Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-12-24
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Chill has female car conductors
Chill woman shop at night only
Shirts date back to the sth century.
A machine weighs six cars a minute.
Holland has 20. 600 union railroaders.
Rattlesnake oil is worth $40 an ounce.
Anminium makes the beet artificial
l!inDs
Chicago wants rag pickers 10 work at
aight only
\ fast ocean steamer cousumrs 400
pounds of coal inmate.
Al Daretown, y. j., IA tons ot totna.
toes were raised on an acre.
Butter made from cocoanuts may rev
olutionize the dairy of the future
Chicago liquor dealers want grocers
who sell bottled stuff TO pay license.
There are about 80 steamers engaged ia
the transatlantic passenger service.
The Krupp Company employs 10000
people aud its factories at Essen cover
600 res
About 5000 600 200 pieces OF mail mat.
ter are distributed by postal clerks in the
sountry yearly.
Over 500, 600 worth OF pearls were
found in mussels on the Sugar River
Wis, last summer.
There pass through the mills OF Bang
kok 1919 tons OF rice daily. Twenty
five mills are working
To show the growth made in the indus
try of furnishing kinding wood, a single
factory in Pennsylvania turns out 5.000.-
900 bundles per month.
The total receipts Of the Centennial Ex
position at Philadelphia were t9,sl3. 724
The total receipts of the Paris Exposl
ton of 1899 were $500 600.
The Retail Clerks Union. OF Oenvel
has decided to place agitation matter oh
linen busters. aud have its members take
turns in wearing them on the streets.
Twenty .one railroads center in Mime.
applis. Its mills produce 81 900 barrels
Of flour daily The same town has 200
miles of electric railway, all under one
system.
1t is reported that large steel com
pany is experiment with process to
render steel suffici tiy tenacious TO sup
plant copper for tii, manufacture Of rods
and wire
There are l6l imp rtant steam uaviga.
tion companies in he world. OF which
the English own "a. the French 35. and
the Germans l2. IA the United States
there are 10.
Ithas been calculated that the right haud
Of q good compositVr in taking type from
the frame to the stick while setting up
1900 ems in eight hours covers distance
Of 5000 feet.
The Quebec Steamship Company, oper-
sting the New York, Bermuda, aud West
India line, has agreed TO bring govern
ment exhibits to the fair free. Half rate
10 granted on the exhibits Of individuals.
Inan appeal against the smoking Of non.
union cigars at Butfalo's Central Labor
Union, the speaker quoted magazine
article in which it was declared that the
writer saw lepers making cigars ia Cuba
and Jamaica.
Aurora, ILL.,, is in great tribulation be-
cause Of famine Of servant girls 1t is
impossible to keep domestics there be-
cause the factories lure them away With
higher wages. Hundreds Of women have
recently deserted the kitchen for the shop
If all the locomotives In the United
/ States were coupled together they would
make train 300 miles long. Then add
the passenger cars and we should have
300 miles more; and il we wanted a
huge mixed train, and were to put in ell
the box, fiat, aud every other kind OF
freight car, our train would be more than
1000 miles long The passenger cars
would carry more than 1 100000 people.
and upon the freight cars could be loaded
the weight of all the pyramids Of Egypt
and all the State capitoIs Of the United
! States.