Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-01-18

Echoes From the Busy MN and the
Workshop.

There are aluminium skates.
Great Britain makes no sugar.
Leo XIII has 500. 600 pearl.
. There are log. 900 locomotives.
' Russia has 50 mortgage banks.
i West Africa has one daily paper
Milwaukee has a $4,000 pound bell.
Indianapolis has two wooden mills.
indianapolis has the biggest starch
mill.
!, John Bull makes 1900, 900 silk
hats annually.
The White House has a $4,000
: china set.
They are just cutting wheat down
IN Argentina.
The czar's cremation will cost S.
. 900. 900.
In Iceland Goldfish. beaten to pow
DER. are nseu as bread.
Indianapolis boasts the worlds
largest playing card factory.
The total mineral production of
Mexico for the last fiscal year was
ST., 26I,ooo.
! About one third of the butter i'm
ported into Great Britain last year
came from Denmark.
1t is stated that 1852 trains arrive
at aud leave Chicago daily. about one
fourth being freight trains.
| A Knoxville (Tenn.) firm has re-
ceised an order for 100000 pounds of
dried apples for the German army.
A Minneapolis dentist has success
fully employed electricity to check
hemorr hage after extraction of teeth.
At Marquette. Mich, the trolley
system is to be tried on mining road.
The loaded cars as they come down
will furnish power to haul the empty
ones back.
rejecting all bids formerly made
and quietly hunting up better bid.
Treasurer Turner, of Boston. saved
$2I.5eo to the city on the current loan
of 81 900, 900.
The United States now controls the
worlds iron trade, producing about
II, 900, 600 tons annually. England,
the former mistress of the trade. pro-
duces only 6,7oo. 900 tons.
In half a century the production of
paper has increased tenfold. In 1850
it was al 700, 900 kilogr ammes, in
1894 it was 2,26o, 900, 600 kilo-
grammes, or 4,972,ooo. 900 pounds.
Fishing by means Of electric lights
has been successfully tried at New
Haven. A lamp lowered into the sea
brilliantly illuminated the water over
circular area twenty yards in diane
ter
In England the telegraph system is
controlled aud operated by the postal
department, and it is not paying ex-
penses-in fact. is running behind at
the rate of little over ST ,ooo, 900 an
| nually.
Georgia is getting the gold fever
again. One or two old gold mines
are being revoked. and three boats
are dredging the sands OF the Chesta-
tee River for the gold they are sup
| posed to contain.
Christie & Lowe. Chicago firm of
contractors, have undertaken to re-
claim seven thousand acres of swamp
land on the Illinois River. There
are said to be goo. 900 acres of reclaim
able land along the river.
Telegram post cards have been sent
for some years in Paris by pneumatic
tubes. 1t is now proposed to use the
pneumatic tube system to convey let
tiers from the post Office to the rail-
road stations The plant will cost
SI7o, 900.
A novel industry in London is that
of preserving eggs. The eggs are
sbelled, the white and yolk mixed to-
gether. and the whole carefully
packed in hermetisslly sealed tins.
Eggs in this shape will keep for
very long time, and are chiefly used
by pastry cooks.
One third of an acre grows 80, 900
jasmine plants, yielding 1000 pounds
of flowers Haitian acre set with $500
rose plants bears $500 pounds of
petals. which give from 200 to $50
pounds of pomade. An acre and a |
quarter will yield 1000 pounds of Vi
olet flowers.
One dollar for nearly year of very
hard work was all that the crew of |
the whaling bark Lydia received
when they were paid off in San Fran
cisco last week. They worked for
their food and share in the profits |
of the cruise, and this season has
been the worst whaling season in
many years.
Norway is the best telephoned
country in the world, in spite of the
fact that 70 per cent of its area is un-i
cultivable. and another al per cent |
is forest. 1t has one exchange for
every 1879 inhabitants and one tele-i
phone to each 40 inhabitants eight |
and half times the number ID this
country.
The Mexican International Exposi-
ton will be dedicated April 2, and
formally opened on September IS.
1896 The Board Of Directors of the
Exposition have opened an Office in |
this country at As Broadway, New