The Portland daily press., 1900-11-21
ODDITIES OF OUR EXPORTS.
Unexpected Features Of Our Trade with
Other Lands.
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There Is no civilized land in the world,
and few savage ones where evidences of
American ingenuity and skill do not con-
front the traveller on every side. Up In
the'north OF Sweden trains or reindeer
are drawing American wood-cutting
machinery to points not far distant from
the North Cape. The machinery has to
be hauled over hundreds of miles over
the plains of snow, but the shrewd
Swedish iumbermen have found that Its
use almost doubles their profits, Again
Puntas Arenas in Terra del Fuego Is the
most southerly continental spot on the
globe. The important lighthouse there
is equipped with electric machinery man.
ufactured within a few hundred miles OF
New York city.
Some of the schemes devised by the en-
terprising Yankee are 50 daring that they
might have been almost sacriligeous In a
less practical age. A large consignment
OF steel pumps was lately shipped TO the
East. Their destination was the Jor-
dan. Formerly pilgrims with an eye to
the main chance had found 1t profitable
to secure oalabashes of water from the
sacred river and sell their contents to
churches and converts to be ussd as holy
water. A wideawake American saw his
opportunity. He devised steam pump
OF convenient size, q number of which
were set up at suitable points along the
banks of the Jordan. The result WAS a
profitable business in retailing to the
churches all over Europe.
Again, American devices are finding
their way into the Vatican itself. The
sovereign pontiff mas recently been our
customer for a hashlight app aratus,
which stands by his couch, and can be
ignited at any moment during the night
by pressing button.
Tradition has assigned to Bagdad the
honor of producing the most celebrated OF
lamps. But a New York house has super
seded Aladdin and his Renii. The
Tampa are OF fancituI pattern and ars
decorated with devices often more pleas
Ing to the eye OF the Oriental than the
morals OF the ascetic. They are OF simple
design. operating without chimney. or
the principle of the blast furnace. They
are conveyed TO polnt On tno Tersiah
Gulf, from whence they are hauled over
some 300 miles OF desert on camel back.
They are then transferred to RATS and
towed a hundred miles up the Euphrates,
where they are again loaded on oameis,
which convey them to their destination
300 miles from the river. These lamps art
quite the thing in the Orient. Among
the residences that they decorate ars the
palaces of the Sultan of Morocco, the
Prince of Siam snd several rajahs IN
! British India. They are also popular In
| Jerusalem,
In India, too, 1t looks as though st nj
distant date the punka will be a thing of
the past, and the punka walia seeking q
new job. A demand for electric fans o.
! American manufacture has arisen among
the more up to-date OF the native princes
little Sultan in Borneo in particuial
having laid in q considerable supply
The torrld climate of India opens up {
number OF possibilities to the enterpris
| ing trader. A few soda fountains hays
recently been shipped to Calcutta ex
psrimentally, and IL is thought con
siderable trade in this typical American
article may ensue, Ice piacts, too, hav'
been shipped 70 various parts OF the coun