Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-14
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!. an organ Of the body
NJ spleen u.rs has been a piece de re-
- foI 81, he learned, as its precise
80 20 ,,arzlc. 1t is not essential to
= re ? pai been removed from the body
3 sd na = aUpparently dangerous consc
<sosi 90, ~ recent German medical
ascs " man was exhibited from
e'', organ had been taken two
30 tnis half before. on account of
- ssd - man seemed quite well.
- II similar character were re-
% Of exhibited.
Dsha 7 = Philadelphia, who has taken
rssioI., ! Or thirty different patents for
s iasn'. enhances, is now at work
ehhanlCm atom that. if successful, may
! . In, =. pr,eyolutionize ocean and rail-
sps'sli This is nothing else than
b ifa'e ';ootion of steam power. He
] rdap aed steamboat which, by
! ael accession of paddles beneath
80 q nav attain a speed of thirty
s'.'i bonr and accomplish a trip to
8. y ! n three or four days.
80, relic of Pompeii has been
! aall nd among the ruins in an exccp-
.s1s ell > deserved state. 1t is the
~ y FOSSIL OF man who was
f ~ D,,rck while in fight at the
ragg 10 destruction of the city, up
:. 9 = siohteen centuries since. The
9 |" arc we'll defined, the mouth be-
s eh ~ omen. showing the teeth in
asa' the hands are perfect, and
~ J,,nnosed to have held two keys,
!. |, ~, .sIe found close to it, while the
- y, .nread out and slightly raised.
~ member had, however, been
= a. the bone protruded.
~..oum ia name that is known
Inc widest savages of equatorial
y. = Who never heard of Paris or Lon
!. u them it is the center of all that
Eat and it is the capital OF every
Tine Abandonment of Khartoum
"A n their estimation, be the dis
..,;on Of central power, which would
!, impotence. The slave hunters
Y. bsen suppressed by the authority
: gbartoum, and the force required
. a,t mppressiOn has emanated from
I esnter Of strength and government;
sepfore. Khartoum should be aban-
'sJ the protection that was the sup
\ i loyai tribes of the interior would
I, been withdrawn, the supporting
- would have been oveIthrown. and
..ye hunters would again be in the
v,Ddant. Sir Samuel Baker.
i viii be remembered that In the
.ssr Of 1888 it was announced by
Ir1 Victoria that the royal household
nsl not eat lamb during the season.
ny siict has had the effect, according
.Ae official statement of live stock for
81 to place the proportion of lambs
sheep at fifty-nine per cent, also
arng an increase of nearly 900, 900
.ae number Of both. or about four per
II During the past two years the
ra6er Of cattle has also increased by
1000 head, or u per cent. Notwith-
asding the increase in number of cattle,
bat Britain still draws large part of
supply Of meat from other countries.
II Official statement of imports of
Eaa food for the year 1888 shows that
siE from 100000 hundredweight
neat food was imported, amounting
llAOut twenty-eight pounds for each
militant, and costing about 81 per
81.
Richard A. Proctor, the eminent as
ucner says that the age of the earth
placed by some at 500, 900, 900 years.
I soil others of later time, among them
Duke Of Argyll, place it at 10, 0OO,-
eaB None place it lower than
$4,000, knowing what processes
y been gone through. The
II must have become old.
'alOn surmised, although he
give no reason for it, that the earth
" At one time become perfectly dry.
g then 1t has been found that New
vas correct. As the earth keeps
.ssag It will become porous, and great
. I, will be formed in the Interior
'-sa will take in the water. 1t is esti-
- mat this process is now in pro-
: = lar that the water diminishes at
ae Of the thickness of sheet of
as,g paper a year. At this rate In o.
IVY years the water will have sunk
... ma IN -, OOO,O 900 years every trace
'.sI i will have disappeared from the
.O1 the frontiers of Guatemala to