Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-06
TIMELY TOPICS

TIMELl lUI IOCs
even those who are devotees Of
rev. Wheel" are aware OF the
b. 8. and variety of kinds of veloci-
sSnVe, bat have been patented in this
rdes The number of patents for
pgnn! des of all sorts, including sad
81, 81 4 about nine hundred. Of these,
dfs ,o i constitute the great majority, or
H. two-thirds of the whole.
.;.,;ca as TO the employment of
o II England show that, while
aol. an Of them are engaged In occu-
gam ans which reqsire no high degree Of
PSuon ,l,r development. 347 Of them are
ph.'miths. The number of female
b'' hors Il 1913, 99j. The blacksmith.
is1S1 !, anpcars. has no reason to view
i5a5 " alarm y the encroachments of
omen s,r into his shop.
Tho star of the empire in the stock
.';aess has passed away from Colorado,
yabraska and Wyoming, and has moved
ss,,bwost into the fertile grazing valleys
y nakota and Montana. One company
AZ 600 head of cattle in Montana;
~ ao,ber firm has "a, 900 head Of beeves
! ,he same locality; still another has
e 900 head on its range. Yet Others
nave ~, respectively 10000, 10000, and
Il % Oh.
y
The statistics of manufacturing indus
Zoe furnished by the census OF 1880.
,bouph tardy in their publication, are of
.,cb interest and value. With reference
- class manufacture, it is reported that
to6 600 900 of capital was invested, and
smnloyment given to "a, 900 persons,
their wages amounting to SO, 600, 900 in
me wear. an average of 1870 to each man,
drl and boy employed. The profits of
me manufacturers reached the handsome
mm of 81, O00,O being twenty per
cent. on the invested capital.
Il is said that the entire western coast
d Africa, from Morocco south, has now
been appropriated by European powers.
From this statement Liberia must be ex-
cepred, as it possesses a republican gov
eminent of its own. Germany recently
look llOSStSSlOll VI 0AiuOob IllC ldSJ
Of territory along the coast which was
not already under the control of some of
the nations Of Europe. The Portuguese
colonies have never accomplished much
in the way of penetrating the interior;
perhaps the Germans will be more enter
pnsing
Relics of the middle ages fade one by
one before the advance of education.
One of the last to disappear is the public
writer, or 'scrivener, who was once
necessity in almost every community.
The last of these personages in Paris,
Denis Dissaux, died recently, after being
popular among the grizettes and servant
girls of his quarter for fifteen years. 1t
is said that he understood better than
any one else how to write letters on all
sorts of subjects, to draw up petitions,
letters of application, demands for pay
ment, and the like.
Balloon construction has certainly
taken fresh impetus in this centenary
year of aeronautics, and now another air
ship, capable, according to its inventor,
of being steered in given direction, is
being planned, this time at ST. Peters
burg. Like the French invention re-
Gently tried at Meudon. the Russian bal
loon is cigar-s1aped, while it is propelled
by screw and sails. The balloon, with
oil its appurtenances, will be 200 feet
long and eighty feet high, and when
manned by a crew or sixteen, and driven
by a fifty horse power engine, is expected
70 make 100 miles an hour.
De l.esseps does well to be visiting his
Panama Caual; for, if the reports are
trustworthy, it certainly requires his
presence, OF the 10000 men ostensiblY
working upon it. less than half during
the wet season could be employed and
600 were in the hospital or at home sick.
The idea of opening it in 1888 is pro-
nounced preposterous According to
Panama estimates $50, 600, 600, or one
third of the capital has been spent, and
only one.thirtieth of the canal finished.
lime and money have been wasted In
planting trees and shrubbery and inn
proving the landscape while the real
work has dragged. However, that is
something in which the French and
other Europeans who have invested In
The scheme will be the most interested.
The New York Times asserts that
every sign Of the times indicates that
farmers arc neglecting the most profita-
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