Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-03-03
Labor Notes.

TEREsTS IN THE VARIOUS TRADES.
1t costs $500. 600, ,O3O every week to
run the worlds railways.
The output of the Indiana gas-belt
gas works is 70, 900 boxes O day.
It is SAID that it costs $23. 80 an acre
to raise wheat in Massachusetts,.
Arizona last year mined 5000. 900
ounces Of gold and 1000, 900 ounces OF
silver.
In 1895 California produced $15,-
0OO 600 worth of gold and Colorado
$1S 800. 600.
Scand naviau sailors are said to pre-
dominate on vessels of nearly all
nationalities.
The timber wealth of the United
States gives yearly pro !uct Of over
81, 900, 600, 900, or more than twice the
value of the output of the miners.
A business firm in Stanford, KY,
always opens the days business with
pfayer-proprietors, clerks, messengers
and porters all kneeling together.
At Charlotte, N. c., the sash cord
factory is running day and night, and
has orders for as many goods 40 the
present capacity will produce.
A bright little newspaper the Indian
Guide, is published at the Shoshone
lWyo. agency, the editors, printers
and devil all being full-blood redskins.
The English island of Thanet il
almost wholly composed Of chalk. The
island is ten miles in length and about
five in breadth and geoloQists cay that
there are not less than AZ, OOO, ,OoO, OOO
tons of chalk Gin sight" on it.
In Austria the man vino loses both
his hands in an accident can claim the
whole of his life insurance money, on
the ground that he has lost the means
of maintaining himself. Loss of the
right hand reduces the aim from 70
to 80 per cent. of the total.
Some of the farmers in Wisconsin
have been experimenting with ear corn
as fnel, to ascertain whether tits ad-
vlsable to burn it iEstead of coal.
Several have tried it here on q small
scale, but the consensus of opinion is
that coal at 81. 80 per ton is cheaper as
Iutl tudu Cot dt V1 StOvC0 ia wotSu
corn was burned we're badly damaged
by its use.
Christian Smith, aged S5 years, who
resides at Keep Trust, near Cumber-
land, is the oldest railroad employe in
the United States. both in point Of ser
vice and age, and is said to be the Oldest
locomotive engineer in the country.
s-S ~ fh hsa-
toric town of Harper's Ferry. He
began work for the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad in 1882 as a tesmster, hauling
fIeigh. with six horses, there being no
locomotives in use at that time, and
the quaint-looking cars we're pulled by
horses.
A Houehton, Mich, dispatch says:
The business of copper mining is having
boom such as it has never known,
and a good copper mine comes nov
next to a good gold p-operty in worth
to stockholders; indeej, in many cases
it is far better. The excitement all over
the copper fields Of America, from the
Lake Superior region to Montana, and
including the Black Hills and the far
off gold-copper fields of the West, ls
increasing steadily and is causing
closer search than ever for this
metal.
In the past 60 years the forests of
America have produced the enormous
quan tity of eight hundred and twenty
tour billion feet, and the value esti-
mated at mora Than twenty-five billion
dollars. 1t is a curious reflection that
the forests, once regarded as an imped-
iment to the country's settlement and
growth to be felled and burned 81
rapidly as possible, should SO soon
become one of its chief sources Of
wealth, to be considered and protected
by every means known to modern
science and law. 1
The bakers of Pennsylvania are very
active in the movement for bakeshop
legislation, says the Bakers Journal.
A committee. consisting OF Messrs.
Griesinger, of Philadelphia, and Groh,
of PIttsburg, has had conference with
Chief Factory Inspector Campbell, in
Harrisburg, looking to j0Int action in
promoting the bill about to be intro
duced.
Mr.. Groh has collected and compiled
statistical data of the condition of the
bakers of Allegheny and Pittsburg that
will do much to convince the public
and the Legislature of the urgency Ct
relief. 1t will be published In pam.
phlet form for distribution throughout
the state.
Petitions are now circulated in the
principal cities of the State among oil
classes who are willing to sdd their
voices to those of the journeymen
bakers for sanitary bakeshops. EN-
ploying bakers in all parts of the state
have expressed their approval of the
proposed law, while those in opposition
are hut few, and none too anxious to
go before the public in advocacy Of q
cause which is certain of general con-
demnation.
Edward McHugh, the organizer of
the International Federation of Ship.
Dock and River Workers of Great
Britain, is making fair progress. it is
said, with the longshoremen Of New
York, Brooklyn aud Jersey City. Hav-
ing succeeded in forming unions
among the Italians, he has now set to
work among the colored loDgshore-
men. He has secured the services of
one capable colored man, and ap-
pointed him to organize the men of his
race here and elsewhere. The colored
men will be received into the unions of
English-speaking longshoremen al
ready in existence.
Handel had one of the most phenom-