The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-20

A Chicago lady has a $50, 900 gown.
The South contains 500 cotton mills.
We export millions OF playing cards.
America contains 500, 600 telephones
Silesia has 642Ofeet deep coal mine.
United States have 235, 574 liquor bars.
Germany exports 100000 canaries an
nualy.
Paris ragpickers make S6,O0O,O 900 an
nually.
Apples are worth $125 barrel in Mt.
Morris, n. Y.
Americans ate 4,O0O,OOO punches of
bananas in '96.
Chicago is the greatest receiving point
for live stock in the world, and Iowa is
the largest contributor to that branch.
About fifty tons of cabbage have been
purchased recently by Newark people of
Williamsport n. Y. dealers at SIG a ton.
The Alabama Legislature has passed
bill exempting cotton factories, hereafter
to be built in Alabama, from taxation for
10 years.
The dye manufacturers of Germany en-
ploy 5000 men The wages are not large,
but the dividends are not source of COM
plant to the stockholders
1t has been computed that fog costs the
city of London from csc, 900 to e1OO, 900 a
day. A large proportion of this is borne
by the railway companies.
In London trimmings is the term I'M
der which alcoholic drinks are disguised
in the bills which wealthy English women
run in the big millinery stores.
pair of gloves passes through about
200 hands from the moment that the skin
leaves the dressers until the gloves are pur-
chased by the intending wearer.
The House bill providing license tax
of $50 on each line of goods handled by
department store was referred to the WAYS
and Means Committee of the Missouri Leg
islature last week. The committee, says
the Kansas City Times, is almost sure to
make favorable report on the bill, or re-
port substitute similar to it,
The movement for the industrial educa-
ton of the Southern negroes is about to be
advanced by the building Of a cotton mill
at Concord, n c., for the special employ.
ment and instruction Of negroes in this line
OF work. 1t is being built by w. C. Cole
man, wealthy colored man, and will be
the first cotton mill in the country to en-
ploy colored operatives, although there is
spinning mill at Columbia, S. c., where
they are employed.
To deputation asking from the Federal
Government subsidy of $4,000, 900, in
payments of $3.50, 200 year, to the pro-
jected Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal, Mr..
Laurier made known the fact that demands
had already been made upon the Govern
ment for assistance to various projects, for
sums aggregating $50, 100000. This canal,
according to one of the promoters, would
reduce the distance between Chicago and
Liverpool 1900 miles, as compared with the
Erie Canal.
A dispatch from San Bernardino, Cal,
states that corporation to be known as
the Southern California Power Company
has been organized with capital stock of
Sl,O0O,00O. The purpose of the company
is to develop power from the Santa Ana
River by carrying water distance OF about
four miles through cement ditch and
tunnels, thus securing head of over 1000
again into the river. 1t is the intention
to transmit the power by electricity seventy
| fivcs miles to Les Angeles, where it will be
used to suppant the steam power now used
to develop electricity for lighting and rail
roau companies. The voltage, it is stated,
will be 10000
1t is not generally known that the iron
ore industry in the eastern part of Cuba
overshadows all other interests. Two
American companies in this vicinity now
employ HOO men, and ship to Pennsyl
vania mills nearly 80, 900 tons of ore per
month, principally to Bethlehem Steelton
and Pittsburg. The ore is among the rich.
est in the world From 1928 to 1910 Cuba
also shipped to this country over 50, OOO 600
worth OF copper ore, hat this branch of
trade has lapsed considerably. American
capital was busy in the development of
numerous new deposits of manganese ore
when the revolution broke out When
normal conditions return Cuba will want
new railroads and other highways, and
very great equipment in the way of machin-
cry, aud to this trade expansion large
number of our manufactures are looking
for profitable and permanent results = Chi
cago Journal OF Commerce.