Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-01

Sixty Washington negroes have white
women fos wives.
The fortune Of the Marquis Of Ripon
is $500, 900 : year.
FRANCE IS the greatest reproducing
country in the world.
THE total Stote school fund of Georges
in 1884 was sos, 454.
II is reported that France win pro-
hibit gambling at Monaco.
A NEW insect Is avaging the vineyards
N Roumania and Bessarakia.
THE seventeen-year IoCzasts have APP
peared in India and Michigan.
Coz INeKRsoLL Is not allowed 10 lee
ture in the Philadelphia Academy Of
Music.
FRED Jn6n McDermott, tina bctrayer
Of the dynamiters, 10 reposced to be
dead
THE inventor of barbs en- fence
wire receives royalty Of $4,000 q
year.
WmErAM ORR, acolored man. st Daw-
SON, Ga9y il the father Of over seventy
children.
Scorer farmers hold that, cut straw is
better for the dairy when newly
threshed.
THE Canadians admit o. loss Of 20
killed and 10 wounded in the battles in
the Northwest.
THE Pilot Of Boston claims that the
greater part of the people q that city
are Catholics.
SARAH BEREHARDT spends e5a dayfor
cosmetics. It costs money to bean &C
tress nowadays.
Protective incubation against yellow
fever is being tried extensively in the
Mexican army
The wholesale trade of Halifax has
fallen off more than So, 600, 900 since the
confederation.
A MILLION copies is the estimate the
publishers make Of their probable sale Of
Gen. Grants book.
KossuTH, though now SO years of age,
is as active 40 young man and an en-
thusiastic botanist.
FIFTEEN years ago the net forest re-
venue of British India was $3.50, 600.
Now it is 81, 600, 000.
FRED ARCHER, the English jockey, has.
this season ridden fifty-seven winning:
and ninety-fiEe losing horses.
THE New York newspapers note with.
dismay the unreasonable advent of
swarms of mosquitoes in that city.
SIR SPENCER Wells, an eminent Eng
lish surgeon, urgently recommends crema-
ton. So does Sir Henry Thompson.
THE Spanish Government will ask the
Cortes for 1000, 900 pesetas $500, 0O0l
to prosecute measures against cholera.
A Mr.. RARNEs writes to the London
Standard of his being cured of eczema
by applying snails to the part affected
In the neighborhood of st. Georges
Hall in Liverpool. within space /, 400.
by 1,700 yards, there are 671 liquor shops
GOLDEN flower vases, three feet six
inches in height, have been made at the,
japanese Mint for the Emperor's palace.
THE French made 200, 900 rat skins.
into kid gloves last year, and sent every
pair of them to this country to be sold.
''THERE are 10000 grown-up men in
Maine," says Neal Dow, ''who have
never seen grog shop or q drunken
man.~
THE Hessian fly is said to have finally
crossed the Rocky Mountains, and to,
be ravaging the wheat fields Of Cali
fornia
A FARMER in Marion county, Florida,
has 1876 acres planted in watermelons,
which he expects will yield AS, 800
melons.
Miss CHAlIBERLAIE, the American
beauty, who has had London at her feet
for three seasons, is said to be losing
ground.
THE hardest thing in the world 10 to
make an American child obey the laws
of health when American parents set bad
examples.
WALNUT, once so much In demand for
furniture, has lost its prominence, and
dealers in wood report large falling of
In the demand.
THE Masonic fraternity IL said to be
very strong in Mexico, notwithstanding
the Catholic tendencies Of the people
and Government.
AT Cologne q man was recently
fined fifty marks for refusing to take
oath in court on the plea that he did not
believe in God.
THE forest hres IN Northern Michigan
this season exceed in destructiveness any
known to the history Of the section ex-
cept those Of 1881.
A MARYLAND grower has $50 acres In
\ peaches. An additional Z, 900 trees has
been planted this spring, making him
SO, 900 trees in all
Three Mormon Elders have been
| nIaced IN iail IN Tsonnoocaa ..ndor fha
new law making it . misdemeanor to
preach Mormonism.
HoTHoUsE flowers are rare IN New Or
leans, because the winters are so short it
wouldn't pay to build and keep up ex-
pensive greenhouses
THERE IS law in the province Of New
Brunswick directed against the careless
ness Of campers, which is often the cause
of serious forest fires.
New BEDrORu Mass. carpenters