about $23S, 100000 a year, of which
20 per cent. is with great Britain.
1t is said that the gold product of
Montana will this year show an in
crease OF Is per cent. over that Of
1893.
The largest match factory in the
world will be built by the Diamond
Match company in Liverpool, Eng.
land.
A lamp chimney plant at Elwood.
Ind, employing 700 men, will be en-
larged Immediately to double its
capacity.
1t is calculated that in 1865 the
wealth of the Rothschilds will have
increased from 50 ,OOO, 100000 to $780,.
600, 100000.
The net gold in the treasury at the
beginning of President Cleveland's
administration, March 4, 1893, was
$106, 893, 224.
In converting redwood into railroad
ties it is stated that for every tie pro-
duced, which is worth 80 cents, tim.
Der to the value of $1.87 is wasted.
According to recent statistics there
are about two thousand women in
this country who are practicing medi-
cine. OF these $50 are homeopathists.
1t is figured that every man, woman
and child in the United States eats an
average of II bushels of wheat a year
in the form of bread or breakfast
cereals.
The outstanding debt of the United
States at the close of the civil war,
less cash in Treasury, was $2,5O8, 151,-
I'll. In 1893 it had been reduced to
$500, 96l ,OS4.
According to statistics just COM
pleted there are 5,735 steamers flying
the British flag, $40 the German, $40
the Norwegian, SOB the French and
430 the American.
There are about SO,OOO,OOO corsets
OF home manufacture sold annually in
Paris, besides million or so OF stays
made in Germany and sent there to
meet the demand.
There are $4,000 postoffices in the
United States, about $1,000 do not
pay their running expenses. The
profit of the New York City postoffice
is 100000 year.
Special returns on wheat-feeding to
animals indicate 4O,OOO,OOO bushels
already consumed and 6O,OOO,0 600 to
75,OOO.OOO bushels likely to be fed
from the present crop.
In 1859 the New York Tribune paid
Horace Greeley $50 week and alter.
ward reduced it to $40. At the same
time Charles A. Dana received $48
and George William Curtis, az city
editor, $40.
The great lake of pitch. on a hill
top on the green Island of Trinidad,
covers nearly 100 acres, and no man
knows its depth-solid on top, but al
most liquid beneath the crust. The
substance is treated so as to make it
solid and used for street pavements.
1t is said that q weeks work in
Birmingham. Eng, comprises, among
its various results, the fabrication OF
IL, OOO,O 600 pens, 5000 bedsteads, 1000
guns. 300, 1000 cut nails, 100000
700 buttons, 1000 saddles, 100000
copper or bronze coins, 10000 pairs of
spectacles.
Pussy Captures AN Eagle.