Show IN l WORLD OF LABOR Persia hasnt a railroad Unclo Sam has fiftyseven frog farms Paris has 2X bicycle policemen Thereare 112 unions of musicians a u Edinburgh has no Sunday street cars a a o East Tennessee hna several zinc mines u Grand Rapids has a consumers league i H Now Hampshires annual shoe output 5230COOOO The clove supply of the world Ic produced pro-duced on tho Islands of Zanzibar and Porn ba Texas has 20CC0772 acres of unimproved land C L Sweden has hollow steel sphere billiard balls fl a c o French railways transport wine In bulk in lank cars it i a Wo supply fourllilhs of iho worlds colton a a il Russia exports 3000000000 eggs a year LI U 1 Now York dockbulldcrs want 3 for clghi hours Gorman mplro has 0000000 workers SOOOGO unionists S Electric railway trains will run from Chicago to Milwaukee In three hours next year O A Now York mail carriers I will hold a State convention a An electrical process for smelling Iron ore luau had a trial I on tin extended scale in Italy o o A thousand dollars an acre may ho taken out of a patch of strawberries In si i KtMUon of flvo months labor This sounds llko a fairy tale but It Is just what bus been done for the last thirty years by Henry Jcrolnmnn of Hilton N J O 4 In New York sandwich men who carry advertisements along streets and avenues contemplate organizing a union Tluy nro paid from l a L day upward They complain that others are crowding Into time field who offer to do the same work for lo cents a day ii Now York locil unions Nos 61 310 3S2 173 03 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Car-penters and Joiners have been suspended by tho general cxocutlvo board of the Brotherhood for violation of Us constitution consti-tution a i The general slrlko of the members of Brooklyn ElectrIcal Workers union No 3 for an lncrcu > cd wage scale of M I a day has not yet been abandoned by the union Columbia unIversity has adopted the eighthour system In the boiler and electrical elec-trical departments of thu university Both departments are kept working day und Ulght and the twentyfour men employed em-ployed have been kepi al work twelve hours each When Prosldenl Low learned that such wns tile case ho ordered the men placed on eighthour shifts without any reduction In pay Ho also ordered tho force increased onethird at once u The boot and shoemakers unions of the Pacific coast hno started another crusado ngnlnst Mongolian labor and In favor of homo Industry u The old merchantman typo of frclght carrying ships may bo said lo ba passing out of use j t i Electricity has just been applied lo the making of cigarettes and cut tobacco with tlc result that l OCCO cigarettes were protlulicd and 5COO pounds ot cut tobacco wcrceiinsumed In one minute Hundreds of hand workers will be displaced c a jOn j-On a recent Sunday 700000 Socialist leallpts were scattered over Berlin and I Its suburbs 4 a J The Toklo Labor World says that thc fncldry system of Japan Is simply a slaughteringhouse of Human beings I ° Managers of New York Hebrew theaters have organized They Avlll not employ union actors and the scab of wages will range from 11 to 2S a week b S Minneapolis Central union is opposed lo crselllng at Sunday picnics se Kansas girls In mens attire In the harvest har-vest Held earn 150 and 2 a day at light work driving a header box collecting wheat < a t A reception was given by tile Womans club of Denver for the purpose of showing show-ing vhnt articles of use and luxury nro imuiufnclurcd In that city and to stimulate stimu-late homo Industry Harvesting Is a peculiar thing to delay work on the noy Denver mint buIlding but this according to Contractor Mc Inlyre Is responsible for the loss of much valuable time and will delay completion at least till September 1st Men work hug the grnnlto quarries bind linycutting cooler work than drilling In stone said Mr Mcintyre and I havo to keep up 1 competition with farmers nowadays to keep going u For miles along the Pennsylvania railroad rail-road tracks and for many miles In other localities llioro stretch long lines of coko furnaces blazing ui Into the night all I through lie year Above each oven top the blames burn fiercely billions of horsepower horse-power In tile uhnoo of heal going lo waste absolutely With proper management manage-ment thoso ovens could be located near r great cities the hcnt now wasted could generate power for street cars or public heating or other useful purposes and 1 the cost of hivIng be reduced to millions of families Beyond the coke ovens on that same railroad you will often sec burning some huge pile of logs wornout rnUrond tics Hint nro of no use and must he got rid of Rolling by the lire hour after hour uro long trains of amply frelghl cars going to tnkc on loads Thc o empty cars could lake tho huge logs to tile cllles In winter How manv poor families could thus bo kepi wnnn cheaply cheap-ly I All over tho country this summer thousands of tons of fruits anti vegetables will rot on Hie ground because It docs not pay lo send them to town There arc empty cars rolling past the wasted orchards orch-ards anti If no oinply cars arc there car could easily bo hud How simple It 1 would ue to carry the wasted giftS ot I God to tin pcoplo who need them New York Evening Journal a Liquids can be automatically measured by a new faucet |