The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-14

of prices is always downward Even II
wages stand still and the trend Of prices
| IS downward, real wages would be higher.
My wok is still incomplete, but my investi
cations have shown me conclusively that
the general trend of wages and percent
age of employed in this country sine 1850
has been decidedly upward.
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Flowers are made of pulp.
Paper bbottles are for ships.
Russia has 1900 coal minres.
Japan has an engineering school,
Australia is cultivate tobacco.
London contains 1O3, 400 paupers.
Asia buys Alabama pig iron.
Mexican matches are made of wax.
Pittsburg is to make steel barrels.
Berlin has an official bird catcher.
Rotten sawdust is new fertilizer.
Georgia is to have textile school.
Ireland has 10000 linen operators.
Germany has $500 sea going vessels.
London boast of s., 900. 900 diamond.
Fireworks are now made in Mexico.
Germany contains 276 electric works.
Japan is making electrical machinery.
The Bass breweries employ 5000 peo-
pie.
Japan buys South Carolina phosphates.
An Australian gold mine is 2,640 feet
deep.
Russia has 6OOO,000 spindles for yarn
spinning.
There's to be Galveston-Houston troll
ley road.
Uncle Sam employs $1,000 women at
Washington.
New York has 1,o4s, 46S electric lights.
Paris, 200.
Nearly all foreign countries are sending
to Pittsburg for aluminium.
Woodworking plants will be establish
ed at Fisk, Ala, Beaumont, Tex, and
Berkeley Springs, w. Va.
In San Francisco some fish dealers have
been cutting up and skinning sharks
which they sold then as sturgeon.
European neutrality-suspicious. es-
pecially-fll the Russian markets with
inferior goods, stamped, trade marked,
etc, American
The Trades Journal says 1t takes 2OO,-
900 men to keep the road beds of the
United States in repair. They have $780,
100000 ties to look after.
Manufacturers of sugar machinery are
selling more machinery to Mexico this
year than ever before. The amount of
Mexican tobacco exported has now
reached a value of more than 100000 a
month.
Many cotton mills in the south have
contracted for China and South America
direct. notably those in the Spartanburg
district. whence there was made a single
100000 shipment to China a few days ago.
A telephone exchange manager in
Staunton, Va, recently advertised for ugly
girls that would attend to business. There
were actually % who applied for the po-
stion and confessed themselves qualified
to fill the bill.
In Mexico everything and everybody
pays a direct tax. from the street porter
to the largest mercantile establishment
equally lucrative. Even placards and
posters must bear a stamp.
Since last week a Boston firm allows its
employees 1 per cent. of their individual
sales, in addition to their regular salar-
les. By this means the firm expects to
give them an additional incentive to make
sales and to work in the interest of the
firm.
As San Francisco claims to have COM
mand of 5O,OOO,OO0 pounds of wool, the
journals of that city are pointing out the
advantage that would accrue locally to
build wooden mills in California for its
Colorado's gold production has in
creased from sS,O0O,OOO in 1898 to 500. 900 600
in 1897, putting it ahead of California In
gold mining. Colorado has also mined
this yea T nearly $40. OOO 900 in silvef, lead
copper and iron.
The undertakers of Cleveland are up
in arms OH the subject of the order Of
Health Officer Hess that before they can
be given burial permit they must OBJ
tain the certificate of the attending ply
stefan stating the cause of death.
In 1S2 cotton mills in North Carolina
there are 1023.132 spindIes and %. 1874 looms.
South Carolina is ahead, containing in
81 cotton mills LII, 1864 spindles and &C.
S95 looms. These two states lead in the
number of spindles and looms of any of
southern states.
In Japan farmer who owns a piec.
Of land worth $1,000 has to pay to the
general government an annual tax OF
go, or 2i2 per cent. of its value. This
Is extra from any local taxes-state.
county or city. 1t is said that about one
half Of farmers products go to pay the
various taxes that are levied ,,non bir,
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