Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-02-01
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.
India has 10000 acres IN tea.

India has 10000 acres IN tea.
Aluminium paper is announced.
London reports a bamboo bicycle.
There are 1000 Danes in Chicago.
Cuba makes 100000 cigars daily.
Egypt prohibits tobacco cultivation
Berlin is TO have an elevated trolley
Germany leads in beer consumption
England has Chinese house servants
Atlanta trolleys will have air brakes
New Orleans has woman's orches
ira.
The Pacific cable may cost $4,000,
600.
France has government tobae &C
mills.
Diamonds have been found at Tas
mania.
Women serve on the police force o.
Berlin.
London's Postoflice employs sec
women.
There are sixty gold mines in South
Carolina.
A salt we'll in Warsaw, n, is 1920
feet deep.
American paper is used by the Lon.
don Times.
Berlin is said to be the wealthiest
city in the world.
Last year G,74SOOO hogs were re.
ceived in Chicago.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has Il 600 offices.
South Carolina raised 100000
pounds of rice last year.
There are 1880 railroad corpora
tions in the United States.
Pennsylvania has $2OO.OOO,oOO in
vested in iron and steel mills.
A single plant of wheat is capable OF
producing 1000 seeds in one season.
The yield of a tobacco farm is said to
be from GOO to 1000 pounds an acre.
The expenses of the Queens house
hold are estimated at f172 900 a year.
1t is said that the average life of
American-built ships is eighteen years.
A tin-plate factory is projected for
Frankton, Ind, to employ 800 work
men.
Paper telegraph poles are likely to
take the place of the wooden wire.sup.
ports.
Seven thousand hogsheads OF tobac.
CO are stored in one Louisville ware.
house.
Grape lands in the Chautauqua dis.
trict netted owners SIS an acre last
season.
Horsemeat for food finds a market
in most European and some American
cities.
The manufactured products Of
Great Britain amount to about ST.
0O,OO0,OO0 year.
Mrs. Humphry Ward has made
100000 out of three books published
within the last six years.
The oil wells OF Baku cover q dis
trict OF country twenty-five miles long
by over half mile in breadth.
In 1889, the year for which we have
completed statistics, 299, $50 persons
were employed in coal mining.
The largest continuous street rail-
way in the United States is the AZ
mile strip from Lowell to Haverhill
Mass.
Last year the railroads of this coun-
try paid 1922, 659, OS9 interest on their
bonds and $50 ,336,Sll in dividends.
The construction of the New York
Elevated Railroad required 1900 tons
of iron per mile and cost 1920 yard.
Last year there were 404 rear.end
railway collisions in this country, 81
head collisions and SO at crossings.
OF the 100000 inhabitants of
London more than 1000, 900 have TO
live on less than IS o week for each
family.
Corner lots on Fleet street, Piccadil-
" and other desirable business loca-
tons in London are worth 500 600 a
front foot.
The total consumption of cotton in
the world is IL ,OOO,O 900 bales q year.
OF the amount 5000, 900 bales are pro-
duced in the United States.
In the Lake Superior district alone
q years yield of free copper has
amounted to no lees than 5000 tons
or Is, 92O, 900 pounds avoirdupois.
In 1890 there were 8I9,301 EN-.
ployees of the railroads of the United
States, an average Of 479 persons foI
each 100 miles of line, or 479 to each
mile.
In converting redwood into railroad
ties, it is stated that for every tie pro.
duced, which is worth IS cents, tim.
Der to the value OF $1.87 is wasted.
The gold output this year will ap
proximate $43,OOO,OOO. Colorado
Montana, Idaho and California will
show an increase aggregatipg $1,000,
600.
The cheapest postal rate in the
world is 2 cents an ounce for 6,27l
miles between Key West, Fla, anc
Ounalaska-both on Uncle Sans soil
by the way.
A CAREFUL record kept at Yale fol
eight years shows that non-smokerl
are twenty per cent. taller, twenty
five per cent. heavier, and have sixty
per cent. more lung capacity than
smokers. A recent graduating clas
at Amherst presented similar diff.