Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-12-21
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL

new haven Is demanding ~ cent
gas.
Telephones employ 10000 Ameri-
cans.
Winnipeg pays ~ Il ton for hard
coal.
An underground trolly is projected
for Paris.
Old horse cars are sold in Boston
for IS apiece.
Petroleum is used for fuel on Rus
sian railroads.
London pswnbrokers average %
per cent. interest.
Female barmaids and walters are
not allowed in Chicago saloons.
Cheap wooden stockings are adul-
terated by the addition of the fiber
of wood pulp.
Lumbermen of Minneapolis will
form a big log pool to cut 573,OOO,OOO
feet of lumber.
The average weekly wages paid to
female laborers OF all classes in Ger
many is SIT.
The manufacture OF tinware in Eng
land originated from a trade secret
| .kol,n -, Holl,,l
There is more than 100000 900
of money in the United States, or
abount $34 per capita.
They are figuring out in the East
that the landslide was heaviest where
factories were thickest.
1t is said that every ton of coal on
this continent will have been con-
sumed in 107 years from now.
The National Department of Agri-
culture returns this years clip at 81
pounds OF wool per head.
Baltimore mills got contract lately
for 100000 yards of cotton duck for
the Japanese government.
The Pueblo Indians have on their
vast reservations 100000 sheep. 250.-
600 horses and 5000 goats.
Within the last thirty years there
have been on the British coasts 66,377
wrecks, with the loss of 22,3l2 lives.
Baltimore clothing manufacturers
are increasing forces and have ad-
vanced wages from 10 to 124 per cent.
An inmate of the old ladies' home
in Bath, Maine, has put 14.905 sos
stitches into a crazy quilt not yet
finished.
The current prices of pig-iron in
Great Britain are $3.50 to 5000; in
Belgium, $S.45 to $40, and in Ala
bama, 81 to $S.
Paper making has progressed 80 far
that good imitation of linen writing
paper is manufactured wholly from
wood pulp.
The Diamond Match Company has
declared not only stock dividend OF
10 per cent. but an extra cash divi-
dend of 5 per cent.
"Trilby" has reached sale OF 95 900
copies in this country, and will un-
doubtedly reach 100. 600 before the end
of the year.
The first savings bank in this coun-
try was the Philadelphia Saving Fund
Society, organized in 1916. 1t is still
in existence.
Thirty thousand frogs q week are
brought into the Buffalo market,
where the legs are frozen and distrib-
uted over the country.
If you never have heard OF Yelling
ton, Ohio, you may remember here
after that it proudly calls itself the
cheese city Of the United States.
The coffee crop of 1894 is estimated
at 12,5OO,OOO bags, the largest in the
annals Of the trade and 100000 bags
in excess OF the consumption.
Csst-iron blocks are being tried in
some of the most frequented streets oil
Paris, instead of the granite blocks
usually placed alongside tramway
rails.
A Bangor man bought large tract
OF land for $3.50 some years ago, and
sold it to another man for $4,000
who subsequently cut off $500, 600
worth of logs.
Judge Russell has on his farm in
Arcadia Valley, Mo-, two apple trees
that have borne fruit every year for
the last twenty-five years. They were
planted in 1907.
The banner natural gas year for the
United States was 1888, when its pro-
duct reached the value of $4,000 600.
Last year the product was worth less
than $l5, 100000.
When Mr.. Carnegie visited his great
steel plant At Braddock, Penn, re.
Gently, for the first time in several
years, he found that in the interval
electricity had enabled eight men to
do the work which in 1891 required
800 hands.