The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-08-31

iho peanut tlop Is iihely W JIG hpoio
short this year.
There are 10000 distinct varieties of
postage stamps.
There has bren revival of logging in
civilized countries.
The use of the electric headlight is grow
ing on Southern roads,
\ cooperative home for working girls
has been started in Chicago.
The first article of human clothing mem
toned in history WAS an apron
The Carolinas and Georgia raise
l2@, $50. l3 pounds of rice annually.
5. o. Meredith will erect a ifty-barrel
roller Touring mill ut Union, W. Va.
The LONDON d Northwestern Railway
Company consumes $500 tons of coal
day.
A popular blotting- pad is made of stone
found around the thermal springs of the
West
Wrought keys are rapidly superseding
cast-iron keys in the lock trade of Great
Britain.
Maine paper has suspended publica
ton for two weeks to give its employees q
vacation.
Fertilizer works will be established at
Corrlc, Ca, by the Industrial Fertilizer
Company.
What is probably the largest apple Or
chard in the world covers 1857 acres in
Fairmont, Kan.
Plows in Germany are operated more
cheaply by the Use of electriciticy than
by that of steam.
Every mineral and metal of value in the
arts or industries is found within the limits
OF the United States.
Missionaries say there are seven Ameri-
can harkeepers in the village of Nazareth
the home of the Saviour.
one OF the heavy expenses attached to
raising sheep in Terra del Fuego island is
killing panthels which raid the tlocks.
Some of the eighteenth century tables
and chairs, very popular in England. are
made in and shipped from Connecticut.
Hartford concern has Just made a four
ply leather belt Is feet long and - inches
wide. The hides of 40 steers were used
In the Loo Choo Islands, though there
are neither vehicles nor public lighting,
the inhabitants have letter boxes and tele-
phones.
The Countess Cecilia Plater-Zybeck, one
of the wealthiest women in Russia, has
been enrolled in the guide of master tailors
at Warsaw.
1t is proposed to build an electric rail
road from Basic City, Va, to Bridgewater
a distance Of - miles The road will cost
about 5000, OOO.
| Japan first spinning mill was erected
in lsS3 with 5i37 spindes. 1T the end
of l~93 there were IS mills with about
600 Oo0 spndlcs
The manufacture of typewriting ma
chimes has in late years grown to very large
/ proportions. This is one of the newest of
our manufactures.
Shoestrings We're first worn in 1871, and
the English huclilemakers presented a
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articles be prohibited.
The Crawford Wooden Mill, of Martins
burg, W. Va. will expend about $1,000 in
engagements.
The machinery has been ordered for a
factory to manufacture fertilizers from
muck at Inverness, Fla.
At ,lonkoping. Sweden, there is n
monster machine which makes 200, 600
boxes of matches per day.
\ company has been organized at
Pouan, Ga, to erect cotton mill, to be
equipped with $50 looms.
Petroleum has been used for some time
in Germany as means of preventing the
formation of scale on boilers.
Mrs. Thompkins, of Washington, has the
contract for buying everything the nine JUS
tees of the Supreme Court may require
during the coming year.
\ 500, 900 company has been organized
at Henderson, \. c., and will erect cot
ton mill of 5000 spindles, with electric
light plant attached.
The Erwin Cotton Mills, of West Dur
ham, \. c., has commenced work on its
new building, alOOxs5 feet to contain 400
looms and 10000 spindles
Mr.. c. A. Norton, of Tallapoosa, Ca. is
endeavoring to secure the acceptance of
proposition for the erection of 10, 500
spindle and l15-loom mill.
As a result of better feeling in the coal
mining regions of Virginia and West Vir
ginio, the railroad shops at Radford Va,
have resumed operations.
There are in this country 4,7S1 ,625 de-
positor in saving banks, who have on
deposit the enormous sum of 81, 712, 769, Oo5
an average of sos 20 to each depostor.
Platinum has been drawn into smooth
wire so fine that it could not be distin-
guished by the naked eye, even when
stretched across piece Of white cardboard
Lighting trains by electricity on the New
York Central, the supply of which is fur
nished by the revolution of the axles, as
far as tested has proved very satisfactory
| The first bale of Georgia COTTON WAC sold