Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1886-01-15
MISSING LINKS.

burg. of arctic fame, receive pension
of $40 each per month.
The Hartford, Conn.,. High School is
said 10 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 will improve a woman's CONF
plcxion.
Charles Crockcr has given $4,000 to
the building fund Of the Boys and Girls
Aid Society of Sacramento: and Senator
Fair has furnished the building site.
A prospector in Butte County, Califor-
MIA. u short time ago, came across q
patch of wild coffee. which. when roast
ed and made mp. proved to be OF good
quality.
a female member of the Salvation
Army nj Kennebec. Me-, was expelled o
short time ago because she persisted in
wearing feathers on her hat. Size 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 $1,000 as a loan from the
Canadian Government. and is about to
| open Il cartridge factory in the Do
minion, materials for which will be adj
mittcd free of customs duties.
A street arab lately confessed in q
New York court that he made living
by collecting cigar stumps and selling
| them to cigarette manufacturers for ID
cents pound. He sometimes gathered
as many as five pounds day.
Francis Coppee, lately absorbed into
| tho French Academy, is distinguished
for his extraordinary fondness for cats
| (uncooked) and his house swarms with
them He is also known rs the '.poet of
the poor, and to an even greater degree
! as the poor poet.
The late dowager Lady Chestcrfield's 5
husband was SO hard up that he was
obliged 10 let Chesterfield house, and
was unable TO finish Brctbv. his country
seat, and his son had to sell Chesterfield
house; but Lady Chesterfield, who had
Il life interest in the property after her
! sons death, finished Bretbv and left
| $590.000. 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
sume very different degrees of hardness,
olive oil being the hardest. A cylindri-
cal iron rod. one ccntimetre in length,
and extending below in cone, and up
ON which Is cxertcd u pressure measured
in grams until it penetratcs into the oil
I with itS entire length, shows that olive
oil requires pressure of 200, and cot
| ton oil % grams.
| Speaking of Howells' last farce, The
1 Garrotcrs. the characters of which have
appeared in ..The Elevator" and other
4 sketches, Boston woman declares that
Mrs. Roberts grows "A shade sillier
| each Year, and yetcontinues to be ''mad-
/ deningly natural. 1t was this convic-
| ton that made clever Buffalo woman
| remark. after reading "The Garroters, !"
! that she ...li,ln't believe Mr.. Howclls
would dare face the women of his house.
hold for day or two after that piece
was ma.le public.
Judge Hilton never walks in the
streets Of New York. He keeps carri-
/ age and pair ut 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
| going up on down town is to be obtain
| ed ALMOST daily on Broadway. His face
is round and flushed, and it wears a
| solid. sagacious. determined expression.
| His hair is iron-gray, and so is his mus
| tache.
Sir Garnet Wolselcy is a military Cy-
clops. having lost the sight of one Of his
ewes by the explosion of shell while in
the trenches before Sebastopol. Two
| sappers were instantly killed beside him
and his whole body was peppered with
gravel, with which a gabion had been
filled when the shell burst in it. His
was asingularly narrow escape. He was
kept for some time i'm 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. 4
thin paste. formed by stirring CONNER
cial zinc-dust into a solution Of egg
albumell, is laid on the fabric by brush
ing or pressure, and after driving is coz
agnlatesl by heated steam The fabric
is then placed in bath of perchloride
of tin, receiving fine precipitation Of
tin upon the zinc. After being rinsed
and dried the fabric sis put through a
glazing machine. where it receives .
high polish. - /.
The Merscy Tunnel, being very near
ly completed, i 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 Bifkenhead. The ventilation
| is secured by means Of powerful fans,
which, in the sir shaft produce current