Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1886-04-01
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John Mayan said that historians were
almost unanimous in asserting the
great antiquity Of the Instrument. but
he thought the claim would have to be
abandoned. After carefully reviewing
the evidence, he found that 1T was GER
tain that the invention of the micro
scope was not anterior to the latter rart
Of the sixteenth century The lecturer
exhibited over 200 microscopes of var
inns fnwrsr
war horses, when hit in battle, trem-
bic in every muscle and groan deeply,
while their eyes show deep astonish-
ment. During the battle Of Waterloo
some of the horses, IS they lay upon the
ground, having recovered from the first
agony of their wounds. fell to eating
the grass about them, thus surrounding
themselves with Il circle Of bare ground,
the limited extent of which showed
their weakness. Others were observed
quietly grazing ON the field between the
two hostile lines, their riders having
been shot off their backs. aud the balls
flying over their heads and the tumult
behind, before and around them caused
40 interruption to tho usual instinct Of
their nature
In the little village Of Mount Pleas
ant in StaffOrdshire, England, is to be
found child whose extraordinary
growth excites great wonder. Little
Alice, as she is humorously called, is
but years of age, yet turns the scale at
15O pOunds-the circumference OF her
waist being no less than five feet, while
her hight IS four feet, so that literally
she is broader than she is long. She is
bright, intelligent, and remarkably
pretty, her head being crowned with
mass of golden hair. Her size does not
interfere in the least with her activity,
as she may often be seen playing with
the other children of the village or
wandering in their company through
the country lanes. Her appetite is
enormous.
A firm on Wall street, New York, has
in operation and on exhibition what is
probably the smallest working printing
press in the world. 1t is an interchang-
able cylinder, printing from contin-
uous roll, with cutoff. 1t is but 121
inches in length and "a inches high.
! Its width in the widest part is 1O1 inches.
| AT the Office where 1t is in use it has
VCCu uCtCce4L9 W 4ttIfl1S1l 10 DIOkCKC anu
others daily letter of financial news.
Until the invention of the press this SER
vice was performed by the manifold
system. Nine manifolders were re-
| quired, working very rapidly. BY SIM
pie hand power, after the type is set,
200 copies per minute of any circular
can be printed. With a dynamo ma
chine to furnish the power, over 500
copies can be printed in the same time.
A New York letter says: walking
through Central Park last week with
! friend, we met six or eight children
walking and presided over by three
teachers, Who do you suppose they areP'
asked my friend. "A little aristocratic
private school, said. No, he said,
those infants are not all Of an age, as
they look. The oldest is 3. They are
| the children of ex-President Barrios of
| Guatemala, who was slain in battle
while trying the mad experiment of
! uniting the Central American Republics
against their will. His widow lives in
that house yonder on the other side of
Fifth avenue the double house. Bar
rios the dictator, was worth $50, 900,
900, they say, but some Of il got away.
She has only $8,000,00O, poor thing.
She is splendid Spanish beauty
| Of the handsomcst women in New
! York.
Stoves are Of very ancient origin. Al
| fixed stove (stuba) was used in the time
| of the Roman Empire for heating baths.
| and in Germany and Scandinavia for
/ baths and hotIouses. In the middle
ages they were generally constructed of