The Helena independent., 1894-11-12

Argentine has 6,uOOooo acres in
The United states has 100000 home
Cuba Cuba produces 25.oooOOO cocoanuts
Egypt exported 1ioOOo,OOO cigars in
1898. ,,o
The Chicago Auditorium weighs no.
600 tons.
Zurich has a 1000 horsepower cleo
trio locomotive.
the Windy city,
EIephants skins are tanned to make
carpcts. They never wear out but are
lots that cost $1,000 were sold tor
Sl60 the other day In Winfield, Kan
sas boom town.
bananas are so plentiful in Martin
ique that big bunch may be bought
for cent,
Hiram S. Maxim. the inventor, has
thus far expended upon his nyins ma
Great Britain gets s95.OoO,OOO from
liquor taxes. and AO,OOO,OOO from the
tax on tobacco.
An inventor has devised child's
swing which viii work the wen pump
as the child swings.
The total amount Of deposits In the
savings banks Of the country In 1898
was ST. 7s5, l50.795.
Worsted stuffs were first made at the
village of Worsted, in Norfolk, Eng
land, about 1913.
In the northern portion or tlorlua'
around Baldwin, mosquito masks are
worn by outdoor workmen,
The bicycle of the khedive of Egypt
is a gorgeous machine, almost entirely
covered with silver plating.
Electricity Is to be used by queen
Nictoria's servants for cooking dell
cate dishes at Osborn. Isle of Wight.
A machine has just been completed
that will count and bind in packages
100000 postal cards in ten hours.
The total value of the United States
mineral products last year was 5000,
Ssl go. being the smallest since 1883,
The largest oil painting in the world
is by Tintoretto, entitled Paradise.
1t is 33i2 feet In height ana 81 In
width.
When the irrigation works now under
way In Arizona are completed l.OOO.OOO
acres of arid land win be made fertile.
The first barrel OF coal OIL was COM
mercially used In 1896. In 1883 3S.S2O. SO6
barrels of that product were consumed.
In South America an electric drying
machine, IN WHICH hlI II iplNtu lili'hS ~
a chamber of heated plates, Is to be
used in drying wheat.
IL Is estimated that the California
vintage this year will not amount TO
more than $4,000, 600 gallons. This is
below the average.
ON the London. Dover & Chatham
railroad, in England, they use hand
car which Is propelled by means Of a
sail when the wind blows.
No less than 544 persons have already
inscribed their names on the list OF
competition for plans for the Paris ex-
hibitlou of 1900
Platinum has been drawn into wire
so fine that 1t could not be distin-
euishcd by the naked eye, even when
stretched across a piece Of white card
board.
A Peoria shoemaker has invented a
working shoe with a wooden lpoplarl
sole one inch thick. II is very durable,
comfortable and comparatively light
Wheels propelled by petroleum are
being introduced in Paris 10 take the
place Of the cycle. They are very cost
Is, 81 900 being the cost for one,
The largest and Oldest chain bridge
I'm the world Is said to be at King Tung
In China, where IL forms perfect road
from the top OF one mountain to the tor
of another.
Five and one-half tons of diamonds
valued at Sl50. 600, ,00O TO $500 900 have
been taken from the famous Kim
berry, South Africa, diamond mines
since their discovery I'm 1871.
England has the advantage Of MS In
safety Of railroad travel In 1893 not q
single passenger OF the 100000 900 con
veyed during the first six months OF
the year was killed while travelling on
the trains.
Tubes Of exceedingly light weight
but Of great comparative strength are
now made from the best tool steel, q
material that has hitherto not beer
drawn for this purpose, because OF III
excessive hardness.
The south produced Ss6,60I 692 worti
OF lumber IN 1890. To make this out
put 5.7si mills were operated and n.
651 hands employed. The product il
1850 was worth S3S 900. 1t more thar
doubled In ten years.
In round numbers, one passenger u
every 2,QUO 00O that travel on steamboat
is lost About 700 0,0O0,OD0 passeng, n
were carried during the past year there
were forty fatal accidents, resulting II
the death ot 255 persons.
An electric brake for trolley cars
10 take the place " the hand brake
has been invented by Elmor A. Sperry
stop the car ia much shorter time, be-
sides avoiding danger OF wearing th'
wheel fiat
Tho railroad running from lsmld
near Constautnoplc, tp Angora, Is bull
entirely NJ iron; bridges. ties, TELEGRAPH
poles and MI. Three hundred miles luni
il has 200 bridges sixteen tunnels au'
81 The only railroad In tho interior q
Asiatp Turkey.
1t is petimntcd that the agricultural
earnings OF tho United States are 81,
4g0, ,000OOu from manufactures, $3.50.
OO0 OnO; from mines, SiSO.000 600. from
transportation, 81 ,155, 100000; from com
mcrce $3.50 OOO. 900; from shipping, $3.50,
100000, ard from banking, 10000 coo
The south contains over 100000 90
acres of forest land-over half of th
woodland areu Of the United Stats. Sh
has almost every vnriety,so fnr AS qunl
ity is concerned. There are nearly 500
sawmllls IN operation, employing Owe
rs 900 hands, The output ~ tho plunini
mills in 1880 was over So pj0D00
Air Maxim Is having "a curious con
trpvcrsy with the United StutcF pptnu
Office, which declines ~ allow 81 patyu
for hts Hyiur mgchiu" on tho sol
ground, he claims that II Is a flying mn
chine He can patent the separate I'm
ventiOns OF which II In made, but thH
would cost 1000. and would give IN
different protection.
Experiments are being conducted a