Show ORJiOF LABQR i Echoes from the r Workshop and the Busy Mill 1 INDUSTRIOUS PEOPLES GOSSIP News and Happening of Special Interest In the Various fields of the Mechanic and Artisan PIttsburg has a 36000 saw Switzerland is i building its first sugar factory RUbbertired omnibuses will be tried in London Fast Bailing yachts will be built of aluminum alum-Inum Natural gas has been struck near Ma troon Ills German cavalry horses are to be shod with paper shoes The Japanese government is about to build 800 miles of railroad There are nearly 200000 miles of railroad In the United States Mays Landing N J cotton mills are idle owing to the drought Boise City Idaho is to be heated by hot water from an adjacent spring An effort is being made to organize the teamsters into a national union o New York is responsible for the manufacture manu-facture of 2000000000 cigarettes a year Russias woolen Industries employ 5000 Carpet manufactures employ SOOThe SOO-The Carpenters union of San Francisco builds dwellings for members without charge > The efficiency of the worlds steam engines en-gines is calculated by some to be 20OuO000 horse power The late unpleasantness between the Car ucgies and their employees cost the state over 200000 A New Yorker has made a clock which contains 81000 pieces of wood comprising about 325 varieties The man wHo discovered that a rubber tip is the proper caper on the end of a lead pencil made a clear SJOOOOO It is said that over 1000000 workmen in Germany remain unmarried because they cannot support a family Most of the SlOJO realized bv the picnic of the Cleveland Central Labor union bas been donated to the men in Homestead Sheet iron kites to enable a vessel when in distress during a storm to communicate with tho shore have been suggested The corner stone of tho national capitol was iam in i < tn ana toe structure mnsnea I during the civil war It cost over UOOO 000Only I Only a few years ago there was not a I mile of telegraph line in the Chinese em pine today there is more than enough tc I girdle the earth A German firm is producing building blocKs made from sawdust and acid They are hard light practically noncombustible and cheap The organized railroad employes of France have demanded that men having served twenty years service raceva R pan don amounting to onehalf of their salary Tbo famous Treadwell mine in Alasca which has yielded more than 3000000 in gold bullion was purchased by the man for whom it was named for 300 At Bath Me copper workers took n small cooper cent and hammered it into a miniature teakettle The words one cent oc upy all the space on the bottom A recent test of the brick made bv tho dry clay process at the Walertown Arsenal senal showed an average compressive strength of 3973 pounds per square inch A street car in Fitchburg fitted with steel ball bearings as an experiment has been run for several months without being oiled since it was iirat put in service In the last thirty years English engineers have built 100000 miles of railroad at a cost of 1800000 In various quarters of the globe the capital being found in most cases by English companies The latest form of steamship propeller is an English invention It ia designed so that when in motion there is no weight of water on the blades on the rise aud fall of the propeller due to the pitching of the vessel A new method of quickly rendering glass transparent during tho process of manufacture consists in forcing into the melted materials a stream of oxygen gas the enormous heat generated oxidizing all deleterious materials Kewanee Ills has a new malleable ironworks iron-works 100x300 feot built of iron The boiler works at Kewanee are being on larged the addition covering 25000 square feet The town has 6000 inhabitants and is full of industrial life One of the latest applications of electricity electric-ity to mining operations is seon in the Metternich lead mine in Belgium Each bucket arriving at the top of the shaft makes an electric contact and a needle in the office indicates by a red line upon a revolving re-volving drum the number of buckets brought up |