Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-01-14

the worm or winch only lives upon Nu&Ak
or meal. Ill : phicyde. This injurious
moth Il said to have been frst seen II
Holland ii 1879. SINCE which time it has
sprcad enormously in Germany. The re-
Enarkable part Of this story i that this
insect. Il It exists ii America 81 all. has
not been talked Of on this side Of the At
Ianlic. III, indeed, il has It's origin here,
II certainly must require the sen voyage
to develop its hurtfui character.
Dr. 8. IA. Goldsmith, Inspector Ut Often
sive Trades, New York, says that prob
ably 50. 900 persons are supported In the
city By the industries connected with the
Strengthening Of animals. The annual
value OF the products Of those industries
Is about $50. 900, 900, which Is more than
the value Of the annual yield Of the gold
and silver mines in the United states.
Establishments for the rendering Of tai
low and lard, for the drying OF blood
and offal and the handling Of skins give
employment to large numbers Of work
men. Candle factories, soap works,
picking, canning and packing establish
inents, wooI-puIling factories. tannerles
and smoke-hous for hams abound IL
the city. Sausages are made In large
factories and ia nearly all the butcher
shops. Mnny persons find employment
Ia picking meat from the heads Of AMI.
mails and selling it to the manufacturers
of sausage and head cheese. Others pre-.
pare tripe, sausage castings, rcnnet and
gold.bcaters' skin. The manufacture OF
pepsin has become a profitable industry
~ @x&n4 - ~fe4
made Of the intestines of sheep. Manu-
facturers OF table-sauces and Of certain
Kinds OF cheese use materials from the
slaughter houses. Horns and bones are
used in the manufacture of buttons,
handles, etc. Glue and bone black, the
latter being used in sugar refining, are
made outside the city."s
A very dangerous counterfeit of the
American ive-dolIar piece was recently
sent to the United States mint in San
Francisco for examination. In size and
weight and general execution it was q
very close resemblance much so that
several parties in the coiner's department
in the mint at first pronounced the coin
genuine. The color was like that of
gold coins alloyed with silver The
legend In God We trust, on close ex-
animation, was not quite as distinct as
the genuine coin. In all other respects
the die was perfect, even to the small
IS, for San Francisco, under the head.
When broken, the coin disclosed the fact
that it was double counterfeit, it hav-
ing been made to do duty as a counter
felt four-piaster piece Of the Phil
lipine Islands. Pulling off a plating
on both sides the words lies Hispanas'
and the devices Of the coin were dis
tinctly seen. When assayed it was found
that the original piece was Of native
platinum. The plating to raise the weight
from 81 to SIS, or to make the difference
between the Manila and American coin,
was an alloy Of silver and copper. This
had been electrotype or washed with.
gold. The whole was so nicely caIcu-
lated as to make the specific gravity Of
gold, and the ring of the coin was per-
feet. The probability is this coin is but
one Of large number; that it was manu-
featured somewhere where lab0ris cheap,
say Hong Kong; that, either from de-
lection or some other cause, quantity
of the first counterfeit was left on hand
and was utilized by increasing the size
and restamDing with an American die.
Whatever may be the history. it is dan
gerous counterfeit