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

k, 1Aa psOpNtA9 Hupp0Tte0 ana
supplied II fixed station, party could
stay there long Time Had the Greely
party remained at ifs station it would
nave beer alive today, for the proyis-
ions and the fuel wohld have held out.
but they returned according to orders,
iaiied to find the provisions and fuel
they expected 5elow3 and so miscrably
persisted.
Barley Campbell, Tie playwright. re-
rentiy bought large tenement house in
New York, and uDun visiting Il was
shocked at the condition in which the
people lived. He wentfrom one cramped
and unhealthy roofat0another and looked
at the inmates with; positive surprise.
he had heard and read a good dea:
about. the tenement houses in New
York, but he had never before had any
practical experience, and he sew at Q
glance how little he really knew of the
misery in which thousands of New
Workers dwell. Then Campbell dis
/ possessed sumo of the tenants and made
arrangements at once to occupy a room
In the house himself. There is no mis-
taking what the result of all this will be.
One can easily foresee In the near flu.
ture a play depicting The horrors of tene-
ment-house life in New York from the
pen of hartley Campbell It may prove
fitting companion piece to the Lights
o London and the other great English
melodramas.
| DR.. Koch, the great authority or
cholera, stated in neat lecture last
night in Berlin, that he was convinced
the delta of the Ganges was the real home
of the disease. The religious pilgrimages
in India greatly promoted the spread OF
the cholera. An improved water supply,
DIR. Koch thought was the best means
of checking the disease. The researches
of Dr.. Koch regarding the cause and
progress of cholera have excited great
interest in Poland, where epidemics
somewhat similar to that now existing in
France are of almost annual occurrence.
The newspapers Of Warsaw have devoted
great deal of space;to the discussion OF
cholera, and cholera forms the leading
topic of conversation in the cafes and
other places of popular amusement. One
curious result Of this general agitation is
an offer by an educated Pole, in middle
age and vigorous health, to allow him
self to be inoculated with the cholers
microbes so that tho effect of such an
incubation in human being in normal
health may be scientifically scrutinized
! In the physical warld South America
is full of wealth, and nature has be.
/ slowed upon it matcnless grandeur in
its rivers and its mountains Professor
Fisher shows that inter tropical America
surpasses all the world in the number and
!, variety of its plants, while Agassiz shows
how greatly the wonderful variety Of its
/, fishes surpasses that ssof North America.
Much of the country is now malarious
and unhealthy, vet vast regions of ele-
waited and most beautiful sections are
most saIubr1ous and healthy, and clothed
with an incredible wealth of ceaseless
production. Endless varieties of the
most luscious fruits aad beautiful flowers.
with birds of gorgeous plumage and
gigantic butterflies, delight the eye on
every hand, far up on elevations where
neither the winter cold nor excessive
heat is ever known, and all nature teens
with health, beauty and abundance.
Even the low levels along the great
river team with endless wealth and in.
vite commerce thai has scarcely be-
gun, save in few Articles. East of the
Andes, and intersected by many great
rivers, is probably the greatest and most
valuable forest on the globe, and almost
untouched by the axe. Mr. Thompson,
who held the position of consul at Brazil
for some time, states that in travelling on
the Amazon he saw sandalwood trees
that hers would each be worth S., 1000,
yet of whose value the natives seemed
unconscious or indifferent
A muscular young Scotchman, who
had passed the physical examination
creditabIy, was rejected by the United
States recruiting officer in Philadelphia