Show INDOSTSIAIr AND BJSINESS Good apples are seeing In Maine at 5L25 a barrel I The trade value of the bridle bits 6f the country is estimated at more than 6500000 Boston shoe shipments are 00000 cases ahead of what they were at this date last year The total number of hogs packed in the United States during the year ended March 1st was 1L2G3I67 e The 0030 traveling salesman of this country cost about 9200000UOO a year including about t 120000000 for expenses alone Toronto master carpenters have offered of-fered to give workmen 4 cents an hour increase and nine hours a day after July 1st Toronto Globe Capitalists of London and Charleston have subscribed 12000000 with which to build furnaces in a new iron district twelve miles from Birmingham Ala Nearly 2000000000 Would be due Nearlf were all insured Americans to die at once Nearly 1000000000 have already been paid on death losses in the United States I An inventive genius in Chapinville Conn is said to have had a wagon so 1 constructed that a crank connected with the rear axle is made to churn butter but-ter during his daily drives I For the season the total shipment of apples from all American ports has been 05848 barrels Last season the total shipment was 740773 This seasons shipment is not yet furnished Sugar cultivatoohas been initiated et hundred i Southern Florida Over too acres have been prepared for the planting plant-ing of the cane near Kissimmee City I where a sugar factory will be erected New England farmers complain that the price ot eggs has not been so low for a quarter of a century It is doubUul whether there will be a protitin importing import-ing eggs from Holland this year Various processes have been brought forward for producing a satisfactory substitute for the ordinary wooden pail and the most successful effort in this direction appears to have been accomplished accom-plished with paper pulp The English government proposes to I try experiments in tobacco cultivation in England with the hope of raising as I good if not a better article than that grown in this country According to the opinion of experts there is small chance of success Lumber dealers say that the collapse of rollerskating left larce quantities of boxwood on their hands without a market The various processes of photoengraving photo-engraving upon metal surface have further reduced the former demand of engravers for boxwood which is becoming be-coming cheaper Charles Godshaw a Louisvilleman has invented a new bottle for beer champagne and other effervescent liquors which he claims does away with extra fastening for the cork The hole for the cork is in the side of the neck of the bottle and there is no opening at the top The harder the gas pushes the faster the cork stays says the inventor An interesting experiment in distributive distribu-tive cooperation is about to be instituted insti-tuted in St Louis A large manufacturing manufac-turing firm there invites its employees to join in testing the usefulness of a retail re-tail cooperative store The firm proposes pro-poses to furnish the room and buy the first stock of goods The employees asked to select managers and control the store themselves All business is to be on a cash basis It is i said that the use of natural gas at Pittsburg Penn for manufacturing purposes is so general as to remove from the city its dirty and smoky appearance Instead of smoke pouring fourth in clouds the sky is clear The gas costs 20 percent less than coal Tie profits of the business are immense One company com-pany bas a capital of t5 000000 invested and its revenue is 1500000 a year affording af-fording dividends of 1 per cent per month while a great surplus is being heaped up Some wells have been yielding gas for fifteen or twentyfive years and are still supplying all that is required from them |