, 1899-05-26

IN, a Instance OF I5O miles, III 90 lniH-
utes. Pneumatic tubes are used.
1t is stated there are an average OF
450 men employed to every 100 miles
of railway in the United States.
The tax on coffee amounts in france
to about IA cents a pound, while IN
England it is only 3 cents a pound.
By the passage of the Moran act
Fall River can borrow beyond her DEBT
limit $25, 900 to build a textile school
A fne quality of photographic stone
has been discovered near Sparta, Tenn.
1t takes a fine polish and has no grit
in it.
More than 500, 900 sewing machines
are made in this country annually,
which is 80 per cent. of the production
of the world.
The whistle on the new Atlanta Mill
ing Company's mill has been con-
structed to be audible at Macon, 40
miles distant.
The total value of farm animals in
the United States is estimated at 81
997, 010, 407, an increase of sos, 800, Az,
or SIS per cent during the year.
Steel smokestacks are being placed
upon the locomotives of the elevated
railroads in New York city, thus reduc-
ing the weight from 800 to about lOOO
pounds.
The ink plant of New Granada is a
curiosity. The juice of it can be used
as ink without any preparation. AT
first the writing is red, but after a few
hours it changes to black.
The glove industry, which was first
settled in Gloversville, N. Y. in 1909
now represents an investment of no less
than SIS, 900, 900. The operators earn or
an average 81 a day.
Buffalo's new Union Railroad Sta
ton, to cost $50 0 900. is to have a wait
ing room so by 235 feet, said to be the
largest in the world. The other acces
series and the train shed arrangement
are on the same liberal scale.
The most important iron and machin
cry works in Brazil is the Nationa
Rolling Mill of Rio de Janeiro having
a harbor front n railway siding
These works have a combined poweI
of $50 horsepower, with electric install
lation, and employ about 400 opera
tives.
Mechanics and laborers will do wei
to shun the Philippines. Skilled arti
sans are paid an equivalent of SIS pc
month in gold. Accountants, bookkeep
ers and clerical employees get from 50
to $50 per month, and the common la
borer about 81 per month in gold.
During this week the Albany Boile
Works, located at North Albany. N. Y.
will ship to South Africa eight boiler
which have been in course of construc
ton at the foundry for the past threl
months. The boilers are now nearl.
ready for shipment. Two of them ar
$50 horse power and six 375 horse pow
er.
A new industry in Kansas is the man
ufacture of salt. A large deposit ha
been discovered on the line of the Santi
Fe Railroad near the town of Hutch
inson, in the central part of the stat
ison, in the central part of the stat
the largest in the world. More thai
49, 00,0 900 has already been invested il
plants to purify it, and the output las
year reached nearly 1000, 900 barrels.
The Chicago Drainage Cana r
Lake Michigan to Joliet will be show
by a Typographical model on a seal
of seven inches to the mile at the Pari
Exposition. 1t will cost $500.
"A smoking tree has been Dur II
the village of Ono, Japan. Tt smoke
only in the evening, just after sun
set, and the smoke issues from the to-
of the trunk. The tree is so feet high
-Leichtenstein, a free and indepen
dent German State, is celebrating tn
200th anniversary of its existence. l
is still technically at war with Prussia
rs it Joined Austria in 1866 and wa
forgotten in drawing up the treaty o
peace. It's contingent in the German
army was seventy-nine men.