Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-05-21
ODDS AND ENDS.


Tower Of London.
TIN banking capital Of the United
States to-day Is e738, 0O0, 900.
GKEKRAE. KoMARoFF's name Is said
50 mean ''son-of-a-mosquito.
IT Il estimated that $4,000 cans Of
milk are sold daily In Boston.
ABOUT three thousand Eve hundred
horses die every week In London.
Al TURNIP, closely resembling an
elephant, is on exhibition ct Key West.
COEcoRD, N. a., Second Adventista
predict the end of the world on May 10.
CHINA, IL is said. will reorganize her
military system 81 Japan has already
done.
Only S46 Boston boys and girls
fourteen years Of age do not attend
school.
SU1nGER cottages In chrome yellow
viii vie with the tawny sea-sands this
season.
LORD LoRan will probably succeed
Earl Spencer as Lord Lieutenant Of
Ireland.
Mn. ARTHuR is said 70 have increased
in weight since he threw of his official
dignity.
An iron car wheel win travel about
10000 miles. A steel tire win Run
200, 900 miles
THH English Lifeboat Service saved
698 lives and eighteen vessels during
the past year.
THn ground upon which Virginia
City Is located has moved thirty inches
east since 1875.
Tx million base ball bats viii be
used by the base ball clubs Of this
country this year.
A BURGLAR was arrested In Sacra-
nento dressed in 3 priests cassock,
which he had stolen.
A LIEUTENANT and sixteen soldiers Of
She regular army are still keeping guard
over Gardeld's grave.
PRRFECTLY dressed young men IN
London theaters, et first performances,
now wear fur. lined coats.
THERE are 100, 900, 600 women and
girls IN China, nearly ell Of whom are
nneducated and ignorant
Tar drink bill of England last year
was $631, TAG, $50, an increase over the
rear previous Of 81 369. 800.
PEDRO /, Of Brazil, Is the Doyen
nmong crowned heads, having had
forty-fonr years Of sovereignty.
EXPERIMENTS made in Paris show that
the crocodile can bring its jaws together
with the force Of over 800 pounds.
SOUND travels through the air 81 the
rate Of /, 142 feet in second, or Q mile
zn about four and two. thirds seconds.
Tar European and American forests
cover twenty-seven times the area Of
the known coal measures Of the world.
TRnn planting is systematically fos.
tered ii China, and $50, 900 trees were
aet out last year in Hong Kong alone.
IT Is proposed TO utilize the Yellow
stone Park for the preservation Of the
bison, which is now very nearly extinct.
THE bite OF q Chinaman or . negro Is
far more serious to Caucasian than
wound inflicted by one OF his own race.
AMogo the Western cities Chicago ex-
nanded the most IN new buildings last
year, the sum aggregating $50, 6S9, 600.
A JEALOUS Christian woman Ia
Lowell has left her husbands bed and
board because he viii not be converted.
ALABAMA physicians say that pneu-
monia Is now worse ia that State than
avor before within thirty or forty years.
In Virginia peanuts are now ground
into what proves q very fair nour for
making pie crust and other light pas
tries.
SWANS have been known To live to the
ane Of 900 years. Culver thinks it prob
able that whales sometimes live 1000
years.
THn largest diamond Of The world is
20 be cut soon az Amsterdam. It was
found In South Africa and weighs 475
oaxats.
A PUBLIC playground in London.
about one and half acres IN extent, has
an everage daily attendance Of 2.639
ohiIdren.
LAST week en- English company pur-
chased &C, 600 head Of cattle and &c, 900
eEes Of land near Fk Worth, Texas for
s, 500. 600.
a coMprEr German translation 81
the Baby lonian 1almud the first accom-
plished) ia 20 be published shortly at
lnnspruck
A CAVE ok unknown extent Is reported
90 have been discovered in Josephine
county, Oregon, twenty miles south q
Grant Pass.
Ii Is denied that ssOliyer Wendell
Holmes carries 4 large horse chestnut
"a his pocket - = preventive Of rheu,
nakio pains.
A p1rcR Of needle which catered The
a0ot of . Boston street car conductor
fourteen years ago came out oE his arm
lhe other day.
TnnRR a bin before the New York
Xazislature TO punish 3 person who
snakes noise in . public library and
s7isturbg other people.
Two TA1rRA, Fla, fishermen lately
pkuEea aawish Is feet 8 inches long.
s leot vide, and weighing 500 pounds
1he saw was over four feet long.
a EknnnR near Sacramento says his /
ar0p OF asparagus this season win bring |
aim SO. 600, of which So. 600 win be /