Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-04-16


EEakislicians say chat he smallest an-
w0al rain fail u this country Il Ia New
Mexico and Calilcrnia. thirteen and
eighteen inches respectively and The
highest ia Oregon and Alabama. f0rkY-
nine and dlty-slx inches.
a vegg thin coat e glycerine applied
on both sides viii prevent window
pane from becoming obscured by steam
81 hoar-frost: ia fact glycerine mar BE
used ia this way to prevent fIm Of con
densed moisture gathering On any article.
4 collection 81 skulls from the South
crn hemisphere has been studied ia Eng
land, the most notable conclusion reached
being that some Of the races OF South
Africa, Australia and the s0n1hernm0sE
part az South America are remarkable for
the smallness Of their heads.
Il is stated that steel which has been
burned in the forge can have It's original
qualities restored BY plunging the metal,
at q red heat, into mixture Of two parts
IF pitch, two parts of train oil, one part
Of tallow and 8 small quantity Of common
salt. The operation should be repeated
two Or three times.
In Great Britain and Ireland the num-
Der Of envelopes manufactured ii 4 year
is said to be 700, 000, GOO in the United
States they amount to about 9, 500, 900, :
900. IL hand labor were compelled TO
do the work now done by machines IN
simply making envelopes, taking no &C
count Of the printing done BY some Of
them, il would take go, 900 workmen
According to the census Of 1880 there
were ,204 persons engaged in the manu-
facture Of envelopes at that time.
Microscopic organisms not only de-
stroy the plant and animal forms famil-
lar to Us, but they appear also to build
up such forms, and to be necessary to
their very existence A French bi0lo-
gist, N Duclaux, has just made some
experiments which tend to prove that
plants will not terminate unless microbes
exist in the soil, and Pasteur has already
been led to the conclusion that microbes
are essential to animal life, as digestion
cannot be performed unless they are
present.
After tea has been stepped ia boiling
wafer for three minutes over hve-sixths
Of the valuable constituents are extracted.
At the end Of ten minutes the leaves are
almost entirely exhausted. Prolonged
infusion gives no additional strength to
the liquid, but It docs cause the loss, BY
volatilization, of the flavoring principles.
Hard waters arc to be preferred to soft
waters in the teapot, as the hard waters
dissolve less of the tanninout of the leaves.
The bearing Of these laboratory results
On the art Of making good cup OF tea
Is obvious.
The reason why carpenters use square
wooden mallets and stone masons round
wooden maIlets Is not generally known,
even by the workmen themselves, said
mechanical engineer. The handles of
carpenters chisels are made of wood,
and if they should strike them with
metal hammer the handles would crack.
This necessitates the use Of wooden NAL.
.ets and they must be large IN order to
have the proper weight They are made
square 50 that they may be used in cor
ners where . round mallet would not 90.
Stone masons use wooden mallsts be-
cause they are less likely than iron ham
mers to iniure their hands By missing the
chisel Their chiscIs are Of iron through.
out. and the mallet IS made round so that
q different part NAV strike on the chisel
at eacn blow. The mason turns his ham
mer Is he works, otherwise tho iron tool
would soon bore hole III it.