The Helena independent., 1894-12-31
OF THOSE WHO TOLL.
Or INDUSTRIAL EVENTS.


There ais women pilots.
Frisco has $4,000 Chinese.
California hAs ostrich farms.
Cleveland. o., taxes bicy elss
japan bons.s q woman lawyer.
Tacoma rsrorls shinRle t'uat.
South Dakota haa 10000 farms.
A Paris atore has 4 900 employees.
Chicago haA q woman elevator man.
An umbrella has O out-glass handle.
Australia is frat in gold oluoiioa.
Glasgow has M underground railroad.
Oregon farmers are nav rhiiiua tobacco.
The metal gAlllum costs $1,000 an ounce.
Aator women have So 0O0. 900 In jewels.
Russian railroads have abolished free
pnssoa.
81. LouiS vehicle owne'a are oraanizel.
Russa's wheat crop: 272. 100000 bushels.
America has /, 400 telephone exchanges.
Cairo, ILL.,. has woman locomotive en-
Rineer.
Australian horses are banded by cleo.
tricity.
POnusylvOnia has niuo,y-nino stree, rail-
wny CONF anies.
Our railroads employ 100000 freight
cas-
Americans use l2, 100000 postage stamps
daily.
Chicago ia to build an auditorium which
will seat 1900.
The egRs of tho Bahama cuckoo are held
at 800 per set By dealers in birds eggs.
Cotton haa not been 80 cheap at Liver
pool as II Ia now for fofty-six ears.
A spring Of good water on a claim in
Oklahoma adds $500 to the value OF the
claim.
Local scientists OF Findlay. o., have
project TO produce natural gas by pumping
air into the earth.
China's foreign trade amounts 10 abont
~ 233 600 900 q year. OF which 90 per cent 10
With Great Britain.
II all our carrying vessels were anchored
IN one ba Dor there would be feet of 23.-
bS6 sail and wheeler.
The worlds total gold yeld last roar was
26 22SG00. an increase OF about 81. 300. 600
or the previous year.
few Orleans has a vestibulsd train TO
Francisco that oovers tho distance in
than seventy eight hours.
ilway accidents are SO rare In Holland
an average OF only one death Q year
ts from them throughout the country.
swift zerland milkmaid or man gets
br wages IL giftsd with good voics, be.
will yield one-nfth more milk il soothed
during the pl ocsss OF milking by q pleas
ing melody.
A house costing over S. 00) was recently
successfully moved from Seattle to
Olympia. sixty miles, without tearing IL
apart.
A new departure In Russian journalism
has been initiated ut Hslstingfors with the
establishment in that city Of newspaper
edited and controlled entirely by women.
The shortest electric road in the country
10 said TO be tho ~. Louis aud East ~.
Louis Electric railway, which runs It's cars
over The Esds bridge across the Mississippi
river at st. Louis.
The Toledo Bee makes the sta,tlinQ
nssei ition that the electrical street railway
plants of that city have deprecated in
vA,ue $I,5O0.O0) within tho pas. two years
all on account of bioycles. There are be-
tveon 1000 and 1000 wheels In use there.
According to Invention, a building has
recently been erected by Herr Wagner. an
nrchitlot at LimburR. so ely OF materials
formed of ushes, without any admlxture OF
sand. IL IL claimed that hard natural
stones OF almos; any variety have been
successfully initiated with this very cheap
material.
Seven hundred and forty one tons Of
gold or their equivalent. ware required to
pay the expenses for the United States gov
eminent for the year 1894. The necessary
teams 30 haul II. allowing a ton aud
twenty i've feet 20 a team. would make a
procession over three and one half miles
long.
Minister Gray believes Amer cans will
make a great country out OF Mexico. He
ssys the stamp OF ths Americans Is on
nearly everything OF importance in the
republic ulte ldy, The Mexioaus hAv. con
a ienos In Amsrioan people and in Amsri-
can manufactur Q. The United States"
said be, 'ts now furnishing more than half
the hR dwars imported BY Mexico. Only n
few years ago Go many had almost all this
trade. learn from my talks with Mexican
merchants that they prefer hardware from
tue United States, not because 10 Is cheaper
but because they believe it is OF superior
qualify. In selecting edge tools m all
kinds OF machinery the American product
is preferfed."