The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-13
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL,

A scrubbing machine has come to
stay.
Kentucky is first in tobacco produc.
ton.
London consumes as much fish as
meat.
Japan is the greatest producer of
sulphur.
A Berlin fire engine is made of
papier mache.
Mortgages on Indiana farms amount
to SAG, 500, 900.
There are now thirty eight spinning
mills in Japan.
We get 10000, 900 pounds of tea an
nually from Japan.
Illinois has more miles of railroads
than any other State.
More than 100000 dogs are eaten
by Cinnamon every year.
The engines of the world can do the
work of 200, 900, 900 men.
Indians in the service of the United
States earn 81, 000,00O year.
There are $1,000 women engaged in
farming in the United States.
The English language is spoken at
present by l15, 900, 900 people.
Holland is the land of fatness, wind
mills dykes, canals and cheese.
New Hampshire mills turn out 3O0,-
900 yards of cotton cloth daily.
Crowded New York with II, 900 fac
tories is like hive of industry.
Fully one.third of the female popula-
ton of France are laborers ON farms.
Ginseng is valuable export of West
Virginia, some going as far as China.
The present plant at Niagara Falls is
intended only to utilize 1876, 900 horse
power.
In 1898 there were brought to this
country diamonds of the value of $14,-
62O,66O.
Some of the largest ocean steamers
can be converted into armed cruisers in
thirty hours
Engineers have estimated that the
total water-power Of Niagara Falls is
1000. 900 horsepower.
Last year Australasia and the Argen.
tine Republic exported 1878, oil pounds
of frozen meat to Europe.
The art of brick making has advanced
more during the last few years than
almost any other industry.
"a Free Shine With Every Shave" is
the inducement set forth by Brook
Ign barber to attract custom.
Already there are 1864, GAL farms in
the United States with Government
land enough in reserve for millions
more.
A belt in one of the big Touring
mill at Minneapolis contains 200 cow
hides. 1t is $50 feet long and weighs
over ton.
Twenty years ago Southern planters
paid men to haul away cotton seed and
burn it. Now they get from So to IS
a ton for it.
The first savings bank in this country
was the Philadelphia Savings Fund
Society, organized in 1916. 1t is still
in existence.
In 100 Great Britain's sugar con-
was only 10, 900 tons, in 1900
it had risen to 10000 tons and in
1885 it was nearly 1000, 900 tons
The cross mark instead of a signature
did not originate in ignorance. 1t was
always appended to signatures in medic
val times as an attestation of good
faith.
Aluminium horseshoes are already in
use in the United States as well as in
Europe, and Chicago manufacturer is
now turning out large numbers of them
every day.
One of the great manufactures OF
household furniture in Grand Rapids,
Mich. employs woman as chief de-
signer of artistic furniture and pays her
a handsome salary.
The American continents have more
than one-half the railway mileage OF
the world, and the United States comes
pretty near equaling Europe, Asia,
Africa and Australia combined.
France has the largest public debt IN
the world. In 1875 it amounted to
about 81, 500, 600, 900; in 1885 to rather
more, and in 1898 to about $6,OOO,-
600, 900, or more than 80, 900, 900, 900
francs.
There are 40 600 mora women than