Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-25
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.


Nearly one-sixth OF the Kansas
wheat crop OF last year was used as
feed for farm animals.
The Court house at Brussels is the
largest architectural work of the
present century.
Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia
raise nearly all the tobacco produced
in this country.
Poppy plantations for the produc-
ton of opium have been attempted in
some parts Of Florida.
The japanese yen contains about as
much silver as our dollar, but passes
only at its bullion value.
The annual consumption of tobac-
CO in the United States is about GO
ounces to every inhabitant.
Pennsylvania's printing, done by
the public printer, cost $l39,771 last
year; supplies and paper, $56,O26.
The cash returns to this country for
the wheat, corn and cotton crops will
be rather better this year than last.
The South contains over 20O,O00,OO0
acres OF forest land-over half of the
woodland area OF the United States.
In all our carrying vessels we're
anchored in one harbor there would
be fleet of $50 sail and wheelers.
The railroads of the United States
are 81 900 miles longer than those oi
all the rest of the world put together.
The Swiss postoffice conveys any
thing from a postal card to barrels ol
wine, lathes and bundles of old iron.
Odessa, on the Black Sea, is one oi
the greatest flour markets OF the
world, as we'll as the chief tallow mar.
ket.
A tree discovered in Africa yields q
grain for bread and fatty substance
that is an excellent substitute for but.
ter.
Every workmen in Japan wears on
his cap and OH his back an inscription
giving his business and his employers
name.
There is duck ranch in the Blue
Mountains of Pennsylvania which
sends 1900 birds to the market
yearly.
In most parts of Syria, Palestine
and Arabia, fig trees and date palms
are counted, and tax is levied on
each tree.
1t is said to require the lives of s.
100000 song birds annually to keep
the hats of American women in prop
er feather.
During the reign of the celebrated
Walker tariff we exported $456, ,OOO,-
600 of gold to pay the balance of trade
against US.
The past year has been better in
the copper industry than any since
1891, 1889 being still, however, the
banner year.
Over 30,OOO,OOO tons of freight
passed through the ship canal at
Sault Ste. Marie this season, which
lasted 234 days.
Every ship.building country showed
a decrease in construction last year,
that of Great Britain amounting to
over 25 per cent.
The net earnings of the Edison
Electric Illuminating Company OF
New York for the past eight months
were $454 ,357.S7.
A Frenchman has estimated that
there are $1,000 breweries in the
world. Germany, he says, easily
leads with 26,24O.
The United States now has about
forty vessels engaged in whaling
the remnant of feet which once
numbered 500 ships.
1t is said that all the gold in the
world, not counting that in virgin
state, would not make block of more
than 613 cubic yards.
Over 500, 900 900 have been invest
ed in electric lights and railways in
Southern cities, most of it within the
last two or three years.
France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland,
Germany and Spain all consume
horseflesh. Last year Paris alone
consumed IL ,396 horses.
1t is estimated by engineers who
have studied the subject that 10000,
600 horsepower goes to waste every
hour over Niagara Falls.
The Southern corn.crop will be
nearly 100000 bushels, according
to United States Agricultural Depart.
ment, an increase OF $4,000. 600 BUSH
els.
The railroad bonds of the United
States eat up every year $240,OOO, zoo
in interest, which every passenger
and every pound of freight helps tc
pay.
The Compagna General of Manills
employs 10000 hands and turns out
every year S0,OOO,OOO cigars, 10000,
600 cigarattes and $500 tons of Gu,
tobacco.
There are forty-eight different ma.
terials used in constructing a piano
from no fewer than sixteen different
countries, employing forty-five differ
ent hands.
The difference in wages between
American and Welsh tin-plate work
ers is, or was, something tremendous
For rolling per twenty boxes Wells 81
manufacturers pay $1.S8, American
manufacturers $50.
A HUNTING party in the Olympi,