The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-11-28
THE WORLD OF LABOR.
INDUSTRIAL FOLKS GOSSIP
Echoes of the Busy Mill and the
Workshop.
News and Happenings of Special Interest
In the Various Fields Where
Mechanic and Artisan Hold
Sway Night and Day.

Mechanic and Artisan Hold
Sway Night and Day.
Liberia hasn't clock.
There are paper bottles.
Chattanooga needs houses.
California has ostrich farms.
There's an electric light ship.
Holy Island has five saloons.
China has women pile drivers.
A Chicago newsboy is Baron
Hamburg has house of paper.
A celluloid mirror is announced.
Rochester credit men organized.
New York has 10000 tenementS.
America has made 500, COO bicycles.
China employs 1000, 600 teachers.
Kentucky has lady mail carrier.
Australia perfers American looomo-
tivcs.
Nicaragua prohibits rubber exnorta-
ton.
Pendleton, Ore, now has a WOODEN
mill.
Queen Victoria's railway car cost
$4,000,
The Cars yacht is insured for 81
100000.
A New York mill makes $4,000 pies
daily.
Minnesota has girls agricultural
school.
Eggs are 80 cents a dozen at Marsh
field, Ore.
Our electrical industry represents ST.
600, ooo, ooo.
A New York mirror is IL feet high
and I3H feet long.
Wyoming cattlemen have discontinued
paying the wolf bounty Of SIS per wolf
American ice cream is advertised in
the City Of MEXICO at "only 81 for an
American quart.
The work Of construction on the Grip
pie Creek district electric railway has
finally started.
In England bicycle manufacturers have
employed high-born women to sell
wheels on the usua! commission.
A tour of New York, during which it
is necessary to ride on sixteen different
street cars, can be made for five cents.
The police regulations of London re-
garding property left in public vehicles
allow the finder 10 per cent. on the value
assessed by the owner.
The whaleback steamer Christopher
Columbus, now running from Chicago to
Milwaukee, has been provided with a
bicycle track (eight laps to the mile) on
the lower deck.
The only fre-hghting facilities of the
city Of Gloucester, England, are those
provided separately by insurance COM
panies. When an alarm is sounded the
fremen will not put out the fire if the
building is insured by rival company.
Within recent years a large trade has
grown up in Kent County, Md, in pro-
viding frogs for market. The catching
of frogs for their legs has become a
business and the financial returns are
rather handsome to the few engaged in
the industry.
Alaska is destined to be great min
ing country. The prospectors are con-
stantly reporting new discoveries. The
mines adjacent to Circle CITY and Forty
Mile are not overcrowded with miners,
and no distress is reported from these
localities. 1t is thought that too many
miners went to Cooks inlet
In the mining and foundry district of
Bochum, Prussia, Dr. Nieden reports
having treated during the years 1854
5443 patients engaged in such occupa
tons, of which more than 6S per cent.
were cases Of injury to the eye in their
calling, iron and foundry workers show
ing large predominance in this respect
over liners.
At meeting of the City Service Com
mission last week at Milwaukee, Wis,
the rule requiring full citizenship in the
United States as qualification for en-
ployment by the city was temporarily
suspended in its application to laborers
now on the force, in order to give the
81 employees who have failed to present
evidences of this eligibility time to per-
feet their citizenship.
YOU CAN BE WELL when your blood
is rich pure and nourishinp Hood,s