Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-02-11

anu selllng e1s'VVV'OOO worth OF pooa.
annually The outfit represents s r'
spindlcs than there are in p.
Italy. Spain and Austria, and ns,,, .
as many as in Germany or Franco
The chiffoniers, rag picker :.
Paris. are well known elas.
have often been made subjects 70, =.
artists pencil and brush, their -. -
ugliness being sort of pictures
recommendation. Many of these ~ -
old and decrepid and live in ml...
while they leave a bank accom-, !,
hind at their decease. Once in MIA.
there have been stories told of bo0,.
cas- coming to these miserablesn !.
shape of silver or jewelry which n.
been carelessly thrown out with 4.
garbage. One poor old soul found
valuable diamond, AMI so anrion.
was he to preserve his secret and :.
cure his wealth that he sewed it carr.
fully in his dirty cap which he wo,.
day and night. 1t was only accdsD
tally found. when the poor wretch
died, by a crony, who suspected som.
thing from his tenacity in alwav,
keeping hold of his old car.
The following figures are published
regarding the prevalence of incendiav
fires III the variousIstates of the Union.
Seventy-four per cent. of the fires in
Tennessee are of incendiary origin
while South Carolina and North Caro-
lima have 20 per cent. each; MississiO.
pi, 63 per cert; Arkansas, Copper cent,
West Virginia. 81 per cent; Indiana
So per cent; Alabama, So per cent;
Georgia and Kentucky, 81 per cent
each, and Virginia. so per cent. In
all the other states the number Of in.
cendiary fires is below 50per cent Of
the total. Oregon has but per cent,
New Hampshire. 9 per cent; Mary.
land, II per cent; Illinois, l5rg
cent, and Kansas, 10 per cent, while
the following states are above 90 per
cent, but under the average of 80:
California, Pennsylvania, Vermont
Missouri. Maine, New York, Rhode
Island, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and
New Jersey.
The use of pigeons =. ~
new thing, but the extent to winch
the service is now being carried on the
Continent is really remarkable. After
the Franco-Prussian war the Germans
set themselves ia good earnest to
organize q system of transmission
which had rendered such important
services to the French during the seigo
Of Paris. It is intended to form
another pigeon house on great scale
at Schwetzingen, near Mannheim In
each of these houses, with two exceP
tons, there are 200 birds, but themH-
tary Importance of Metz and Stras
burg is illustrated by the fact that
in these two places there are 6VO
pigeons kept always ready. Tho
pigeons are under the supreme
authority of the commanding officer Of
the place, but they are more directly
subordinated to minor official, win
a staff of three or four persons under
him. AL the pigeon houses are
annually INSPECTED by the inspectO''
general Of military telegraphs, and tho
pigeon service figures in the budga
for an annual sum Of nearly Sl0OO0
A man in West Newton, Penn, tax"
the souvenir when it comes to queH
ways Of making living. The lndF
vidual in question now earns his breSa
and butter by supplying the gOoa
people of that city with hot water 10
has fitted up an immense iron tanl
at a paper-mill and into it has runI
the steam escapes about the plS"
The steam soon condenses, and MAKE
the softest and purest water ID W.
world. He has also fitted up a'SnA
wagon, in which to deliver his s'OeA'