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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27
Tired Eyes.

People speak about their eyes being
fatigued, meaning that the retina,
or seeing portion of the brain, is fatigued,
but such is not the case, as the retina
hardly ever gets tired. The fatigue is
in the inner and outer muscles attached
to the eyeball and the muscle of accom-
mediation, which surrounds the lens of
the eye. When a near object is to be
looked at this muscle relaxes and allows
the lens to thicken, increasing its refrac-
tive power. The inner and outer mus
cles to which / referred are used in COW
.ering the eye on the object to be looked
at. the inner one being especially used
when near object is to be looked at. 1t
is in the three muscles mentioned that
the fatigue is felt. and relief Is secured
temporarily by closing the eyes or gazing
at far distant objects. The usual indica-
ton of strain is redness of the rim of
the eyelid, betokening congested state
of the inner surface, accompanied with
some pain. Rest is not the proper remedy
for q fatigued eye, but the use Of glasses
of sufficient power to render unnecessary
so much effort to accommodate the eye
TO vision. IS Scientific american.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27
CLIPPINGS Foh THE CURIOUS.


The horseshoe crab grInds it's food
between its thighs.
One-half the hnnsan family die under
seventeen years 81 age.
There is now aaw wine in france
which is manufactured out OF the COM
mon beet root.
The moa, or dinoIsis, was huge bird
Of New ZEALAND, thu largest specimens
being three times tlfa size Of On ostrich.
In 1884 'cages end stocks. " for the
punishment Of Offenders, were ordered
to be set mp in every ward in the city of
London.
Hippocrates, bornsat Cos, 400 B. G.,
was the first person 70 apply himself to
the study Of physic is the sole business
Of his life.
The island of Oeyl5n ana the king
doms OF Pegu and Eurmah contain al
most the only ruby aid sapphire mines
Of the world.
y, James Watt congratulated himself
that one Of his s.eam cylinders only
lacked three. eightha Of an inch of being
truly cylindrical.
Il was the Emperor Charles v. who
invented the title d "your M .jesty,"
govereigns' having previously been adj
dressed as "your Grace"
The Romans held peculiar views
about ducks; they ate only the head and
breast, the remainder being, according
to Martial, the cooks per quisise.
In Russia, where card playing is
carried on to great extent. the manu-
facture of the carde is a government
monopoly, and there is only one factory,
from which $4,000 packs are turned out
daily or over 100000 year.
Governments previous to and during
the middle ages have been in most cases
hoarders of metallic wealth, result of
the theory that the MISSES had no right
to property. As far dewn as the reign
of Frederick, of Prussia, Henry VI. Of
England, and Henry ~, of France, &C.
emulation of public wealth marks the
progress of most of the kingdoms of
Europe.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27

Geological Gardens of London and
Dublin. so keen Is the pursuit Of
genuine Wild beasts in the Soudan and
the regions adjoining that within . very
few years travellers have noted re-
markably falIing-off In big game.
Between the sportsmen who 90 fully
equipped for slaughter from this and
othe- countries, the natives, now better
armed than formerly, and the snarers
who seek live specimens for Mr.. Jam
rach and his brethren, the monarchs of
desert and forest are having hard time
of It just now, and have little to thank
steam for in bringing the white man
into the heart of their Businesses.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27
POaching in England.

