Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-06-23
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


a nxxEn girl "a one 81 ths orphan
ylums a New Orleans was recently
Sung by bee On the ball Of one Of her
ses. tie sting causing the sight to be
nlirely destroyed. The physician IN
attendance states that he never heard 81
aelmilag casa
Ed HkRRIs, of Watkfnsville, says :
8ooal Georgia paper, has built one Of The
t cyclone pits we ever saw. II ID On
4as side Of . gully, is perfectly dry and
kted up with chair, table and stove. Tt
- largo Is an ordinary sized room
and perfectly safe.
M. w. GmBs. Of Little Rock, Ark,
colored man who made money
nongh in selling boots and shoes TO en-
abIe him to study Law, was admitted to
le bar, and has just been elected Judge
II . Police Court. Gibbs il . man who
believes th ct an effort for ones self win
se productive Of good.
JUDon CHARLES ALLEN, Of Boston,
says that he Il Disguised with the inso-
lent way in which witnesses are ques-
oned. II Is, he thinks, neither funny
cg profitable, and avails nothing with
De court. he would stop It IL he
uld, but he cannot tell what counsel
ere driving ct until It is too late.
NAPLES at last has it's Croton. A
whole river Ia the Apprentices has been
diverted to the city, and Is now flowing
Through 10, 900 pipes, and playing In the
ave ornamental fountains constructed
a0e IL The King and Queen came to
4naugurate the waterworks, and we're re-
Neived with understandable enthusiasm.
JoHN srErsoN, the well-known theat.
Kical manager. was called into the dock
og the Municipal Court, In Boston, to
ansWer to the charge Of being profane
nn the street He listened as though
Intensely interested while the Clerk 81
1he Court arraigned him. he pleaded
guilty, and paid dne Of $5 and costs
AN old legend Of st. Louis Is revived,
which says that the ground on which y
noted hotel was built was cursed BY =
poor and aged Frenchwoman, who was
dinposseased OF her humble home, which
stood on It's site, BY the city's march Of
progress. far back IN the early days Of
tie settlement. and that IL has never
bsen able to do paying business.
a MnwAUKEu ward assessor found
thal Peter Bast, an aged blacksmith,
had concealed $40, 900 for many years,
Is Is not to be taxed. This so worried
flle old man that he committed suicide
~ Draining himself with hammer. II
~ Who concealed their property from
ne collector took the matter so to heart
10 coroner would have plentyof work.
TIM total annual catch Of menhaden
q the United States Is about 700, coo, 900.
This seems to be q great number, but
blue fish alone are said to consume about
9,000, 600, 600 menhaden every day Of
the summer months on the coast OF New
England alone, and these fish, IL they
wsre not as prolific a. potato bugs, would
e0on be used up and not enough left 70
al the sardine boxes In the Maine fac
tories.
70 Snow WHAT 8 girl can do It Is re-
sed by . local paper that Miss Tay-
ri. who came TO Wahpeton, Dakota,
three years ago, took o presumption and
tad an offer 81 marriage the first year.
Ihe second year she took homestead
nna tree claim and had four offers TO
.nee farms She has now section d
nd, twenty-seven cows, and innumer.
tIls calves. and Il ready to consider the
r4sHn % marry.
ExrnnTSumD lumbermen have always
Aeld that timber cut IN the spring vas
Nos durable for building purposes. Re-
cent scientific investigations sustain
his belief. II il shown that the richer
Ne wood Il II phosphoric acid and 20
ium the more likely Il Is 10 rot and
should; wood cut IN the spring contains
eht tines Is much % The former and
Ese times asmuch d Che latter aa when
"a the winter.
s. NkRarnR near Washington, Penn.
avlng oecaalon 10 take his horse nom
Geld % he stable, owing 10 The ani-
suddenly becoming sick, unthlnk-
Y lelE his dinner basket behind.
eh "a WIS surprised % fnd On 70.
lng several dsya later had been
Ioily guarded all the while By his
which would not move nom Che
naln. although several neiehbo1