Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-05-24
Industrial.

One hundred and sixty-three milliG.,
acres of land are under wheat.
Asphalt Is being superseded in PariA
and London by wooden pavements.
Among the coachmen OF Berlin are
seven retired army officers. three ex-
pastors and 16 mobiles.
c. M. Guest. OF Anderson, 8. c.. is
forming company to build a knitting
mill Of about $4,000 capital
The new addition to the Beargrass
Woolen Mill. Of Louisville, will be q
three-story brick structure 60 feet
square.
The production Of lead in Colorado
was 80 per cent. more in 1893 than in
1897. and Of copper nearly 40 per cent.
more.
The Gallant Silk Mills Company. of
Delhi, N. Y, is preparing to erect
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, 600 came from British
yards.
All the Australian banks, except in
Victoria and South Australia. have
adopted a resolution charging shil-
lings per half-year on each current
account.
The towns of Port Arthur and Fort
William, Ont, are connected whit a
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
$1,000 and 10000 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
handled by it at present. and in the
manufacture OF which fully 600 hands
will be employed.
The French Belgian Company. with
capital of $250.OO0. 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 $4,000. 900. for the purpose Of erect
Ing at some point in Canada the larg-
immense output Of lead bullion with
which Canada is credited not a pound
Is refined in the Dominion: 1t all goes
from the British Columbia smelters
to American renner1eS.
An experiment in storing eggs was
recently tried at Leith. Scotland. where
some SC, 900 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
were turned periodically to keep the
yolk surrounded with albumen. This
was done by mechanism.
The largest ioaves Of bread baked
in the world are those of France and
Italy The pipe" bread of Italy is
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
establishmente in Leon. Mexico City
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 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 "t
American make on American models
The order is the fourth the concern
has received in the last two lears.
In France matches are State
monopoly, and 400 million boxes are
sold annually. The Minister Of
Finance proposed to make the boxes
bear advertisements, and as each box
could carry two. one on each of the
two fiat sides. this would make 500.
900 900 advertisements. from which he
hopes to obtain an annual sum OF
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