Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-05-15
PRICE ONE CENT


England has | i.O9l ,04l horses.
New York has peddlers' union.
Italy has 10000 out of employment.
There are 100 artesian wells in Panama.
Switzerland embroiderers get $106
year.
A new machine makes paper shoe.
strings.
Paris streets are cleaned daily, mostly
by women.
Farmers Alliance cooperative stores
are spreading.
Colored Government clerks are increas-
ing in number
New York carvers viii open a co.
operative shop.
Colored bricklayers have joined the
Richmond union.
The New York painters receive $3.50
for an hour day.
In Holland letter carriers get 05acents
for IA hours work.
A firm at Hereford, Pa, will propagate
skunks for their fur.
A brick machine is equal to S5 skilled
men in the manufacture of bricks
In Germany more than l30. 900 married
women work in shops and factories.
1t costs only % cents to send a case Of
petroleum TO Japan from Philadelphia.
An Australian photographer photo
graphs objects at distance of 10 miles.
Over $400,000,000 is employed in tho
silk business annually in the whole world.
About 5O,0O0of Italy's sons and daugh-
ters are in the fruit business in tho :
United States.
An edition of 1000 copies of an ordi-
nary novel costs $045. Five hundred
copies cost 1926.
Dairying represents greater invest
ment than banking and commercial in
terests together.
Plate glass that II years ago sold at
$3.50 per square foot on the average now
sells at IS cents
Most of the London newspapers find
fault with the composition of the Royal
Labor Commission.
Six thousand tons OF logwood have
been brought to Philadelphia from the
West Indies since January /.
The iron industries at Pottstown, Pa,
use capital exceeding $4,000. 900, and
employ upward of 1000 hands.
The smallest salary in the world Is
drawn by the village watchman at
Springstill in Hessen--l cent day.
The farm Indebtedness Of Kansas is be-
ing paid off, according to the latest fig
ures, at the rate OF II 600, 900 a month.
1t is said that in Gunnison county,
Colo, there are three hills of solid iron
and manganese ores 800, 1000, and 100
feet high.
Figures from the Census Bureau show
that from 1880 to 1890 there were Ss,643
failures in the United States, with total
liability of 81 1887, 1876, ,225.
A new competitor for jute is pineapple
fiber, long known in the Philippine ISL
lands as yielding capital thread for
weaving very fine cloth.
OF the 1850 books that were published
In this country in 1890 nearly 1000 were
novels Never before in one year were
so many novels sprung upon an enduring
public.
The IL brick manufacturing firms Of
Trenton, N. j., announce reduction of
wages of from Is TO 20 per cent. The
reason assigned is falling off in the de-
mand for bricks.
Mrs. King, the acattle queen" of Cor
pus Christi, Texas, recently sold $1,000
head of 2 year old steers for &82, 900
probably the largest single order for cat
tie ever filed in Texas.
The largest deposit Of sulphur on this
continent is said TO have been discovered
in the Cocopah Mountains, 75 miles south
west of Yuma. 1t is / 100 feet long, 60
feet wide. and 40 feet through.
A rope company in St. Louis recently
made what is claimed to be the largest
shipment of cable ever carried by one
car. Two reels of wire, weighing 10000
pounds, were shipped on special truck
platform car.
In the city of New York there are over
$780, 900 people who earn less than 80 cents
q day. Thousands of this number are
poor girls who work from II to 16 hours
day. Last year there were over $4,000
families forcibly evicted in that city,
owing to their inability to pay their rent.
One person in every ten who died in New
York iii 1889 was buried in potters field.
These are facts which may well give rise
to anxious thoughts Justice.