Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-03-26

feeding his army. The native will live
upon cake of black bread and few
lentils and an onion, and never care for
animal food. all that an Egyptian
boarding house keeper requires to set up
business is a few dates, few oranges,
| peck Of lentils and onions and 8 half
dozen pones of black bread.
Gas il used in few bedrooms in Europe
and in very few upper class houses. 1t
is being taken out Of pretty nearly all the
old houses in England and on the CONT
nent. It is deemed unhealthy, consum-
ing the fresh air of the rooms, beside
being very hot light, having the prop
erty Of soiling the ceilings and dimming
the paintings. Lamps and candles are
taking the place Of gas in all houses, cx-
cept possibly in halls, kitchens and like
rooms.
Notwithstanding the serious political
troubles in Peru the country is reported
| hourishing In various respects. The
people take great interest in education,
and the schools contain 10, 900 pupils
with 1000 teachers. Agriculture pros
pers, and last year the wheat crop was
10, 600, 900 bushels and the oat crop
| 1000, 900 bushels. This is said to surpass
oil neIghboring countries. There are in
that country Is, 00O, 900 sheep and 1,000,-
600 cattle.
The principal pawnshop in Mexico is
owned and run by the government, and
occupies the old palace where the
vicerOys lived while the country was a
colonial possession of Spain. The vice.
roys seldom lived in the governmental
palace, which stands on the location of
the great Aztec temple. There is ira
dition that every man who has lived in
that building ended his days in. misfor-
tune and misery So the viceroys had a
palace built across the plaza. where they
lived without fear of this superstition.
For an officer in a regiment to put on
by mistake the cap of another officer
does not at first sight seem to be one of
those offences for which blood alone can
atone. That, however, was the view
taken OF such an incident by the sec
onds of two Prussian officers at Cologne,
who were looked upon as bound by the
laws of honor to meet in mortal combat
lin duel, that Is to say-which was to
be continued until at least one of the
two parties engaged received q serious
wound. Revolvers were the weapons
selected, and after no fewer than seven
teen shots had been fired, one of the
combatants was found to have received
so serious wound that soon afterward
he died.
Tho persistent fertility of the produc-
ing lands in the South is the subject of
an interesting paper by William L. Tren-
holm, of South Carolina, published in
the last quarterly report Of the chief of
the bureau OF statistics the conclusion
arrived at, from a careful survey ofdata
extending back to the first planting
that in the future as in the past the
volume of our cotton product will be
maintained without an increase of the
area at present under cultivation. There
are farms in South Carolina which have
been growing cotton for many years
past, aud which, under the careful
management employed, maintain their
productiveness unimpaired.
A Paris letter says that the exhibi-
ton of 1889 in In its financial stage Just
now. It Is likely to be based on the pecu-
MARY lines of the 1867 worlds fair,
which resulted in profit of 5000, 900 |
francs, while the show of 1873 balanced
in 4 deficit OF 50, 900, 900. The cash for
the 1867 structure was raised by q guar
antee fund placed on the market, the
subscribers receiving the profits. The
state having been a heavy loser by the
1878 exhibition, the capital for the com
ing one of 1889 will be raised by private
subscription, and limited in its total to
avoid expenses. The shares will be 900
francs each, and, as exhibitors will have
this time to pay for the space they &C.
cupy- France not being rich enough,
momentarily, to pay for all her glories--
they can settle the exhibition rent In the
form Of shares. The administrative ex-
penses Of the 1873 exhibition were ex-
actIy six times more than those Of 1867
lie taken in hand by private capitalists,
saving Of three millions in the shape OF
official expenses will be effected for
1889. "
The sudden and remarkable growth Of
the roller-skating pastime has created
constantly increasing demand for certain
size 0f lockwood for rollers, and where
eighteen months ago q ton Of three-inch
wood brought $50 il Is now impossible
to buy ton for $3.50. The price has
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