Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1886-08-03
MISSING LINKS.

~ .utSSouIi AHsal any otncf state In tno
Union.
A sewing machine which is held in
the hands and operated like pair OF
scissors has been patented.
Milwaukee boasts of the champion
beer drinker. One hundred glasses a
day constitutes his Q1antum sslE ].
Shillalahs. they say. are never seen in
tie hands of Irishmen in Ireland now.
1t is the tourist who swings the stick.
The newsboys of San Francisco have
organized a protective union. Ten cents
is to be the uniform price for shine,
and destitute members will be taken
care of.
The horse that does six hard days'
work during the week deserves to have
an undisturbed rest on the seventh.
You cannot afford to wear good horses
by making plow horses of them through
the week and buggy horses of them on
Sunday.
William Black, searching for novel
motives in his trade of fiction, has had
horse-boat built for him, to be towed
in the canals of England. THE idea
of 'horse-boat. says the Springfield
Republican, isn't half so bright as
Frank Stockton's Rudder Grange with
real canal-boat.n
The manufacture of beer in America
is due to the Germans, and is of still re-
cent origin, dating scarcely back of
1850. There are now about 2, 200 brew
cries in this country. These sold last
year over 100000 barrels of malt
liquor, little of which remains in store.
A Louisville lady says that milliners
are the sharpest dealers on earth, and
suit their prices to their customers
pocketbooks. She knows, for, after
trying vainly to buy bonnet for less
than the S25 asked she went home and
described tho bonnet to her servant,
who went to the shop and bought it for
$12.
The bent of the young American mind
was strongly illustrated in the st. Louis
High School, where the scholars were
directed to prepare list of the five
greatest journalists dead and the five
greatest living. The boys were near
~ unanimous in heading their lists of
greatest living journalists with the name
of well known base ball reporter.
1t is asserted by an authority that it
is mistake to suppose that broiling is
applicable to fish and meats only. 1t
can be employed with fruits and vegeta-
bles, and when these are watcry excel
lent results are obtained. The apple,
pear, ounce and banana, the cucumber,
tomato, green pepper or eggplant thus
prepared make admirable dishes.
A Pompeiian tourist from Coopers-
town, N. T.. writes TO the FreenIdn's
Journal of that village that he accident
ally left cigar-holder of rubber among
the small relics in the relic museum of
the ancient city, and now he under
stands that the scientists have proved
that the ancient Pompciian smoked
cigars in rubber holders.
Mark Twain is much better satisfied
with his career Us a publisher than with
his literary successes. When asked re-
Gently if he would contribute to anv
magazines this year he said: mo, no.
No sum of money, however flattering,
could induce me to swcrve from reso-
luton / have made to enjoy solid old
fashioned loaf this summer
The private boudoir of Miss Jennie
Flood, the daughter of the San Francis
co millionaire. IN his newly-completed
palace, is the counterpart of that of
Marie Antoinette, all its appointments
being after the Marie Antoinette style
in maple with bird 's-eye panelings. The
mural decoration is of cream color on
all-silk brocade ground. The bed, win
dow curtains, and furniture coverings
are Of embroidered electric blue, and
the carpet is blue and dun Administer
of the finest French make.
The writer known as Count Paul
Vasili says he doubts whether Gen. To-
natief ever will return TO power in
Russia, as the Car has lost all conf
dence in him. But ne may vet have an
hour of triumph If the labors of his
whole life be crowned by the creation
Of great Slave empire extending south
of the Balkans. Then people viii do
him justice, but too late. As for the
Countess Ignatief she is the most am
bilious woman on the face of the Earth.
She played the part of Queen at Con-
stantinople. and certainly once dream-
ed OF wearing a cT1pwn.
The Union Club in Paris is one Of the
most exclusive and brilliant in Europe.
but it is not that sort of a s.loafng
place" which most men Of the world
would admire. No one breakfasts there,
and. on an average, not more than forty
dinners are served each day. but the
cooking and the wines are excellent,
and the servants are as silent, stylish
and attentive as could possibly be cx-
pected, even in such club. From to
z o'clock members drop in to read the
papers and magazines or 10 play . game
az billiards. At O'clock fha cIuh