Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1900-01-01
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Pittsburg is to have another glass
factory.
Chicago uses 4.oOo.Ooo,oo 600 pounds Of
Ice a year.
Germany has about $4,000 physi-
clans and surgeons.
The railroads OF the United States
employ $500 men.
Artificial ivory is made from borax
and skinned milk.
Missour's apple crop is estimated
at 100000 bushels.
Aluminium is now used for iireproof
curtains in theatres.
Two thousand saloons have been
opened in Cuba since the war.
The number of penniless men in the
Klondike is placed at 5000.
a good ironer in a London laundry
earns from 81 to $3.50 daily.
Women are employed as sailors in
Denmark, Norway and Finland.
giant reaping machine in Red
lands. Cal. cuts a swarth so feet wide
About seventeen thousand persons
are employed in iron mining in Eng
land.
Music boxes for bicycles are manu-
featured by a firm in Hamburg, Ger
many.
Cold is believed to exist in large
quantities throughout the Philippine
Islands.
American trade with Australia in
leather goods has quadrupled in FIVE
years.
In 1898 Great Britain mined 2O2.-
O42.OO tons of coal. The United States
mined 1876 2S2, 600 tons.
Wages are so low in Great Britain
that 100000 Of the population live in
one-room homes.
midas area OF wheat farms Is now
about twothirds as large as that Of
the United States.
The United States patent office
granted nearly twenty-five thousand
patents the last year.
The British navy owns sixty-two
docks. OF these sixty-one are OF stone.
The other is OF wood.
A considerable number of women
are sim engaged in the iron mines
and steel works in Germany.
The farmers throughout the United
States are anxiously waiting for an
automobile farm wagon.
The annual production OF cheese in
this country is about two hundred and
eighty million pounds.
five million acres OF forest at present
in the United States.
New York has about two hundred
horseless carriages, Philadelphia sew
enty-fye. and Chicago nearly as many
AT the present rate OF increase the
United States will have in 1900 about
one hundred and twenty-five thousand
physicians.
According to the prospectus of the
Cuban steel ore company. which has
been organized in Philadelphia, the
company proposes to open up two
groups Of iron mines forty-fiye miles
west of Santiago de Cuba and build 3
railroad ten miles long to connect th'
mines with the harbor of ChiviricO.
According to information contained
in a consular report, Germany ha!
eighteen factories in which locomo
tives are built. Fifteen Of these works
build large engines for railway lines
and the other three build nothing bu
7 small engines for light work. TIT
combined working foice Of theso fac
tories is $4,000 to 10000 nznds.
Q The movement in England by tn
various chambers Of commerce &
send British commercial agents Z
9 many parts OF the world to watc
h trade progress Of the competing cour
g tries and make suggestions towar
;. developing British trade is meetin
e with success. Four agents, accordin
n to the latest views of many of tn
c chambers. should be dispatched imm'
diately. One to Moscow to watch Rui
S sian developments, another to som
l. commercial centre in the norther
!. part OF China, where accurate inform;
a tion could be obtained as to what is b.
l. ing done by Germany and Russia; IN
4 third to investigate the newer cond
S tions that are arising in the Unite
n States, and the fourth should go {
d Japan.