Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-02-12

made partially inhabitable, and the
terrors have been removed from all the
routes of travel across it by flowing
wells, of which vast number have
been bored by French traders and
others interested in the traffic of
central Africa.
In Hungary each member of the
Imperial legislative body receives for
every day Of the session about 8. 40.
besides $500 annually for lodgings; in
Austria. about IS day during the
session. France pays her senators and
deputies about $2250 per annum; Hol-
land. about $3.50 per annum and trav-
esling expenses; Belgium. $S4 month
during the session; Norway. about
$3.50 a day and travelling expenses;
Portugal, $3.50 per diem. Members
of the Canadian Parliament receive
for every session lasting over a month
$1,000 and ten cents mileage; Brazil
gives to her senator's $500 for the
session, and to the representatives
$1,000 and travelling expenses; Mexico
allows the members of both houses
$1,000 per annum; the Argentine Re-
public even goes as high as $4,000; and
in the United States. both senator's and
members of the House of Representa-
tives receive $4,000 annually, with
mileage at twenty cents per mile.
Within the past three years a num-
Der of Americans have invested heavi-
ly in the fruit planting industry in
Central America and the West Indies.
Two New York firms have planted
large tracts of land on the northern
coast of Jamaica with bananas. while
one firm has extensive plantations of
the same fruit at Boca del Toro and
other Isthmian localities. One of the
most important enterprises of this na-
ture is being carried on by the Hon.
duras Tropic Fruit Planting Company
at Tela, Honduras. This syndicate has
invested about $4,000, and already
has some 800 acres of bananas under
cultivation. The manager intends to
plant at least 700 acres more this year;
thus this plantation alone will shortly
be able to export $4,000 punches per
month, or sufficiency to keep one
fair-sized steamer constantly engaged
in transporting the fruit. Within the
past three months three new cOmpa-
MES have been formed to plant ban
anas on the banks of the Bluetields
River, in the Mosquito Reservation,
Nicaragua. Two of the companies
have been formed in New Orleans.
One of them has by this time got fair
ly to work.
"The enterprise lately shown by an
evening contemporary" says the Lon
don Globe. Gin getting up mock fu-
neral procession through the public
streets as a taking advertisement. has
already begotten imitation. Catching
at the CHASTITY ideas the anti-vaccina-
tionists have established cortege of
their own, which ssarpasses even the
original outrage in It's revolving char
acter. Those who have not witnessed
the hideous spectacle will be as as
tonished as indignant to learn that the
West End Of London now presents
the following edifying sight, without
any interference ON the part OF the
authorities The. procession is headed
by conveyance containing brass
band. which gives the Dead March
in Saul in quick time. A gentleman
dressed in deep mourning sits on the
box alongside thedriver. and holds up
to public view a placard inscribed
In memory of 1000 children who have
died this year Through vaccination
Next follows an open hearse, with a
child's coffin exposed to full view, and
then come a Rnmber of mourning
coaches. filed with women in funeral
garb. who make pretence to be over
come with vice.
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