Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-05-23

pended mostly in hats.
A BRIGHT three-y ear-old described
dream yesterday as, when you Sea
something, but don't see 1t. I"
TIN following sign is displayed IN
front Of 3 Boston restaurant "Qiv1
Service rules carefully observed"
"OH, IL I only had neck like that
| what collar / could wear |" said ths
dude, while looking atan ostrich.
Tim Chinese soldier receives S57
year. but rs he has nothing 10 do hnt
beat tom-toms. that is pretty good pay
Tx million dollars worth OF corseh
we're sold in the United States last year
That's good deal OF money gone 70
waist.
A rRssoN In physics - Teacher =
ssWhat il velocity ?" Pupil-"Veloc
Is what . man puts . hot plate down
with. !"
THR Russian General Komaroff is bald
headed. It was impossible to keep him
from pushing to the front in the theatre
Of war.
.sONR sees singular sights at sea,
said q person who had just crossed the
Atlantic, 81 saw the ocean heave, pas.
senger heave and the ship heave to-"
Now spRrEa's bright sunlit banner floats
Whore erst hung winters pail,
And scores Of winter overcoats
Are hooked until the fall.
A PRoHrBTTIoN paper published in
Buffalo has q standing heading which
reads, white Wheat Whisky Wastes
Wealth, Wrecks Womanhood, Wallops
Wives"
PUPms In Chicago public schools are
taught practically monetary transactions
in 3 practical way, real greenbacks and
silver coin being provided by the city
for their use.
IF the bill TO refund the direct war
tax levied in 1862 should become law,
the twenty eight States now united in
securing the passage Of such q bill
would recover about 500, 900, 900.
THERE are 1876, 600 fishermen in France
The coast fisheries provide employment
for only 53, 600 OF this great force, 80
that SO, 900 French fishermen maze
their livelihood out OF foreign waters.
Two BOYS were looking at the animals
il Central Park: "Betcher life yer don't
know what that one Is, said one, ''bus
do" eyer do, ell ? Prove It. "That's
the Plus COW from Iniy, an don't yer
forget il.
SCENE Newly paved street. First
Scotchman (walking on sidewalk) -
Here, man, Jock, come off the coorSe
road on tae the ftpad. Jock-"Na',
I've paid for the stanes, an I'm GAVIN
tae tax the use o. them.
"a COLLISION occurred" says an ex.
change, ''the other evening on the
Sound between New Haven and New
London" It seems to ms that when
cities begin this sort Of thing they ought
TO be chained down. Boston Post.
stCAPTATN, we are entirely ont of am.
munition, = said an orderly sergeant, on
q ield-day. "What entirely ont Of
ammunition p exclaimed the captain
'sYes," entirely out" was the reply
"Then cease firing, peremptorily said
the captain.
Mrs. MULvANEY (the laundressl in
dade, ma'am, and it's miserable / am.
I'm but just on me feet wild the pain in
me back, an Jimmy he's as bad off; he
has cough on um that sounds loike
an empty bar'l. Congh fer the lady,
Jimmy. - Harper's BnzGT.
IF q man weighing $50 pounds were
as active In proportion to his weight as
q flea he would be able TO jump over 3
three-story house. But unless a man
carried feather bed around him to fall
on he wouIdn't jump over q three-story
building more than once.
BoaroN Fashions You have
spring bottoms to these trousers ?" said
the city tailor, as he took his country
customers measure. "Wall, / rather
guess not, " was the reply. Spring hes
got so fur along you may as well make
summer bottoms to 'em.
EIGHrY-FIvR able-bodied men passed
through here. They claim to be brick.
layers on the way to points South, but
the Riel reason Of their escapade from
Canada may possibly be their anxiety to
get out of the chilliness of a Northwest
draft. -,S. Alb0ns Messenger.
A BRIGHT little boy was studying bis
arithmetic lesson at home one evening,
when he exclaimed: Twice five
eleven" ssHow is that, my son ?" quee
tjoued his mother. 'sWhy, ma" re-
piled the boy, ''we carry one for ever
ten and that makes eleven, you know.
ssLAw sakes," said old Mrs. Relict
''alI Melinda thinks of now is the skstin
rink. And she's got so heightened a rol
lin round on them wheels that she cant
even 60 her old mothers homemade
bread now, an she talks all the time
about the Dutch rolls they have uu
there"
TEE proposed public park at EiagaFt
comprises all Of Goat Island, the Sistef
Islands and the numerous small islands
Immediately above the American fall,
and the shore boundary beginning q
Port Day, nearly opposite the lower end
Of Grand Island, continuing northward
10 the pier Of the new Lnteruationa
Bridge. ipcluding Prospect Park.
A GEOeoIA paper tells Of young man,
who during the late war, donned hH
wife's dress, kept his face cleanIy shaved
and wore big sunbonnet in order 70
keep from being conscripted and sent to