Show THE LABOR WORLD S Echoes from the Workshop and the Busy Mill INDUSTRIOUS PEOPLES GOSSIP sews and Happenings of Special teret in the Various Fields of the Mechanic aud Artisan V From the Philadelphia Record America makes 35000 watches every week V The 23030 newspapers in America em I ploy 200000 men There are nearly three thousand stitches in a pair of boots I V Up to June 1200 miles of railroad had been built this year The utilization of wood pulp has taken come new and interesting forms The most costly of the metals is didy V nium which sells at 4500 a pound V In Saxony about 70 per cent of the workingmen V work-ingmen earn less than 150 per year 55 In Whitechapel London Hebrew bakers V V work ninety hours for 375 per week V A contrivance fcr removing the hair by 7 V machinery has boon invented by a Frenchman f t French-man h C The great difficulty both in ballooning and aeration ia to get a sufficiently light t motor The men employed in a Michigan basket V V V factory make a grape basket apiece each i minute fi f V The lockedout men at Homestead have f I VS V received 10000 Iron the Amalgamated 1 association 7gV The world consumes 3000000000 pounds of paper per year and is supplied by 4500 x paper mills t V M nM 5A5 nut uuiuiu viuuvJ uaa i 54S cuuLiuiuj lugs ua been brought to SagInaw from the Georgian i Bay country 1 All the employees of the eleyated railroads rail-roads in New York city are said to receive their pay in gold In the United States there are about I it 40000 oil wells the dally output of which 330000 barrels Fourfifths of tho engines now working in the world have bean constructed during the last twentyfirs years V Copper plate engravingiwas first done in I S 1511 wood engraving in 1799 etching on V metal with acid in 1513 The art of stereotyping was Invented by a Frenchman Dldot in 1793 and was first V5 brought to America is IS 13 Organized labor of Indiana has boycotted the state lair as nonunion workmen ware employed on the buildings The land in Germany devoted to the production 4V V pro-duction of grains need in the manufacture b of beer would support 50000900 people tAll t-All congressesand conventions of labor V organizations in Germany this fall have been postponed on account of the cholera S I V Teak timber now being used so extensively exten-sively that In leee thanten years the create cr-eate of Burmah and Siam will be practically practi-cally exhausted a t The Corinthian structure occupied by the 2 postofSoe departBaeot at Washington was SS thirteen yean IB building and represents > S2ia > 000 of the peoples money 1 V Af Llese about 40000 peraons are employed S em-ployed in the manufacture of arms Dur S Q J ing recent years it is said that the productions produc-tions of Liege have diminished in prestige A rapidly revolving brush which gets its motive power through a flexible tube attached at-tached to a small eitetrio motor has been found to operate practically in the grooming of horses Hot Springs Ark reported as being a thorough union town all workmen there being members oflabor organizations and mocv of them own the houses in which they live It is stated that a German firm has perfected per-fected a means of utilizing sawdust by treating it with an acid and pressing it into blocks which are said to be excellent building i build-ing material Tho cost of raw material in a watch is in flhitesmal 9999 per cent of the cost of production is paid to labor Five cents worth of steel wrought into hairsprings would be worth 150000 Nearly five hundred women are employed em-ployed in the administration of railways in France The ticketsellers are most all women and their wages are half of what the men receive though their ivorkistne same French statisticians have elicited the fact that of 1000 children born of women working work-ing in factories 195 die before attaining live years of ago while of 1DOO born of women working at home only 152 die Tho amount of coloring matter in a pound of coal is enormous It will yield enough magenta to cover 500 yards of flannel vermilion for 2560 yards aur ine for 120 yards and alizarine sufficient for 155 yards of turkey red cloth The official statement hasbeen made that in 1891 there was produced in France 603033000 gallons of wine France has in round numbers about 35000000 of inhabitants inhabi-tants which would give an average of nearly nineteen gallons of wine to each inhabitant in-habitant provided all were consumed at home In twentytwo of the largest cities In the United States 17427 women who are working work-ing for a living were questioned by government govern-ment agents Of tbese ISJJSS are single and their average age is twentytwo years and seven months They represent 343 vocations and their average wages area 551 are-a week A partial census in 18S6 showed the average wages to be 495 |