Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27

into prominence, are NOT c0untenanceu
by the commissioners in lunacy Of Eng
land They state in their report that
the apparent increase is due almost
wholly to accumulations in the asylums
of the chronic insane.
| An English statistician maintains that
the daily increase of wealth in the United
States is upward Of $25, 600, 600, or about
&s38, 600, 900 a year, which is one-third
as much as the increase in wealth Of the
whole of the rest of the world. Eng
land, whose increase In wealth is next to
our own, makes only profit on all her
business of $500, 600. 600 a year, or but
a little over third of our own
Now York city has about completed
| improvements which will prevent any
future water famine in the city by add
ing 10000, 0G0 gallons of water day to
the Croton supply of 0S, 600. 900. This
extra water supply comes from Rye lake,
which is fed exclusively by springs. The
new reservoir covers an area of 900 acres.
From this an iron pipe, four feet in
diameter, is laid a distance of over
fifteen miles, connecting with the Gro
ton mains.
A Frenchman has sent circular to all
his friends asking why they cultivate
beard. Among the answers 8 stated,
because / wish to avoid shaving" 10
because do not wish to catch cold; !"
because Iwish to conceal bad teeth"
| l because / wish to conceal the length
of my nose;" because am soldier;'
81 'because was a soldier" So "be-
cause my wife likes it." % '.because nv
love likes it." 10 answered that they
wore no boards.
Among the needs of Mexico, ex-Gov-
ernor Rice is quoted as saying, are
convenient and modern hotels upon the
system now SO popular in the United
States. There is also needed machinery
for preparing the fibers of Mexico for the
manufacture of carpets, rope, mating,
and also paper. Thousands upon thou
sands of tons of fiber annually go to
waste in that country which could be
used here and in Europe for the manu-
facture of paper. 1t is SO abundant and
cheap that ere many years shall pass this
great industry will be one of the most
important, and furnish large part of
the material for the entire world.'
Many plucky engineers have crawled
down on the cowcatcher of their locomo-
tive as the machine was rushing along
at the rate of twenty miles an hour and
snatched child or a baby from certain
destruction beneath the ponderous
wheels of the iron horse, but none has
uof ~ ,,rnhoblx1 .rsI1 oxyor Loxya arro.v, +In
experience of Christoval Mendoza, an en-
| gineer on the Mexican railroad. The
other day, as the train to Mexico was
| nearing Jalapa. he discovered an old
beggar, 101 years old. on the track. The
old fellow being deaf and imbecile paid
no attention to the shrieks of the
whistle, so Christoval climbed down on
the cowcatcher and snatched the old
fellow, almost mummied with fright, up
into safe berth beside him, just as the
cruel monster was about to grind him
into a thousand fragments.
In an address delivered by Sir Rich
ard Temple on Economic Science and
! Statistics, before the British Association
at Montreal, it was stated that the pop
ulation of the British Empire consists of
SO, 600, 900 Anglo-Saxons, 1873, 900, 900
Hindoos, and SS,000,00 Mohamedans,
etc.-a total of 315, 100000. The area
of the Empire and its dependencies is
10, 600, 900 square miles. The annual rev.
enue is: United Kingdom, $50. 600, 900;
India STA, 900, 600; colonies and Deepen
denotes. G40, 600, 600; total, G264, O00,-
600. The number of trained soldiers is
$50, 600, OF whom about 700. 900 are of
the dominant race In addition. there
are $50, 900 policemen in the Empire.
The school attendance IS: United King
dom, 2, $50, 600; Canada, $50, 900; Aus
tralia, Gil, 900: India, 100000 q
total, in the Empire, of s, 921, 600 pupils.
Children usually demand sugar in large
quantities, and In some form it should
be given them. According TO the CuL-
tirGtOr there are few more agreeable or
healthful forms in which to secure it
| than in fruit, and especially in good,
sweet apples. An abundance of sweet
apples, ripe and luscious, should be had
in every household where there are chill
dren Prepared in various ways they are
| important in the dietary of the whole
family. They supply sugar in pure
form. Baked with cream they are delici-
GUS Few breakfast dishes are superior
to slices Of sweet apples fried In butter.
Cut the slices across the apple, leaving
| the skin on, and cutting out the core.
This dish will take the place of meats
| for two or three DAYS in the week. Few
fruits have in them as many elements for