The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-08-08
Echoes From the Busy Mill and the
Workshop.
INDUSTRIAL felix's GOSSIP
News and Happenings of Special Interest
in the Various Fields Where Me
chanic and Artisan Hold
Sway Night and Day.

Leather is colored by electricity.
There isn't an electric stevedore.
No Sunday street cars in Glasgow.
Europe employees 63, 900 locomotives.
Glasgow has 46S-foot high chimney.
London has "a, 600 domestic servants.
Cook county, H., has 3121 physicians
A Maxim gun fires 600 shots minute.
The South has =, 800, 900 cotton spindles
In America 1000, 900 people are insured
The States produce 1000, 600 bushels of
peanuts yearly.
Watermeons peaches and pears glut the
market at Arredono. Fla.
There are in Paris 5000 women who are
heads of mercantile houses.
The value of the cotton exported from
the New Orleans harbor last year was
nearly $75,000,OO0.
A century ago there was not a mile of
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not a foot of railway nor a steamship.
The city of Marseilles France, has just
completed its drainage system on the plan
OF that of Paris, at a cost of 81, 600, 600.
Farmers in Douglas county, Kansas, are
educating their horses to eat potatoes,
which they can feed at L cents. while corn
stands for II cents.
In Sweden the education of journalists is
treated as function of the State. Under
this system the young journalist gains Il
kno Wedge of the world by travelling at the
expense of the taxpayer.
The quantities OF bananas shipped from
West Indian and adjacent ports into the
United States now amounts to II. 600, 0OO
or 100000 punches annually valued at
considerably over $50 000,o 600.
Illinois is the next State to PENNSYLVANIA
in the production of coal. New labor
saving methods are constantly being intro
duced, one of the latest being the cutting
machine, with which one man can do the
work of fifteen.
A German cable company, with a capital
of $500, 600, has been formed, under the
name of the Deutsche Sectelegraphengesell
schaft, to lay cable between Germany and
Spain which ultimately will be continued
IN the 'nited States
The superintendent of the Chicago. Mil
waukee x st. Paul Railroad has applied to
the United States Marshall at Omaha for
protection against ian army of tramps who
for some time past have been taking posses
passengers.
There has Just been put up at the begin
ming of the Pont d'Asneres, Paris, over
which 400 trains a day pass, a framework
for movable pictures, which pictures indi-
cate the various amusements going on along
the western railway lines. From the foun-
tains at Versailles to the seaside resorts on
the company's system everything has its
turn.
Lady doctors are strongly opposed in
Austria. The chief medical men of the
empire are going to petition Parliament to
forbid women to follow calling which
entails far too great a strain on the femi
nine mind and body. The doctors point
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fession of chemist or to agricultural and
commercial pursuits.
A scheme is reported on foot for the
establishment of an electric railroad line
to connect Kansas City, Leavenworth,
Atchison and st. Joseph Mo-. the Mis-
souri,, Kansas q Texas Trust Company
furnishing the funds for the enterprise. A
representative of the company is said to
have been at work for some time securing
the necessary franchise. The line will be
30 miles long.
The official returns Of trade and naviga-
ton of the French Republic for 1895 show
that the general trade of the country last
year was of the estimated value of 81 9O1,
500, 600, being an increase of Sill, 500, 900
on the trade of 1891 and decrease of
So, 600 600 on the average of the past five
years. The trade with the United States
amounted to 500, 0O0 600 in imports and
$57 500, GEO in exports.
The dressing of Goldfish is an operation
requiring skill and rapidity. A man called
the 'throater cuts the fish s throat and rips
it open and passes it to The header" who
removes the head and entcails; the split
ter" then splits the fish open and takes out
part of the backbone, and the ''salter'
piles up the fish in tiers in the hold Of the
boat and salts them. Philadelphia Record.