Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-12-13

| Lace paper Is made
There Is Latin paper
Paper doors are in usa
| Iron is displacing wood.
Japan has a wooden mill
| Germany has metal railroad ties
California ostriches sell for 81, 600.
Pennsylvania mines employ I03. 600
Prussia's princes are learning trades.
Germany makes hollow cast iron
/ bricks
Our colored people are worth $685.
600, 900
Pasteboard pulIeys are made in
Germany.
Some New York lawyers make $780,
| 600 year.
Missouri's railroad commissioners fix
switching charges
Some New York dealers were fined
800 for impure milk.
Compressed carbonic acid promises to
reyolutionize warfare.
All the window glass factories in the
country are union shops
| Worcester, Mass, thinks it Is going to
have new knitting mill.
From st. Louis comes a report of tho
formation of carpet trust
/ There isa gain of nearly g. 600 600 bales
of cotton for 1899 over 1888.
Boston unions want New York tene.
ment goods excluded from that State.
Sheep raising in Delaware county,
Pennsylvania. is made profitless by dogs.
"A company is being formed at Chicago
to build air ships TO annihilate distance.
A Michigan syndicate has purchased
800, 900 acres of pine land in New Mexico.
The Jennings Lace Works. i'm Brook
lyn. have been sold to a British syndicate
for 81, 900. 600
Seven out os every eight loaves Of
bread eaten in London are made from
foreign wheat
A New York leather firm is about to
start kangaroo farm at Warrington,
York county, Pa.
The laborers employed by the various
Boston city departments receive Sc a
day for their labor
Michigan is debt paying State. Since
1880 it has discharged liabilities TO tho
extent of ST. 100000
New York shoe statesmen want stores
closed at s o'clock, and 10, 600 people
signed the petition.
The Russian sable is the most expen-
sive fur. Single skins sometimes sell
for as much as $780,
A farmer at Northeast Pa. says ho
cleared $500 on two acres of grapes -
Philadelphia Record.
A $7,0O0,0OO tin plate company at
Baltimore will employ 500 and have the
worlds largest tin plate mill.
Arizona is TO become great orange
country. In the ella Valley district of
that territory 5000 orange trees will he
planted this fall
John Burroughs is making success
of grape growing ON his estate on the
banks of the Hud on Some of his
Delawares brought him 25 cents pound
In Boston.
Philadelphia, which is essentially a
city of homes, takes the lead in the
number of structures erected in 1890,
having put up 1905 houses at an
aggregate cost of $26. 900, 600.
The National Gas Workers Union OF
London has demanded that the London
Gaslight and Coke Company, which has
capital OF e12, 600, 600 and employs H.
600 men, shall employ only union men.
Fl. C. Wheeler, of OIebolt, Sac county,
has under cultivation the largest farm in
Iowa 1t comprises 200 acres, every
foot of which is under cultivation. He
manages his farm through a corps Of
about 80 men.
Nine-tenths of the raisins sold ia this
country are grown in California, but all
the best goods are sent to New York and
boxed and marked as il they came from
Spain, to meet the whims of buyers. -
| Boston Journal
| The salt works at Ealtair, Utah, cover
300 acres. The watts are Is feet above
| the surface of the lake and are filed by
means Of huge rope driven at high
speed, which lifts the brine in steady
stream at the rate of !, 500 gallons min
ute.
Most Of the platinum supply comes
from the Ural mines Of Russia, where,
as in the placer mines of California and
Canada-the metal is regarded as sort
| Of byproduct OF gold mining. IL is
claimed by dealers in platinum that if
mined and worked out by the methods
that have been applied to gold and
silver, and the cost of producing and
refining it charged up it would be quite
as expensive as gold : Philadelphia
Record