Show WORLD OF LABOR c Russia has 1500 physicians I I Washington has 414 lumber mills ft I 6 Oreengines automobile Paris has cutomoblefrecpglnes I has 4000000 quinine trees Bengal ha 400000 I a S 7 C Mississippi has 26433 wageworkers Isslsalppl o Cuba has a COOOOucrc sugar plunla I ton 4 Q I are appearing In Sugar plantations are C Mexico Kansas farmers are feeding wheat to 11 thoir cattle > I C f 0 Four New York banks control 500 j I 000000 deposits > 0000 t I since 49 has output Californias gold been 1350000000 I I t all the sulphur Italy furnishes nearly al Iah used In the world a a COil OH prospectors In Missouri are preparing I pre-paring to bore 3000 o < et pioneers In Alaska In A good many hunting gold strike coal huntng C I Cranberries are grown In bogs that I cost from 300 to 500 an acre o 0 Luke Seamens union liaa recently I Increased wages 25 cents a day all around 4 I C The great rush of work In Western or packinghouses Is making labor scarce I In many Western towns I a California Utah Colorado and a part of Arizona produce about all the American Amer-ican honey that Is sold abroad il U In France they have Invented l a surgical sur-gical sewing machine which will mend rent In the human skin at a rapid rate a v a A great business is being built up In shipping California redwood to Central Cen-tral and South America and the Orient u 1 The vehicle and Implement industry of the United States manufactures 400000000 worth I year and I employs 200000 men I S Cheap Texas oil has started a project pro-ject looking to the establishment In Texas of a chain of textile mills involving in-volving the outlay of 2000000 S 0 The delegates to the miscellaneous trades section of the New York Central Cen-tral Federated union enjoy themselves once a year nt a banquet o o e Bricklayers ages in Phoenix Arz are 62t cents per hour on account of the short time they arc able to work because of the Intense heat I I France had a tremendous yield of wine last year and this Last year 1600000000 gallons this year as much I Wholesale Ion prices 10 to S cents per gal G C China has Imported this year more I bottles of beer from Germany than any other country In the world The presence of the German army is held in part responsible for this S o St Louis beer brewers have agents abroad establishing permanent selling agencies for beer In Honolulu Yokohama Yoko-hama Kobe Shanghai Hongkong Bombay Calcutta and ManilaS Manila-S o a Greenland and Iceland have the better bet-ter of us In the way of trade Last year we imported goods from those two countries to the value of 82533 and sold them only 520 worth In return S 0 5 < < The Glass Bottle Blowers association of the United States has succeeded hi organizing 1400 workers and Increasing their wages 50 per cent In New Jersey There are now only two nonunion concerns con-cerns In that StateS State-S S S The Bordentown N J trolley company com-pany Is suing I Bohemian truck farmer at New Egypt I for the larceny of Its electric current The farmer had Ingeniously In-geniously tapped the wire conveying the current from the powerhouse and was utilizing It to stimulate the growth of vegetables S o A square foot of the best Persian rug Is worth about 10 and it takes a single weaver lent three days to complete It This allows the weaver about 41 cents a day for her wool and her labor but threefourths of this amount goes to pay for the wool Only 1 cents a day is left for the weaver ova New York savings banks presidents announce that the prevailing 4 per cent rate of interest cannot be maintained and will have to drop to 3Vj to which figure many banks reduced their interest Inter-est some time ago A reduction of one half of 1 per cent seems small but it will cost the 2000000 of New York sat ingsbank depositors a loss on their aggregate deposits of over 900000000 of about 4600000 a year S I The druggist on the next corner charges 10 cents for a dozen twograin capsules of quinine The one In the middle of the block charges 7 cents Both are cutrate houses Now lets see An ounce of quinine costs the dealer deal-er 31 cents Each ounce contains ISO grains sufficient for 210 twograin capsules or twenty dozen sold over the counter for 140 to 2 Capsules cost 20 cents a pound and there are enough I In n pound to contain many ounces of quinine rime quinine the druggist sells for 2 costs him capsules Included 32 cents He Is making therefore a profit of over 500 per cent on what Is actually a household necessity New York Press C S S The French Government bill on miners pensions which was recently presented to the Chamber amends the law of 1S91 1 1 by granting a state subsidy so that during the transitional period 0 pension may reach 300 francs Eighteen Eight-een thousand miners would benefit by this arrangement The subsidy will be met out of the price of mining concessions con-cessions thc miners themselves and thc companies will contribute their quotas With regard to the demands made by the miners for the constitution of n legal eighthour working day throughout through-out the country the Temps of Paris endeavors to show that the mens best Interests would not be well served by such a measure At present the miners of the departments J of the Nord and the Pas de Calais remain In the pits about nine and a quarter hours on an average In the Loire thc stay la betwoen nine and nine and a quarter hours on an average and In the Card It varies from ten and a quarter to ten and onehalf hours The time for getting to thc works and the stop for the midday meal are Included In thc event of the eight hours being made legal thc reduction demanded by the Miners federation would not apply to these periods but to the time of actual work |