Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-14

THE latest theory CONCERNING Briaht's
disease and other affections 81 the
kidneys Is that they are due to the i'm
moderate use of ice water and other
chilled beverages. Thirty or forty wears
ago, > physician asserts when people
slaked their thirst with fresh water from
well or pump, kidney disease was virtu-
ally unknown. Now, however. the
general use Of ice in every household
and saloon and the multiplication of
soda fountains cause thousands of per
sons 70 abruptly shock their heated
internal organs with freezing draughts,
and kidney troubles ere prevalent.
REcnRocTTx.-Th Detroit Free Press
says: A well-known and wealthy resident
of Woodward avenue recently united by
marriage his large interests to those Of
fashionable and wealthy widow. When
woodward Avenue was counting widow
the latter said to him one evening: 'sAIr.
A., they do say that you are the meanest
person in Detroit" s'Why, dear me,
Mrs. W. was the undisturbed reply,
they say the very same thing of you.
Come now, don't you think we'd make a
good match ~ And they did.
SIeNoR LAsAT1, prominent italian,
writes TO the Drug Nclcs that he knows
an enterprising Italian boy who collects
cigar stumps from the sweepings of the
Elevated Railway Stations in New York
and sells them to the snuff manufacturers.
He pays the company a quarter of his
receipts for the privilege, and, as he
collects about twenty pounds a day, and
sells them for twenty cents pound,
he gets clear income of So a day.
Snuff takers win be pleased to know
that their habit is of use to somebody.
In Evergreen, Ala, lives Q man born
of rich and heightened parents. The
aforesaid man is the proud possessor of a
wife, baby and cat. Between the cat
and baby an affection came up, and
whenever the cat caught rat she would
kill it and bring it to the baby. But,
unfortunately for the cat, one day she
brought the paby lizard which was not
quite dead, and while the baby was play
ing with the lizard the lizard bit the
child. From the effect of the bite the
child is now lying dangerously i'll.
OUR THE ZELDA farmer living
near town tells of lively fight between
bull and q big dog, both of which be-
longed to him. He says the dog got
the bull by the ear, when the latter
raised his head and ran straight through
a very strong stakes-and- rail fence,
pushing his way through with the dog
in front. The rails flew in every direc-
ton, and the dog had several bones
broken. He was glad to let the bull
alone and quit the field Washington
Gazette.
ONLY A WORD. - Mother - 'sAlways
say please, Bobby, when you ask for
anything. Never forget to say please,
even to the servants Father getting
ready to go down town)-"Yes, Robert,
my son, bear in mind what your mother
has told you, and always say please.
It's little word, my boy, but full Of
meaning, and the use of it marks the
gentleman. Now, wife, my overcoat
and hat, and be quick about it. Good
Cheer.
THE Maharajah Of Travancore is GER
tainly worth his weight in gold. He
was recently weighed against mass of
pure gold which was afterward dis
pensed in charity. This custom is one
of great antiq lity, and is said to be
traceable in Travancore to the fourth
century. It is not unknown in other
parts of India, though, of course, gold
is only used In the case of wealthy per-
sons, humble folk being content to
weigh themselves against spices or grain.
THE Koran states that each mother
locust lays ninety-nine eggs, and were
the hundred complete they would de-
stroy the whole world and all that is in
it. The greatest ravages by locusts,
are in Cyprus where the government
spends large annual sum for the exter-
mination of the insects. It is estimated
that the locust slaughter in 1884 must
have been two hundred thousand millions.
On the present occasion the Maharajah
weighed a little over one hundred and
twenty-five pounds. The Brahmins, it
is said, wished to defer the ceremony
in the hope that the Maharajay might
more nearly approach the weight of his
father, who did not undergo the rite
until forty-seven years old, when he
weighed two hundred and eighteen
pounds.
A WRITER who has thoroughly inves-
tigated the subject Of kissing" in its
Biblical forms, says that kissing is men
toned no fewer than fifty times in the
Bible. But he proves that kissing, to be
Scriptural, must be between members of
the same sex, and that twenty-eight out
Of the fifty Biblical kisses were ex-
changed between men.
NEARLY a score of persons have been
killed in San Francisco during the past
wear through the agency of cable cars
according to the records Of the Coroner's
Office, which San Francisco paper
cites.
A PATENT has been secured for max
ing imitation maple syrup. Hickory
bark is soaked in water and an extract is
thus obtained which, added to cane or
glucose syrup, gives it the maple taste
and smell.
THE redwood posts of fence erected
in Napa, Cal, thirty-two years ago
were recently removed and found In
as good condition as when first put