Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-03-31
TIMELY TOPICS

TIMELY TOPICS.
The suicide Of children is a singuIarly
painful phenomenon Of modern high
pressure. Vital statistics show that IN
1884 ninety-fve children under fourteen
years Of age committed suicide in the
United States.
In Maricopa county. Arizona. there is
considerable barbed fence, and the vast
locks Of wild ducks which FREQUENT the
valley often fly low and. striking the
barbed fences, become impaIed thereon.
It Is said that tons of ducks are gathered
daily by boys from the fences and sent
to market.
The New York World calls attention
to the fact that the most malignant
cholera that we ever had in this country
was imported in 1892 on q sailing vessel.
This pretty effectually squelches the
theory recently put forth By DR.. Pctten-
koier that cholera germs could not out
I'VE twenty-day sea voyage.
Still the orchid war continues. Al
lady IN New York who raises orchids has
already two thousand specimens, and is
constantly on the lookout for more VA
Tletles. Among them is plant that sells
Tor nifty guineas in London. The rage
Tor orchids is now at its height, and the
rivalry among fashionable growers wakes
hot.
A physician connected with one Of the
hospitals in New York where children
receive special attention, saws that many
of the cases of spinal trouble brought to
his notice are the direct result of the
careless handling of baby carriages. The
matter OF how nurses and others handfe
these little vehicles is one to which par
ents may well pay attention.
A New Orleans doctor calls attention
to very simple fact which merits atten-
ton from medicine takers. If the medi-
cine is mixed with very cold water, and
few swallows of the water be taken as
a preparatory dose, the nerves Of the
organ of taste become sufficiently be-
numbed to make the medicine nearly
tastcless. The method will not disguise
bitter taste, but acts well in oils and
salines.
Undoubtedly the oldest apple trees
west of the Missouri river" says the
Lewiston Qdaho) NeOs ''are those on the
Alpowai. Some of them are over foot
in diameter. These seeds were brought
out by the Rev. Mr.. Spaulding, the mis-
sionary who was stationed at Lanwai
many years ago, and the father of Mrs.
Eliza Warren, the first white children
born on the Pacific slope, and who visited
this city last fall, in the year 1885,"
That standard publication. the I. Al
manack de Gotha, for 1885, shows that
Norway has The smallest number of in
habitaEts to the square mile, with Rus
STA second, of all the countries of Europe
Portugal has l, 0S4 women to every 1000
men, the largest preponderance of any
country. Germany comes next with
l.O29 women to every 1000 men. The
greatest surplusage of men is found in
Greece, where to every 1000 men there
are only COG women.
Some speculative individual has pro-
mulgated queer story about eyes, by
which one can be made to see without
them His theory is to place piece OF
copper above the tongue and one of zinc
beneath it, and then by closing the eyes
and letting the tips of the pieces of
meral touch each other flash OF light
can be detected. The eyes do not see.
but the sensation Of seeing is vivid
one. and the impression thus transmitted
to the optic nerve, and thence to the
brain, would, with blind persons, answer
the same purpose as eyes.
When Grover Cleveland became Presi-
dent Of the United States he lacked
fourteen days of being forty-eight years
old Only one younger man has been
inaugurate6 President, and that is Grant,
who lacked some six weeks Of being
forty seven years old when he entered
the White House. Franklin Pierce was
three months over forty-eight, and Ar
thur and Garfield were each q trife less
than fifty. 1.-the other Presidents have
been Older. William Henry Harrison,
with his sixty eight years, being the
oldest of them all at taking the oath Of
Office.
A young American surgeon has lately
received high honors in Belgium. This
is Francis w. Strain, . graduate Of the
jefferson Medical college. Of Philadel
phia, and surgeon of the Red Star