Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-02-17
Labor Notes.

NEWS AND HAPPENINGS OF SPECIAL IN
TEREsrs IN THE VARIOUS TRADES.
Cool household servants are paid
from 81 to $Sa month.
American apples are retai'ed for 81 b
tozsn in Mexico.
In France when railway tram is
more than ten minutes late the COM
pany is fined.
1t is ssid that great many Ameri-
;an flags are made by sweatshop labor
in New York.
In Mexico turkeys are driven to
market through the main streets OF tue
cities just like sheep.
The largest busines, houses in Mex
co are closed for an hour and haif 10
the middle of the day.
The Rockefeller steamer Robert Full
ION, 44O feet over all, is the largest
steamer on the Great Likes
There are $50 men employed at the
Bath Me Iron Works aud five con-
tracts for vessels on hand.
The Federal telegraph of Mexico
las recently inaugurated a night ser
vice, and 10 words can be sent for ~
cents.
New industrial companies, capital
.zed at $50, 500, 900, were advertised in
one days issue Of the London dai!ies
recently.
There is a project on foot to build
= big smelter Oh the line of the Atchl-
son, near Cerillos, N. NJ, In order to
get the benefit of cheap fuel.
The prosecuting attorney OF ALLIE
gan, Mich, is advocating bill order
ing that the names OF all purchasers OF
liquor at the drug stores shall be pub
ished.
Statistics just made public show tina:
n Massachusetts,, in spite Of the advent
of the trolley car and the popularity OF
the bicycle, the number of horses lie
greater by 3OS5 than in the year pre-
,eding.
Alaska and Puget Sound merchants
md the steamship companies are pre-
pairing for an influx of 10, 600 to 15,-
900 miners into Alaska this spring
Last year about 5000 men went North
in search of wealth.
The soda evaporation enterprise, the
,awmili building, the erection OF ex-
tensive sheep-snearing pens and the
development of the rich tributary gold
placers are all potent factors Of Green
River, Ore. 1897 prosperity.
The revival of trade In America, says
he Indian Daily NeVs, is already
making its influence felt in Calcutta,
several of the leading firms tn re hav
ing received inquiries and large orders
for jute, both raw and manufactured.
In Paris they first utilize rats to clear
he flesh from the bones of carcasses,
men kill the rats, use up the fur Tor
trimmings, their skins for gloves, their
thigh bones for toothpicks, aud their
tendons and bones for gelatine wrap
pers.
There are more breweries in Cali
fornia than there are in Illinois; more
Iistillerles IN Massachusetts, than tn re
are in Kentucky, and more cigarette,
IN minufactured in New York state tn IN
in ali the other states Of the country
combined.
One of the provisions Of the Greater
New York charter, a provision existing
in the present law, is that the walls
and ceilings of every tenement house
house shall be whitewashed at least
once year The definition of tene-
meut house is so fran ed that it includes
the most beautiful and expensive apart
ment houses in the city.
In German cities before a druggist is
granted a license to open a store care
iul investigation is made to determine
whether the needs of that particular
neighborhood require it. Recently a
young druggist in Altoona, whose pros
pective marriage depended on his sue
cess in securing a license, was over
whelmed by the rejection of his petit
ton. As last resort he took the casa
TO the Minister of Education, the high
est authority, and, on being refused
again, committed suicide.