Business Brevities

Phonographic clocks utter the hour. A good imitation of linen writing paper is now made from wood pulp. Boston brown bread is made of rye and corn meal, in the proportion of 1 to 2. A spring of good water on a claim in Oklahoma adds 500 to the value of the claim. Michigan produces one-fifth of the iron of this country, 9,000,000 tons a year. A Londou syndicate is to advance ! the necessary funds for a world's fair ! in Montreal in 1896. It is estimated that the London banks have money to the amount of $1.150,000,000 loeked up at the present time. Considerable experimenting s done in England at the present time on bamboo bicycles. A wheel complete of this material weighs twenty-two pounds. Oregon's salmón fisheries produce about 600,000 cases a year, and its wool clip exceeds 16,000,000 pounds. There are 25,000 square miles of pine forests, and the annual gold yield exceeds SI, 000,000.