The penalty for posohing varies with
the nature of the offsnse; the season of
the year, the hours of the day or night,
even religion, affecting it. As for in
stance, taking game On a Sunday or
Christmas day subjects the taker to o
fine of e5. and for killing game birds
during the ''Close" season the fine is 81
per head of those killed. These pen
alties, however. are; not special to
poachers, the owners Of the game itself
being liable to them. The laws that
more affect the poachar come under
the heading of I" Txespass," and
he is termed q " treypasser in pur-
suit Of game" When caught so tres
passing in the day (whioh is defined as
from the beginning Of the last hour
before sunrise and concluding with the
expiration of the first hour after sun
set") the penalty is 95 and costs. If
the trespass be by night it is punished
not by fine but imprisonment, and the
term is accumulative; for first ofFense,
three months, with suseties required
ct IDS expiration; for q second,
six months. with double the
amount in money securities not to Of
1end again; and in case Of third or
further trespass il is treated as Ennis
demeanor." And If the: tresrasser re-
fuse giving his name TO those who have
the right to demand it OF him, offsr re
sistance to them or use violence, the
punishment assumes still more seri-
ous phase, especially IL ne be known
poacher; and above ALL where there
are several acting together and armed.
As may be supposed. gamekeepers
and policemen are empowered to make
summary arrest Of thosa.they may sus-
poet Of being poachers, and were this
power confined to its legitimate pur-
pose there would be no great harm in
it. Unfortunately, however. it is not
thus restricted, but too often stretched
and abused, especially ~ the police
man. Exulting in the possession OF this
almost irresponsible authnrity, he also
glories in making display Of it; the
consequence being shat many = poor
laboreR returning wearied from his days
work, with no moro thought Of game.
stealing than The man il the moon. is
brought UP By hail as Of highwaynan
- stand and deliver" :
Held.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27

A new drawing room car has been re-
Gently made, in, which, by simple de-
vice, the heavy chairs arc made to fold
at joints: the seats sink to the floor, the
mirrored panels swing open, reaching
within foot of the car center, and.
presto, the drawing room is divided into
ten sections, each affording bedroom
in which there are two beds, mirror.
wardrobe hooks and other convenienaes.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27

The aiarmist views as to the increase
Of insanity, which have lately been forced
into prominence, are not countenanced
by the commissioners in lunacy Of Eng
land. They state in their report that
the apparent increase is due almost
wholly to accumulations in the asylums
of the chronic insane.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27
TIMELY TOPICS.

England and Germany lead the world
in the manufacture OF beer. There are
q, $50 breweries in. England, which
made last year 800, 600, 900 gallons Of
beer, while Germany has 25, 0g2, which
produced 80, 600, 900 gallons in the same
period Think Of it
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27

The demand for animals for exhibition
In Europe and in civilized America has
armed enterprizing hunters with net and
trap, and sent them far into the wilds of
unexplored Africa The Soudan. part
of that continent to which attention and
even anxiety are now directed, has long
been hunting ground for the providers
of the great dealers like Mr.. Jamrach,
whose repository at East-end, London,
has been so frequently described. The
difficulty of catching some of the animals
is very great. A hippopotamuss for in
stance, may be aetted: but he is very
big fish to land safe and
well, to send over hundreds Of
miles of Soudan tracks, to ship sound
and in good condition and 70 land at a
European port after sea voyage. The
cost of such an undertaking is very great
and not unfrequently is incurred in vain.
Delicate animals torn from the steaming
swamps and reedy thickets In which they
delight are xery apt, after all the pains
and risk of capturing them, to die upon
their enslavers' hands. Perhaps the king
Of beasts is as handy as any Of his sub
iects. At least he suffers less in captivity
than the majority Of them, if we may ac-
cept as proof the frequent leonine
families which bring EeiOicin0 to the
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27


A natural curiosity that bids fair to
outrival the famous Mammoth Cave of
Kentucky has just been discovered on
the farm of John Davis, who resides six
mics east of Jacksboro, Campbell county,
Tenn. Only one chamber of the cave
has been explored thus far, and that only
partly. in which prehistoric mummies,
with sandals on their feet, in excellent
state of preservation, have been found.
some petrifed, others preserved by the
salt OF the cave. The walls of the cham
Der are decorated with paintings of ex-
tinct or imaginary animals A large
stream abounds with blind fish. Mr..
Davis has captured a species of jackal
or red fox, and the cave seems to be full
of both animal and vegetable life.
Crickets as large as English sparrows hop
or leisurcly walk off when alarmed, and
rats as large as jack rabbits run about in
semi-domesticated recognition. Foot
prints of exquisite mold ere well defined
In the hardened mud, and miniature for
ests along the banks of the river are
clothed in snow-white foliage and SEN
sitive flowers.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27

