Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-04-13
PRICE ONE CENT
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.

Philadelphia has 500 trained nurses.
japan uses American-made street cars.
Beaver Pa, has cooperative glass
irm.
The States have 1879 distinct rail-
roads.
New York has X. Of L Chin Sc cigar
makers
Great Britain has 2l7, 600 union mine
workers.
American looms are on the increase in
England
There is Curry Comb Trust and Bis
cuit Trust
Twelve average tea plants produce one
pound OF tea.
England collects a tariff ON about
twenty articles.
1t is best to buy hominy. beans, rice,
etc, in quantities.
Around Oldham, England, there are
lol cotton spinning mills
There are only twenty-one women doc
tors in the British Provinces.
Broom factories are getting to be the
popular thing in Western Kansas.
The United States is said to be the larg-
sst producer Of copper in the world.
New York granite cutters win have a
$4,000 monument at the Worlds Fair.
The pin factories Of the United States
manufacture $4,000, ,OO0. 900 pins per year.
The first Bessemer steel plant south Of
Baltimore is in operation at Ashland,
KY
More than q, 600 600 barrels OF Port.
land cement are annually made in
Europe.
The one sign Of prosperity in the West
OF present is the rapid reduction Of farm
mortgages
AS one result of the over-production Of
cotton the Georgia farmers are going
,argely into tobacco culture.
The pecan orchards Of Texas are at.
racting attention. Growers believe that
ihere is a great profit in the nuts.
Kansas raised 5s,970,OOO bushels OF
wheat last year and the acreage this year
will exceed that of 1891 by e5 per cent
The Illinois farmers made an aggre-
gate profit OF S32, 1O2, 100 on corn last
year against SIS, ,S9O, $40 for the preceding
/ year
| The failures in Trenton, N. j., in 1891
aggregated 81, $780, 900, the principal
losses being in the rubber and pottery
| trades.
/ Some writer has figured that the an
1ual production Of sawed lumber Ia the
United States would load train Of cara
| % 600 miles long.
! One hundred and forty seven building
and loan associations in Illinois have total
assets of $l5, ,053, 1856, aud loans aggie-
eating sl4, 1929
Ii is circulated that at least 500. goo 600
/ If investment money is available in New
York and that it will be compelled to 80
into second and third-class bonds.
/ According to sworn report made by
/ the miners Of Indiana for the last year 10
the State Board, the average wages OF
the miners was $ls.02 per month.
In Great Britain the total sum paid in
wages for the year of 1861 amounted 20
e48, 900, 900, or an average Of 500 los per
capita for the total number employed.
Twenty-one railway properties, with
an aggregate mileage OF 3.223 miles, and
a capitalization OF over el6S, 600. 900, we're
sold under foreclosure during the past
year.
Eighty-six cities and towns in Maine
have had their manufacturing industries
increased the past year by an addition Of
50, ,O23, $50 in capital aud employment Of
i,I7s more people.
State Commissioner OF Statistics Hell
gesen reports 81, 900, 900 bushels Of wheat
Hs the yield of North Dakota for the year
1891, nearly $4,000, 900 more than has
been estimated heretofore.
Ohio has more building loan associa.
tions than any State in the Union. There
are 900 members in 800 associations
with assets OF $50, ,000,O00 Of which S27,-
| O00, 900 srs held in Cincinnati.