Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-08-18
hts OF IMPORTATION.

The Duke of Fife has 10 residences.
Panama claims $50 year old man.
A Chicago woman spanked Lincoln.
Vancouver will have a 81 ,OOO. 900 bridge
A Baltimore mulatto is turning pink.
Uncle Sam leads in mineral produc-
ton.
Mr.. Coffin is Bolivar (No.) under
taker.
A wren lives three years; a raven 100
years.
There are now in Baltimore about $500
Italians.
st. Peters Church, Rome, will hold
1900 people.
The royal standard of Persia is black
smiths apron.
Y. NJ. G. As have pos, 900 members
and $12, 100000
A pound of PHOSPHORUS is sufficient to
tip 200, 600 matches.
Mechanics head the list as inventors,
then come clergymen.
Eight eggs in every dozen consumed in
England are imported.
Mexico has given the world more than
$4,000, ,000, 900 worth Of gold.
There is only one sudden death among
women to every eight among men.
There are more physicians in the United
States than in all Europe combined.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is patron
of 19l livings; the Prince of Wales 81.
The jewels belonging to the British
crown are supposed TO be worth $15, ,000,-
600.
A medical journal states that five
clergymen live as long as eight working
men.
The distance of the moon from the
earth ranges between 225, 900 and 251 900
miles.
1t requires about 5000 pounds of rose
leaves to produce an ounce of altar Of
roses.
Excellent wheat lands north of Mani
toba overlie frozen earth that never
thaws.
The pension list of the United States
on the 3lst of May contained 630, ,304
names.
Newfoundland is an island rather larger
than Ireland. 1t has about 100000 in
habitants.
The first United States flag was made
in the old building, No. 239 Arch street,
Philadelphia.
British Columbia and New Zealand are
the greatest distances between which
telegram may be sent.
Farm lands in the United States, TAX
ing the country as whole, occupy only
2S9 acres in every 1000.
If all the mountains in the world were
levelled the average height of the land
would rise nearly 220 feet.
The latest figures give France and her
colonies population of 63,672, ,04S; the
German empire, Al, 169,6sO.
The Italian lives more abstemiously
than any other immigrant who comes to
America, except the Chinaman.
The number of Italians in st. Louis is
estimated to be about 5000, of which
number at least half are Sicilians.
The average construction of railroads
in the United States during the last 20
years is said to have been 5,700 miles an
nually.
Thread is a simple thing, but simple as
it is there are 1000 kinds of it, and each
kind goes through hundreds of different
processes.
One hundred years ago there were in
the South "a ,25S colored people to every
100000 white people; to-day there are
but Al .476
From 1921 to 1890 over $1,000 900 inn
migrants arrived in this country, num-
ber equaling one-fourth the entire popu-
lation of the United States.
Printing was introduced into Chill in
the year 1912, with a little, screw press,
brought from the United States, which is
still preserved in the National Museum.
The Italians in Pittsburg and Allegheny
county are estimated to number between
5000 and 10000 During the past five
years only 1874 Italians were naturalized.
A man inhales one pint of air at each
breath. While standing, the adult respi-
ration is % times per minute; while ly-
ing down, 13. To save your breath, lie
down.
Boston claims to have better class Of
4 lIdlldllS tIittu any OtiltE City III lUt OIlJeu
States. There are about 10000 of them,
but nearly all are in good circumstances
and intelligent.
There are said to be $1,000 Italians in
Chicago, and the number is increasing
all the time. Yet they do not seem
nearly so numerous as in New York, and
are infrequently seen in public places.
The Massachusetts, census of last year
shows that one-fifth of the native born
married women of that State are child
less, a condition without parallel in any
country of the world excepting France.
There are about 105 women to every
100 men; one-quarter of the population
of the world die before the age of II
! years; only one in 1000 lives to be 100
years old, and only six in 900 reach 75.
Rev. A. w. Mann, the pioneer deaf
mute preacher, writes: @The ratio of
deaf mutes to the hearing is as to / 900,
NO there are over 10000 in the United
States, and about !, Zoo, 900 in the entire
world.
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