Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1886-02-05
MISSING LINKS.

$4,000 souls. No country equals France
in this art, and expert arti.icers gen
orally girls can always find work at
good wages.
1t is believed that in ten years Yank-
ton. ID. T., will be an inland town. In
front of the city, where the river ran
twenty feet deep five years ago, there
are now 100 acres of land six-feet above
high-water mark.
At recent meeting of the Holland
Society. in New York, resolution
talked about, but not passed, sought to
require every member of the society
whose name begins with '.Vann to write
il with small s.v;' those who have the
prefix "de'' to use the small I'd" and
those who have dropped the prefix
Van to restore it.
Americans are not welcomed very
enthusiastically at first-class hotels in
London, says Walter McMichael, of
Philadelphia, who has just got home
from England. The reasons given for
this are that the Americans drink very
little wine, and are not, as rule, par
ticular about wearing full dress suits ut
dinner, a rule that an Englishman
WOOfu NOb VI
OF the SOC, 100000 eggs annually used
in Paris every one is inspected by being
held before candle Rotten ones are
thrown into a vat, which is emptied dali
ly. Those ''spotted'' and unfit for food
are sold to manufacturers, who extract
their albumen and other chemical in
gradients. The price of eggs is rising,
owing to the increased demand of other
countries and to onerous customs duties
on those imported.
A Boston newspaper is publishing q
series of monthly articles which may
be called Easy Lessons in Burglary
The article for December contained
minute instructions for .second-story
work, = which, it informed beginners.
has superseded the old-fashioned pro-
cess of midnight robbery with violence.
The ease, simplicity, and safety of this
popular modern method were described
with clearncss and vigor which could
hardly fail TO arouse the interest of the
professional burglar. and the enthusi-
asm of the ambitious amateur The
householder possibly might not be SO
appreciative.
The daughter of James ID. Fish has
taken d nSidcnce in Auburn: The
rules of l0h allow prisoners to
receive friends for a half-hour once
month. Warden Lanehart. has, how
ever, extended to Miss Fish the privilege
of visiting her father once fortnight.
Their interviews occur in the Chaplain's
Office, where Fish is employed in read
ing letters to and from his fellow-prison-
ers. Miss Fish attends the service In
the prison-chapel Sunday mornings.
and, seated in the visitors gallery. is
enabled to see her father at his devotion.
but does not get an opportunity then to
speak with him.
Near Haverstraw, N. Y, stands High
Tor, mountain of romantic rocks.
beetling lodges, precipices, zig-zag
paths, and that sort of thing. A few
days ago Mr.. Blakledge and Miss Milli-
cent Porter, lovers, were coming down
the mountain toward Haverstraw, when
he fell headiong from cliff. His pale
face was seen gazing up from tree that
had caught the fallen form, and the
heroine knew she must rescue him.
Willing fingers ripped her cloak Chow
fortunate she did not have her seal
sacque onD, and, tying the four shreds
to other shreds. nobly obtained by the
truly heroic sacrifice of a petticoat, she
let the rope down. When it had been
grasped by the youth, up he came, hand
over hand, and down he limped to
Haverstraw.
All school children have been taught
fttho MfccC-
sippi river rises in Lake Itasca. Cap
tain Willard Glazier in 1881 made an
exploration and discovered that this
was an error The river has its origin,
it is claimed, in small lake beyond
Lake Itasca. Captain Glazier describes
it as .snestling among the pines of an
unfrequented and wild region of Min
nesota, many miles from the nearest
white settlement. and just on the di-
viding ridge which forms the great wa
ter-shed of North America. The lake
is about one mile and half at the
widest point and nearly round. and its
water coming mainly from springs is as
clear as crystal. In honor of the dis
coyerer the lake has been christened
Lake Glazier.
Bishop Spaulding saw a most pro-
nounced case of dandy drag itself
inertly past. The fellow had all the
symptoms Of acute idiocy so markedly
visible that there was no mistaking the
social disease se-Anglomania- a-that had
pitifully altered him from the healthy,
vigorous, sensible Young fellow that he
might otherwise have been. ''Well,
here's 1 thought for comfort" the
Bishop is quoted as saying. Il happen
to know who he is. His family are
wealthy and very fashionable. He has
been brought to think that work is not
for him to think of, and that his life is
destined to be perfectly idle. In that
view, don't you comprehend, the best
course for him to pursue is the one that