The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-07-16
THE WORLD OF LABOR.

switzerland has 1000 hotels.
A fireworks trust is announced.
The States contain o533 sailors.
India has 1900 miles Of railway.
Vienna has pavement Of cork.
Georgia is shipping watermelons.
Fresno boasts 442-pound potato.
Indiana has SIX tinplate factories.
United States are worth $64,12o,-
100000.
At Transvaal gold fields beer is ST.
a bottle.
Queen Victoria has $4,000, 900 in
rare china.
Tasmania apples are six pence per
pound.
An Indiana orchard has $50 varie-
ties of apples.
Typewriting machines have lessen
cd the demand for steel pens.
The charge for residence telephones
at Newton, Kan, is SIS year.
A French railway company has
ordered clocks to be placed on the
outside of every locomotive.
Anew industry IN the distillation Of
sweet potatoes for alcohol aed whisky
has been opened up in the South.
Above Lyons the Rhone is to be
damned SO as to obtain the water
power needed to provide Lyons with
electricity.
In 1880 the whole tonnage of the
British Empire reached but a,6oo,-
200. To-day the tonnage register is
over 100000 of steam and nearly
100000 of sailing.
The scarcity Of ivory has set inven-
tive wits at work, and now in Sweden
hollow balls Of cast steel are found to
be satisfactory substitute for ivory
billiard balls
Spain is very rich in all kinds of
metals used in manufactures, especi-
ally iron, copper, tin quicksilver and
lead, and in 1895 she exported them
to the amount of SIS, 900.
The Chicago drainage canal will be
a free ship canal for boats drawing up
to "a feet. The cost when completed
will be about $27,3o3,a16. 1t extends
from the lakes to the Mississippi
River.
During the recent troubles in
Johannesburg, one Of the first acts of
the officials was to close every saloon,
compensate the owners for their stock,
and then destroy the liquor by pour
ing it on the ground.
The Philadelphia Textile School
has been brought TO such a state of
perfection that the pupils are now
making goods, such as cassmeres,
beavers, meltons and tricots, from the
raw material to the finished fabric
Wade's Fibre and Fabric.
Martin Quinn, driver for a steam
laundry Of Portland, through a split
in the Republican party, which could
not but mean ruin and defeat, leaps
ffom the obscurity of an $II a week
job, handling soiled linen, to the
proud eminence of representing the
State of Oregon at the capital of the
nation.
The japanese workmans tools are
most primitive affairs. The saw, for
instance, is simply a sheet of steel
about eight inches square roughly
notched with teeth. This is set into
handle measuring as a rule, about two
feet in length. With this clumsy
instrument, however, he is able to &C
complish an immense amount of work.
"Men are now living" says the
Baltimore Sun, ''who heard the emf
nent scientist, Professor Silliman, de-
clare in lecture at Yale College,
after careful mathematical calcula.
ton, that no boat could contain a
sufficient amount of coal to propel it
across the Atlantic Ocean. 1t is not
likely that he ever dreamed that ships
would be constructed which could
contain and consume nearly 1000 tons
on a single voyage"
The inaccessibility of the rookeries
frequently involve seal hunters in
danger, says writer in the New
York Press. "The seals are shot from
a promontory. Then the hunter is
lowered on rope by his comrades
100 or 200 feet to the slippery wave
washed rocks below, where the dead
seal lies. He quickly skins the animal.
A small boat from the ship rides out
side the surf line ready to carry the
hides away"
The Partisan bookbinders tell
strange stories of the orders they
receive to insert fragments of human
skin in the book covers. The skin of
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