The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-11

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sumed each day and the cost thereof have
been actually determined. The average
cost per man per day at the University
Boarding club. at Columbia, is 1872 cents
of this amount Mr.. May said probably
cents worth is wasted. The cost in pri-
vate families would be smaller with less
waste.
NOTES OF INDUSTRIES
Chicago has a candy trust.
Our shoes are worn in Africa.
Our canals stretch 4,46S miles.
We export oysters to England.
Michigan has 300 farmers clubs.
There are over 10000 light houses.
Providence is to have a textile school
A ton of pure gold is worth $780, 7Ss. q
Australia sends frozen rabbits to Lon
don.
Berlin boasts women commercial trav-
elers.
New York's "L" roads have $50 en-
ployes.
Peach blooms may be seen around
Thomson, Ga.
Sydney is now the center of the Austria
liam wool trade
A worsted plant is to be established at
Burrillville, r. 1.
A ten-pot window glass plant is to be
established at lola, Ia.
Florida orange trees are being extenst-
vely planted in Jamaica
Last year the Transvaal produced about
s42,5O0, 900 worth of gold.
Manitoba farmers are shipping large
quantities of stock to the Yukon.
The Oldtown (Me.) wooden mill is run
ming night and day with 40 hands.
A Columbus, O., firm has just finished
No. q shoe, weighing Is pounds.
One of the dry goods stares in Boston
has substituted the cry teller for
cash
Stock to the amount of $4,000 has been
subscribed for cotton mill at Kinston.
N. C.
No person in Norway may spend more
than cents at one visit to a public house.
Employees of the wooden mill at Black
linton, Mass, last week received per cent.
increase.
Boston is to have a restaurant wherein
only vegetable productions will be cooked
and served.
Cotton has been grown in Colorado, for
the first time upon an experimental farm
in Otero county.
The employees of the Carolina Or. u
Wooden Mill company have received an
increase in their wages of per cent.
A large part of the spool timber cut in
Maine is not manufactured there, but
shipped from Bangor to great factories in
and Scotland.
The Sumter, S. c.. cotton mills have be-
gun to run 16 hours per day. 1t is report
ed that 161a per cent. earnings were made
last year by these mills.
1t is reported that a carpet nanufac
turing company may be incorporated at
Gaffney S. c.. to establish the only carpet
mill south of Philadelphia
Taxes are RENTED on Paris houses
which are unoccupied; If any part of the
duction is made in the amount of the
taxes.
The Hartford Courant congratulates the
on the fact that while sixteen
years ago a steel warship had not been
built in this country, now we're building
them for japan.
One reason why female physicians are
so plentiful in Russia, is that the country
includes among its Inhabitants over H.
900 Mohammedans. who do not allow
male physicians to treat women.
A Dexfield, Va, factory has just COM
pleted an order for 100000 checkers and
200, 900 dice boxes, and another factory
in the same town they have made this
year 525, OO0, 900 toothpicks.
At Roanoke, Va, last week Judge John
w. Woods decided that employees of the
Norfolk & Western Railroad company re-
siding in West Virginia could not be gar
nisheed for debt in Virginia.
Recent exports by one steamer from
Boston to Buenos Ayers were 402 packages
hardware, 26 packages carriages. 80 aXles,
2, COZ reels wire, boilers, u packages en-
gines and large quantity of lumber.
Henry T. Kent Of Philadelphia, repre-
senting capitalists Of this city, has bought
the Liberty Wooden Mill at Bedford City,
Va, and will put IL in operation at once,
IS hands. John F. Curtis, man
aver IOE Hldlly years, Will III HIS
position.
"The vested interests OF the wooden
industry in this country
amount to 1886, 0Oo, 900 and give employment
to 200, 900 persons, with So. OO0. 900 wages
per annum-more than one-half as much
as the iron and steel industry. "-Wade's
Fibre and Fabric.
There were lis new enterprises to Sc
cure charters in South Carolina during
the year 1897. Besides. there were 81 COM
panies to secure commissions, but their or
CARNATIONS have not yet been completed.
The total amount of capital to be corpor-
ated concerns is g, 49, 900.
Some of the leading farmers in the In
diana oil district are taking advantage of
the oil boom and are using the crude oil
to feed their swine. One farmer put some
Of the oil in the feeding trough and found
the pigs became wild for it. He finds it
an excellent preventive for cholera
AS an evidence Of advancing civiliza-
ton in Japan q correspondent notes the
fact that they are getting used to glass.
At first glass in a railway carriage win
dow, il is said. had TO be snneared with
streaks of white paint 10 keep passen-
gers from putting their heads through 1t.
Among the many other orders from
abroad that are received At the Provo
Utah Wooden mills is one from a Seattle
firm for 1000 pairs Of extra heavy wooden
blankets for the Klondike trade They
will be ready for shipment at the early
part OF next month. The plant is operated
till 10 p m. daily.
The spool factories ot Maine turn out
annually about 20 90 COO spoo!s. which