Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-11-23
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.


American railroads employ 900
surgeons.
Mrs. Astor has the best dinner set
1t cost 100000.
There are 100 women sugar-plant
ers in Louisiana.
Women are efficient clerks in th,
Bank of England.
The ladies of the Astor family owl
$3,OO0,0O0 in jewels.
Over 100000 persons rode in Mr.
Pullman's cars last year.
Cape Colony exports annually f26,
600 worth of dried flowers.
Peru is rich in petroleum fields lay.
ing practically undeveloped.
There are 1880 breweries and 4,79l
distilleries in the United States.
In Bengal sugar is made from both
the date palm and the sugar cane.
Twenty-nine women are assistant
cashiers in banks in Western towns.
Women BARRIERS in many cities are
getting good share OF the business.
Every street-car line in Philadelphia
adopted 5-cent fares on March 7, 1887.
The land upon which the Phila-
delpbia postotiice stands cost 81 ,49l, :
2OG.
There are nearly 1900 miles OF
rabbitproof fencing in New South
Wales.
The fire-losses in the United States
and Canada during September were
$40, 10000.
Toilet soap. in the form of paper,
but slightly larger than visiting cards,
is used in France.
A furniture factory at Norcross, Ga,
turns out $500 chairs and GOO bed
steads every month.
At the present rate OF cutting it will
take but ID years to exhaust the tim
ber supply of Texas.
A Frenchman has invented a ma
chine that will make forty-two
cigarettes minute.
The largest horse in the world is "a
Percheon-Norman in Detroit. He
weighs $500 pounds.
A bushel OF corn is worth 50 cents,
but when it is sold over the bar as
whiskey it brings $24.
Proportionately to area the United
Kingdom has three times AS much
railroad as the United States.
The Bank OF England employs over
1000 clerks, and the bank building
covers an area OF eight acres.
The United States is likely to soon
lead all the nations in the magnitude
OF her coal and iron interests.
Eastern railroads are using in un-
loading coal new machine which un-
loads seventy-six cars in five hours.
Ninety thousand miles of railroads
center in Chicago. Thirteen hundl ed
and fifty trains leave or arrive every
day.
In all Europe there are 51,SO1
breweries, and they produce 1885,
OW,OOO gallons of malt liquors an
nually.
The annual output of the worlds
gold fields amounts to about 6,OOO,-
OOO ounces troy, or 100000 pounds
avoirdupois.
New Jersey has become a manuiac.
turing State, and the amount OF wages
paid in its industries doubled between
1880 and 1890.
In the Lake Superior district alone
a years yield OF copper has amounted
to no less than 5000 tons, or 1890
pounds avoirdupois.
According to some recently pub.
lished statistics the United States pro.
duces nearly as much copper as all of
the rest of the world together.
There was time in the fifteenth
century when the price OF wheat
was only 8 cents bushel and days
wages about the same amount.
The census places the egg produc-
tion OF 1889 at nearly 10,OOO,OO 600,
valued at $l63,44 900, while the
chickens themselves were worth $I42,-
GA $50.
In Italy there are more theaters in
proportion to the population than in
any other European country, there be-
ing in Catania one to every $500 in
habitants.
The Rdilwdy Age says from Janu-
ary lst thirty-two roads, 6,254 miles
in length, funded debt $lS5 O7S, 500,
capital stock 1861 100000, went into
receivers hands.
The aggregate length of telegraph
lines in existence throughout the
world is computed at 1,069,l33 miles.
This total is made up as follows
Europe, $50 1897 miles; America, 54S,-
S12 miles; Asia, 1875 miles; Africa,
Il .6S7 miles; and Australia, 47,Sl2
miles.
In proportion TO the population
France has more money in circula.
ton than any other country. In
France it averages $40.56 per capita
in the United States, $2i.34; in Eng
land and Germany, $lS.42; in Japan
$3.50; in China, $l.75; in Centra
America, 81 cents.
The Ellensburgh irrigation ditct
laborers, 152 of them, have sent pc
tition to Governor McGraw recitins
their destitute condition and implor
ing aid.