The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-09-14

tie United States and operates under
the name Of Yankee House" the
Spanish address being "casa Ianqui,
liQ7 calle Palma.
According 10 iigures presented 70 tne
dnstitute q flectrical Engineers the
Enet ayiug oyer steam ~ we Use q
citS on tie railfoad Ok the init
aysfage nile siich
jf ppiied the entire railroad sys.
tenn, wculd eRect saving ot 1885,:
100000 per annum S3S
"A s25.0OOi000 coop alive restapr.
ant and hotel supply company is being
Organized At Montreal. II q prop osed
to operate branches in the large cities
of the United States and Canada. A
monster cold storage warehouse Is to
be built in New York II the scheme
works successfully IN Montreal,
The great difficulty Of having no con.
yenient monetary unit In the German
colony Of Kiaochow, China, has been
done away with by the Issue Of 81,
3s5. $40, s25 and $50 notes by the
Deutsch Astahsche bank. Shanghai
and Hong Kong paper was at such q
discount in Tsingtau that the Mexican
dollar was practically the only med.
iun Of exchange.
q Consul II. A. conant, Of Windsor,
Canada, reports that the average an
ndal salary for male teachers in the
Dominion is 1886, while the female
teachers receive s245. The highest
salaries are paid in British Columbia,
the men receiving sG77 and the wo-
men $3.50. The lowest salaries are
paid to the male teachers in the Pro.
vince of Prince Edward 1slanl where
they receive s24G, while in the Pro
vince Of Quebec the female teachers
receive the least pay. $13S.
Wages in Great Britain average much
higher than they do on the Continent,
and in France and Germany wages are
higher than in Italy, Spain Or Aus.
tria. The District Court at Carlsbad,
Austria, recently fixed the daily wages
Of laborers Of both sexes for the years
1907, 1908 and 1909 as follows; Males
-foremen, 60 cents a day; others, 4oi
cents, and apprentices and boys, 20.
cents. Females-adults, 2S cents, and
Juveniles, IS cents. Servants Of the
State, 4S cents, except servants Of the
post and telegraph, who receive AZ
cents.
From time to time Jumps Of butter
are dug out Of the Irish boys, and spec
linens of it may be seen in various mu.
seums. A chemical examination has
recently been made Of a sample Of such
butter, which was found four feet be.
low the surface Of bog at Maghery,
County Tyrone. The. original lump,
which weighted about twenty pounds,
Us probably some centuries old and 1t
Is. suggested that 1t had been put into
peat water to preserve it or to give
LIT a flavor and had been forgotten. Yet
SO efectually had the fat been pre-
served by the peat water that It still
RETAINED many Of the chemical char
Iacteristics Of butter fat, though its ap.
Epearance had greatly changed.
Why banks should open at 10 a. m.
and close at 8 p. m. we never knew,
but there is reason for 1t" and the
reason why banking hours are so abb
breviated has recently been most salts
factorily explained, as per the follow.
ling: "a long time back the Bank of
England discovered that mathematical
errors of the clerks were at mini
mum In the early morning hours, put
progressively increased as fatigue oc-
cured. The worst time was in the
late afternoon and there was SO much
money loss, due to errors at that time,
that, as matter of economy, the
clerks were forbidden to work after a
certain hour, which, we understand,
was 8 o'clock. In France the same law
Of sequence was brought to light, as
was to be e; pected."
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