An English statistician maintains that
the daily increase of wealth in the United
States is upward Of $25, OO0, 600, or about
$s3S, 600, 900 year, which is one-third
as much as the increase in wealth Of the
whole of the rest of the world. Eng
land, whose increase in wealth is next to
our own, makes only profit on all her
business of $500, 600. 900 year, or but
a little over a third of our own.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27

Aratheringenious expedient for eluding
the payment of octIoi duty was hit upon
lately by certain enterprising individuals
in France Cholera having made its
appearance at Cette, in the Herault, and
in the outlying villages, it occurred to
these persons to turn the circumstance to
their own advantage. They arrayed
themselves, according to the local pa
pers, il black. obtained hearse and a
certain number of collins, and went
backward and forward from the town
to the communes outside it. 1t CHANGED,
however, that the attention of the author
tiles was attracted by the unusual num-
Der of apparent interments that took
place during the night, and, upon in
quiries being made, it was found that
were these funerals al. bona fde there
must have been more persons buried
from the environs of Cette than had
died. This being an obvious impossi-
bility the hearsc was stopped by the
octroi officials, and the coffin in it was
opened, with the result that instead of a
corpse quantity of alcohol was found,
as well as soap and other wares liable to
pay duty, all oil which were seized.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27

ing the authority 81 the queen, who Is
he. self the direct ruler. The salary OF
the governor general j. $50, 900 per year.
He has thirteen advisers, comprising
cabinet. and known as the queens privy
council Of Canada. These men receive
salaries Of $1,000 per year. and 81, 600
extra Tor each parliamentary session, ex-
cepting the premier, who receives IS, 900
and the additional 81 900 per session.
The total Of these salaries is 1855, 900.
which, compared with the 500, 600 paid
the President and his cabinet, flavors of
extravagance. The departments are of
justice, of finance, of agriculture, of
state, of war, of customs, of inland rev.
enue, of the interior, of marine and fish
cries, and Of the postoffice.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27

Now York city has about completed
improvements which will prevent any
future water famine in the city by add
ing 10000, 0G0 gallons Of water day to
the Croton supply of 9S, 900. 900. This
extra water supply comes from Rye lake,
which is fed exclusively by springs. The
new reservoir covers an area Of 900 acres.
From this an iron pipe, four feet In
diameter, is laid a distance of over
fifteen miles, connecting with the Gro
ton mains.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27

In the neighborhood of Amsterdam,
Holland, writes correspondent of the
Garden, there are over $50 market gar
dens, in the greater portion of which
such kinds Of vegetables as it is usual to
forward under glass are grown, while
some are devoted exclusively to Haricot
beans, cab bages and other things com
monty cultivated as field crops. The
Dutch market gardeners are a laborious,
pains taking class. but, seldom journey
ing far from homo, are welded to old
ways, some of their appliances being of
a very primitive description. Thus, for
instance, the sashes of their frames are
glazed with small squares bedded in
lead, just like the old-fashioned case
ment windows, fact which seems most
strange, seeing that that style of glazing
garden frames has for many years been
quite obsolete in European gardens gen
orally. The frames themselves are of a
rough description, being formed of thick
boards, being generally some eighty feet
long and divided into COMPARTMENTS at
need. Where ground is so valuable,
space is naturally economical as much
as possible. there being but about one
and half feet between each row OF
frames. Each market garden is sur
rounded by hedges and divided into two
or several portions by screens or trans
verse hedges. In a level country like
Holland, where there are but few natural
breaks to the fury of the winds, some
such kind of artificial protection is al
most indispensable, and especially where
large number of glass frames are en-
ployed. One or more of these compart-
ments are occupied by the dwelling
house, sheds, cellars for vegetables. and
frames; the remainder are devoted to
the various kinds of crops which may be
made speciality of.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-27

A Frenchman has sent circular to all
his friends asking why they cultivate a
beard. Among the answers 8 stated,
because / wish to avoid shaving" 10
because / do not wish to catch cold I"
5 because wish to conceal bad teeth -
/ because wish to conceal the length
of my nose;' because am SOLDIER
81 because / was soldier" So s'be-
cause my wife likes it" % ''because my
love likes it." Is answered that they
wore no boards.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-05-23

