Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-02-25
PRICE ONE CENT
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL
"a Rene so, 900 are idle

La Rene 90, 900 are idle.
India has IL year old weavere
Nashville bricklayers have organized.
Scotch railroaden want ten hour
day.
Water power runs Quebec electric
plant
Nashville bakers want night work
abolished
A refrigerator syndicate Is the latest
Boston schema
An lonia. Mich, concern is shipping
corncob pipes TO England.
Profit sharing is winning favor In
mercantile circles in New York.
The Texas cotton crop in 1890 Is esti-
mated 10 be worth over $S5, 1000. 900.
A 10000 ice machine is being erected
in a Pottsville, Pa, brewery
The output of silver in this country Il
about 56. 1000, 900 ounces per year
Only 8 per cent of the shoemakers
patrons have their shoes made TO order.
There are said to be 10, 900 brass bands
In this country, with 100. 900 perform
erS
Last season nearly 10000 net tons OF
copper were dug out Of northern Michi.
gan.
Minneapolis has a macaroni mill II
also has painters union of colored
men.
A Hummelstown, Pa. farmer has
invented q trap which caught ~ rats la
10 hours
Paris publishes 10 more dailies than
London, New York, Philadelphia, and
Boston combined
The largest peach orchard in the
world is at Brownwood. Texas. which
contains II, 900 trees. Bssl
Over 100 new electric roads are to b.
built, several of whica represent an out.
lay of 81 1000. 600 apiece.
London is the great fur market of the
world, and Alaska sealskins are taken
there to be sold as we'll rs dressed.
Ohio oleomargarine men want natural
butter inspected, claiming that tllree-
fourtlis OF ii isn't as good Ms oleonlargar-
inc.
During the last year the Calumet and
II, ella Copper Mining Company, Of
Michigan, disbursed $4,000, 900 in divi-
denda
The Consolidated Fireworks Com
pany OF America, with capital Of
81. 100000. is the latest in the field Of
tIusta
A syndicate has recently been formed
In Brazil for the purpose OF controlling
the rubber and other products Of that
country.
thing In 1890 the cotton crop amounted
TO 1,7O0 bales, and 1t was not bad year
Tor peanuts
Jay Gould has reduced the salaries Of
officers and the wages of workers on
the Union Pacific Railroad from 10 to
% per cent
Paterson cigarmakers claim that IL
union men smoked only union cigars
that city alone would employ 500 ad-
ditional hands.
The most disastrou. period in the
history of American business affairs
was in 1857, when -wreckagee footed
up $292, ,000, 600.
New Hampshire, with population OF
875, 1927, has 159,7e2 del ositors in It's
20 savings banks. with deposits aggre-
eating $65, ,727, 01a04
The Esquimaux toll seals to them by
lying down on the ice and whistIing.
II there are any seals near they win APP
proach, and are then captured.
About 500 veterinary surgeons In
Great Britain signed a paper condemn
ing overhead check reins as painful 20
horses aud productive OF disease.
Half million of dollars is sestimateda
the sum derived i'm New York city and
its suburbs from the sale OF towering
plants for the adornment Of windows.
New Jersey wants its abandoned farms
occupied, and is working among farm
ers who have got dissuste with the
West and are longing to come back 70
the East
Sixteen years ago" says Kansas
contemporary, "a man in Reno county
paid SIS for trees, which lie planted on
his farm. A. few years ago he was
offered 10000 for them. They are
black walnuts.
The Government Labor Bureau is
part of the Department. Of the Interior.
It was established in 1884. Tie head Of
1t is known az Commissioner OF Labor,
and his pay is 5000 year.
"A CUrinna farmer, notes the
Augusta (Me.) Journal, recently sold
], 900 bushels of potatoes. OF his own
raising, for IS cents per busliel. This
means 1890, and would indicate that
farming must pay in Penobscot county.
The annual statement Of the pie In
dustry in New York city shows that
there are 20 establishments that bake
pies exclusively. OF these. one COM
pany turns out $500 pies day, or
2,60O. 500 pies q year, not counting
Sundays, aud another averages 1000
day, 2, 19l. coo year.