Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-09-16

80 indians, says Sn"o
Va. = living in theoutskirts of Car
~ Nevada who is nearly one hun
., nd fifty years old Her grand
q y i the age Of thirty. was one Of
e - Fremont's guides when ne
,rssed the plains.
ens,ime, our misfortunes are
.,...ioos in disguise" as, for instance.
lad food which inundated Cincin-
y y ! cleansed the city that it has
~ u. unusually healthful ever since,
~. ni,ie, would be benefited by a
and dose of the same medicine.
professional gambler, says an
rsasrn paper, who has just returned
,m a western tour reports that
.,mbling is dying out in the West,
4, houses being open and the stakes
s,oall that they are hardly worth
,,g;,o for. Even on the Mississippi
s.,ts gambling is strictly prohibited.
v.r orleans, with it's licensed tables,
.,osars to be the gamblers only refuge.
Possibly the traveller did not pause a
,Igbt or two in Chicago.
local paper Of Dakota is response
Az FOR the following: A Dakota
farmer in 1881 planted single grain
# spring wheat and from it grew
lventy-two stalks, each bearing full
head of wheat, yielding in all 800
rr.ins of wheat; 760 of these were.
ol,nted the next year, producing one
nth Of a bushel of splendid wheat
This vas planted last spring, yielding
ayenteen bushels, making / ,O20 pounds
Il wheat from one grain in three years.
The revision of the Old Testament.
which it was hoped, would be out this
year, will probably not make its APP
pearance before early in 1885. The
eghty-6fth and last session of the
English revision committee has been
held, but months must intervene be-
fore the complete work can be given
10 the public. Nothing is positively
known of any changes made in the old
yersioa, the revisers on both sides of
The Atlantic having kept their pledge
Of secrecy.
Benjamin Franklin left $4,000 to
Boston to be loaned in small sums to
Young married mechanics under rs
who had served an apprenticeship. had
good character, and could give bonds
for the repayment of the money in an
nual instaiments. The changed con-
iition of mechanics, the decay of the
apprentice system. and other causes
have made the bequest of no value to
those for whom it was intended under
he rules Franklin laid down. The
fund now amounts to more than
$4,000, and is increasing at the rate
otSl0,000 a year.
A wonderful farm is that known as
Baldwin's Santa Anita ranch, in Los
Angeles county, California. 1t COM
prises 100 acres in grapes. 10000
orange and lemon trees, 1000 pome-
grantees, 5000 English walnut trees,
1000 almond trees. $500 peach trees.
1000 pear trees, 1000 apricot trees,
lVOO fig trees. and subsistence is
furnished for $4,000 head of sheep,
7VOV cows and pigs and several hun
lfed horses and mules. and this year
'etore harvest could be seen 1900
acres Of golden grain.
A correspondent of the Illustrated
london Neics says that the best sol
ners IN the world are not EngIishmen,
: an Englishman would naturally
'llnk, but Montenegrins and the men
" herzegovina These mountaineers
@s q stalwart proportions, heroic
'0O'ase and marvellous military apti-
'uue They are without rivals any
'"s'e IN the world" Next, he says.
,0ne the Turks-"the private soldiers;
wave. patient. hoSnitahle- endurinu