They are learning how to adver-
tise in Paris. A curious scene was
witnessed the other day in a fash
ionable quarter. A fashionably
dressed young man walked into a
we'll known cafe; then, having man
aged to attract some attention, he
sauntered up and down the garden,
finally seating himself at a small ia
BILE. To him came a person who,
from his conversation, proved to be
a tailor, and who nccused him in
warm words of being ungrateful,
stating that he had dressed him on
credit for five years. The young
fellow fired up and declared himself
insulted. A crowd gathered, and
eager ears listened to the high
words. Finally, to convince the
quondam tailor that another house
was cheaper and better, the late
client pulled out the bill for the gar
ments he wore. The name, price,
address, &C., were read aloud, and
the open-mouthed crowd drank it in.
The enterprising tailor who got up
this little drama found his profits.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-05-23
Clear Headed

In one instance 1 had my neld
glass with me, says noted traveller,
and made careful notes of what took
place. The crows had assembled on
Duck island, in the Delaware river,
and were busilv engaged running
along the sand bars exposed at low
tide. Every few moments one of
them would rise up to a height of
fully fifty feet, carrying mussel in
its beak. and flying inland to a dis
tance of one hundred yards, world
let the mullusk fall on the meadow.
Uusually the force of the fall was
sufficient to break the shell. The
crows, as soon as they had let fall
their burden, Immediately returned
to the island and bars and gathered
more mussels. This was continued
until the returning tide made mussel-
hunting impraeticable. In no in
stance did the crows carry the food
they were gathering by their feet.
There is one fact with, reference to
this habit of the crows which is, l
think, indicative of greater intelli-
gence than the mere fact of lifting an
object and dropping it in order to
break 1t. This is, that all the mus
sells so dropped were left undisturb-
ed until the returning waters made
further fishing imPracticable, when
the birds hastened to feaston the re-
suits of their intelligent labor. Mar
velous as it may seem, these crows
recognized the nature of tides; and,
knowing their time was short, made
as good use of it as possible.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-05-23
Setting Ont Vegetable Plants.

1 have a neighbor who grows
plants of cabbage, celery, tomato,
pepper, &C., for sale. On rainy
days in May people come under
streaming umbrellas to getthe plants
they wish to set out. 1t Clashes"
me to see how they mismanage. 1t
is all very well for the plants to be-
carried in the rain if they can be set
out without miring the leaves or
hardening the ground but very often
the tender tomato, and even egg
plants, are taken along in the cold
rain to be set out at the same time
as the others. OF course they lose
color or change color, showing that
growth has stopped, and once stop
ped it does not recover in time to
gain the benefits of the fine weather
of early June. The plants become
too thick to grow, and never make
any good returns. notice a few
but slowly increasing number of
persons who plant before the rain,
when trampling of the bed does
good instead of harm, making the
fine mold still finer. They carry
their plants in a bucket with little
water covering the roots. Well filled
with this water they do not wilt,
even in sunshine, if the ground is so
fine as to close up we'll around the
roots; the sunshine, on the contrary,
starts growth promptly; new root
lets quickly issue in the fine, humid
soil, and growth goes on almost un-
checked. A great advantage of this
method is that no leaves are soiled
and spoiled by being handled with
muddy fingers, nor are the stems
bent and strained by being carried
by the neck or waist, head and feet
hanging and swinging about. Some
of the more painstaking and success
full use the excellent precaution of
laying paper, or leaves, or rags, or
slate, or glass, like little patch of
carpet, upon the soil around each
plant, and then watering from a can
with q fine nose. This secures a
rinsing and cleansing of the leaves,
while no splash IS thrown against
them, and the surface close around
them is not hardened or cru<ted,
yet is gradually made moist by the
water soaking inward from the edge
of this mulch. In this way, too, the
soil remains moist as well as loose.
The first care in transplanting should
be to prevent the plant from flag
ging, by keeping it growing on;
planting in when the air conditions
are most favorable to it's constitution
as, usually, about June 1 20 10 for
tomatoes, &C., and 10 to Is for egg
plants.-Country Gentleman.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-05-23

