Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-02-16
PRICE ONE CENT
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.
London has $4,000 cabmen.
Beer is 81 a barrel in Berlin.

London has 1900 cabmen.
Beer is 81 a barrel in Berlin,
The Cunard line employs II ,o0d
A ton of coal Yields nearly 10000 feot
Of gas,
New York city has slo, ,OOO, coo invested
in clubs.
Grand Rapids, Mich, is to make paper
matches
Berlin street car conductors work Is
hours for 6si cents day,
In Laplaud 400 600 domesticated rein.
deer sustain %, 900 people.
A Chicago firm has taken several old
employees into partnership
Flowers amour 'vg TO $l4, ,l75, ,S2S were
sold by American florists last year.
The work of % days will support
family for one year I'm Madagascar.
The total export from New Zealand
gold mines has been over e54, ,0O0,O 600.
Twenty million copies OF Hymns, An
cient and Modern, have been sold since
1872.
The extraction of oil from grapestones
promises to develop into permanent in-
dustry.
1t is said that four-hfths of the steam
engines of the world have been con-
structed within the last 25 years
The best insinglass comes from Russia.
where it is obtained from the giant stur-
geon which inhabits the Caspian Sea
Salt has become one Of the leading
products of Kansas. About four years
ago this industry was unknown in Kan.
sas.
The metal in five cent nickle is worth
about half cent, and 10 cents will pur-
chase copper enough 70 make 81 worth
of cents.
All working girls using the ears of
Dayton, Ohio, railway ride at half price,
aud workw omen carrying their baskets
travel free
In the manufacture Of carriages it used
to take one man 35 days 10 make car.
riage. 1t is now made by the aid Of ma
chinery with the work Of one man in l2
days.
Heretofore coffee has made more for
tunes for people of Nicaragua than any
other product, but within few years
the product Of the oacao plant viii DO
one of the chief exports.
1t is stated that over 5000, 600 acres of
land in Europe are devoted to beet sugar
cultivation, which. with an average of l2
tons of beets 10 the acre, would give
about 1900, 100000 pounds of sugar
The artificial incubation OF eggs origin
ated in Egypt, where il is still carried ON
According 10 a consular report no fewer
than IS 900 900 eggs are hatched in this
way every year on the banks OF the Nile
The largest siphon, probably, is on the
leves between Mckinney Lake and tho
Mississippi River. The main pipe is two
feet in diameter and 2l6 feet in length
and it has diseharging capacity Of &c.
600, 600 gallons day.
The larger part Of the coast. Of Franco
that is suitable for the growing Of oysters
is divided into spaces 80 yards square
These parks are sold to the fishermen for
500 apiece, and the beds under proper
cultivation are made TO yield enormous
returns.
Florida is probably the best timhsred
State in the Union. Out of about 3S,-
100000 acres, only some 5000, 900 ara in.
cluded in farms the rest nineteen-twen-
tieihs, exclusive Of the area covered by
iskes and rivers, being covered With
heavy forests
The resources Of shoe factory in Lei.
cester, England have been immensely
increased by the adoption of electric
power. The installation is 20 be fur.
ther enlarged, and when complete 1t will
include two engines of $50 horsepower for
the driving of the dynamos for light and
power. Fifteen hundred people will ba
employed and the factory will produce
80. 900 pairs Of shoes week. Chicago
News.