The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-05-30
THE WORLD OF LABOR,
News and Happenings of Special Inter-
est in the Various Fields Where

News and Happenings of Special Inter-
est in the Various Fields Where
Mechanic and Artisan
Hold Sway Night
and Day.
Silk is made of wood pulp.
Ireland has Is daily papers.
Canned electricity is peddled.
Bone slate pencils gain favor.
Russiab uys American bicycles
The Cars crown is worth $3.50. 600
Chicago boasts a movable observatory.
British coal mine is 3, $50 feet deep.
'ussla has b State telephone systems.
Sweden has worked a mine 500 years.
There are ., 400 varieties of velocipedes.
Germany 5 vineyards cover BOG, 900 acres.
Germany's yearly wine output is worth
81, $50, 600
prospector has located the graveyard at
Moab, Utah, as placer claim.
Hallway travelling in Norway is cheaper
than in any other European country.
The medical department of the Queens
household costs S13, 800 yearly, and COM
prises "a persons.
1t Is stated that !, 1852 trains arrive at and
leave Chicago daily, about one-fourth being
freight trains.
1t Is claimed that North Carolina must
henceforth hold the highest place in the
production OF early fruits for the Northern
markets
The West Coast Manufacturing and I'm.
ProVement Company, of Ballard, Wash, i.
running overtime to keep up with orders
The mill is cutting 300, 900 shingles day
The New York World has sketch of tn,
house OF Delmonico, from which it appears
tAat its founder landed in this country hal
n century ago with only s. in his pocket.
Among the timbers cut at the Skamo
kawa mill for the schooner Louis cargo i
monster ITO feet long, 81 by 81 inches
and there are eight foot timbers tina
square from 2l by Is by Is inches.
| The trcentenary of the introduction O
the potato is to be celebrated in Britain thi
year, Tor 1t was in 1896, exactly three cen
turtles ago. that Sir Walter Raleigh pante,
the first Irish potato in his estate at You
ghal. near Cork.
N.rays are to be applied to practical ayri
culture. DR.. Graetz, of Munich. has give,
picture OF one-day pig, showing its bon
structure. BY continuing to make picture
OF the pig the action of food on its growt
will be shown
The loss of stock in New South Vale
during the recent drought is estimated a
10000 600 sheep, valued at Is each: BOB,
coo cattle, valued at los, and 90 COO horses
valued at Cos, amounting in the arpreyat
to total value of G., 666, 600
The employees of the large new Berl
Shire cotton mill at Adams, Mass, cele
brated the completion Of the plant by
grand ball on May % 1t was held on fin
first floor of the mill, and on the 81 IS.
square feet of space there was ample elbow
room for all.
A new slot machine or automatic tick e
agent is being eXperimentally tried in Be,.
lin. 1t has Il slot for tickets of each de
nomination. 1t so nearly approaches hui
man intelligence that when the tickets arc
exhausted it will return the money by
slight pressure ola button just below the
Io' but this will only be done il no ticket
is delivered from the proper aperture
William f. Smythe, WHO'S an irrigation
expert, says the arid region of the Trans
Mississippi West measures north to south
as ia, "s from Montreal 90 Mobile and east
to west further than from Boston to Omaha
When some cheap and practicable meaus Of
irrigation is found it is expected that the
population of this region will become
greater than the present population of the
United States.