Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-10-07

miners.
A Japsnese match mill has 1900
employees.
a saloon keeper cannot be Nom.
Der of the city council of Toronto.
In 1895 California produced S15,.
600, 900 worth of gold and Colorado
S13, 300, 900.
In France 1000, 900 tons Of potatoes
are annually used in the manufacture
Of starch and alcohol.
1t is said that in Scotland there ar c
1i6 parishes with no paupers, poor
rates or public houses.
While Turkey is said to be " bank.
rupt," the sultan is believed to be the
richest man in Europe.
In season of about eleven weeks
$50, 900 worth of blueberrieS were
sold in Marquette county, Mich.
An official report shows that there
are issued yearly in the theaters OF
Paris 1880, 900 Jcad-head tickets.
The basis Of South Carolina rice,
the finest in the world, was pocket.
full which jefferson brought from
Italy.
There are II 900 more women than
men in the State of Massachusetts,
and this excess is all in persons over
fourteen.
If New York corporation violates
the law requiring weekly payment
it must forfeit to each employee the
sum Of $25.
Kansas City has over $500 tele-
phones and the largest telephone eX-
change, proportionate to its size, Of
any city in the Union.
Only go, $50 immigrants came to
the the L. S. during the last fiscal
year, the smallest number for any
single year since 1879.
1t is stated that women control
$3.50, 900, 600 Of stock in the national
banks in this country, and Sl45, ,000,-
600 in the State banks.
The site Of Chicago's new $1,000
600 postoffice is IL bed of mud, and
the architects say piles must be sunk
1903 feet to insure stable fOunda-
ton.
The British soldier receives daily
as rations 20 ounces of bisbuit, II
ounces of meat, 7 ounces of peas
or beans, = ounces of sugar aud l
ounce of cocoa.
In the formation of a single loco
motive steam engine there are nearly
5000 pieces TO be put together, and
these require to be as accurately adj
justed as the works of watch.
The lower classes Of the japanese
employ hardly any other material
than paper for their clothing
Where wages are exceedingly low
cloth is an impossible extravaganza.
In making up their profit and loss
account it is said that Partisan ware
houses have to allow for thefts, and
that this item is the most impor-
tant one with some of the larger
houses.
The finest compilations in the
world are said to be in the Bermu-
das. This is accounted for by the
fact that the inhabitants live chiefly
on onions, of which they export over
17,O0O,O 900 pounds annually.
Nearly three minutes are required
to bring big steamer, like the Etru-
ria, to a full stop, and in that time
she will have advanced almost half
a mile from the place she Was when
the first movements were made to
stop her.
Estimates place the tobacco crop
tory of the State. 1t will be worth
several hundred thousand dollars.
Much of the planting was expert
mental, but no report of failure has
yet come In.
Under the operation of the Yer.
mont law, fifty-nine towns have cs-
tablished libraries in the past two
years. making total of one hundred
and eighteen. Cost of books given
by the State, including expenses of
library commission, is about six
thousand dollars.
Aluminium neckties are on sale in
London. They are fastened to the
cOllar-button by band round the
neck, and they are particularly re-
for summer wear, since
they can be easily cleaned when soiled
while they are not perceptibly heavier
than cotton, cambria or silk.
1t takes fifteen million crossties to
supply the railroads Of the country,
consuming two hundred thousand
acres of forest annually. This, with
the supply of wood pulp now re-
quired, threatens to denude the whole
country in time if we do not wake
up to the Importance of forestry.
About ten years ago Thompson
Francis, of Shelbyville, H., lost his
all (Sl00,0 ,000) in grain. He went to
work on rented farm, saved his
money and recently invested every
spare dollar he had in wheat margins.
The other day he unloaded, a winner
to the extent of $4,000. Francis
says he will retire.
On an ordinary dirt road, accord
ing to the Philadelphia Record, a
horse can draw three times as much
weight aS he can carry on his back
On a good macadamizod road the
animal can pull three times as much
as on dirt road, while on an asphalt
pavement the power of the horse is
multiplied to such a degree that he
can draw eleven times as much as on
dirt road, or thirty-three times as
much as he can carry on his back.
If all the cotton raised in Texas
were made into one shirt the gar.
ment wOuld fit n man %. 600 miles