Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-06-01
PRICE ONE CENT
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.


The South has lumber trust
Omaha viii have trade school.
Boston mattresses have n union.
The Molders' Union has $4,000 men.
Women BARRIERS increase In London.
Virginia negroes are worth 1900, 600
Australia will have an eight hour move.
ment
Nashville harnessmakes use union
label.
South Australia has Woman's Trades
Union.
Italy produced ssl, So, 900 gallons OF
wine last year,
Powdered soap is used in the hotels as
an economy.
Pittsburg unions asked preachers to adj
vocate eight hours.
Iowa produces more corn than any
other State in the Union.
Denver's Cooperative Brick Company
will double its capacity.
Experts claim that "boneless" Goldfish
is for the most part sturgeon.
A Brooklyn Plumbers and Gasfitters'
Union has over 700 members.
The compromise bill fixing So hours as
weeks work in Massachusetts, was de-
feated.
AT the present market rates for silver,
the silver dollar is rs cents intrinsic value
and 25 cents fiat.
OF the 1900, 900 wage earners In this
country, 1000, 900, or "A per cent, are en-
gagged in farming.
The income derived by French people
who rear fowls is, according to returns,
about 1886, 10000
A resident of Colorado claims that the
gold and silver deposits of that State are
simply inexhaustible.
Pennsylvania raises 6,49S, ,272 pounds
of tobacco, and there is not cigarette
factory within her borders.
The Manufacturers Record says that
over $12 900, 900 have been invested i'm
Florida in phosphate land in two years.
The Tailors' Exchange, of st. Louis,
will keep a register of the people who do
not pay, and will sell unpaid bills at auc-
ton.
Seventeen million pounds Is given as
the maple sugar and sirup product this
year, and it is expected to sell for. &i,-
100000.
Lancanshire has $4,000 children who
will be affected by the law raising the
age of half timers to II years and i2 the
year after.
An Efhngham COW netted her owner
$243.SO last year, but that was before hay
retailed by the ounce in Kansas. Kan
sas City Star.
There are more than 700 colonies OF
bees in Shoreham, VT, and with favor
able season it is estimated that these will
produce 10000 pounds of honey.
Grain was so scarce in Kansas and Da-
kota last winter that stockmen disposed
of their cattle at any price. Now they
are obliged to bring stock from Texas at
great expense.
According to the New York Sun, En-. =
land has more women workers in proper
ton to her population than any other
country, ~ per cent of the industrial
classes being women.
Jumbo was great money getter He
brought Barnum over $4,000 week,
and until the great beast was killed in
the Canadian Railroad wreck he added
to the shows receipts 81 800, 900.
A number of terrapin farms have Of
late years been established along the
Chesapeake Bay. They are provided
with fences to keep out muskrats and
foxes, which are the terrapin's enemies
Mrs. Nancy Joiner, Of Peach Bloom, in
Conecuh county, Alabama, has a cochin
hen that "has laid 1877 eggs since the LIST
of October. This hen has never shown
any disposition to set, and is still laying.
The Homestake mine, in the Black
Hills, is generally supposed to be the
richest gold mine in the world. Each
month from $3.50, 900 to $2O0, 900 in gold
is taken out The vein is 800 feet wide
and about two miles in length.