The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-04-08
World OF LABOR.
Many Eshoes From RlilI, Factory
ana Workshop.
GOSSIP FOR INDUSTRIAL FOLKS.
new. and ItapptnIng' oe special lntsr,st
~ varioas Flsld. Of work-Panama
canal May. ~ Balt After All-LAls,t
novelty In Gas Metres.


china ls now making wine,
IONA boasts $40 creanUries
Kent has 100000 acres OF coal
MOSCOW has $4,000 pound bell
We asnd barber chairs 90 Europe
Montana IS dredging By electricity
Great Britain has a 5OO-acre orchard
Nassa. Sweden. -ftrcmeR are women.
Mrs. Langtry heN a $500 dressing
bag.
A. watch factory has been opened Al
Quay, Cal.
Horses cold at thlrty-five cents each
1t sale SIS WadswoTth, New, recently
The vineyards Of France overtep IN
pFoductlVeness all oCher countries.
4 Matchmaking machine produces a.
many nails IN . given time rs were for
merly made by one thousand men
Al Sanford, Me. the CioOiall W0rsted
Company II running dag aud might and
the Sanford mills are running fun time
ON account Of rush OF orders At the
Bridgeton. (Me.). WOODEN mills the spin
ming and eardlhg rooms are soon 10 run
night and day.
Every factory IN owOsso. Mich, II
working tnii time. some ~ them 0Nef
cine, and ali have AL the work they car
attend TO.
An eHort Is under way to substitute
electricity for steam A. the Cripple
Creek mines. The cost Of coal at che
mInea e trom Sc 20 81 per ton.
The Chesapeake q OHIO Railroad Co.
ii Is reported. have perfected plans for
the erection OF a station at Richmond,
Va. 10 cost t2,e0a,eps.
The stark mills, OF Manchester, y. H.
recently shipped five hundred bales Of
cotton goods 90 China, via Vancouver.
B. C., and have other large foreign or
dcrs.
There is n prospec; thar some OF the
idle prisoners In the Maryland House OF
Correction will be employed in improv-
ing the roads OF Anne Arundel County
speaking OF Women as Wage Earn
era" there are forty young women en-
ploYed as steuoErapheTs tn the EN-
change Building in Kansas City, and u
Il said that there are uot over Two
plain ones in the lot.
A san Jose, tCaL} brick company has
been awarded contract 70 furnish u
Ca 900 bricks to be used IN the constTpc-
tion OF the Spreckles Sugar Refinery al
SALINAS, Cal. which iS to be the largest
institution OF its kind iN the world.
A novel charitable organization cx.
( ISIS AMONG the JeWN OF Chicago. II:
purnOse Is the lending Of money without
interest 10 ieEB fortunate members OF
the race. With a capital Of fl.tQo over
four hundred loans were made, che Inn
Il being $40.
The party OF Tampa cigar manufac-
1urers that went TO Fort Meade, Fla
to visit the extensive tobacco farms AZ
that place were very much surprised at
the extent OF the work In progress there
and spoke very highly OF che quality o!
tobacco raised.
Denver. Col. is to have building ~
feAt long. by nifty feet deep, and tive
stories hiSh, 10 be devoted exclusives
10 doctors offices Twenty physicians
can be accommodated. and there will be
q common operating room fitted up "
the mos; approved manner.
ShWlppIng at Hamburg amounted IA
6. 25s 900 tons IN 1895. while Liverpool has
only 1856, $50 tons 20 Its credit for the
same year. In ten years Liverpoofs
shipping has increased about 40 per cent
white HambVFg's ShowS an Increase OF
about 70 per cent
The HAmPden (MAsS.). Wooden Com.
pany, which has successfully operated
The RaVine wooden mill. the past two
years. has leased of Lieutenant Cover
nor CTanc his wooden mill at Dalton,
aud In about two moaths viii be ready
20 start IN. They manufacture chev.
lots aud are reported to have on hand
more than years supply OF wool The
town OF Hamp6en viii thus be deprived
Of is largest euterpTiae.
wifi the Panama Canal be built after
ali? Seven years ago nearly everybody
said, the project was dead beyond res
urrectIoa. We do not know what the
end will be. but the great scheme IL moi
dead. on the contrary, II shows signs
OF surprising vitality. DredGes are a.
work. machinery has been ordered lnd
Maid for, end about 5000 men on the
pav.roil have 10 earn their money by
good honest toll There are no stnecuves
for anybody. and no faint OF scandal at
taches to the new regime.
The tenth anniversary Of the dppiica-
ton OF natural gas 90 Industrial uses IN
this country will be celebrated at An
derson. Ind. on April Z. The arrange
ments include public meetings, al
whIe4 addresses will be delivered By
prominent people from various parts OF
the gas belt. and banquet. A reyieW
will be given Of the Advancement and
development OF the Indiana gas district
IN ten years from region mainly de-
pendent upon agriculture into one G!
the leading Industrial centres OF the
United StsteG
The Tampa. CFla.). Gas Company has
lust introduced the latest novelty In
the atape OF a prepay-aas meter, This
meteor Is arranged on the principle OF a
spenny- -the-slOt" machine. A coin the
size OF q quarter Is used, but It ran be
regulated for any other coin desired
THE money as It passes into the meter
TIPS a small rachel beam, which meas
ures on the gas in Proportion to the
amount OF the coin. When this Is burn
cd out another coin dropped In the
slot VIII Furnish another supply Of gas,
but II no money Is put In the gas Is Ra-
tOmatically shut on
Doctors in Russia are. according to a
recent decision Of the Medical Council
Of the Ministry OF Internal Affairs
hepccEdrih 70 wear on thelr breasts a
small "zaak" or sign, indicative Of their
profession, For many years past men
holding the degree Of doctor OF medt-
cine have been entitled 70 carry such n
distinction. and now, apparently. II Is
to be made compulsory. The idea OF
obllEinR medical men to bear on theli
cloiblnZ or their abodes some sign ul
thalr profession IL not new and crops az
from time 90 time in various countries
II was suggested In Germany a while
back that doctors should wear white
hats.
New Mills and Additions. Augusta,
Ca: It ia stated that the Slbley Man.