Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31

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Peoria, ILL.,, has 10S unions.
Mexico has 1876 cotton mills.
California has rs acres OF hops
: minneapolis servant girls union is
thriving.
louisiana boasts white blackber-
ries and green roses!
The output of gold from the Alaska
placer claims continues to increase.
Paris has sixty wholesale firms
which deal in mushrooms exclusively.
The railways in this country sup
port about 4,000, 900 persons and their
families.
Before the war the mines in South
Africa gave work to between $4,000
and 10000 men.
All the conductors of the Brook
field, Mass. trolley line have been ap-
pointed as special officers.
The mineral output of Canada for
1899 was placed at s37 ,00o, 900, OF which
$21 ,019 600 was gold.
Several dentists were included in
the medical corps which followed the
German army to China.
A rubber tree four feet in diameter
yields 20 gallons OF sap, making 40
pounds of dried rubber.
The British government has spent
$SS0,000 buying supplies in Canada for
its army in South Africa.
New York is to have the first Chin
ese newspaper published in the Unit
ed States east Of the Pacific slope.
A telegram of twelve words is sent
to any part in New Zealand by SIM
ply affixing to it a Cd. stamp--twelve
cents.
Dresden is to have. in 1903, Getty
exhibition" at which all German
towns of over $4,000 inhabitants are to
be represented.
The Carpenters and Joiners' Union
of America has $4,000 active workers
in its membership and reserve fund
OF more than 81 900, 900.
In Scotland all licensed premises, ex-
cept hotels, are closed Sundays, and
one must be at least technically "a
traveller" before he can obtain liquor.
The United States leads all other
nations in the matter of fruit grow
ing. Strawberries were valued at $780,
100000 last year and grapes at $780,
100000.
One woman to every ten men work
ed for wages fifty years ago, but now
the ratio is one to four. If the in
crease continues for fifty years more,
what will the men be doing
The total number Of copies of news
papers printed throughout the world
in one year is estimated at 10000 ,000,
600. 70 print these requires ISL ,260
tons Of paper The oldest newspaper
is said to be the KinPau, of Pekin,
which has been published continually
for over one thousand years.
For some time the corporation of
Glasgow has taken comparatively
small sums of money on deposit, and
the experiment has worked well. En-
boldened by the success, the progress
sive element of the city council pro-
posd that banking should be added
to the municipal undertakings.
In the face of all the theories Of po-
litical parties. their platforms and
their mighty struggles, the only pro-
gress that has been made in the i'm
provement of the condition of the
working people has been brought about
solely and alone by the trade union
acknowledgement
When the British Federation enter
ed upon its existence 1t was composed
of "A unions with an aggregate mem
bership of 343 900. During the twelve
months that have elapsed, II unions,
with $500 members, have been re-
cruited and two unions with 1880
members have been excluded. Thus 1t
appears that the Federation on its
first birthday consisted OF So unions,
embracing 377,729 members.
The traveller in China who pays
from one to three cents per day to a
number of coolies to tote him several
hundreds of miles across the desert,
pays an extravagant price for the
transit, as compared with the man who
boards a limited train in New York
city for San Francisco, which is oper-
ated by an engineer, fireman, conduc-
tor and brakeman, whose salaries
range from SIS to $50 per month.
In the windowless basement room
Of an old mansion near the national
capitol in Washington, is mounted
the most delicate pair of scales in the
United States. They are part of the
equipment of the Treasury depart
ment's bureau of weights and meas
ures which is attached to the coast
survey. So delicate are these scales
that they will weigh accurately ten
millioneth part of a gram. They are
so sensitive that the warmth given off
by the body of a person approaching
them near enough to open the glass
case or to shift the weights, would
expand the balance arms and produce
an appreciable error in the re-
suits Therefore they have been so
constructed that they may be operated
at a distance of twenty feet The
readings are made through small
telescope. -
The farmers of New Zealand have
organized a cooperative union. which
has grown into almost the dimensions
OF department store-including gro
ceries, tools. machinery, dry goods.
medicines, harness, bakery, etc. Their
store covers nearly half a block. AS
sample of what this union has done
for them I might mention that bread,
which formerly sold for four cents
pound, has been reduced by the union
to- two and one-half cents. On this,
and all other business. there is hand
some profit. the shareholders receiv-
ing return of about 1--WE per cent on
all bills purchased, and an additional
dividend Of eight or cent O. Aety