Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-07-04
THE WORLD OF LABOR.
Echoes from the Busy Mill and the
Workshop.

There are paper neckties.
Electric candles gain favor
Paris sewers are illuminated.
There is self-threading needle.
Uncle sam has 4,767, 179 farms.
Argentine has ordered torpedo boats.
London has sailors cooking school
England reports fire-proof ceiluloid.
Africans make beer from bananas.
Pure platinum is rarely discovered.
India periodicals cover 10 languages.
Flower, cost Londoners $4,000
day.
Valparaiso has women car con-
dlctors.
America makes 100000 clutches a
year.
British Columbia has mining
boom.
santo Domingo is to have electric
lights.
British Columbia has Norwegian
colony.
London has $1,000 professional
writer's.
The south has negro feminine physi-
Clans.
wyoming's wool clip is 9.oo0.0o0
pounds.
yiroqua (Wis.l is to have a starch
factory.
sLondon's fur sales reach 100000 900
! annually.
California has spent $lo0000,0o0 on
irriga ton.
Pineapples bring % cents q hundred
in Madagascar.
Insurance rates have been cut so
per cent in Healdsburg.
In the south two crops OF potatoes
are often grown the same season.
More than fifty kinds of bark are
used in the manufacture Of paper.
Rice paper Is not made from rice,
but from the membranes Of the bread
fruit tree.
Texas porterhouse steaks cost more
in Chicago, New York and Boston than
they do in London, Paris and Berlin.
The United States produced 353,-
100000 pounds OF copper last year.
The production for 1891 was only 2S7,-
100000
France produces about S0S.000 tons
of finished iron year. The ore for 1t
is largely drawn from Algeria, Spain.
Elba and Sardinia.
Big excitement has been caused at
Galistega, Cal, by the discovery OF 4
deposit of native quicksilver in the
center of the town.
The largest sailing ship. afioat Is the
remodeled Persian Monarch, 1923 tons
measurement. Her iron masts are 1S4
feet high from the deck.
The fastest trains on the continent
are said TO be the expresses of The
Northern Railway company, Of France.
Their speed is 36 miles an hour.
1t Is now proposed in England TO
drive tram cars by powers derived
from huge springs, which can be
wound while the whole is in motion
or otherwise.
Edward Atkinson says 10,S00,0 100000
eggs ere laid in this country in a year.
They are worth $4,000. 000-as much
as the pig iron and wool
Professor Frank Parsons asserts
that in New York it costs a man from
$50 to 500 year for the same amount
of transportation he gets in Berlin for
$3.50.
"A dozen or more structures have re-
Gently been planned in New York that
will cost more than million each, and
some of which will be twenty -four
stories high.
a street car advertising company, of
Chicago, refused to take an advertise
ment from an undertaking establish
ment. which wanted the cards put upI
in the trolley cars.
The Port Orchard (Wash.) dry dock,
which will cost complete 100000, will
be the cheapest constructed Institution
of the kind, considering its size and
character, in the world.
A number Of farmers living 10 miles
west of Yankton have established al
telephone system, covering eight miles
of wire. The expense for the entire
system will not exceed $25.
May 10 was the twenty-sixth ami
versary of the driving of the first
golden spike ever driven in the history
of railroading in the world, the spike
being the ''last" spike on the Union
Pacific railroad.
The highest salaried employe in the
United States is supposed to be thel
president of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance society, Henry Il. Hyde, He re-
eeiyes annually 100000 John A.
Mccall gets $4,000 to be president Of
the New York life.
A rich gold strike Is reported in the
Ferris mountain region, in the north !,
ern part of Carbon county, Wyo. A
rich vein, eight feet wide, is claimed
and has been traced ON the surface for
half mile.
Chicago box factories alone should
use 125.000,0O0 feet of lumber annu-
ally, and through the country at large
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