, 1899-05-19

One hundred and sixty-three million
acres of land are under wheat.
Asphalt is being superseded in Paris
and London by wooden pavements.
Among the coachmen of Berlin are
seyen retired army officers, three ex-
pastors and 16 mobiles.
c. M. Guest, of Anderson, S. c., is
forming a company to build a knitting
mill of about SIC, 900 capital.
The new addition to the Beargrass
Wooden Mill, of Louisville, will be a
three-story brick structure 60 feet
square,.
he production of lead in Colorado
was so per cent. more in 1898 han in
1897, and of copper nearly 40 per cent.
more.
The Gallant Silk Mills Company, of
Delhi, N. Y, is preparing to erect
more buildings this spring to accom-
modate the fast increasing trade.
In 1898 the aggregate tonnage of the
new vessels launched in the worlds
shipyards amounted to 100000 tons,
of which 1,600, 900 came from British
yards.
All the Australian banks, except in
Victoria and South Australia, have
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account.
The towns of Port Arthur and Fort
William, Ont, are connected whit a
trolley system owned and operated by
Port Arthur. The line is managed
by three commissioners elected by the
people.
In the fisheries of the Lofoden Is
lands, belonging to Norway, between
S5, 900 and 40, 1000 men are often engaged
and during the busiest time, which is
toward the end of March, as many as
1000 vessels of various kinds are In
those waters.
1t is reported that the Arnold Print
Works Company is preparing to erect
a large mill in North Adams for the
manufacture of a line of goods not
handled by it at present, and in the
manufacture of Which fully 600 hands
will be employed.
The French-Belgian Company, with
a capital of $3.50, 900, will build a
| modern four-story brick mill for the
manufacture of fine worsted yarns in
| Woonsocket, r. I. The City Council
voted to exempt mill and mill machin-
cry for a term of 10 years.
A syndicate of capitalists, headed
by James r. Wilson, of Montreal, has
organized with a preliminary capital
of 50. 900, 900, for the purpose of erect
Ing at some point in Canada the larg-
est ore refinery in the world. Of the
immense output of lead bullion with
which Canada is credited not a pound
is refined in the Dominion; it all goes
from the British Columbia shelters
to American refineries.
An experiment in storing eggs was
recently tried at Leith, Scotland, where
some $1,000 Scotch, Irish and Danish
eggs were sealed in an apparatus for
four months, after which only a small
proportion of them were found to be
| added. The air in the storage ap-
| paratus was cooled and allowed to
circulate freely around the eggs which
were turned periodically to keep the
yolk surrounded with albumen. This
was done by mechanism.
! The largest loaveS of bread k
in the world are those of France and
Italy. The "pipe" bread of Italy is
i baked in loaves two or three feet
long. while in France the loaves are
! made in the shape of very long rolls,
four or five feet in length, and in many
cases six feet.
There are no large factories for
making shoes in Mexico, as in the
United States. There are extensive
| establishments in Leon, Mexico City
| and Guadalajara, but they are not
exactly factories. The shoes are made
under a. kind of tenement system.
/ Workmen receive a stipulated sum for
| each pair of shoes made, according to
quality.
An Appleton (Wis.) firm has re-
| ceived cable orders for plans for a big
groundwork pulp mill, to be construct
| ed at Stockholm, Sweden. The in
teresting feature of the order is that
the entire mill machinery is to be of
American make on American, models.
The order is the fourth the concern
has received in the last two lears.
In France matches are a State
monopoly, and 400 million hoves are
sold annually. The Minister of
Finance proposed to make the boxes
bear advertisements. and as each box
could carrv two. one m each of the
two lat sides. this would make 800
non. ono advertisements, from which he
hcNas to obtain an annual sum of
5000. 900 francs.