Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1889 — ISDUSTRIAL ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

ISDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

A Canton (O.) watch firm employs 3,000 hands. England’s biggest ship has 14,000 hone power. Chinese control San Francisco broom manufactures. Retailers complain of foreigners running retail stores. They say twenty-five men will soon own all the railroads. Bakers averaged $8.20 in 1881 and average $12.75 in 1889. English metal works do not admit foreigners to their shops, Boston has a 1,423 pound leather belt 154 feet long and 42 inches wide. Greenville (Tex.) grocers were indicted for forming a coal oil trust. New York claims the best diamond cutters. They make $60 per week. The stream sent by a Hartford fire engine beats the world, going 348 feet. Hungary has cut railroad fares to 12 and 16 cents for fifteen and twenty miles.

The Italian cruiser Sardegena has the largest steam engine. It is four-triple expansion and has 25,0(5p horse power. They say Buenos Ayrek, Sonth America is a good plr.ee to settle. The streets are of granite. The police are Indians. Board costs $8 per day; coal, S2O per ton. It claims the finest driving park. If the coal cinders, when taken from the stove, are put in an old tub and cold water poured over them, in an hour yon will have nice clean cinders that will bum clear and good without the disagreeable trouble of sifting them. English Engineers’ Society—Rather than lose the day of eight hours we should be prepared to advise the accept aoce of a lesser wage for the time being, as the wages would soon return by the demand for a greater number of men.