Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
WORLD OF LABOR.
There are 1900 ocean cables.
Japan has 70 copper mines.
There are aluminium ViOllnS.

There are 1,500 ocean cables.
Japan has 10 copper mines.
There are aluminium yiOllnS.
Vienna has a municipal saloon.
Canada exports hay to the States.
Finland has women paperhangers.
Rockefeller's income is $40, 600 a day.
Des Moines boasts a butcher.
England has $4,000 female school
teachers.
In Glasgow more than one-third OF
the car fares are One-half penny.
The English tobacco trade employees
to-day 121 women to every 100 men.
Zurich provides comfortable sanitary
dwellings for nine hundred city en-
ployes.
The city of Jena, in Germany, owns a
brewery that pays to the city a profit OF
more than thirty thousand dollars a
year.
One hundred and ninety-three meat
shops in Paris offer hOrsemeat for sale.
The prime cuts sell at about 20 cents
per pound and the inferior at 10 cents.
Seven thousand young women in New
York and Brooklyn go insane every
year for want of sufficient food and
clothing.-Report of State Board OF
Lunacy.
The employers in Glasgow have con-
coded the advance asked for by the iron
moulders of a farthing per hour, and
21h per cent. on piece rates, and the
principle of a months notice has been
agreed to by both sides.
In Grenoble, France, the municipal
authorities have conducted a city res
taurant for ten years. Fifteen thou
sand meals a day are served at actual
cost. The best products Of the markets
are used. The cost Of a good dinner is
II cents.
The threatened strike of iron found
ers at Leeds has been averted by the ac-
ceptance of an advance of l shilling
per week offered by the employers. In
making the concession they appealed to
the men not to break time, as the or
ders on their books are so great that
they have difficulty in coping with
them.
The Scottish irOnWorkers have been
conceded another advance in wages of
two and one-half per cent, this being
the second advance within four months.
The advance is made under an award Of
the Cancellation Board established in
Scotland, similar to that in the North
of England iron trade, and in the Mid
lands by the Midland Wages Board.
The textile workers of Lancashire
have been arranging for a federation of
the several unions, embracing all sec
lions, the total membership of which
will be about 100, 900 operatives Of all
kinds. One curious and novel point in
the proposed federation is that the
u-;uo- md ~IouChtlrc 0rp tn he pnnIna1-
ed to join the union.
More than a thousand men who pol
ism metals are asking the Governor of
New York for a chance to live and to
breathe. The Legislature at AlbaB.
has before it a bill for the appointment
of more inspectors, who shall see to it
that the petitioners get the opportunity.
Metal polishers more than forty years
old are looked upon as ~patriarchs. They
get their lungs and stomachs full of
flying and impalpable dust, composed
of finely ground metal, minerals and
cotton fibre.
The largest frozen-meat factory in
the world is at Baracas, a suburb of
Buenos Ayres, and belongs to the San
sinena family. The establishment is
capable of an output Of $500 sheep per
diem, or 100000 mutton carcaseS per
month. The frozen oom have a ca
pacity of nearly 100 900 cubic feet. and
have hanging room for 5000 sheep.
The store rooms in which the sheep are
slowed after freezing to await ship
ment. have a capacity of 150,0 900 cubic
feet. and can contain upwards of $4,000
sheep.
The American Consul at Calcutta
says that about 1000, 900 tons Of jute
are raised in India every year, chiefly
in the provinces of Bengal and Assam.
Bengal has 33 jute mills, employing
So, 1922 persons. The factories are most
ly owned and operated by foreigners.
The average wages are from 40 cents to
s1.44 a week. The export of gunny
bags to the United States is fully so
per cent. of the whole quantity sent out
of India, and the amount sent TO this
country in 1898 was w and a half
times as great as in 1896. The growth
of the gunny bag industry is largely
due to the increased use OF machinery
and the cheapnesS of raw jute.
1t has been customary to regard the
export and imports of Hong Kong as
purely British. But an investigation
conducted by a French commission and
reported by the United States Consul
General at Berlin, shows that of a total
trade between Hong Kong and China,
amounting to s120, 900 900 annually,
S45, 000, 600 belongs to the United States
France and Germany. Chinese custom
houses reports put she imports from
the United States a. only SPA 00, 900,
but the French commission estimates