The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-09
THE WORLD OF LABOR.

Perslans eat horse meat.
Suez Canal is SS miles long.
London has SOB post-otlices.
Japan has $1,000 physicians.
Europe has 81, sol brewerles.
India has $1,000 acres Of tea.
We have Si2 colored lawyers.
Gold fish are of Chinese origin.
Cattle are branded by electricity.
Vanderbilt has a $1,000 piano stool.
Paper is made of sunlower stalks.
Egypt prohibits tobacco cultivation.
England has Chinese house servants.
Argentine has 6, 600, 900 acres in wheat.
Atlanta trolleys will have air brakes.
The Rothschilds have an $4,000 clock.
New Orleans has women's orchestra.
Our woolen mills employ $4,000 persons.
Saranac, Mich, reports house famine
Egypt exported 14OOOO,OOO cigarettes in
1898.
The Chicago Auditorium weighs 10000
tons.
Cuba produces 25,OOO,OOO cocoanuts an
nually.
The United States has 100000 home
owners.
Zurich has 1900 horsepower electric
| locomotive.
over 10000 miles of railroad centre at the
Windy City.
Hiram S. Maxim, the inventor has thus
far expended upon his flying machine Gl7,-
| 600.
Bananas are so plentiful in Martinique
that a big bunch may be bought for
cent.
Lots that cost $500 were sold for $3.50
the other day in Winfield, Kansas boom
| town.
Great Britain gets $4,000, 900 from liquor
taxes, and AO,0OO,000 from the tax on to-
bacco.
Elephants skins are tanned to make
carpets. They never wear out, but are ex-
pensive.
Worsted stuffs were first made at the
village of Worsted, in Norfolk, England,
about 1913.
The total amount of deposits in the saw
ings banks Of the country in 1893 was
1,7S5 l5O,795.
An inventor has devised childs swing
which will work the well pump as the
child swings.
The bicycle of the Khedlve of Egypt is a
gorgeous machine, almost entirely COW
cred with silver plating.
A machine has just been completed that
will count and bind in packages 100000
postal cards in ten hours.
In the northern portion of Florida,
around Baldwin, mosquito masks are
worn by outdoor workmsn.
The total value of the United States
mineral products last year was s609S GO,
being the smallest since 1879.
Electricity is to be used by Queen Vic
toria's servants for cooking delicate
dishes at Osborne, Isle Of Wight
The largest oil painting in the world is
by Tintoretto, entitled Paradise" 1t is
SSla feet in height and 81 in width.
The first barrel of coal oil' was COM
mercially used in 1926. In 1888 $3.50, ,3O6
barrels of the product were consumed.
When the irrigation works now under
way in Arizona are completed 100000
acres of arid land will be made fertile.
No less than 5H persons have already in
scrlbed their names on the list of compe-
tition for plans for the Paris exhibition OF
1900
1t is estimated that the California vim
tage this year will not amount to more
than 1S,OOO,OOO gallons. This is below the
average.
In South America an electric drying
machine, in which air is forced through a
chamber of heated plates, is to be used in
drying wheat.
On the London, Dover & Chatham rail
road, in England, they use a handcaI
which is propelled by means Of sal
when the wind blows.
Wheels propelled by petroleum are be.
ing introduced in Paris to take the place
of the cycle. They are very costly, $1,O0t
being the price for one.
Platinum has been drawn into wire sc
fine that 1t could not be distinguished by
the naked eye, even when stretched acros!
piece of white cardboard
A Peoria shoemaker has invented G
working shoe with a wooden poplar
sole one inch thick. 1t is very durable
comfortable and comparatively light,
The largest and oldest chain bridge IL
the world Ia said to be at King Tung, IL
China, where it forms perfect road from
the top of one mountain to the top q
another.
Five and one-half tons of diamonds
} valued at $l50000, 900 to 5000, ,OO0,OOO hay,
been taken from the famous Kimberly
South Africa, diamond mines since thei
discovery in 1871.
Tubes of exceedingly light weight but o
great comparative strength are now mad
from the best tool steel, material tina
has hitherto not been drawn for this pur
pose, because Of its excessive hardness.
England has the advantage of us II
7 safety of railroad travel. In 1898 not
single passenger of the 100000, 900 conveye
| during the first six months of the year
was killed while travelling on the trains.
t The South produced SSG607, 692 worth 0
lumber in 1890. To make this output 57S
mills were operated, and 7l65O hands EN-
9 ployed. The product in 1880 was wort
S3S, ,1l6,0O0. 1t more than doubled in
e years.
In round numbers, one passenger 1
1 every 100000 that travel on steamboats,
> lost. About 7OO00O,OOO passengers wer
carried during the past year; there wer
@ 40 fatal accidents, resulting in the deaf
a of 255 persons.
[ An electric brake for trolley cars, [
: take the place of the mandrake, has bee
invented by Elmer A. Sperry, of ClevS
land, and he claims that 1t will stop tn
car in much shorter time, besides avoidin
danger Of wearing the wheel fiat.
: The railroad running from Ismid, mes
Constantinopole, to Angora, is built ell
Q tirely of iron; bridges, ties, telegrap
. poles and all. Three hundred miles lon
7 1t has 1900 bridges, sixteen tunnels and
r the only railroad in the interior of Aslat
= Turkey
!. 1t is estimated that the agriculture
. earnings of the United States are 50, i9C
q 100000; from manufactures, A,3 600, 90
from mines, S4SO,OOO,OOO; from transports
4 ton, $l,l55, 1000; from commerce. $16C
Y 600, 900; from shipping, $lGO,0OOOOO, and fro
!, banking, S2OO,OOO,0OO.
: MIR. Maxim is having a curious contr
II versy with the United States Patel
,, Office, which declines to allow a patei
!, for his flying machine. He can patent II
!, separate inventions of which 1t Is mad
but that would cost $1,000, and would gl'
Indifferent protection.