The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-14
FIELD OF THE
W0RKIMGMAN

American coal arriving at hronstadt,
Russia, is quoted at s412 ton, and eX-
perts declare that it Is IN no way inferior
10 Cardiff.
Prominent labor men claim that the
eisht-hour day has made a radical cnange
in the desire for strong drink among
members of trade unions. To prove their
claims they point to the disaster that
overtakes all who open saloons III Ia
BORROW" Several years ago there Wsrsa
six saloons within 1C0 feet OF the Building
Trades Council headquarters. AT the pres
emit tune there Is only one. Whlle on an
average OF 10000 men meet at 1877 Wash
ineton Street every week it Is said to be
q rare thing to find half a dozen in any
of the saloons in that neishborhood.-Cnl-
cago American.
Louisiana boasts white blackberrtes-
Whale fishing IS not extinct in the Uni
ted States. but 1t IS gradually and slowly
becoming SO.
Galveston's export trade amounts to
nearly s40,Oo.o00 a year.
Kansas has a potato field forty miles
long.
The English tobacco trade to-day en-
ploys 12l women to every 1c0 men.
Russia has glass collins.
An electrical horsewhip gives the AMI
NAL a shock instead of a cut.
Every day the dispatch works of Ciias-
cow dispose of 1870 tons OF garbage; 1860
men and 800 horses are employed by the
cleaning department The cost OF the
opera tons for the year ending May, 1899,
was 1856. COO the revenue $4,000. Not con-
tent with this enormous revenue, the civic
government Of Glasgow IS considering
a scheme to utilize the heat resulting from
the burning garbage. THIS heat is sufficient
in volume to generate $50 Horsepower OF
steam an hour. or power enough TO llgn1
600 street lamps Of ECO candIe-power each
These quotations, which show how things
change without making the under dog much
better off, are from the twenty-ninth
chapter of Watson's STORY of France
beginning at page All, wages, judged
by what the money would buy, were good
in the fifteenth century In South Ger
many the average price OF beef was ABOUT
half a, cent a pound, while the day
wages of carpenters and masons. IN ad-
tHtion to their. keep, amounted to ABOUT
eight cents per day. In Saxony the same
Workmen earned, beside their keep. nine
cents per day. In addition to this the
workman was given a certain sum each
week to pay for the expense OF Washins
himself. This wholesome gratuity was
known as patching money. In every
town there were the needful arrangements
for bathing, both in winter and sum
rner. and It was the customary thln5
6ay) to demand for their Workmen non
day once In a, fortnight. something ottensr
for the purpose OF bathing. AT toe pesih-
ming OF the sixteenth century the uIaS
laborer. could earn. besides his keep t"sli-
ty-two cents. A pair OF shoes cost nun i
seven cents, a sheep ten cents. a iae
hen about one and a half cents. tNetts
ave Goldfish, ten cents, wagon loasa =.
6rewood, delivered, twelve cents; an en- Oh
the best honesplln cloth twelve cents q
bushe1 of rye about fifteen cents.
Belgium has 800 newspapers
Passaic dyers average ST. per gay.
Minneapolis, Mimi. boasts OF Dies
makers Union with large H1eioe
ship. ,a
The averages. wages OF pianefS s'-'o
sawyers at Buffalo is 30 per DAY.
Carpenters Union .. OF san, fTa ls;n
Cal, has donated 500 to the stfif>'i's
men. aa.sdei7
TIE Government of Norway has decsa g,
IN INTRODUCE, the eight-hour day IN al
public institutions. -, rr,ion
The Bookbinders' Internatona ~
,e making. an effort to organize aie
men OF that craft THO
Paris store has 1900 enpioyes. 4no
smallest kettle IN its kitchen coil.ai "a
quarts and the largest 500 isacn a., ~ W.
roa st.no rans is big ero,sh TO- s 80
lets. Every disr for baking 2osaLoe 80 -. ,i,i
oes nn.,rss When nr,elets are o1.. 1r,r
=. so-e go e~~s a-e u.ed - rhee.
cooking alone 50 cooks ana loo
are always ct the ranges
There are 100000 men n Pruss'a ca
Ing less than Ell per year.
China has hot water peddiess.
Over 100 English iron and So .ei. mes
ars have received Decreases IN their WeesiS