Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-06-16
Labor Notes.
has $500 BARRIERS.

Minnesota has 2600 BARRIERS.
There are sO4, ,6s7 Bell telephones.
Africa's peannt area is increasing.
Alaska gold miners get Sl5 day.
Agriculture employs 80 900, 900 men.
Ceylon has Al, 900 acres of cinnamon.
There are rubber tired patrol wagons.
Worlds railroads stretch 427, 2l5 miles.
Louisiana levee repairing employs l2,-
600 men.
Germany makes 1900, 900 false eyes an
nually.
United States contains 10000 seam
stresses.
Birmingham, Eng, makes 37,ooo,ooo
pins daily.
Unxed States have 1900 fruit and veg
etabltScanneries.
For the first time in the history sof
Christiania, Norway, bOOtblacks ~
found On the streets.
The woolen mill, broom handle factory
and saw mill in Bandon, Ore, are all
running full time.
Great Britain has One-fOurth of the
wealth of Europe, although possessing
only one ninth of the population.
China has established a Consulate at
Warsaw, with the object of promoting
trade between Poland and Manchuria.
In some parts of Tulare county, Cali
fornia, this seasons sheep shearing has
been given entirely to Indians and Chin
eSe.
OF the S569, 900, 900 worth>of goods ex-
ported from the United States last year
S504, 900, 900 worth were. agricultural pro
duce. Ne
The Transvaa produced last year / $40
600 tons of coal, ,3S6,1s6 ounces OF. gold,
according to the statistics Of the Ehan-
nesburg Chamber of Mines.
According to an official organ Of the
Russian Government, says The Engineer,
the iron and steel industry has taken the
lead in the march of industrial progress.
The most extraordinary GUMS paid for
any service rendered the UnHed States
Government go to the railroad and steam
ship lines that carry our mails. They ag
gregate in round numbers sSY1pO, 900 a
In the cotton producing stalek of the
South, perhaps 10000 dividuals, firms
or corporations are engaged in the gin
ming of cotton representing an investment
Of at least $40 1000, 900 and employ ing dur
ing the ginning season certainly not less
than 100000 persons.
The only clay pipe factory of note in
this country is a one story affair with a
single kiln, located up side alley in a
New York suburb; hence the special need
Of Governmental log rolling may not strike
the average person very forcibly. Yet, as
over 100000 pipes are annually
lions are imported, it will be seen that
the industry is not such a small one,
Statistics do not bear Qua the assertion
that machinery is detrimental to labor,
saws the New York Tribune In no IN
dustry, perhaps, has machinery been SO
largely introduced al in the making OF
shoes .et, according to the figures of
the census, $4,000 people were employed
in this industry in New England in 1890,
against 313 200 in 1860, while the average
wages per capita have risen from S2i6
year TO Si69.
In German schools French is taught
to a greater extent than English. In the
higher class schools English is an op-
tional subject; in the comf6ercial school
more tive is devoted To French than En-
The trollocipede is a new bicycle
which runs on trolley wire and has the
chain geared to a wheel running on the
wire, the wire supporting the whole de-
vice. the person sitting in a framework
below the wire.
The North Carolina House passed a
bill requiring all teachers in the public
schools to read aloud to their pupils at
least twice each year the Constitution of
the United States and that of the state.
New York'is not only Americas f.
nancial and commercial metropolis, but
also itsyreate manufacturing city.