The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-12-01
FIELD THE
WORK NGillAN.
Berlin has 5000 unemployed.
Paupers cost England s4z 0OO, Geo a year.

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Russia has 1900 physicians.
Washington has Al lumber mills.
Paris has automobile f;re-engtnes.
Bengal has l,0tr,00 squ.ninc trees.
Mississippi has 1b.f333 wage. workers.
Cuba has a SO. ooc-acre sugur plantation
Coal is cheaper III China inan anywhere
in the world.
More than per cent. Of the vessels
{ using the Suez canal navigate by night
Roumania is rapidly becoming one o.
the greatest wine-producing districts II
Europe.
Cotton growers have Melted >S40o. 900, oot
more for the past five crops Q901 croI
estimated) than for the previous five.
Haiti, situated in nearly the Same latt
tude as Cuba, will soon rival it In it:
production of fine grades of tobacco.
S:,gar plantlri.,ls are appearing in Next
Kansa farmers arc feeding wheat to
their cattle.
-Four New York banks control $500, odo, ooc
deposits.
California's gold output since 40 has
been sl,ss5o. o5o, COO
Italy furnishes nearly al, the sulphur
used in the world.
Oil prospectus in Missouri are pre-.
pairing to bore 2,cW feet.
a good many pioneers il Alaska, hunt
ing gold, strike coal
tranberries are grown il boys that cost
from 500 to $500 an acre.
Lake Seamen's Union has recently in
creased wages 35 cents q day all around.
Eleven million dollars worth Of bust
ness was transacted between Seattle and
Cape Nome this year..
The great rush of work in western
packing houses is making labor scarce
in many Western towns. =
California. Utah, Colorado and a part
of Arizona produce about all the Anleri-
can honey, that is sold abroad.
In France they have invented surgi-
cal sewing machine which will mend
rents in human skin at a rapid rate.
The German army authorities have ap-
propriatcd $50, tvv for motor carr ages fol
use in the approa ching maneuvres.
The new Mayor of Bridgeport, Conn.
is by trade a stOker, and at the time
or his election was receiving a salary of
$14 a week.
Dallas Texas) manufactures more
harness and saddles than any other city
II America, and, perhaps, than any Other
place in the world.
The Russian Government has announced
that persons found playing cards in a
railway carriage in any part of the Rus
sian Empire will be subject to heavy
penalties ~
Chicago outclasses all other large cities
in the number Of deaths from railroad
accidents. Its total for the census year
is 800, while the combined total for nine
other big cities is only 4S6.
Germany is beginning to object to the
number Of foreign students in her IN
versities and technical schools. The lat
ter have protested that something must
be done to keep foreigners out.
The American hop fields employ about
100000 men, women and children as pick
ers alone. for there are 100000 hop vines
to be stripped. and the crop in q good
season is worth s16.O0Q,000.
An American engineer has introduced
at Alexandria, Egypt, an arrangement ,t
holsters, by means of which 2,120 tons Il
coal may be unloaded in ten hours. and
vessels will save five days out of seven. +:
The Pallbearers' Union.s of Chicago. is
composed of sixty men who are steadily
in the employ of undertalars. The rev
union will establish a minl,uii!n scale CT
wages, which proposition, it IS r:DuTted.
the Undertakes Associaii IN regards with
favor.
An acre of land will give 1,so2 l''un"s of
rose petals, from which i've ounces .:
the altar may be distilled, aud this quail
tity has a market valuesof from Si5 to
SIS. The rosewater, a. by-product, amounts
of 800 gallons the acre, worth from 70
cents to 81 gallon.
A great business is being built up in
shipping California redwood to Central
and South America and. the Orient.
The vehicle and implement industry of
the United States manufactures SiOo, 100000
worth per year and employs 100000 men
The delegates to the MISCELLANEOUS
Trades Section OF the New York Central
Federated Union enjoy themselves once
year at a banquet.
Bricklayers' wages in Phoenix, Arizona,
are G. IL per hour on account of the
short time they are able to work because
OF intense heat.
Trance had a tremendous yield of wine
last year and this. Last year, 1,600. COO, 600
gallons. this year as much. Wholesale
prices 10 to 3 cents per gallon.
China has imported this year more bot
ties of beer from Germany than any 9TH
er country in the world. The presence of
the German army is held in part respon-
sble for this.
ST. Louis beer brewers have agents
abroad establishing permanent selling
agencies for beer in Honolulu, 1okoha-
ma, Kobe, Shanghai Hongkong, Bombay,
Calcutta and Manila.
Greenland and Iceland have the better
Of us in the way Of trade, Last year we
imported goods from those two coun-
tries to. the value of sS2.532 and sold them
only $500 worth in return
A square foot Of the best Persian rug
is worth about s1o and it takes a single
weaves twenty-three days to complete It.
This allows the weaver about A cents &
day for her wool and her labor, but
three ourths of this amount goes to pay
for the wool. Only II cents a day IS left
for the weaver.
New York savings Banks presidents an
nounce that the prevailing per cent. rate
of interest cannot be maintained and VIII
have 20 drop to 3311ss, to which figure many
banks reduced their interest some time
ago. a reduction of one-half Of | per
cent. seems small, but it will cost the two
millions of New York savings-bank de-
positorss a loss on their aggregate de-
posts Of over 5000, o,oOo of about s46oo,o0o
a year.
Fan River produces more than three
quarters. of all the print cloths made
in the United States. has one-seyenth
of all the spindles in the country and