Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-02
ANNAPOLIS. ND. THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2 1890.


Seven railroads center at Harrisburg,
Pa
The torpedo boat had its origin in the
United States.
There are 80 theosophical societies in
the United States.
A sycamore tree near Newtown, Conn.,,
Is said to IS feet high and 21 feet in di-
ameter.
The average weight of an American
man is 142 pounds; of woman, 125
pounds.
In Great Britain one-fourth of all those
who live to be 65 years old are in the
poor house
The whole worlds product of salt per
annum is 1900, 900 tons. England pro-
duces the most
Some %, 900 persons sleep each night
on the Thames in what constitutes the
Port OF London.
In 1870 about 500 women were practic-
ing medicine in this country; now there
are nearly 5000.
The death roll of the Grand Army of
the Republic last year was 5, 476 out of a
membership of 464, ,562.
Itis estimated that the number of pas
sengers carried by all the railroads in
the world averages 9, 900, 900.
The latest gastronomic fad is to put
salad oil on your muskmelon and eat it
as if you liked it that way.
The Government history of the war
can not be completed for at least 10 years
yet. 1t will cost $4,000 volume.
The hall of the House of Representa-
tives is 139 feet long, SO feet wide, and
86 feet high, with gallery seating 1000.
The Corean alphabet is phonetic, and
Is so simple that any one can learn to
read in day; nearly all the women in
Corea can read.
A new substitute for sulphate of quiz
nine has been found by NJ Valude in the
bark of the panbotana, leguminous
tree of Mexico.
"The Africans in natural resources aro
the richest people in the world, says
Bishop Taylor, the missionary bishop of
the Methodist church.
The population of London can be best
estimated by the not generally known
tact that it is greater than that of Nor
way and Sweden combined.
The rate of increase in the population
of Tacoma during the last 10 years was
8, 500 per cent For rapidity of growth
this probably beats anything on record.
The longest day of the year has 10
hours at St Petersburgh, IL hours at
Hamburg, 164 hoursat London, 10 hours
at New York, 81 months at Spitzber-
gen.
A Government room at St Petersburg
Is $40 feet long and $50 in breadth. A
battalion can completely maneuver in it.
Twenty thousand wax tapers furnish
light
A modern gun of 6 inch caliber will
are a shell weighing 100 pounds dis
tance of eight miles, and gun of 16
inch caliber will throw a 2,200 pound
shell Is miles.
The largest library in the world is that
founded by Louis XIV in Paris. There
are 100000 volumes, 1861 manu-
scripts, 100000 maps and charts, and
$50, 900 coins and medals.
Wheat stands, at the head of food
grains. Itcontains IA per cent. of water,
146 of muscle, 69.4 of fat; rice has 1876,
So, and 79.5 respectively; beans IA 8, "A,
59 and beef so, Is, and 35
On farm near Newburg, Ohio, is an
apple tree, still bearing big yellow APP
pies every year, that was planted in 1871
by pioneer from Virginia, who was
afterward killed and scalped by Indians.
In Alpine county, California, near the
Nevada State line, according to the CEN
sus taker, there is no church and no min
ster, but four liquor sellers and nine pro-
fessional gamblers, and yet the jail has
not had an inmate since 1887. There is
great moral lesson somewhere here if
one only had time to think it out
Mouth cancers and cigar smoking have
been closely associated in the public
mind since General Grants death. but
prominent Cincinnati physician, in re-
cent conversation upon the subject, said:
The only cases of cancer of the tongue
that ever saw were of persons who
never smoked. The majority of them
were women, and the half dozen men
who were afflicted were not confirmed
smokers at all. / don't believe that
smoking even in the most indirect way
causes cancer of the tongue In Gen.
eral Grants case the public believed his
disease was due to excessive smoking,
but few physicians share that view.
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