The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-06

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THE WORLD OF LABOR.
Echoes of the Busy Mill and the
Workshop.
INDUSTRIAL FOLKS GOSSIP
News and Happenings of Special Interest
in the Various Fields Where
Mechanic and Artisan Hold
Sway Night and Day.
A slot device gives gas.
Greece has 81 soap factories.
China has 1000, 900 teachers
China sends eggs to America.
Paris is to have trolley line.
Australia has no cotton factory.
America has 400 chair factories.
Astors income is $4,000, 900 year.
Antwerp is the largest ivory market.
Italy's King is insured for Sc, 800, 600.
London music halls have 10000 en-
ployes.
United States contain $4,000 boiler
makers.
Our corn crop last year, II, 2S3, 600, 600
bushels.
Five and half ounces of grapes are re-.
quired to make one glass of good wine.
From 81 to Sc Is being offered in the Co.
guile Valley, Greg, for next season s
calves
An effort is being made to again start
the Brownsville Greg tannery. 1t is
well equipped for work.
The greatest discovery of my life is
that the men who do the work never get
rich.-Andrew Carnegie.
Patrick Lyons sold $4,000 bushels of
wheat for Walla Walla. Wash, recently,
receiving IS cents bushe.
Though not native product, walnuts
and butternuts are being successfully grown
in Whatcom county, Wash.
1t is said that of 60, 600 looms in Burn.
ley, England, 10000 are working short
time, while there is vacant space for 5000
looms to be let.
The leaf Of the cocoanut is nearly 30 feet
magnolia of Ceylon affords shade for Is or
20 persons.
A sign in a New York cigar store is
rather striking 1t reads: Give hundred
dollars accident insurance policy with every
package of our genuine Havanas.
In Greece teachers contribute per cent.
on their salaries, and the State finds the,
remainder, in order to superannuate teach
ers after 81 years of service, reiiardess of
age.
Sugar beets are to be planted in Summit
county, Ohio, next summer as an expert
ment. II the beets yield II per cent. of
sugar. capital is ready to establish the beet
sugar industry there.
Enormous purchases for the pulp mills
will make this years lumber cut in Maine
larger than ever The Kennebec Journal
says that two mills will buy $4,000, 900
feet of spruce to grind up.
The Great Northern Railroad has prac-
tically abandoned its line between Water
town and Huron, Oak, 60 miles, until
spring, and has made contracts for teams to
carry mails along the line.
A bill before the Legislature of Missouri
provides for the utilizing of idle colyicts
in retaining swamp lands in the south
eastern part of the State 1t is said that
by digging bitches and building levees
they can reclaim fully 100000 acres
some say more.
Observes the New York Press. "When
we reflect that there are more farmers than
there are laborers in all the manufacturing
and mechanical industries, that there are
5000, 900 people earning livelihood by
work in the fields, more than one third OF
all the men and women working in the
United States, we understand that the pros
perity of such a class means much for the
prosperity Of the whole country. This
idea is emphasized when we think that the