The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-09-12
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THE WORLD OF LABOR
Echoes of the Busy Mill and the
Workshop.
INDUSTRIAL FOLKS GOSSIP

Aluminium shoe-pegs.
There are asbestos towels.
Stone shoe soles are made.
Austrian brewers get $50 week
| Canada has thirty street railways
London makes 1000 pianos week.
America uses l $50, 900 freight cars.
| Roofing tiles are made of wood pulp.
There are 46, 600 Chinese in Australasia
Glasgows underground railway is rur-
ming.
Boy housemaids are proposed in England.
In Japan watchmakers make 20 cents q
day.
An Indian prince has throne of solid
glass
England turns out Is, 900 artificial limbs
year.
The present London bridge cost S12,
800, 600
Water has been known to sustain life for
65 days.
Women hod-carrers in Austria get 2s
cents day.
Rmntgen rays are used to test loaded
cartridges
Oxford University has an income of
nearly $780, 900.
Nantes has had compressed air cars for
twenty years.
There are 10 doctors to every 100. 600
persons in London.
A Chicago fireman spends all his spare
time making bicycles.
Trolley cars are now running in the
streets of Cairo, Egypt
Part of the Paris horse market has been
set aside for public bicycle market
The cost of living is two or three times
as great in Samoa as in the United States
An average of 10000 letters are posted
without addresses in England every year.
A wheel weighing over Is tons has Just
been turned out in one casting at Sheffield.
Queen Marghcrita of Italy is said to be
writing ii drama which will be produced
next fall.
American ice cream is advertised in the
City of Mexico at "only 81 for an Amer
can quart"
No receptacle has ever been made strong
enough to resist the bursting force or power
of freezing water.
Matches made in Japan are being sold in
New Zealand cheaper than English made
matches can be sold.
The second largest drawbridge in the
United States is being built between Du-
luth and Superior, Wis.
The Japanese Diet voted at its last SEES
sion $45, 10000 for the construction Of
railroads, telegraphs and cables.
Excessive heat and moisture have caused
heavy peach and apple crop to rot on the
trees in Calhoun county, Mich.
When the Trans-Siberian Railway is
completed in 1900 it will be possible to
encrcle the globe in thirty days
A japanese firm has ordered from a
Glasgow shipbuilder two freight and pas
senger steamers of 500 tons each.
Chicago is said to have gold exhibit
this fall, at which ores and machinery from
all parts of the world will be shown.
The position of break in submarine
cable is located by measuring the electricity
needed to charge the remaining unbroken
part.
1t is said that a New South Wales man
has patented diving-bell with which work
can be done under water at a depth of
5000 feet
A prominent Texas stockman saws that
within twenty years the typical Texas
pony will be a bicycle. This is evolution
with a vengeance.
Telegraph wires will last for forty years
near the seashore. In the manufacturing
districts the same wires last only ten years,
and sometimes less.
An ingenious device made in France is a
microphone so hung over baby's cradle
that when it cries an electric bell is rung,
waking nurse or mamma.
Power developed by Niagara Falls and
transmitted to Buffalo by electricity will
cost $50 per horse power year, saving Of
$50 per horse power for average lots.
Books bound in the skin of departed
friends are said by the L ondnn Eiunro 70