Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — The Production of Mercury. [ARTICLE]

The Production of Mercury.

The production of mercury reaches about 53,030 to 60,000 frascos per annum. The frascos are enormous bottles of cast iron, which contain four arrobes of about twenty-five pounds eaoh. Each bottle, which measures twenty-two centimeters in height by six in width, weighs, when filled, about 100 pounds. The workmen ut present employed number about 2,000. There are also 1,000 workmen who are employed out of the mineswith machinery, furnaces, transports and other works.—[Chicago Herald. The Vast-Dying Hawailaus. HThe natives of Hawaiia are supposed to be of the Malay race. At the time of Captain Cook, the discoverer of the Sandwich Islands, it is thought that thepopulation was about 800.000. War and) disease, the comitants of civilization, have reduced the population, until thecensus of 1830 showed a total of 89,990,. of which but 84,486 were of theaboriginal race. It is l>clieved that they were originally cannibals. Except for this feature, they seem to hava bad man; excellent traits.