Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-04-05
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.

/ school furniture lS IN q trust.
Paper is made from cotton seed.
France sends the best false hair.
Chicago uses West Virginia coal.
Alaska claims inexhaustible coal
Indiana miners earn SIS month.
/ CamphoI trees are now raised here.
Gold exports last year; $76.221 600,
/ England has q, 900 women farmers.
Electric fans blow smoke from guns.
England leads in butter consumption.
/ South Africa leads in ostrich farming.
Bessemer steel is driving King Iron
\ put
There are $4,000 Brotherhood engln-
I sers.
! New York insurance clerks are organ
lied.
Pittsburg has Plumbers Supplies
4 trust
| New South Wales bakers work eight
4 hours.
Sout Africa uses aIl agricultural ma
chimes.
| A new wall paper resembles beaten
copper.
| Our gold production in 81 was $780,
4 000, GEO.
Buffalo plumbers want all hands to
register.
Pennsylvania has 100000 acres of an.
thracite.
Australia has banyan tree covering
six acres
/ The German tent can be used as an
overcoat.
| New York cloakmakers average S. and
Sc week.
Austrian women hod carriers get 90
cents day.
Minneapolis made 1871 ,947 barrels of
! -four in 1891.
Canadians caught s95, 600, 900 worth of
fish last year.
Grenoble, France, makes $4,000, 900
! gloves year.
President Mcleod, of the Reeading,
was rodman.
Women load and unload vessels in
/ Japanese ports.
Lancaster county, Pa, is our greatest
| tobacco county.
London is two and a half times as
wealthy as Paris
Philadelphia bootblacks charge two
cents for shine.
Newark has the costliest plate glass
window; $4,000.
There are about four hundred occupa-
tions open 10 women.
! THE A C,...o..
ters has So, ,429 members.
A business boom for 1892, like that Of
1880 and 1881 is predicted
American apples are finding from year
to year growing market in Europe.
Fifty tank steamers are now carrying
oil in bulk from this country to Europe.
Good peat in Germany furnishes cell
lulose which is valuable to paper MAX
! ers.
1t is reported that iron has been sold as
low as $3.50 in Birmingham, Ala, for
cash.
Cuba is sweet place. The sugar crop
Of the island Of Cuba is S27 900 tons this
year.
New York Knights of Labor silk-ribbon
weavers expect to have 1000 members
before long.
Fifty-one metals are now known TO ex-
ist. Four hundred years ago only seven
were known.
The manufacture of wines has in
creased about 900 per cent in California
during the past ten years.
The annual coffee consumption of the
whole world is $50, 900 tons, Of which
Europe takes 430, 900 tons.
In the last twenty-five years the New
York Central and the Harlem Railroads
have paid out $3.50, 600, 900 in wages.
The lowest point touched by silver in
the past three or four years was 80 cents
an ounce, and the highest was $l.21.
In the southwestern islands of Japan
the women are the laborers. Their hands
are rough and tanned with heavy work,
while the mems are delicate and white.
In Austria, out Of a total of 9,5SS miles
Of railroad 1869 miles are State railroads.
Austria is about to acquire the lines of
another company which measures 939
miles.
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
has 1878 men on its pay rolls, which,
added to the 24.754 men and boys en-
ployed in its coal and iron mines, make a
total Of Al ,537. This army of employees
earned over SIS, ,00O, 900 last year.
The Chicago Telephone Company has
increased its capital stock from g.. .0O0,-
900 to 100000 and proposes to increase
its facilities in time for the Worlds Fair.
This company has been paying dividends
Of from to 2f per cent per month, and
the stock is worth 235
The first shipment of camel skins for
commercial purposes that has ever been
received in this country reached New
York recently. The shipment consisted
| Of five bales. each of which contained
thirteen skins. The consignment is an
experiment on the part Of Morocco man