Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-11-30
MISSING LINKS.

Nv nAu0Ctpuld 1lCSo ndkeS the
pleasing announcement that rcd-head-
ed girls are in fashion.
Port is the best thing to quiet the
stomach of seasick man. This may
not be news, but it is fact. Harper s
B0zar.
1t is estimated that 700. 600 people 90
into London by rail every day to earn
their living. and leave it again every
night
Wires and bars are now produced di-
rect from fluid steel by pressing it out
through dies in manner similar to
the production. of lead pipes from lead.
The honey crop for this year in San
Diego county, California, is estimated
on good authority at 2.177. 900 pounds,
This would equal l,0SS tons, or over
100 carloads.
Miss Blanche Williams, colored, who
has matriculated at Toronto UNIVERSE
ty, is said to have passed an excellent
examination in French and German, as
well as in English.
People like the grip-cars right well
for one reason. Cigarette smokers
can't stand on the front platform and
fill the car with their vile flavor of
burning paper. - Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t is learned from the Sanitary NeUs
that carbolic acid sold for disinfecting
purposes is adulterated until but per
cent of its active principle remains,
while there should be at least So per
cent.
Two young Philadelphia sportsmen
were recently treed for whole day up
in Potter County by bear, which, as
was afterward found out, was perfect
ly tame-an escaped pet; but they paid
$50 for the privilege of shooting it.
A French scientist who says he has
Investigated 5,400 shocks of earth
quakes attributes them, like the tides,
to the influence of the sun and moon.
The interior sea of fire, he argues, is
subject to the same laws as the surface
sea of water.
When the ropes with which oil wells
are drilled are worn out they still have
their uses. They are purchased by junk
dealers, thoroughly cleansed of oil and
reduced to a pulp, which forms the
basis OF the heavy paper of which flour
sacks and wrapping paper are made.
In preparing to play the part of
boy in her new play, "The Trump"
Mrs. Langtry is said to rchearse sever
al hours every day in pantaloons ito
get the hang of 'em," and yet she is be-
lieved to have worn them continuously
during her sojourn with MIR. Langtry.
The Pail Mall Gazette, referring to
the deposing of Bret Hartc as Ameri-
can Consul at Glasgow, says it is a
standing joke with him and his friends
that the last time he went there he in
quired what place twas when the train
seldom went there.
The internal heat of the earth, is be- 5
ing Investigated by the German Gov
ernment A shaft sunk at Schlade-
bach has penetrated about 1866 feet
under ground, believed to be the great I
est depth yet reached by boring. At
this point tho earth's temperature is
l20 degrees Fahrenheit.
An English naturalist recommends
the importation of the blue titmouse in
to this country to dcvour the worms
and caterpillars, He mistakes the
need. 1t is an animal that
will devour the English sparrow which
was brought here to do tho work for
which the titmouse is recommended.
A new method of dressing wounds,
BY which their healing is said to be
fastened and the pain made to disap-
pear at once, has been brought into mo-
ice by French surgeon. Lit consists
n the application of congresses wet
With decoction of thirty parts of val
srian root in 1000 parts OF water. 1t is
expressly stated that the treatment is
Of no avail in deep wounds.
Pottery was discovered, Grant Allen
suggests, by accident. A savage car
ried some water in calabash-the
hard shell of tropical fruit-when it
occurred to him to smear the outside
With clay and put the calabash itself
over the fire. This he did, the water
boiled, and upon removing the calabash
ne found it incased and protected by q
hard, red. stone-like substance.
Something akin to mirage NAV Of
ten be seen at Lake Griffin, Fla. If
one looks north across the lake, from
the south, as q rainstorm IS approach
ing from either north or south, he will
see the timber and other objects at the
north end stand out in bold relief as if i
they were in the middle of the lake aud |
half the distance they really are away.
The change is striking and unacconnt-
able.
A piece OF evidence in q Quebec
breach-of-promise case was cuff with
IN offer of marriage written on it. One
night, while the defendant was hold
ing the plaintiff 5 hand and whispering
lervid words. he popped the question
IN manuscript on the smooth linen at
her wrist She was sentimental or
shrewd enough to keep that article ont
OF the wash, and now it is Of practical