THERE are fashions IN medicines
and curative agents as well as IN
dress. The virtues of hot water
taken IN the early mornings, and at
meals, is now urged by many health
reformers. Raw meat is extensively
used in consumption and other
chronic diseases. The latest FASH
ion in Paris is the quaffing of hot
blood by weakly and anemic young
girls and women. They drive daily
to the slaughter-house to have cup
Of it, just as they would visit a spring
at watering place. Some of them
take bath of hot blood once or
twice a week. Certain fast young
men in New York go to restaurants,
where they can procure a rare ten
derloin steak broiled and served
without gravy or any vegetables.
At some places machines are in vogue
for squeezing out the blood, which
can be served with the steak. The
hot water cure, by the way, is as old
as Gil Bias, for the treatment of DIR.
Sangrado was hot water and blood
letting but the moderns drink blood,
whereas the physicians Of the seven
teenth century let it out of the sys-
tom
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-05-23

A CoUETERFEIT S1O-bill of the
series of 1875, we'll calculated to de-
ceive, is in circulation and should be
guarded against. Close inspection
will reveal the fact that the yignette
head of Webster is badly done, and
the lettering rough and imperfect at
various points. In The genuine the
inscription, "Washington, D. c." is
in open face italic caps and small
caps, the letters W d c being larger
than the others, while in the coun-
terfeit the inscription is In the same
kind of type, but all of the same
size. The inscription, ''This note is
a legal tender for ten dollars" is
badly spaced on the counterfeit,
the words ''for" and "ten" joining
each other. The imprint of "Bu-
reau Engraving and Printing" is inn
perfect, the letters slanting. The
lettering in the panel on the back ls
badly done, the characters being ir-
regular and run together. The
counterfeits are mostly on plain pa
per with the fiber of the original imi-
tation by fine lines on the back
drawn with pen or printed; q later
issue, however, of the counterfeit is
printed on an imitation of fiber pa
per, made with very coarse threads
or hair in the body of it.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-05-23
TRUSTEES SALE BY SHERIFF.

Whereas Peter Paquin and Ella Paquin.
his wife, by their certain deed of trust,
dated the 18th day of September, AID.
1879, and recorded in deed of trust book
n, on page 246, in the Recorders office of
Charlton County, Missouri, conveyed to b.
b, Davis, as trustee, all their right, title
and interest in and TO the following de-
scribed real estate, situate. lying and be-
ing in the county of Charlton, State OF
Missouri, to-wit: The sou;heas. quarter of
the northeast quarter of section eight 8,
township iifty-two 81, range seventeen Ii;
also eighteen iS acres off Of the west end
of the southwest quarter of the northwest
quarter, and the west half of the southwest
quarter of section nine 8. township fifty.two
81, range seventeen IL, taken so as to run
the same width from one end to the other,
containing fifty.eight So acres, more or
less, with all the rights, privileges and APP
performances thereto belonging, which
said conveyance was made in
trust to oecure the payment of a
certain promissory note in said deed OF
trust described, and whereas SAID note has
become due and remaius unpaid, and
whereas said deed provides that in case Of
the absence, death, or refusal, or disability
in any wise of the said trustee to aci, the
Sheriff of Charlton county may proceed to
sell the property in compliance with. tho
terms of said deed, and whereas B. B. Da
Wis, said trustee, refuses to act in the prem
isos, now. therefore, at the request of the
legnl holder of said note, and in pursuance
of the terms of said.deed of trust, will. on
SATURDAY, MAY 81, AID. 1884.
Between the hours of 8 o'clock in the fore
noon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of tha
day, at the east front door of the court
house, in the town of Keytesville. Charitor
county. Missouri, expose 70 sale the above
described property al public vendue to th'
highest bidder for cash. for the purpose o
satisfying said note aud paving the cost
and expenses of executing this trust.
JAMES f. OWEN,
Sheriff of Charlton County, No.