The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-09-12

cite cases, tobacco pouches, pocketbooks
aud prayer books made of the skin of no.
toriOus criminals
The Louisiana Electric Light and Power
Company, New Orleans, has ordered belt
seven feet wide and weighing 1900 pounds,
There are $50 hides in it.
1t is estimated that the army worm has
injured New York state farmers this year
to the extent of $3.50 900. In Massachu-
sets the damage amounts to 5000, 900.
At present the United States follows
Russia and the Argentine Republic in the
values of wheat exports in Germany. but
American flour is more expensive than any
other there.
In shingle mill at Gray's IIarbor,
Wash, recently the entire works were
kept running all day on the logs of a
single cedar tree, from which 1SS, 800
shingles were cut.
1t is probable that the worlds supply of
hard wood for street paving will for a long
time to come be derived from Western Aus
tralia, whose jarah and CARR woods are said
to be practically inexhaustible.
The Black Diamond Coal Company, of
Seattle, Wash, has struck a new vein of
good coal, and it is said that the company
will make an effort to supply fuel for the
fleet of cruisers now at Los Angeles.
The new railways that are now being
built in India will cover 1913 miles, being
an addition to the existing lines of one
fourth, and exceeding the total length con-
structed in the United Kingdom in the last
twenty years.
There are S6 coal mines in Indiana, with
an invested capital OF 81 1912, 1899, which
mined last year ., 737, CSC tons of coal The
amount paid in wages was 81 195, $3.50,
So cents per ton.
The cloth OF the old Egyptians was so
good that, although it has been used thous-
ands OF years as wrappings of the num-
mics, the Arabs of today can wear it. 1t
is all of linen, the ancient Egyptians consid-
ering wool unclean.
The manufacturing product of England
exceeds that Of any other European nation.
1t is more than equal to the product of
Germany, Italy, and Spain combined and
very nearly equal to the total manufactur-
ing products OF France and Russia.
Stephen Tibbets, of Harrison, Me-, who
was 90 years old last week, has been a
sailor, driver, cooper, shoemaker, song
writer, musician and farmer, and during
the present summer he has done most Of
the work in his large and beautiful garden.
In Algeria there is a small river which
has been transformed into ink 1t is
formed by the union of two rivulets, one
Of which is strongly impregnated with iron.
while the other contains gallic acid. Letters
have been written with the result of the
mixture.
The city of London has now about twenty
three miles OF carriage ways laid with noise
less materials, of which, roughly speaking,
asphalt counts for three-fourths and wood
for one-fourth. In the noiseess footways
which are calculated to amount to about
fifteen and half miles, asphalt has the
field entirely to itself
Thomas Morris, addressing the Stafford
shire England iron and steel managers,
mentioned having in his possession drawn
wire worth $4.32 pound, or more than
$4,000 per ton. Hairspring wire is worth
$500, 900 per ton. and the barbed wire used
by dentists in tooth nerve extraction 50,
is ordinary cheep ore.