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

- A~-~-~AtsAAs &Ae Ass HAS OL<Al All
many days by curious crowd viewing
two coachwhip snakes Enclosed in one Of
the show windows. These snakes arc
the genuine coachwhip, and were caught
n Moore county, where they are as
plentiful Is the ordinary black snake.
One OF the clerks had become so familiar
with the snakes that he readily handled
them without experiencing the slightest
opposition. The reptiles would coil
around his arm and thrust out their
tongues at the bystanders The window
has double floor. One day, while the
number of spectators was large and
mostly composed Of negroes, one Of the
snakes escaped and dropped in the midst
OF the crowd. In the twinkling of an
eye the snake had not only the sidewalk
but the entire street to itself. It en-
Joyed few minutes of freedom and was
then caught by the clerk and returned
to its cage. Both snakes had recently
shed their skins, and they exactly re-
sembled a plated whip.
A wELL-KNowN gentleman Of Buffalo,
who holds q public Office Of considerable
importance and honor, although not
extraordinarily productive of emolu-
ments, is a victim of defective memory.
He lately spent some time in New York,
and while there, in furtherance of
political or some other end, arranged to
give an elaborate dinner to a numerous
and distinguished company. The APP
pointed evening arrived, the collation.,
an elegant one, was all ready to be
served, but the guests came not. Half
an hour passed, and still they did not
come, and the host became really un-
easy. When the delay had grown to an
hour, and not man of them had shown
up, his feeling were understandable. And
who can picture his agony of spirit when,
on returning to his hotel room, he
CHANGED to pull open drawer and there
IN found the whole bundle of invitations
which he had forgotten to send out.
THE Paris National writes: sThere
are in France So, O0O, 900 human beings
who work hard from morning to even
ing, and who do harm to no one. There
are besides in this country 800, 900 ras-
calls who rob and murder, and who pass
by the name of the army of crime.
There are, furthermore, in France 300,-
600 politicians whose sole occupation is
to excite class against class, and whose
avowed aim is the destruction of every
existing institution. With regard to the
SO, 900, 900 Frenchmen, nobody pays any
attention to them; but the other 600, 900
are the object of the most careful soil
citude on the part of the governing
classes. If professional malefactor
commits criminal act, every effort is
wwaIo - cnxva hsv,a frow,. xv,n,skal ,,,,.s.l,
ment, and if professional agitator In
censes his fellow citizens to pillage and
worse, he is a privileged being"
SOME one threw piece Of cotnd
batting in the street. Five Engled
sparrows Immediately alighted arou
it. An old male hoped on it. divid = ::
it into five sections, each of which wv
taken by sparrow and carried off y
triumph. The fact is eclipsed by an o
currence upon Boston Common the othe
day, according to the journal. A male
sparrow discovered piece of bright
colored calico lying on the grass. At
his summons dozen hen spaTrows APP
preached, and he was about to divide
the prize among them when q dispute
arose as to whether the colors were fast
or not. The calico was carried to the
Frog Pond for the purpose of deciding
the question, but before the washing
could be completed a rag picker APP
peared and the birds were left minus the
calico and with the doubt unsolyed.
AT GAINESVILLE, s. c., Rebecca Sam
uels, twelve years old, was convicted of
the murder of Lucy Graham, six weeks
infant she was nursing. She soaked the
child in pot of concentrated I've. The
only theory for the crime is that the
prisoner killed the child to escape the
duty Of nursing it. This is the second
crime of the same kind she has com
mitted within two years. She appeared
to be totally unconscious of what was
going on during the trial, and twice
went to sleep in the dock with her head
resting on her hands. She has an limo
cent face and is not apparently in the
slightest degree affected by the result of
her trial, which was sentence to State
prison for life.
THREE prominent men are stated to
have lately tested the ''oxygen cure. f"
The first drew long, deep breath from
the receiver and reported that the sem
sation was delightful; he felt it tingle to
the ends of his fingers. The second took
an inspiration, and became pale and
agitated: he was told that the oxygen
had found the weak spot in his anatomy.
The third man declared that he felt
nothing; he could take the stuff IN all
dav. Then it was discovered that the
ssProfessoru had forgotten that morning
to connect the tube with the oxygen
reservoir. The patients had been breath
ing ordinary atmospheric air.
AT a Convention of Civil Engineers
lately Prof Egleston read q paper. He
said 1t was true that the obelisk in
Central Park, New York, was undergo
inc decomposition. This was due to the
fact that the obelisk was brought from
dry to a moist climate, under the influ-
ence Of which it was being rapidly de-
composed. Prof Egleston said he might
90 into Central Park after a heavy
frost and pick up from the ground as