The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-01
THE WORLD OF LABOR.

Coal gas dates from l739
We have 4l3 species of trees.
London has $4,000 female clerks.
New York has 10.jOO telephones.
The states have l.SGS daily papers.
Uncle Sam leads in gold coinage.
Canada has but one Sunday paper.
England supports 200 daily papers.
Chinese eat 100000 dogs annually.
London has 10 piano fort factories.
Racine, Wis, reports n bicycle-boat.
Persia has twenty miles of railroad.
London theaters employ 1900 persons.
Norway is to have electric ferry boats.
Lake Superior iron mines employ 10000
men.
girls.
United States contain 10, 1000 medical stu
dents.
The Rothschild family is worth $2,0OO,-
100000.
An England Holland telephone is pro-
jected.
The Atchison railroad is capitalized in
$780, 1881, $50
There are 210 officials in Queen Victoria's
household.
New York has $1,000 women who sup
port their husbands.
Straw plating gives employment to co.
900 women in Europe.
The growing of corn may be heard d.
rect by means of the microphone.
Shoes were first mentioned in Egyp-
tian annals 1000 years before Christ.
a new telegraphic invention will con-
vey 1000 words a minute over the wires.
The Chinese make candles of a vege-
table wax, the product Of the candeberry
tree.
The cost Of an ironclad is about $4OO a
ton. This includes guns and all equip
ments.
A lady had the wrong tooth pulled by
Detroit dentist, and she recovered 500
damages.
In India, 1t is said, the native barber
will shave you while you sleep, SO light is
his touch.
Nashville is the first city in the world
for hard wood lumber. and the largest
milling city in the south.
The great cable corporations and con-
structiOn companies of the world own, all
told, forty vessels, several Of them over
1900 tons burden.
A new railroad uniting the Atlantic and
Pacific Is nearly completed. 1t crosses tho
Andes, and brings Buenos Ayres within
forty hours travel of Valparaiso.
There are forty-eght different mate
rials used in constructing a piano, from
no fewer than sixteen different countries,
employing forty-five different hands.
A London firm which has manufactured
eight of the eleven cables linking the
United States to England make fifty-ive
miles of cable each twenty-four hous.
Since 1876 $2OS, 600 in silver has been
shipped from San Francisco for use in
the Asiatic trade. Over Sill 100000 of 1t
was in Mexican coin and the rest in bars.
In London there is q manufactory in
which every kind of rare or ancient coins
are made, and collector need not go out
of the place If he wants to HI his cabinet
with numismatic treasures.
Most people talk about millions without
realizing what is really is. An expert
coin counter can count 5000 coins per hour.
If he works ten hours a day 1t will take
33 1-3 days to finish the counting of 1,0OO,-
600.
The first printed books abounded TO
such an extent in abbreviation that they
were extremely difficult to read and un-
derstand, and a treatise was prepared
and printed How to Read q Printed
Book" 1t gave explanations of the abb
breviations.
Probably the largest fire insurance pol
Icy In existence, or even written. Is that
covering the property of the Santa lFe
Railway company. 1t was issued by the
Phoenix Fire, of London, Eng, is In
amount S17,0O0,0O0, and takes $4,000 to
carry.-Philadelphia Record