Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-07-13
PRICE ONE CENT
CURRENT CLIPPINGS.


In British India es,o0o, 900 acres ara
cultivated by irrigation.
Two oil wells have been opened at
Brownwood, Tex, the flow Of which i
said to be about 500 barrels daily.
II is said that at Queretaro, near Mex.
leo. cakes of soap are used as currency.
and are legal tender for the payment OF
debts.
A report from Ceylon states that the
pearl fishery last season was the second
largest ON record during the present cen.
tury. The amount realized by the gov.
ernment was more than 9O0, 900 rupees,
equal to $2s9, 500.
The Census Bureau has made public =
bulletin on the subject OF bituminous coal
production in Pennsylvania. Il shows
the output of the bituminous region in
that State to have been 30, i74 $50 short
tons in 1899, nearly double that reported
at the 10th census,
Mail matter dropped in box in Paris
is delivered in Berlin within an hour and
half, and sometimes within S5 minutes.
1t is sent by means of pneumatic tubes.
The excellent postal service Of this coun-
try has considerable to learn from the
service Of Europe. .--Pittsburg CONNER
cial Gazette.
A railroad is 60 be built from San Di-
ego TO San Quinton, Lower California, by
an English firm The road, which will
be 1872 miles in length, will be built as
soon as the Mexican government APP
proves the survey. A cargo OF supplies
for the road is now on the way from Eng
land. The company is TO receive $4,000
per mile subsidy from the Mexican gov
ernment.
The recent approximate estimate OF the
area cultivated with the cocoanut palm
gave the following result British India
and dependencies, 800, 600; Central Amer
lea, $50, 900; Ceylon, 100000; Eastern
Archipelago and colonies, 350,0 200; Java
and Sumatra, 10000; Mauutius, NADIA
gascar, Seychelles, and African coast,
100000: Pacific Islands, including Fiji,
New Caledonia, ETC., $4,000; Siam and
Cochin. 100, 900, and West Indies, 80 900.
1t is proposed TO devote 10000 acres in
Florida 10 the culture of cocoanuts.--Al-
bany Evening Journal
There are supposed to be about 5000
living languages. Doubtless many Of
them are very poor in words. Although
in our own language there are great
many more than l00,0 900 words, yet only
about $4,000 are in daily use. Shakes
| peare made use of 10 900, and the diction
OF those who have the usual degree of
education that passes muster among us
comprises only about 1900 words thus
showing how small a number are actu.
| ally required. d.-Harpers Bazaar.
The Catholic Club, of New York city,
has the finest reference library of works
on Catholic subjects in this country with
the single exception of the library in the
Catholic University at Washington.
/ There are now about 1s, 200 volumes i'm
the library, and many of them are ex.
ceedingly rare and precious. There are
quite number of single volumes well
nigh worth their weights in gold, which
are kept under lock and key, and can
only be seen by special permission. New
York Times.
Mr.. Whittier has had printed at tho
Riverside Press a small volume of his re-
cent verse for distribution among his
friends on his SD birthday. II is called
AT Shutdown, and is inscribed TO "The
poet and friend of poets, E. G. Stedman,
with these lines:
~Poet and friend of poets II thy glass
Detects no flower ia Winters tuft of grass.
Let this slight token OF the debt owe
Outlive for thee December's frozen day
And like the arbutus budding under snow.
1 TaLa hlnaua md Of
When he who gives IL shall have gone the way
Where faith shall see aud reverent trust
shall know"
There is not now living a single de-
scendant in the male line of Chaucer,
Shakespeare. Spenser, Milton, Cowley,
Butler, Dryden, Pope, Cowper, Gold
smith, Byron, or Moore; not one of Sir
Philip Sidney or Of Sir Walter Raleigh I,
not one of Drake, Cromwell, Hampden,
Monk, Marlborough, Peterborough, or
Nelson; not one of Bolingbrooke, Wal
pole, Chatham, Pitt, Fox, Burke, Grat-
tan, or Canning; not of Bacon, Locke,
Newton, or Davy; not one OF Hume,
Gibbon, or Macaulay; not one Of Ho-
garth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, or Sir
Thomas Lawrence; not one Of David
Garrick, John Kemble, or Edward Kean.
Chicago Times.
That great engineering work, the Cor
inth Canal, which viii sever the Pelopon-
nesus from the mainland of Greece. and
will permit the largest ships 10 pass di-
rectly from the Gulf Of Athens 70 the
Gulf of Corinth, is rapidly approaching
completion. The canal viii have no locks.
but Is level from end to end and perfectly
straight, the width being 90 feet and the
depth 80. At the Corinth end II is crossed
by a railroad bridge 164 feet high, under
which the tallest ships may pass without
lowering their topmasts. II Is assumed
that about 800 vessels from Trieste and
Flume and ABOUT the same number from
Italian ports will pass through the canal
annually, while it is calculated that be-
tween 700 and 800 Greek ships win use
the canal-a total, say, of more than ], 200
vessels annually. averaging 1900 tons
each.-Philadelphia Telegraph.
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