The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-01-16
NEWS and HAPPENINGS.
IN THE GREAT WORLD OF LABOR
AND SKILLED IN
DUSTRY.
ECHOES FROM BUSY MILL and SHOP
Items That Will Interest All Readers and
BE of Special Importance to All
Mechanics and Artisans
of Today.

John Bull makes 100000 silk hat
annually.
The White House has $4,000 china
| set.
They are just cutting wheat down il
Argentina.
The cars coronation will cost $1,000,
COO
In Iceland, Goldfish, beaten to a powder
are used as bread.
indianapolis boasts the worlds larges
playing card factory.
| The total mineral production of Mexico
for the last fiscal year was ST., 261 900
About one-third of the butter imported
into Great Britain last year came from
Denmark.
1t is stated that 1852 trains arrive a
and leave Chicago daily, about one-fourtl
being freight trains.
| A Knoxville CTenn.) firm has received
an order for 100000 pounds of dried
apples for the German army.
| A Minneapolis dentist has successfully
employed electricity to check hemorfhagt
after the extraction of teeth.
At Marquette, Mich, the trolley sys
TEN is to be tried to Il mining road. The
| loaded cars as they come down will fur
nish power to haul the empty ones back
In half Il century the production of pa
per has increased tenfold. In 1850 il
was 221 100000 kilogrammes, in 1894 il
was 2,260, 100000 kilogrammes, or 1872
100000 pounds.
! Fishing by means of electric lights has
been successfully tried at New Haven
A lamp lowered into the sea brilliantly
illuminated the water over a circular area
20 yards in diameter.
In England the telegraph system is CON
trolled and operated by the postal de-
partment and it is not paying expenses
in fact, is running behind at the rate of
Il little over $1,000,000 annually.
Christie Il Lowe, a Chicago firm of con-
tractors, have undertaken to reclaim 1000
acres Of swamp land on the Illinois river
There are said to be 100000 acres of re-
, claimable land along the river.
Telegram postal cards have been sent
for some years in Paris by pneumatic
tubes. 1t is now proposed to use the
pneumatic tube system to convey letters
from the postoffice to the railroad sta
ton. The plant will cost $4,000
novel industry in London is that of
preserving eggs. The eggs are shelled,
the white and yolk mired together and
the whole carefully packed in hermet-
ically sealed tins. Eggs in this shape
will keep for very long time and are
chiefly used by pastry cooks.
One-third of an acre grows 10000 Jas
mine plants, yielding 20OO pounds of
flowers. Half an acre set with $500
which give from 200 to 250 pounds of
pomade. An acre and quarter will
yield 1000 pounds of violet flowers.
One dollar for nearly II year of very
hard work was all that the crew of the
whaling bark Lydia received when they
We're paid off in San Francisco last week.
They worked for their food and a share
in the profits of the cruise, and this season
has been the worst whaling season in
many years.
Norway is the best telephoned country
in the world, in spite of the fact that 20
per cent of its area is uncultivable and
another. "A per cent is forest 1t has
one exchange for every 1912 inha bitants
and one telephone to each 40 inhab itants
eight and half times the number in
this country.
An expert tool juggler in one of the
great English needle factories in a recent
test of skill performed one of the most
delicate mechanical feats imaginable. He
took common sewing needle of medium
size length one and five-eighth inches)
and drilled hole through its entire
length from eye to point, the opening be-
ing just large enough to admit the pas
sage of Il very fine hair.
Vegetarian boots are advertised in
London; the uppers are made of pan
nus corium," the soles of closely water
PROCEED flax betting. To show that the
skins of slaughtered animals are not nee
essary, the vegetarians say that India
rubber, gutta percha, steel and iron and
brass nails, and brass caps, cashmere and
cotton, elastic and webbing, wood and
list, cork and straw, silk and jutc, and
even brown paper and wax go to form
the modern mystery which still carries
the old name of boot or shoe"
The shipping trade of the various Aus
tralasian colonies, according to statistics
recently published, shows remarkable
growth, having risen from 740,696 tons
in 1861 to 1856, $50 tons in 1894. New
South Wales has secured about one third
of this tonnage. The value of the COM
bined Australasian imports and exports
rose from S244, 500, 121 in 1861 to $685.
225, 152 last year, the share of New South
Wales being about one-fourth in 1861
nestle products exported by the seven
colonies of Australasia during 1894 was
SCOT, 1000.
The work of painting the inside of the
Whitman mill, New Bedford Mass. is
nearly completed, and the machinery has
arrived in part. \ large number of the
looms have come, and the work of setting
up the cards is being done. The concern
who are to operate Il wooden mill in Med
way will be known as Cole, Senior Il Co.
The Nashua IN. H) company has begun
the erection of Il large bleachery. For
nearly 30 years it has placed work aver
I aging $4,000 n month with the Lowell
bleachery. \ new waste mill is proposed
for Fall River. Peter Corr of Taunton
is reported to be interested.
Two companies have been organized in
this country, one in Chicago and the
other in New Jersey. with the object of
introducing compressed air propulsion in
street railway lines. This motive power
has been used in Paris and other CONT
mental cities for some time, and has given
entire satisfaction. Air is stored under
pressure of 2000 pounds per inch. which
is reduced to 80 pounds for working.
Before going to the motors it passes
through tank of super-heated water,
ut Il temperature of 80 degrees. which
increases the efficiency about So per cent.
These ears are free from the dangers of
the trolley and the heat, noise odor or
smoke of other motors Thirty seconds
is time enough to charge car sufficiently
for Il 15-mile run.
ONE POINT MUST STAND.
London. Jan. 14-In an editorial in
the Times this morning it is repeated that