Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-06-25
ANNAPOLIS. ND THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE a5, 1891.


Aluminium is 81 pound.
Humboldt, Tenn, has the biggest spoke
mill
The last cotton crop amounted to {. .sls,.
600 bales.
It takes 90 fremen on the steamship
City of Paris.
A hotel win be erected on Pixies Peak
--14, 200 feet high.
A seat in the New Y York Stuck Exchange
Is worth about $25, 600.
Philadelphia leads the country in the
manufacture Of quinine.
New York cigarmakers have won
nearly 100 strikes in year.
The German idea makes every man
who fells tree plant sapling.
Oleo manufacturers ct Chattanooga
have combined to raise the price.
The American railways employ sc, ,000
locomotives and 1 ,7S5. 900 freight cars.
Young women employed at the Brit
fish Museum receive Id per folio for copy
ing.
A $500 foot tunnel drains subter-
ranean lake in the Centralia, Pa, coal
basin.
A new spool factory in the town Of
Alpena. Mich, turns out $1,000 spools
daily.
The United States consumes more tin
plate than all the rest Of the world COM
bined.
Henry C. Byers, Of Jackson county.
Ind, is setting out 50. 900 hills Of nutmeg
melons.
The number Of passengers carried by
all the railroads in the world averages
$500, 900 day.
England produces nearly al q. s.. 600
tons Of tin plate per year, and this coun-
try imports 369. 900 tons.
The government Of France has prohib-
tied the employment Of engineers and
stokers over I2 hours day.
There is a pig at Junction City, Kan,
which weighed ,532 pounds. 1t is be-
lieved to be the largest in the world.
A Texas shingle mill recently sold co.
000, 900 shingles to one concern, the larg-
est sale of shingles ever made in Texas.
In Newark waist factory there ara
bath rooms, and each employee is allowed
80 minutes for ablution. Meals are served
at actual cost.
The time is coming in which the man
who earns his bread by the sweat of his
brow need not work very hard in order to
doit.-I Richmond Recorder.
Miss Amanda T. Jones, of Chicago, is
president of the Woman's Canning and
Preserving Company, which is said to
have capital of 81 1,000, 900.
A New York German Typographical
Union has fixed the wages for setting the
chirography of certain editor at % cents
q thousand above the usual price.
The inhabitants of Rhode Island seem
TO be putting aside little sum for the in
evitable rainy day. In that State they
have $470 per capita in the savings
banks.
The output of North Carolina pine dur
ing this year is expected to be about 500.-
600, 900 feet, worth @6,000,O0O, besides
900, 10000 feet of cedar, poplar, cypress,
holly, ash, and gum, worth about 81
20O, ,000
According to the Boston Transcript,
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world is estimated to be 1900, 600, 900
pounds per year. There are SS4 paper
mills and 1,1O6 paper machines in this
country.
Nearly 10000 newspapers are printed
in the United States and Canada: enough,
il would seem, to keep the population out
of mischief. The division between the
States isn't exactly fair, though; New
York has 1858 papers and Alaska just
three.
Between 10000, ,OOO, 900 and 100, ,O0O,-
100000 codfishes are taken from the sea
around the shores of Newfoundland
every year. But even that quantity
seems small when we consider that a
single cod yields something like q, 800. .O00
eggs each year and that over 5000, ,000,-
600 eggs have been found in the roe OF a
single cod A herring Of six or seven
ounces in weight is provided with S0,-
100000 ova. After making all reason.
able allowances for the destruction of
eggs and of the young. it has been cali
culated IN three years q single pair of
herrings viii produce 154, ,O00, 900.
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