Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-11-16
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.
Electric welding is a success.
Hollow glass bricks are made.
At HALEY, Idaho, hay is 81 a ton.
Trolleys 60 in 500 American towns.
i Russians wash linen with patro-
leum.
Fire-proof collins are on sale in an
Eastern city.
There are 300 women druggists in
this country.
| Wheat-fed hogs are much thought
OF in Missouri.
There are said to be 10000 BARRIERS
in New York.
The world has 100000 miles of
telegraph lines.
The unexplored area OF Canada is
100000 square miles.
A new 10000 spindle cotton.mill is
to be erected in North Carolina.
At one time tanning of mans skin
was regular industry in France.
An egg that is half-boiled and then
cooed cannot again be boiled hard.
The South produces over GO per
cent. of all the cotton in the world.
Every year West Virginia sends
100000 pounds OF ginseng to China.
The first dentist in America made
set OF teeth for General Washington.
The pay OF the medical profession of
all countries averages about the same.
There are 1886 railroad engineers
employed in the United States and
Canada.
The manufacture of tinware in Eng.
land originated in trade secret stolen
in Holland.
In New York trihe over 70 per
cent OF the families rent the houses
they occupy.
Cabbage was the most widely used
vegetable in England before the potato
was introduced.
The London Times reaps $4,000 a
year by its births, marriages and
deaths columns.
Horses are so plentiful in Chile and
Argentina that it is not uncommon
for beggars TO ride.
Worsted stuffs were fret made at
the village of Worsted, in Norfolk,
England about 1913.
The average wages OF farm laborers
in Berks county. Penn, is about so
cents day and board.
The prices of hogs have fallen 81
per 100 pounds since the reciprocity
treaties were abrogated.
Two ladies in Rolla county, Mo-.
recently brought 400 pairs of hand.
knit socks to town to sell.
There are 5,4G6 railway surgeons
employed by the railroads of the
United States and Canada.
The United States has more phy-
sicians. in proportion to the popula-
ton. than any other country.
The three principal cities of Mis-
souri, have packed nearly 100000
hogs since the 1st of March.
The agricultural resources of the
United States are equal to supporting
population Of 1.OOO,OOOOOO.
About 80 per cent. Of the wheat crop
OF Kansas will be fed to farm animals
during the current cereal year.
The deepest gold mines in Australia
are the Magdala at Stowell, 2,4OO feet,
and Lansell's at Sandhurst, 2,64O
feet.
The total amount OF beer drank
in the world during 1893 is estimated
by German statistician at 4,5OO, O,OOO,-
600.
Every day there is made in the
United States one glass of beer for
every man, woman and child in the
country.
The ancient historian Pliny called
China the sink of silver, because the
shipment Of silver from that country
is very rare.
The Moliagel" gold nugget, found
at Mount Moliagel, Australia, in 1869,
weighed 100 pounds and essayed $45,-
600 in pure gold.
The Northern part OF Mexico is ex-
pected to send something like 100000
head OF cattle to the United States
within the next few months.
The pecan nut industry is of con.
siderable importance in Texas. Thou
sands of people, white and black, make
living by gathering the wild nuts.
AS New York City and Brooklyn
are growing four times as fast as the
rest OF the State, they will contain
half the population OF the State by the
year 1900.
Denver has the longest street rail.
way cable in the world. The rope
which acts as the motor for the Wei.
ton-street line is $4,000 feet, or about
seven miles long.
In West Virginia 1900 oil wells are
in operation, and it has been esti-
mated that the output for the present
year will be fully 100000 barrels,
worth $S,OOO.OOO.
:, Thousands of Southern girls who
never before attempted to earn . liv-