Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1886-02-17
MISSING LINKS.

lie f09lr SONS OF Lieutenant AlSllng-
burg, of arctic fame, receive 4 pension
of so each per month.
The Hartford, Conn, High School Is
said to- be the only absolutely fire-prOof
school house in this country.
Dio Lewis SAYS that wearing large.
thick. heavy boots and blue hand-knit
stockings win improve woman's CONF
pleNion.
Charles Crocker has given SSI, 900 TO
the building frnd Of the BOYS and Girls
Aid Socicfs Of Sacramento; and Senator
Fair has furnished the building site.
4 prospector in Butte County, Califor-
MIA, a short time ago, came across n
patch Of wild coffee. which, when roast
ed and made up. proved TO be Of good
quality.
A female member of the Salvation
Army at kcnnebec, Me-. was expelled a
short time ago because she persisted in
wearing feathers on her hat. She now
wears more feathers. than ever.
Southern and Eastern Arizona is cut
up by numerous mountain chains inclos-
ing level valleys, in MANY of which
cattle Craze. Some of these valleys are
large enough to contain the State of
Rhode Island
Lieut.. Howard. the Gatling gun man,
is to receive 5000 as loan from the
Canadian Government, and is about to
open cartridge factory in the Do
minon, materials for which will be adj
mitted free of customs duties.
A street arab lately confessed in a
New York court that he made living
by collecting cigar stumps and selling
them to cigarette manufacturers for ID
cents pound. lie sometimes gathered
as many as five pounds n day.
Francis Coppec, lately absorbed into
the French Academy, is distinguished
for his extraordinary fondness for cats
(uncooked) and his house swarms with
them. He is also known as the ''poet Of
the poor, and to an even greater degree
as the poor poet.
The late dowagcr Lady Chesterfield s
husband was SO hard up that he was
obliged TO let Chesterfield house, and
was unable to finish Bretby, his country
seat, and his son had TO sell Chesterfield
house; but Lady Chesterfield, who had
a life interest in the property after her
sons death, finished Bretby and left
$4,000, besides clearing the estate.
Experiments show that If fatty oils are
cooled down to 20 degs., and kept at
this temperature for three hours, they as
sumo very different degrees of hardness,
olive oil being the hardest A cylindri-
cal iron rod, ,.onc ccntimetre in length,
and extending below in a cone, and up
on which is exerted a pressure measured
in grams until it penetrates into the oil
with its entire length, shows that olive
oil requires q pressure of LOO, and cot
ton oil 25 grams.
Speaking of Howells' last farce, 'sThe
Garroters, the characters of which have
appeared in THE Elevator and other
sketches, Boston woman declares that
s'Mrs Roberts" grows a shade sillier
each year, and yet continues to be mad
deningly natural. 1t was This convic-
tion that made clever Buffalo woman
remark, after reading .''The Garroters.
that she didn't believe Mr.. Howells
would dare face the women Of his house
hold for day or two after that piece
was made public. ~
Judge Hilton never walks in the
streets Of New York He keeps carri-
age and pair &c beck and call from the
time he leaves his house in the morning
until his return to dinner, and also some
| times throughout the evening A glimpse
| Of him in the rear seat in this carriage
roiny up or down town is TO be obtain
ed almost daily on broadway. Ills face
is round and flushed, and it wears a
solid. sigacious, determined expression.
His hair i iron gray, and so Is his mus
tache.
Sir Garnet WolSeley is i military Cy-
clops. having lost the sight of one Of his
eyes by the explosion Of a shell while in
/ the trenches before Scbastopol. Two
sappers were instantly killed beside him
and his whole body was pcppered with
gravel, with which gabion had been
| filled when the shell burst in it. His
was asingularly narrow escape. He was
kept for some time in dark cave near
Balaklaya to prevent total blindness,
| and was shut up there when Sebastopol
was captured By the allied forces
A process exists in Germany for coat
ing linen and cotton fabrics with a
heavy, flexible, brilliant film of tin. A
| thin paste. formed BY stirring CONNER
| cial zinc-dust into u solution Of egg
albumen, is laid on the fabric by BRUSH
ing or pressure, and after drying Is CO.
agulatcd BY heated steam The fabric
| is then placed in bath of perchloride
| of tin, receiving fine precipitation OF
| tin upon the zinc. After being rinscd
| and dried the fabric is put through a
| glazing machine, where it receives a
high polish.
The Mersey Tunnel, being very near
" completed. Is on the eve Of opening
for traffic, and by the end of the quarter
It is expected that trains viii be running
regularly and frequently between Liver
/ pool and Birkenhead The ventilation