The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-07-07
THE WORLD OF LABOR.
Echoes From the Busy MIL and the Work.
shop.

japan boasts OF 3232 teisphones.
Arizona has 10000 wild horses,
France employs 14o, 1000 teachers.
Spain has 5,ooo,ooo agriculturists.
Bavaria has 8oo-year-old houses.
Our railroads employ 100000 men.
Amsterdam has $4,000 diamond
cutters.
Germany has 64a,ooo working
women.
Hungary whisky is distilled from
maize.
There are, it is said, forty kinds of
tobacco plants.
japan has 10, 900 paupers 38,ooo,-
900 inhabitants.
Scarborough (England) plumbers
get sixteen cents an hour.
England makes $40, 900, 900 year
profit out Of its post Office.
The Victoria Cross carries with it
a pension of $25o year for life.
British trade with the Philippines
last year was $9,e3As9o; that of the
United States $5,r4s,3o3, or about
half as much.
Every state in :he Union, with the
exception of ten, now has state
botanist, New York and Connecticut
having two each.
A gold-weighing machine in the
Bank of England is so sensitive that
postage stamp dropped on the scale
will turn the index on the dial dis
tance OF two inches.
With all her agricultural wealth,
South Dakota is also third in the list
Of gold-producing states. The aggre.
gate of gold produced in the state last
year was $5,S2o,575.
Public ovens are established on
most of the residential streets of
Japanese cities, where people can
have their dinners and suppers cook
ed for them at trif1ing expense.
| Corsets must not be worn by Rus
sian young women attending high
schools, universities and music and
art schools, according to recent de-
cree of the new minister of education.
At the present time the largest
angle iron which is rolled at Amerl-
can mills measured by 6 inches.
The Carnegie company will llsoon erect
a new mill at Homestead which will
turn out SxS angle iron.
: Brazil is agtating the transforma-
tion into state monopoly of the sale
of coffee, rubber and tobacco, and
limiting their export to the demand
for actual consumption, as distinguish
ed from speculative demand.
In Allegheny, Pa, three cent
schooner houses have become so num-
erous that meeting of liquor dealers
has been called to discuss the situa-
tion and take measures against these
cut-rate dispensers of beer. A similar
situation confronts the dealers IN Pitts
burg.
1t is stated that the engines of a
private yacht belonging to an English
shipbuilder are now heing constructed
in an American shop, the reason for
the contract having been placed on
this side of the Atlantic being that
the work can be done more cheaply
here than in England.
The United States Court has de-
clared unconstitutional Milwaukee
ordinance that provided for Accent car
fare. In Milwaukee one company
operates over the entire city and uni
versal transfers are given SO that a
passenger may go from any part of
the city to any other part for single
scent fare. .....
| A shoe manufacturer with a head
for figures has calculated that the
hides of the following number of ami
mails would be required yearly to shoe
the whole population of the earth, so
far as known Cattle, a45,88I,384;
Sodls, 9o,oo4,5 40 Sneep, e. ,4o2, 1000,
and kangaroos, 25,ooo,ooo.
| 1t is the belief of the Iron Age that
the consumption of iron and steel for
the production of agricultural imple-
ments for the year beginning on July
Ist will be greatly in excess of all
previous seasons. In view of what
are thought to be the good prospects
of the farmer at present, the manu-
facturers are making enormous con-
tracts for raw material.
The largest dam in the world is the
| Quaker Bridge dam about four miles
from Kitchawan, N. Y. This great
structure is more than quarter of
mile long and sI6 feet thick at the