The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Chicago woodworkers enjoy the eight
hour day.
st. Louis is the greatest mule market
in the world.
Frisco painters get So day for s
hours work
Ashland lumber showers get sixty
cents an hour.
New York 'longshoremen struck for
thirty cents per hour for overtime.
A.syndicate has been formed to devel-
op valuable asbestos deposits in Zulu
land.
There are 1880 central station plants
for generating electricity in the United
States.
over one thousand houses in Lon
don are lenanILess because they are
supposed to be haunted.
Toronto claims to be the Leipsic OF
Carada. Nearly 500. 600 900 is said 10
be invested in that city anG neighbor-
hood in paper making, printing and
bookbndfng trades.
Large sums of money have been
made from small things. The man who
invented the roller skate made 81 ,000.-
600. and the gimlet-p pointed screw has
made fabulous wealth.
English barb-wire manufacturers
having reduced prices. while American
goods have advanced, hope to be able
1 10 compte in South Africa with what
has heretofore been almost an Ameri-
can monopoly.
In Germany potato bread Is used by
the natives OF Thuringia to feed their
! horses especially when they are work
! ed hard in very cold weather. The an
| imals thrive on it. and their health and
\ strength are excellent.
The mayor of Hays City Kan. is
! only twenty-five years old: the presl-
! dent OF the council is Twenty-Five. and
the oldest man in the municipal gov
ernment is twenty nine.
In the National Museum is a woman
who is an authority on mammals and
one OF the most sklful acknowledged
artists In the world is a woman en-
ployed by the Bureau OF Entomology
Owing to a shortage of pig-iron. the
rail mill at the Pueblo Steel Works has
been shut down, and will not reopen
for two weeks. Sufficient orders are
on hand TO keep the plant running as
fast as pig-iron can be produced.
Prof. Roentgcn is in great demand by
the German universities. Some time ago
~ w q
burg only succeeded I'm Keeping hlm by
primising TO erect n new physical lab
oratory Now Munich is trying to Sc
cure him.
An oilskin bag for towels. etc. and a
long wrap of Turkish toweling or fan
mel, with loose sleeves and a hood like "A
monks cOwl to cover one is the. uecps-
sary transit from batbhouse to the wa
ter will be found usefus accompani-
ments when bathing from the beach.
Anthony Hudson. the first white set
tier in Pierce county. Wis. is still liv-
ing, having just passed his one-hun-
dredth milestone 4 life. Hell actively
engaged In farming and cultivates 20
acres without employing help. his wife
lending HIM assistance in harvest time
For the contemplated telephone con-
nection between Berlin and Paris. two
lines are to be constructed one y di-
rect line from Berlin 60 Paris. and thc
other by way OF Frankfort. so that n
compile te breakdown of the service be-
tween the two capitals will be "A re-
mote contingency.
II Will cost $93, $50 .0S2O3 to run .he
government Of Greater New York for
The forthcoming fiscal year. accordiug
90 the report of the finance committec.
This includes deficiency fund of So
1iJ,Sj0SS. The amount 10 be raised by
general taxation is SCI sos. 75l. .OJ q.
cost $',4',VSf." to run the city last
year.
a patent has recently been granted
In Great Britain for an invention that
has reference to Improvements in CON
nedtfon with water heaters tho oh-
ject being TO provide i'm one apparatusa
separator for removing grease and inn
purites from steam. and a .heatsr or
condenser through which the exhaust
steam passes.