Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-10-26
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.

The American hay crop is worth
$57O,OOOOOO.
Americans eat more sugar than any
other people.
Electric lights have been introduced
in AfShanistan.
Chinese soldiers are paid 81 month
for their services.
Twenty thousand carrier pigeons
are i'll use in France.
Some American furniture is finding
market in Germany.
Siberia is exceedingly rich in all
sorts OF precious stones.
Electric elevators are becoming
numerous in many cities.
Gas is supplied to London consum-
ers at SO cents per 1000 feet.
Australian policeman must know
how to operate the telegraph.
German cooks are improving their
capacity in 100 cooking schools.
At least sl44OOO,OOO worth of
British property is always on the sea.
North Carolina is first in tar, sec.
ond in copper, third in peanuts, fourth
in rice.
Counterfeit whalebone is now COM
peting with the high-priced genuine
article.
The total number of miles of rail-
road constructed in England amounts
to 2O,G4G.
The pay of a letter carrier in the
United States is from $ll.5O to SI9.-
% per week.
A Philadelphia company has begun
operations to extract gold from hither.
to valueless ores.
There are $4,000 persons engaged
upon editorial work on daily and
weekly papers in this country.
An English syndicate has made ar.
rangements to purchase so paper and
pulp mills on the Tax river, Wisconsin.
The public debt OF Japan amounts
to about $3.50, 100000, all of which i.
held by her own people except 81, 600,
600.
itcost $1,000 to take q carload OF
fruit from Sacramento to London two
years ago. The rate this year is about
500.
Six years ago the price for a com.
plete equipment of a trolly car wa,
$4,000. Now it is between 81 600 ant
$1,000.
In 1898, 191 ,S57 miles of road wer,
equipped with steel out of tota
mileage of 229,Ol3, the percentage be
ing S3.S.
This country has eighteen regularl!
incorporated cremation societies, ant
during ten years 5000 cremation
have taken place.
The country which now, in proper
tion to its population, stands frs
among the woolen ma manufacturinI
countries is Belgium.
The latest census returns sho,
that England spends every year 70
drink about $72O.OOO,OOO, and onl
$50, 900 900 for books.
The new rifle, which has been adopt
ed in the United States army weigh
only eight pounds and will kill ma
a distance OF two miles.
| In New York State there is said
be no sale for farms. In Missonl
farms sell every day for, as q good a,
erage, $35 and $40 an acre.
| The coffee crop OF 1894 is estimate
at Il, 100000 bags, the largest in tn
annals of the trade and 1000, 900 bag
in excess OF the consumption.
| Pakhoi, in China, exports over 100
600 dried lizards, valued at $3.50
yearly; they are used for making Ii.
ard wine," medicine used for ey
troubles.
| In 100 home families in New Yorl
on the average, are found 63 that hir
their home, Is that own with incum
brance and % that own without il
cumbrance.
The New Orleans Tis,es-DemocrC
says the South produced $S6, COZ SO
worth of lumber in 1890. The produc
in 1880 was worth $3S,1l6,OOO.
more than doubled in ten years.
The new Union station in st. Loui,
now open for traffic, is said to be tn
largest in the world. 1t covers eleve
and a half acres; the yard, storag
space and tracks about thirty more.
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| IN August, 1890, just before the Nc