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Show and refimeii a large (juantity it was unable un-able to handle. There are 0100 men now employed by the t'rumpn, ami the weekly pay roll average i(l,(,iK. In a lew month this force will be incraitid to twice in present proportions. Id order to work tho yard to iti full rapacity on the four lari'e naval veaaeU now being built. The United Stales ii exporting; more steal raila every year. During liio ten months emting April ol), ln'.iu, the total exporta were 8,0.'io tons, at a valuation of $.'7'i,l7. or an average of $;4.o'l per tun. During tho ten mouths ending April .')l, then were exported lt.-lbll lt.-lbll ttuii, at a valtiafioQ of $'il7,.')Nl, an aierago priee of $;i4.12 per ton. Hrlef Leber Notes, Chicago lathers won. England eats Australian fruit. Oil fuel is uaud on las steamers. Cincinnati has women carpenters. Krupp claims the biggest roiling mill. Boston dwelling have electrie elevators. eleva-tors. The Iron Moulder's union is S3 years old. Miisoula, Montana, laborer struck far 33.50. Krupp will put up a gun foundry in China. Durand, Michigan, hod carrier struck for $1.50. Three hundred PitUburg cloak-tunkers cloak-tunkers are out. Women bod e3rriers in Austiu get Iwenty cents a day. The New York houoesmith' union bas 4,00 members. Mechanic head tiei list as inventors, then comes clergymen. Cigar made by Chinese in San Fran-eisco Fran-eisco are labeled Key West. San Jose, California, granite cutters refused to work on stor.a from a nonunion non-union quarry. Kansas City cable car hands struck because prominent union men were discharged. dis-charged. The large Cooke locomotive works of Paterson, employing 1,000 men, h,ae el used down. An electric railway between Ashe-rille, Ashe-rille, N. C, and lictlierforlen will be (ortry-one miles long. A three hundred and twenty-live foot britlge at Dallas, Oregon, was built in twenty four hours. Lowell stone masons won their strike lor nine hours, eight on Saturday, ami la.oO as the lowest pay. Ypsilanti (Mich), woolen mill owners lue hands ''5 cents for talking, and the nilis run on holidays. South Dakota now has tiie largest irtesian well in the world. It shoots irater HO foet from the surface. A number of short railways have been milt in Paraguay, the government as-listing as-listing largely in thoir construction. Tho San Francisco Typographical nn-on nn-on talks of assessing each member $" 10 send unemployed meu out of tint tity. The Cigarmnkers' International un-,011 un-,011 has disbursed $l,'!i,?o5 since 17. The increase in membership the past fer was 70119. It is stated on good authority that jver one-fourth of the slrcet railroads now operated in the United States u.se llectricity for motive power. Alabama has just shipped her first ' train load of largo- east iron pipe ever liailo in the state, H was shipped to Baltimore by the Howard Harrison Iron sompany of r.esseiiior. D"troit railroaders want ten hours.18 Mils an hour for conductors. 17 for Inters. 81.51 a day for hostiors,8 cents in hour for overtime and one and one-ihird one-ihird pay for Sunday work. The great Maryland fruit cBuneries re receiving more tin all fruits than ihi'.v rati handle. One factory at West tuuislcr has packed ten tuns of cherries it u |