Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-06-06

Paul B. Du Chaillu, the famous Afri-
can explorer, is inpoor health in London.
Wilfred Blunt, the English writer. has
announced himself as sick Of politics.
The ehraviest man in England is Thomas
Cougerly, of Dover, who weighs $50
pounds.
General Early has been the chief con-
tributor to the Lee monument fund at
Richmond, Va.
William Black, the novelist, believes
in "plain living and high thinking. He
lives in plain rooms.
Anna Dickinson, who cleared $25, 900
in one season and $i60, 900 in ten. has lit
tie or none of it left
General Malone is hard at work study
ing French in anticipation of going to
Paris 10 succeed Consul Rathbone.
Mr.. Carlisle has prepared reply to
Senator Davis's article on the first year
Of President Harrison's administration
Mrs. John A. Logan is an accomplished
carpenter and fills her home with skill
full convenienoes OF her contriving.
Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, is to
marry Mrs. Bass, widow of the late Con-
gresham Lyman X. Bass, Of Buffalo.
Mrs. w. s. Hancock has given to the
soldiers home at Minnehaha, Mimi, a
fine portrait of her illustrious husband.
Governor Hill has prevented the mar
riage of girl in Elmira to his nephew,
who, he says, is not able to support a
wife
Miss Margaret Blaine received from the
diplomatic corps wedding gift of an
elegant tea service of solid silver worth
$500.
The real inventor of the powder used
for the Lebel rifles is not the colonel of
that name, but NJ. VieilIe, young French
engineer.
Nine. Modjeska will spend next season
in Europe, after which she will return
to this country, when she hopes to have
a new play.
Clot Bey, the founder of modern med
icine in Egypt, says that it requires as
much surgery to kill one Egyptian as
seven Europeans.
Richard Stahl, the composer, has been
married three times, divorced twice, and
sued for alimony once. He is at work on
wedding march.
Colonel Bob Ingersoll is growing quite
stout, but he can not be prevailed upon
either to take exercise or to overcome
this tendency by dieting.
@Ouida uses on her hair and eyebrows
a scent that costs $50 an ounce. She can't
bear starched muslin and the touch Of
velvet makes her flesh creep.
Lieutenant Wordsworth, of the British
army, who has disappeared and is be-
lieved to have committed suicide, is a
grandson of the great English poet
Mrs. w. H. Kelly, who has just been
elected mayor of Edgarton, Kans., is only
90 years old, and is believed to be the
youngest mayor in the United States.
Marie Leseur, who was a famous
dancer 20 years ago, has died in Holland
at the age of 81. Even the high-kicker
must come to her final kick some time.
A. o. Bacon, of Macon, Ga, is regarded
as the peer of any corporation lawyer in
the country. He derives an income of
about $4,000 year from his law prac~
tice.
James Patton Scott, son of the express
ident of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is
devoting his time to the establishment of
one of the greatest sugar plantations in
the South.
Salvini indulges in a game of pallone,
a species of hand-ball greatly resem-
at it, and has not yet met man able to
defeat him.
Professor A. N. Klaer, Norwegian
has discovered and declared
that the marriage state increases the
death rate among women and decreases
it among men.
George Augustus Sala Is paid SIC, 900
a year by the London Telegraph for writ
ing four editorials week. The salary
seems big, but English editorials are very
large and heavy.
James Russell Lowell RECEIVERS slowly
from his recent illness. Publishers are
calling for copy on his Life of Haw-
thorne," but he is unable to retouch it,
though it is all written out.
Edward Bellamy, according to Bos-
ton paper, wrote Looking Backward
Is a satire on Socialism, and was the most
man in the world when the /
public made hero of him.
Henry George has been heard from in
Australia. He has crowded houses there
ind sympathetic audiences. The lEingIe-
AK ideas have made more progress In
hat country than in any other.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes was fifty
when he began to grow bald. He tried
everal cures for opalecia, but they SIM
'ly had the effect Of rendering his dome
4 thought all the more opalescent.
DR.. King, physician-in-ordinary to
distinguished statesman of China, is an
american woman. She. has extensive
'ractice In Shanghai, and her surgical
operations have attracted wide attention.
DR.. Cbarcot's ape Rosalie, which ths
'rincess imperial Of Brazil sent him IN