Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1886-07-22
MISSING LINKS.

Donkey carts arc tho latest craze in
Washington.
Keely. the motor man, used to be
cannon ball tosser in a circus.
Grand Rapids, Mich. has four lady
BARRIERS. one Of whom is colored.
BARRIERS at Findlay, Ohio, refuse 10
shave customers during thunderstorm.
"Azov' wheat, recently imported
from Russia. is doing splcndidly in
Manitoba.
This is proverb of the Talmud: Ten
measures of talk wero sent down from
heaven, and woman took nine.
Pennsylvania cattlemen are ditching
thousands of acres of land in Wyoming,
and will open up mammoth ranch.
Tornadoes have so scared the citizens
of Mcriden, H., that they talk Of build
ing huge ''cyclone cellar" whore the
Whole town can take refuge when
windstorm comes along.
A novelty reported is pair of specta-
cles having silvered area on the inner
edges of the glasses $50 that objects out
of the direct field of vision may be seen
by the vigilant wearer."
A citizen of Grand Rapids, Mich.s
claims to have a razor used by Father
Marquette in 1870. 1t was dug up from
an Indian grave near Harbor Springs
and is pretty well preserved.
A point of Precedence. "A question
of precedence Is troubling Cincinnati.
The trouble is. whether an Alderman's
wife ranks higher than the wife of the
County Recorder. - 7eras SJtings.
A young man is living in Nebraska
who is twenty-six years old. thirty-seven
inches high, and weighs but fifty
pounds. He has lived at his present
home for twenty years unbeknown to
more than fifty people.
A New Orleans paper reports that
Jew fish or Il black sea bass was caught
near the jetties in the Mississippi river
that was more than "a feet long and
weighed 500 pounds, while n still larger
one was caught off Port Eads.
The beautiful red plumagc Of South
| African species of birds has been chem
ically examined and found to be due to
copper. When the birds arc kept from
food containing copper they entirely
lose the tint produced by that mineral.
Congressman William Preston Taul-
bee, the young mountain member Of the
Kentucky delegation, earned bis first
money as a married man by shoveling
coal at fifty cents a day into the iron
furnaces of the district he now has the
honor of representing.
A California farmer sent IS to man
in the East in exchange for six gourd
seeds warranted to produce gourds of q
capacity of forty gallons. After waiting
long for the seeds to sprout, he inye6ti-
gated and found that they were artistic
ally carved out of Eastwood.
Mrs. Catherine Van Courtlandt, OF
Peekskill, N. T., has in his possession a
deed signed by five Indians. which con-
veyed the title of Iona Island in con-
sideration of the payment of 6 shillings
in current silver money, divers other
causes and considerations" The deed
is dated July 13. 1858.
1t has been estimated that cocoa is
used by 10,O00,000 of the human race,
betel nut by 100,000,000, chiccory by
40,000.000, coffee by 100,000.000; 3O0,-
| 100000 eat or smoke hashish. 400, ,00O,-
600 use opium, 500. 200. 900 use tea, and
all the known people of the earth are
addicted to the use Of tobacco.
A Boston man saw q good-lookinc
woman drop her glove from a car
window just rs the train was moving
from the station He rushed forward.
grabbed the glove, as he supposed, ard
racing alongsidc Of the car. handed the
| fair one 4 banana skin, which lc had
picked up By mistake. s.
Mr.. John w MackaY. according to
the Paris journals. has fitted up the
smoking-room Of nissN New York hotel in
quite unique manner The walls are
papered with bank-notcs of all nations.
artisgicaiIy arranged and running DIP to
the ceiling, the whole representing Sz0,-
600 in visible cash. They always man
| age to lasso the news in Paris.
A Maryland farmer PROPOSES to grow
wheat year after year On the same land
without blowing. His plan is to SOW
200 pounds Of bone meal per acre, sell
the straw to the paper mills, and expend
/ the money obtained for it in hone meal
After harvest burn the stubble to kill
weeds and get rid Of rubbish. Then
harrow repeatedly, SOW the hone meal
and seed. and 50 continue year after