The sun., 1898-12-25
Hammer Taps From Work
shops of the World.
WAGE EARNERS' TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands--Items of Interest From
All Crafts.


Louisiana leads in rice production.
Ottawa has no Sunday street cars.
Germany announces zinc wall paper.
Boone, Ia, hasn't a vacant house.
Mexico CITY is to have an electric road.
Floridas pineapple crop is worth $780,
600.
Mexican farm laborers get 25 cents a
day.
Des Moines has a 70-year-old-black-
smith.
All Centralia, Wash, stores are open
on Sunday.
Oklahoma's Governor was telegraph
operator
Gastonia, N. G., is to have another cot
ton mill.
The best hotel in San Juan, Puerto
Rico, charges 50 day.
The consumption of rice in Europe has
more than doubled since 1873.
A new 5,OO0-spinde cotton mill may
be established at Talladego, Ala.
OF the 25,OOO officials in Berlin as
many as 1900 give their services free.
More than 50 per cent Of the ships of
the world are built in the British Isles.
At Kokomo, Ind, white girls were
discharged for refusing to serve negro
hotel guests.
A Tacoma company will soon ship
100000 feet or more OF fir decking to
Hamburg, Germany.
The W. G. 7. u, of Alton, ILL.,, has
succeeded in placing prohibtive license
on cigarettes.
A Cleveland councilman has intro
duced an ordinance limiting the height
of buildings to eight stories.
The Abbeville, s. c., cotton mills will
commence to run nights soon. New ma
chinery is to be added.
The best managed dairies in Mime
sofa have reduced the cost of manu-
featuring pound of butter to l.2S
cents.
1t is estimated that the output of the
mines of Butte and Anaconda, Mont, is
over II 900 tons day of copper ore.
1t is said that the use of natural gas
in the Elmira window glass factory
would reduce the cost of fuel from $780,
900, the amount now paid for coal, to
about $4,000.
Most of the railroad stations in Russia
are about two miles from the towns
which they respectfully serve. This is
precgution against fire, as many of the
Russian dwellings are thatchcd with
straw
The volume of business handled by
the savings bank department of the Lon
don post Office has grown to enormous
proportions, and at present the staff of
the Central Savings Bank numbers more
than $500 persons.
A mass meeting was held in Milwaukee
last week to protest against the payment
Of pensions to retired firemen and police
men, and to take action looking to the
repeal of the law under which the pen
sions are paid.
The coal output OF the State OF Wash
ington this year is l,715,5l5 tons, an in
crease of nearly half a million over 1897.
The supply in sight will last for nearly
Fifty years. and there are hundreds Of
thousands of acres undeveloped.
The Birmingham Ala Labor Advo
cute says it is authoritatiyely stated tnat
Ensley City, where 100000 stee
plant and 100000 steel nail, wire
and rod mill already are building, hal
also secured a hoop.iron factory, and {
cotton n-tie factory also will be located
there. Over 200 houses are now being
built at the new town.
"a CITY Of Zinc" is the name which
may appropriately be given to the mush
room city of Portuguese, East Africa
Beira. All the houses, all the hotels ant
public buildings, says Natal contem
porary barracks and warehouses, ar
built of zinc. Even when person fall
i'll he is carried on zinc stretcher to
hospital, which is also, OF course, mad
of zinc And if he dies he is laid to res
in zinc coffin.
The secret OF the manufacture of glas
paste, says the Glassworker, died will
the Roman artisans, and has never beel
discovered. Now it is said that an emf
nent foreign sculptor, who has well
equipped chemical laboratory, has sue
ceeded in producing glass paste simila
to that described in ancient writings
You can drive nails into it as you cal
into lead.
New factories, immense quantities c
labor-saving machinery being continu
ally imported, new railways and exten
sons of old ones, vastly increased acre
age under culture, progress in education
and a magnificent national credit, all al
test, says the Merican Herald, the growt
of modern Mexico. There is no othe
Latin-American nation which has g
creditable record.
One restaurant kept open almost cor
tinuously during the past winter at Daw
son, Mr.. Durham relates, with the 70
lowing bill of fare tackled on the wal
Bowl Of soup, ST. mush and milk, $l.2;
canned corn, $l.25; stewed fruits, $l.2i
canned tomatoes, $2; slice of pie,
cents, coffee or tea, ST., with pie or sane
wich, 81, %; beans, coffee and bread, S:
plain steak, $3.50; porterhouse steak, 81
poached eggs on toast, So; hot cakes an
maple syrup, 81. "a leading restau
ant" he says, "having seating capa,
ity of %, employed three cooks, one
whom received 800 a week and til
others 81 an hour. Four walters wei
paid $50 week each, and the wome
$l00a month. The leading gamblin
houses and dance hall employs thrt
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