Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-25


Cuba has 100 sugar plantations.
Ottawa has no Sunday street cars.
Louisiana leads in rice production.
Germany announces zinc wall paper.
Mexico City Is to have an electric road.
Florida's pineapple crop is worth $4,000.
Mexican farm laborers get Is cents a
day.
Des Moines has a 7O-year-old black
smith.
All CentraIia, Wash, stores are open on
Sunday.
Oklahoma's governor was telegraph
operator.
Gastonfa, ~ c.. is to have another cot
ton mill.
The best hotel in San Juan, Porto Rico,
charges $500 day.
The consumption of rice in Europe has
more than doubled since 1919.
A new 5000 spindle cotton mill may be
established at Talladego. Ala.
OF the 5000 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 Kokoma, Ind, white girls were dis
charged for refusing to serve negro hotel
guests.
A Tacoma company will soon ship S00,-
600 feet or more of fir decking to Ham
burg, Germany.
The w. C. I. U. of Alton, ILL.,, has sue
ceeded in placing prohibitive license on
cigarettes.
A Cleveland councilman has introduced
an ordinance limiting the height of build
ings to eight stories.
Tba AhbauilTa mills will
commence to run nights soon. New ma
chinery is to be added.
The best managed diaries in Minnesota
have reduced the cost of manufacturing a
pound of butter to LIS cents.
1t is said that the use of natural gas in
the Eimira window glass factory would
reduce the cost of fuel from $4,000, the
amount now paid for COAL to about $10,
600.
Most of the railroad stations in Russia
are about two miles from the towns which
they respectfully serve This is precau-
ton against fire, as many of the Russian
dwellings are matched with straw.
The volume of business handled by the
savings bank department of the London
post Office has grown to enormous proper
tons, and at present the staff of the Cen
trail 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 re-
peal of the law under which the pensions
are paid.
The coal output of the State of Wash
ington this year is 1,715,515 tons. an in
crease. of nearly half million over 1897
years, and there are hundreds of thous-
ands of acres undeveloped
The Birmingham, Ala, Labor Advocate
says it is authoritatively stated that Ems
ley City, where 100000 steel plant and
a 81, 100000 steel nail, wire and rod mill are
already building, has also secured hoop
iron factory and cotton tie factory also
will be located there. Over 200 houses are
now being built in 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 and
public buildings, says a Natal contempo-'
rary, barracks and warehouses, are built
of zinc. Even when a person falls i'll he
is carried on a zinc stretcher to a hospi-
tai, which is also, of course, made of zinc.
And if he dies he is laid to rest in zinc
coffin.
The secret of the manufacture of glass
paste, says the Glassworker. died with the
Roman artisans, and has never been dis
covered. Now it is said that an eminent
foreign sculptor who has a well-equipped
chemical laboratory, has succeeded in
producing a glass paste similar to that de-
scribed in ancient writings. You can
drive nails into it as you can into lead.
New factories, immense quantities of
labor-saving machinery being continually
imported, new railways and extensions of
old ones, a vastly increased acreage I'M
der culture, progress in education. and a
magnificent national credit, all attest,
says the Mexican Herald, the growth of
modern Mexico. There is no other Latin
American nation which has so creditable
a record.
One restaurant kept open almost contin-
uously during the past winter at Dawson,
Mr.. Durham relates, with the following
bill of fare tackled on the wall: Bowl of
soup, 81; mush and milk, $.25; canned
corn, Sh25: stewed fruits, SIPS; canned to-
matoes, 81; slice of pie, 70 cents; coffee or
tea 81, with pie or sandwich, s125: benas,
coffee and bread, 81; plain steak. $3.50;
porterhouse steak, s.; poached eggs on
toast, 81; hot cakes and maple syrup 81;
"A leading restaurant" he says, Having
a seating capacity of 50, employed three
cooks, one of whom received 500 a week
and the others 81 an hour. Four walters
were paid $50 a week each. and the women
$1O0 month. The leading gambling houses
and dance hall employs three bartenders,
The bartenders receive $15 a day. the
bookkeepers, $780, walters SO and por-
ter $40"
Great as is the fish industry of Puget
Sound it is not yet developed to the extent
of supplying a twentieth part of the de-
mand that might easily be secured, says
the Seattle Times. A new customer has
enough has not been secured to afford her
g.. 0O0 people one breakfast around.
This new customer is Japan. Fourteen
hundred tons of salt fish were shipped
from this North Pacific Coast to Japan
last year, and more was not shipped be-
cause more fish could not be secured
THE scarcity of labor all over the re-
public is becoming serious question to
the railroad companies that are building
new lines and extending old ones and the
contractors are getting very anxious, as
there is no relief in sight" says the Mexi-
can Financier. "All the roads in the re-