Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-14
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.
Glass coffins are used in Russia.

Glass coffins are used in Russia.
Australia has 10,l87 miles OF rail.
road.
Australia is the largest producer OF
wool.
Liverwool is the largest cotton mar.
ket.
The French duty on coffee is $500
ton.
Tanning mills were invented in
China.
The best bricks are made in Central
Asia.
Onethi of the coal used in France
is imported.
The United States contain 1000 wo-
men architects.
Philadelphia drinks 100000 bar.
rels OF beer every year.
The yield of wheat in Texas this
year is 100000 bushels.
Two centuries have increased En-.
glands wealth forty fold.
A new cotton mill has just started
work in Bakau, japan.
Persia's leading exports are opium,
shawls and drugs.
There are about 500 theaters in
Europe. Italy possesses most.
A Maine farmer has received an or.
der for 5000 barrels OF cider.
Over fifty kinds of bark are now
used in the manufacture of paper.
The catch of seals this season will
exceed slightly that OF last year.
Fully one.third of the female popu-
lation are laborers on farms.
The Hawaiian candle nut furnishes
the native with light and medicine.
Twenty-seven million acres OF land
in India are devoted to rice culture.
Four-tenths of the working expenses
OF an electric light-plant are for coal.
The Southern cotton crop this year
is estimated to be worth 1925, 100000.
Nutmeg hickory is the strongest
wood which grows in the United States.
Japan has 10000 physicians to look
after the health of her 10000 900 peo-
pie.
South Carolina has mined ,I66, 1865
tons of phosphates in the last two
years.
In 1893. 3,34I ships passed through
the Suez Canal, paying $6S 600 600
in dues.
Thirty shoe factories in St. Louis
give that city leading position in the
trade.
The wheat crop of Minnesota and
the Dakotas is estimated at 125,OOO,-
600 bushels.
The first American cotton factory
was established in 1887 at East Bridge.
water, Mass.
The preparation of the human hair
for the market gives employment to
1000 Parisians.
Housemaids in England receive on
an average seyenty.fve cents a week
and found"
Fish hooks are precisely the same
in shape to-day as they were twenty
centuries ago.
The quantity of diamond dust used
in polishing very large diamond has
sometimes cost 5000.
New York restaurants have exper-
fenced more failures of late than at
any other time since 1873.
In the first half OF 1894 the produc-
ton OF pig iron was 156.392 gross tons
greater than for similar period OF
1898.
The fact is worth noting that BUSH
ell OF corn is now worth more than the
silver in silver dollar.
Alabama's supply Of red cedar is ex.
hausted. That State was once the
chief source of supply of the United
States.
One billion feet of timber per year is
being cut in Texas; at that rate it will
take but fifteen years to exhaust the
supply.
The quantity of wool sold in Bos-
ton since January exceeds by several
million pounds that sold in the like
period of 1893.
Eastern furniture dealers say there
is little demand for double beds, the
single article having almost wholly
taken their place.
1t is estimated that capital and
labor would lose 100000 u day
where all the railroads of this country
blockaded by strike or boycott.
A complete domestic cotton manu-
facture would change the yearly value
of the crop of the South from $780,.
0OO, 600 to nearly 81, ,OOO, 100000.
California has one OF the most re.
markable timber belts in the world
embracing 4,l25 square miles and con.
tanning 132, 600, ,OOO, 900 feet of lumber.
The South produces at present over
60 per cent. of all the cotton in the
world, but only one-third of this
staple is manufactured in the United
States.
The Oliver Iron and Steel Company 8
plant at Pittsburg will soon be turned
into one OF the largest, and perhaps
the largest tin-plate works in the
world.
Jacksonville, Fla, expects TO have
q steamship line to the West Indies
coon, and TO become a distributing
point for large share of the Eastern
banana trade.