Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1886-10-01
MISSING LINKS.

Donkey carts are the latest craze In
Washington.
Keely. the motor man, used to be .
cannon ball tosser in circus.
Grand Rapids, Mich. has four lady
BARRIERS, one of whom is colored.
BARRIERS at Findlay, Ohio. refuse TO
shave customers during thunderstorm.
"Azov" wheat recently imported
from Russia, is doing splendidly IN
Manitoba.
This is proverb of the Talmud: Ten
measures of talk were 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 Meriden, ILL.,, that they talk OF build
ing huge ''cyclone cellar" where the
whole town can take refuge when q
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 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. = Texas SJtings.
A young man is living i'm 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 a black sea bass was caught
near the jetties in the Mississippi river
that was more than u feet long and
weighed 500 pounds, while still larger
one was caught off Port Eads.
The beautiful red plumage OF South
African species of birds has been chem
ically examined and found to be due to
copper. When the birds are 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 his first
money as 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 @5 to q man
in the East in exchange for six gourd
seeds warranted to produce gourds Of d
capacity of forty gallons. After waiting
long for the seeds to sprout, he invests
gated and found that they were artistic
ally carved out of Eastwood.
Mrs. Catherine Van Courtlandf, Of
Peekskill, N. Y, has IN his possession
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 .fs
used BY 10000, 600 Of the human race,
betel nut by 10O,OO0,OO0, chiccory bv
100000, coffee by 100,000.000; SO0,-
100000 eat or smoke hashish, 400. 600, =
600 use opium, 500 000,00O use tea, and
all the known people Of the earth are
0WQAS1gA W @AC A&@O VA gO90@~Os
A Boston man saw a goodlooking
woman drop her glove FROM q car
window just as the train was moving
from the station. lie rushed forward.
grabbed the glove. as be supposed, ard
racing alongside of tho car, handed the
fair one banana skin, which he bad
picked up By mistake.
Mr.. John w. Aackay. according to
the Paris journals. has fitted up khe
smoking-ro0m of his New York hotel Ill
quite unique nlanneF. The walls af6
papered with bank-notes Of ali nations
artistically arranged and runninQ-up -
the ceiling, the whole representing @20.-
900 in visible cash. Taey always raaEi.
age to lasso the news in Paris. -:s
A Maryland farmer proposes t. grow
wheat year after year On the same land
without plowing. His plan s7ssto SOW
/ 200 pounds Of bone meal per acre. sell
/ the straw TO the paper mills. and expond
/ the money obtained Tor il III hone meal.
After harvest burn the stubble to kin
weeds and get rid of rubbish. Then
harrow repeatedly, SOW the bone meal
j and seed. and 30 continue year after