Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-05-15
PRICE ONE CENT
ngland has / ,Oe1 On horses.

England has / .Oel OH horses.
New York has peddlers' union.
Italy has 500. 900 out Of employment.
There are 100 artesian wells in Panama.
Switzerland embroiderers get $l60
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 win open a Coz
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 0Jaoents
for IA hours work.
A firm at Hereford, Pa, viii propagate
skunks for their fur.
A brick machine is equal to S5 skilled
In Germany more than 1870, 000married
women work in shops and factories.
1t costs only % cents TO send case Of
petroleum TO Japan from Philadelphia.
An Australian photographer photo
graphs objects at a distance Of 10 miles.
Over $400, 900 is employed in the
silk business annually in the whole world.
About 50,000of Italy's sons and daugh-
tiers 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 50 cents.
Most Of the London newspapers find
fault with the composition of the Royal
Labor Commission.
Six thousand tons of logwood havo
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 10
drawn by the village Waterman at
Springstill in. Hessen-1 cent day.
The farm Indebtedness of Kansas is be-
ing paid off, according to the latest fig
ures, at the rate of 81 ,OO0,0 month.
1t is said that in Gunnison county,
Colo, there are three hills of solid iron
and manganese ores 800, 1000, and l, 100
feet high.
Figures from the Census Bureau show
that from 1880 to 1890 there were S8,s43
failures in the United States, with total
liability of 81 1897, 1875, 925.
A new competitor for jute is pineapple
fiber, long known in the Philippine Isl
lands as yielding a capital thread for
weaving very fine cloth.
OF the 1860 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 a reduction OF
wages of from Is to 20 per cent. Tho
reason assigned is falling off in the de-
mand for bricks.
Mrs. King, the cattle queen Of Cor
pus Christi, Texas, recently sold $4,000
head of year old steers for $82, 600
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, rs miles SOUTH
west of Yuma. 1t is 100 feet long, 90
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
$50, 900 people who earn less than 90 cents
day. Thousands of this number are
poor girls who work from IL to 16 hours
day. Last year there were over $4,000
families forcibiy evicted in that city,
owing to their inability to pay their rent.
One person in every ten who died in New
York in 1889 was buried in potter's field.
These are facts which may well give rise
to anxious thoughts Justice.