Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1886-03-15
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Evening Capital.
MONDAY. March "A, 1886.



Pointed foes 20 shoes for the feminine
footarc in favor still
The pistol was invented III Pistola. in
Tuscany, by Camille Vitelli. in the six-
teenth century
A New York oculist predicts that 1T
least half of the people of this country
viii wear spectaclcs within fifty years.
An Omaha woman showed her good
nature by having her picture taken in
q group with her three divorced hus-
bands.
Inventors say that no device has yet
been invented that viii secure perfect
and even temperature in a railroad car
during cold weather.
The State Of New York is trading
rainbow trout with Germany for brown
trout, with which to stock some of the
Adirondack streams.
DR.. bio Lewis contends that hot wa
Ter, used internally and externally, is
the best known remedy r-all diseases
10 which human flesh is heir.
Tho Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway Company has established FOUR
teen reading-rooms at points along its
line for the benefit of it, employees.
An autograph of the AIikado of Japan.
upon silk. with gorgeous red back
ground, illuminated with lettering of
gold, has been received from Yokohama
by Governor Sherman, of iowa.
Several strips Of papyrus, originally
taken from an Egyptian grave and
placed in the Berlin Museum, have been
found TO contain portions OF lost work
Of Aristotle ON the Greek constitution.
II is believed that in ten years Yank-
ton, ID. T.. will be an inland town. In
front Of the city, where the river ran
twcnty feet deep five years ago. there
are now 100 acres of land six-feet above
high-watcr mark.
At o recent meeting Of The Holland
Society, i'm New York, a resolution
talked about, but not passed. sought TO
require every member of the society
whose name begins with "Vann 10 write
it with n small '.v;'' those who have the
prefix 'sde' to- use the small ID, and
those who have dropped the prefix
Ivan" to restore it.
Americans are not welcomed very
enthusiastically at first-class hotels in
London. says Walter McAIcIiael. 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 n rule, par
ticular about wearing full dress suits ut
dinner, a rule that an EngIishman
would not think Of violating.
OF the 100000 eggs annually used
in Paris every one is inspected by being
held before Il candle. Rotten ones arc
thrown into vat, which is empticd dali
". Those spotted and unfit for food
are sold to manufacturers. who extract
their albumcn and other chemical in
gradients. The price of eggs is rising,
owing to the increased demand of other
countries and 70 onercus S,ss,vn.s uufles
ON those impor.s,c
* boston newspaper is publishing u
series of monthly articles which may
be called Easy Lessons in BurglaN.H
The article for December contained
minute instructions tor ..>econd-story
work, which. IL informed beginners,
has superseded the ald-fashioned pro-
cess of midnight robbery with Violence.
The ease, simplicity. AMI saletN of this
popular modern method were described
with Il clearncss and vigor which could
hardly fail TO arouse the interest OF the
professional burglar and the enthllsi-
asm of the ambitious amateur. The
householder possibly might moi be SO