The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-08-06

Japan mas l,l1lWD cotton 5plndlee
Austria has many women BARRIERS.
Brooklyn has scandinavian bakers
union.
Baltimore canmakors struck for 90
cents per hundred.
The daily average Of immigrants 10
this country is 1000
Water metres have been placed 90 Nom
treal laundrics. There are 200 and Chin
ese own $50
The Sunday law was enforced IN TEN.
pile. Tex. last Sunday for the first limo
in many years. Not "a saloon or gambling
house was open.
A book published in Japan 1o0 years
ago notes that at that time good silk was
already produced IN IS provinces OF that
country.
There is an fee war IN Clehu2ne, Tex.
and the crystal substance can be- bought
for I'D cents per hundred.
The citizens OF Corsic1na Tex, have
new model of street sprinkiins II IS
with OIL and one sprinMing Will last
several days.
The McClary Manufacturing Company
OF London. ont, has not only advanced
"a To per cent raise 90 the iron mOlders
but 20 every trade organized In its es-
tahlishment. None of the unoreanlzed
trades. however. were granted am .n-
crease.
a piumaker in England. who spends
5000 go year on newspaper advert.a-
ing alone. has given his publisher orders
for 10000 books each OF which Is 70
contain "a Photographic views of ENG
land The price 10 the public IS 70 be
penny a copy.
Great Britain produces half the slate
quarIed In tho world. France and che
United States a little less than 0ne-Quar-
ter each Production en- the United Staes
has recently increased, owing 20 the de-
maud for export
"Cattv" is weight sti1 IN use IN tho
treaty ports IN China. When the Chin
Csc first sold te8 t0 Europeans they IN
closed IL ip the little lacquer cases. which
each weighed "catfy' and BOO due time
were called tea cattles. and az last tea
cadilcs.
The wages NJ miners in the Birmlne-
ham CAlaD district have been .ncrea-. ~
four times in TWO months. going ffom 81
cents q ton 90 81 - cents This Increase
of 33 1-3 per cent is jusf about tne l'-
crease that has taken place DID 900 oi..'
mining and manufacturing affairs go ths
district.
There are probably half n million men
I'm public emplOy-natlOnal state ana
municipal-in this country. and they
have ~ Industrial peace There IS no
more arduous labor than that OF railway
mail clerks soldiers and st0kors on war
ships but the men who perform Il work
on contentedly and the Tabor problem
for them does not exlst.-New York jour
nal sNfIl
None Of the st0necutters' unions IN
New York is connected with the national
union Of the trade. The new union has
four times applied for a charter. hut cach
time II has been refused because or
protest on the part OF tho JoufneFm'n
S,onecutters Association. The latter
now employs an expert accountant 10
audit IT'S books. auditing committees nav
Inc been dispensed with.
Yesterday Kelly & Co.'S grocery store
did the best one days business Of any
similar store in the country. IL was the
result of what was known as 'Presot-
terrain Day" the store being managed by
the lady members of said church. they
ooeued and closed the store ala fhc clerk
ing and the delivering. The women sold
very nearly $500 worth OF goods they re-
ceivlng 10 per cent. as their share. Upper
sandusky letter In Cleveland World
The new agreement reduces the hours
Of labor of New York masons l4noreri
from As hours a week 20 a hours. IL also
Increases the wages for five days OF the
week from $40 20 s2.Gi a day. WIKI the
SATURDAY half holiday their wages are
now $3.50 a week an increase OF u cents
a week. notwithstanding the fact that on
account of the Saturday half holiday
they will receive only sL32 for their work
OF the sixth day OF the week.
In 1880 the population OF Kansas was
practically nn: IN 1880 II was i'fzhces,
while that Of Nebraska from nothing had
become los 90 The worthless Kansas
land had acquired I'm forty years yalua-
ti0n OF s2li000000 while the products IN
the census year amounted I'm value 20
sj22i036i. In Nebraska, also, the desert
had blossomed as a rose for the valuation
or real property had IN four decades adj
vanced from zero 20 Se6.coc'0. with an
annual output OF s37 7OSe Oh In Kansas the
personal property was valued az $4,000
900. I'm Nebraska az S6i 600 600; the facl0-
rles and workshops OF the former State
had an annual product OF S30. 100 2l2. OF The
latter $l2,e27. $50 All this wealth Is tho
labor OF a single generation. Where yes
terday rbamed the buffalo. to-day stands
the city: where yesterday the hunter
found precarlOus subsistence. today the
farmer produces not only an abundance
for himself but an immense surplus for
others.