Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-05-20
ODDS AND ENDS

ODDS AND ENDS
snDw1CHns ere : great staple u Lon
don.
Tnn city Of Mexico has sixteen daily
papers.
i London the olergsmen pray for shs
editors.
Tn population Of Russia Is about
SO, GOO, 900.
RonERr BnouNno. the English poet,
j. % years old.
WAsHnaroN has $50 churches with
49, 35I members.
PA0oDA parasols are seen on che
streets again this spring.
In Patagonia they fne q man two
goats for killing his wife.
Iris reported that there win be only
. half crop of peanuts this year.
PHa.ADHnPHIA extremists have begun
8 war on Ell Sunday amusements.
Fuxx thousand lawn mowers are pro-
duced annually in the United States
A WHOLE family at Allentown, Pa,
has been poisoned by eating sausage.
EENAroRs EDEUNDs and Palmer are
building new residences in Washington.
THRRR Is said to b. but one person 70
every square mile OF territory in Canada.
CLARHNCn a. FREEMAN, the champion
checker player Of America, is 26 years
old.
to the house before the sick person Ia
dead.
I.1oUoR sHoP keepers in Colorado are
known as s'dispellers OF business depres-
sicn."
BououRrs Of white orchids have been
carried in church By several brides re-
Gently.
AMONG the Persians II 3 man is caught
stealing the second time his hands are
cut of.
MoHu than 5000 women are en-
ployed on the Austrian railways Is ticket
agents.
Hrs RoYAn H10HNEss the Duke Of
Connaught passed his 35th birthday on
the LIST May.
No LESS than /, $50 relatives Of Eng
lish titled families axe quartered on the
public service.
THR sign of Libby prison is in the
possession Of Edward J. Bartlett. Of
Concord, Mass.
QUEEN VICTORIA Is said to have,
mounted In silver, the ball that killed
Admiral Nelson.
New MExIco spent last year for liquor
IS. 465, 600, and for churches and
schools $45, 600.
A YOUNG English writer ct work on
novelettes said he could earn ct the rate
Of 16d. an hour.
Mrs. FRKDRR1CK DOUGLASS. the white
wife Of the negro orator, has consider
able literary culture.
In Massachusetts pews in Roman
Catholic churches are now sold at stated
prices ct every mass.
Miss FoRrEsoUE, who obtained
$4,000 from Lord Garmoyle, is to
marry reporter, it is said.
THR first wedding in America was
that of Edward Wilson and Eusannah
White, at Plymouth, in 1921.
Toxic. japan, is undergoing an cpl
demic Of measles. Two thousand cases
have been reported in one day.
THERE is an epidemic of measles In
New York, and $50 children have died
from the disease since New Years.
THE Western recipe for planking q
shad is, plank down your money and let
the restnurateur furnish the shad.
"a wRAK and weary woman and q
mad, moody man" contemplate the
relics from the wreck Of q May moving.
The Irish iauntiDg car, which became
unpopular after the Phoenix Park as
sassination, Is again coming into public
favor.
TIE Florida strawberry crop Is re-
ported to be in splendid condition and
the yield large, though little back
ward.
SOMEBODY in Oswego, N. Y, cut of
the hair Of q young girl in order to
avenge himself upon the young girls
father.
INVITATIONS are ont for the celebration
Of the thousandth anniversary OF the
death Of the first professor OF dancing In
Japan.
The sailors Of the Strelok complain
that too little whisky and too much
water are served for an average drink at
New York bars.
PAUL 81. HAYNE, the Southern poet.
is nearly six feet tall, slender, with dark
dreamy eyes. delicate features and poor
health. He is So.
BIHFARcK's Schoenhausen estate.
given to him by Germany, comprises
about eighteen square miles, more than
half being in forest.
THE chances Of making q successful
venture in silver mining in northern
Mexico are given by an expert as one
out of one hundred.
The vaccinations against smallpox in
the Punjab last year reached $50, O62.
The natives Of India hail the operation