The Advocate and news., 1899-03-22

worked a revolution In giving employ
ment to women along business lines. In
1870 the census gave only 154 shorthand
writers in this country, but now there
are about 10000 stenOgraphers and type
writer's, Of whom about $4,000 are women
and most OF them finding cOngenial en-
ployment at fair wages ranging from S25
to SIS a month.
A few years ago a billion dollar Con-
gress startled the world by its generous
appropriations. But the Congress just
ended was more than billion and half
Congress, as the total appropriations ag-
gregated nearly one and three-quarters
billions. The Spanish war was account
able for about half a billion and the
majestic growth of the country makes Il
far more than billion dollar nation.
The wool commission men In Eastern
markets are greatly alarmed because the
woollen mills propose to purchase their
wool direct from the wool growers Of
the country instead Of from the wool
dealers. II that intention is carried out
on the part of the mills the farmers may
get better prices for their wool than they
otherwise would, for the dealers will
have to bid up or not get the product
to handle.
MeteOrs are said by the most eminent
astronomers to be rocks that were thrown
upward from the earth by volcanic erup-
tiOns millions of years ago. The most Of
such rocks fell back to the earth, but
those that were thrown up at velocity
greater than seven miles a second passed
beyond the attraction Of the earth and
are now occasionally coming back as me-
teors or shooting stars. Possibly some
OF these shooting stars may have been
thrown off from other planets.
The hard winter in Indiana burst
many of the pipes from natural gas wells
and in hunting for the gas leaks with
lighted matches has caused many violent
explosions in which twelve people have
been killed and nearly half million dol
lars worth of property destroyed The
gas pipes had become old and rotten
and the ground Is permeated with escap-
ing gas over large area and the cellars
and wells are so filled with gas that they
are more dangerous than powder mills.
So many printers have been thrown
out of work by machine-set matter that
the Typographical union of New York
city tried the experiment last~summer OF
temporarily colonizing unemployed print
ers on rented farms near the city. The
printers, being intelligent and industri-
Gus, made a success of the experiment
~ n hVrfvI FOse
selves and families, but paid all expenses
including the rent for the land and re-
turned in good condition the outfit fur
nished them by the union.
American-made tools are monopOlizing
the markets in Great Britain. American
made agricultural machinery is very pop
ular in Scotland Reapers and mowers,
plows, lawn mowers, axes, bolts, nuts
and carpenters tools made in America are
preferred in Great Britain because they
are neater made and better tempered than
those of either English or German make.
American manufacturers have carefully
studies the likes and demands Of foreign
users, and by making just what they
want have captured their trade.
During the Civil war General Nelson
A. Miles had command Of Fort Monroe
while Jefferson Davis was confined
there, and he put Mr. Davis in irons
by fastening fetters around his ankles,
which Davis violently resisted. AS soon
~ Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary OF War,
learned of this he ordered the fetters re-
moved. The Southern Senators dug up
4. = a L. Il
General Miles can never be made Lieu
tenant General Of the army. This may
also help to poison the Presidential bee
hat has been buzzing in the Miles bon
act.