The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-27
News and Happenings of Special Interest
in the Various Fields Where
Mechanic and Artisan Hold
Sway Night and Day.

Mexico has women street cleaners.
America has 5000, 900 workingwomen
Australia sends frozen beef to England.
Greater New York will have 112 hotels.
frances '96 wine crop is worth 1894,
800, 600.
In France 4,OOO,O 600 tons of potatoes are
annually used in the manufacture of starch
and alcohol.
The $4,000 feet of cedar shipped last
month from Vancouver to Seattle is to be
sent to Japan.
The consumption of soap III India only
reaches the modest amount of one ounce
per head annually.
The City Council of Oakland, Cal, re-
fuses to submit the Sunday closing question
to a vote of the people.
The Italan-Swiss colony OF Sonoma
county, CAL, is shipping wine to Hamburg,
Germany, TO: exhibit at the fair.
Bangkok the capital of Siam, is float
ing city. containing 10000 houses, each OF
which floats on IA raft of bamboo.
A delegation is to be sent from Germany
to Japan and China to open up lines of
trade, especially in textile products. The
Cotton Exchange has contributed 80, O0O
marks and the Government 10000 marks
to help defray expenses.
Omaha retail grocers have resolved to
decline in future to execute orders turned
in to them by introducers of new goods, as
they found that IA large proportion Of such
are refused on being rendered, and they
have voted the system nuisance.
In an article on the Business of a Great
Factory,' in the March Scribner's y. G..
Hubert, Jr., mentions in illustration OF the
value Of small economics the fact that a
certain gigantic flour mill in indianapolis
ascribed balance on the right side Of their
lie ger one year to the fact that ten hoops
had been used on their barrels that year
instead of II, as in previous years.
Housewives in Norway and Sweden have
started scheme to encourage servants to
remain in their places. Mistres.es pay into
a general fund whatever they can afford for
every servant that has remained with them
for twelve months. The money is regis
tered in the servants name, so that when
age overtakes her, and can no longer work,
she has comfortable annuity to fall back
| on.
That there are now in the hills more
idle miners and working'nen of all classes
than can find employment even during the
busiest season is fact, says the Deadwood
Independent, that should be borne in mind
by all who are contemplating going there in
search Of work. But for the experienced
prospectors, with sufficient means to carry
them through with their work, and for cap
italsts seeking the most promising invest
ments, the field in South Dakota is the best
| in the world.
No longer will the thrifty brewing COM
panies be allowed to run a half.score or
more of saloons The law says that nc
| person shall take out more than one license,
and the new Council Committee on Lii
censes will see that this provhksA is en-
forced. The committee will insist that
each applicant for liquor license shall
appear before that body and be subjected
to rigid cros5-eXamination in ordtr that
it may be proved that he is bona-fide
applicant. Minneapolis Journal.
Sometime ago an Alaska trader visited
the city looking for dogs, says the Portland
Oregonian He spent several days here,
and left with six lusty CANNES which he
had purchased at very reasonable rates
He said he wanted the dogs to take tc
Alaska and make common carriers Of them,
dogs being the only animals that can stand
the grief OF IA trip up the Yukon and bt
good for anything when they get there. In
France, Germany and Holland dogs are
used very commonly to haul milk carts OF
peddlers wagons. They sometimes art
hitched ahead of the cart and sometimes
behind it, but usually are harnessed under
meath between the wheels TkAy are per
fectly willing to work, and will haul a sur
prisirgly large load. -Philadelphia Record