Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-09-13
TIMELY TOPICS

@O 1anan. recently found stone
nafgI' he preserved on account OF its
whien ue subsequently sent it to
las1e n Toxic. who in turn took it
relal,Ts ,atsh ieweler in Yokohama. The
tosa la - pronounced the stone to be Q
eNe.oad worth upwards Of 5000, 600.
diA'p Incky finder has quit mining and is
~ ~ wssNo Yokohama
Innate OF California seems to be
y adonted 10 the best development Of
Ne'' .ha,dnghpred horse. At the sale il
tis ,aonto. recently, of horses sired BY
sas' tan,ous stallion, Norfolk, fourteen of
iiis onalities. colts, FLIES and mares,
~ u, the handsome sum of $40, 200,
DlO, no high average of 1871 each.
g,;s average is fifty per cent. higher
IL that obtained at the recent Loril-
, ,,1 sale. The highest price paid was
$3.50.
Il ia not generally known that the
,..lgamated Association of Iron and
e a workers claims to be one of the
,..,est associations in the world. Ac-
@ordino 10 some Of the reports the mem
Thin is about 100, 900, which di-
..a,iv and indirectly controls and in
sncaces nearly 1000, 900 workingmen.
~ one time the organization was said to
hsrs S375. 900 in its treasury, but the
s,rikes Of the last two years have de-
Melted il considerably.
The shipment of buffalo bones from the
claims of the West to Eastern phosphate
factories has largely increased recently,
because of the reduction in the trunk
line freight rates. Thousands of buffalo
skeletons are gathered up by the bone
men on the prairies, especially in the
valley Of the Arkansas, every season.
One Philadelphia manufacturer alone re-
eeived in the course of two months over
900 carloads. Delivered at the factory
The bones are worth $25 ton.
The problem of running railroads by
means Of electricity has apparently been
solved successfully. Cars using this mo-
live power have been run over a mile Of
road in Cleveland, Ohio, being started,
stopped and reversed with perfect ease.
The current is conveyed underground,
and with the machinery now in use in
Cleveland, any number of cars up to fif-
teen can be run at one time. A leading
electrician of New York predicts that
the time viii soon come when electricity
will supersede horsepower on street rail-
roads and elevated lines
Commenting on the cholera, Nature
SAYS. OF the future course of the cpl
demic it is at this stage almost impossl-
bic to speak with any authority, but it is
very certain that occasional lulls in the
number OF attacks-occurren which
Immediately reported as indicating a
subsidence of the outbreak-cannot be
regarded Ms having much significance in
this respect; for it is one of the essential
characteristics of cholera, especially in
the early stage of an epidemic, to ex-
hbt periodic fluctuations both in the
number and in the intensity of attacks.
Ina town in Normandy lives an aged
lady named Marie Durant, much visited,
who is believed to be 1872 years and few
months old, but who, when asked, with
true feminine instinct declares she does
not know For ninety-six years she has
bean widow, and during her lifetime
four kings have ruled, the stars of two
emperors have risen and set, and three
republics have ocen established. She
lives exclusively on vegetable diet. Her
skin is brown aud wrinkled and all the
flesh seems to have disappeared from
under it, though there are still small
VEINS OF color on her withercd checks.
Some of the Panama and Amazon
grasses and grain heads, so extensively
used on walking hats, have been de-
nouneed on account of the moths that
reside under the little sheaves. These
parasites would not be molested were
they less rapacious But during the
night 1t is learned, they 90 out for a
promenade and eat holes in the velvet
iaclng and trimming. This nuisance
Frplexed the milliners for long time,
Out when the cause was finally reached
the natural grasses from Pampas, Llano,
ana swamps of the Amazon were thrown
n the waste-basket, and o return
aaS been made to the artificial flowers,
iaie
Inc manufacturers of oleomargarine
u England have discovered new and
.asap source of grease for mixing with
'ue'f hlthy compounds. asserts the Amcri-
80 tattiOotor. 1t is asserted that stakes
sle drven into the sewers at London
nOn which stakes fatty deposit left
= sne current is scraped off every day,
aaa after proper treatment this fatty de
!" becomes genuine English dairy but
~ This disgusting source of grease,