Industrial Items

INDUSTRIAL ITEMS. George M. Pullman pays women as much as he pays men for the same work. The largest cotton mill in the world is  in Russia. It gives employment to 7,000 hands. There are 419 organizations within the Brotherhood of American Carpenters and Joiners. The average Mexican laborer supports his family on ten cents per diem, invested in corn and beans. A Cincinnati soap firm has jut distributed $14,000 among its 200 employes as their share of the year's profits. The largest wood alcohol works in the world are at Calera Ala. The weekly output is 20,000 bushels charcoal and 700 gallons of alcohol. Miss Ellen Bayard, youngest daughter of the secretary of state, is a Titian blonde, and will make a sensation when she enters society next year. Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes a good deal of her poetry while sitting in a rocking chair with a pad of paper in her lap. Very often, too, her black cat perches itself on the back of the chair and gazes gravely down at its mistress while her work is progressing.