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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29
A Touohing Discorerr.

In May last the workmen who are Dig
ging the foundation for the new law
courts in Rome discovered sarcophagus
buried 30 feet below the surface. Inn
mediately the telephone called to the
spct the members of the archaeological
commission, scientific and literary men,
who watch with jealous care all the ex-
cavations made in the Eternal City.
Under their direction it was carefully
raised ard opened. Within lay the
skeleton of young girl, with the re-
mains of the linen in which she had been
wrapped, some brown leaves from the
myrtle wreath, with which, emblematIc
of her youth, she had been crowned In
death. On her hands were four rings,
of which one was the double bethrothal
ring of plain gold, and another with
Filetus, tile name of her bethrothed,
engraved upon it. A large and most
exquisite amethyst brooch, in Etruscan
setting of the finest work, carved amber
pins, and gold necklet with white
small pendants were lying about. But
what is most strange, as being almost
unique, was a doll of oak wood,
beautifully carved. the joints ar
ticulated so that legs and arms
and hands move on sockets, the
hands and feet daintily cut with small
and delicate nails. The features and the
hair were carved out in the most minute
and careful way, the hair waving low
on the forehead, and being bound with
a fillet On the outside of the sarco-
phagus was sculptured her name, Try
ph@na Creperia, and a touching scene,
doubtless faithfully representing her
parting with her parents She is lying
on low bed. and striving to raise her
self on her left arm to speak to her
heart broken father, who stands leaning
on the bedstead, his head bowed with
grief, while her mother sits on the bed,
her head covered, weeping. 1t seems
but yesterday, so natural is the scene,
and yet it was nearly IS centuries ago
that these stricken parents laid so ten
derby away their dearly loved daughter,
with her ornaments and her DOLL
youths C0mpanion.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29
LrrrLE People

After Sunday School - Teacher took
my new whistle. Were you making
noise with it2" mo. guess she
wanted it for her little brother. r--[Life.
Mamma-Now. don't you want to be
good. Johnnie. and go to heaven some
dyg johnnie (doubtfully) Yes'm; but
I'd rather go TO the circus first II Wash
ington Star.
Tommy-Ma, ! want some lunch.
Ma--You must wait awhile. Tommy.
Hunger Is the best sauce, you know.
Tommy--Then boy that's starving, "a
] am, ought 10 be the sauciest chap in
the country.
@Why. Tommy, you're at the jam
again, and only spanked for it an hour
ago. @Yes. mar; heard you tell
auntie you thought you had whipped me
too hard, and thought I'd even things
up "-TJester.
That Terrible Infant Mr. Tomale (to
Jimmy. who has been permitted to dine
with the company)-Will you have q
piece of chicken, Jimmy? Jimmy
After the dog yanked it all over the
back yard? Not muchl-lEpoch.
A little year old girl, pupil of the
normal school OF practice, heard lady
sing @Please Give NE Penny, with
open eyed intentness day or two since,
and at the close asked eagerly: "Did she
get the penny or did she starve?p--
Philadelphia Record.
Sudden Riches The following case
seems to be no exception to the rule that
sudden wealth is doubtful blessing.
Fond Mother-Why, Lucy, what have
you in your apron9 Little Daughter
(breathlesslyl-Oh mammal Such good
lucki Dotty's cat had six kittens. and
her mamma wouldn't let her keep but
one, so she gave me the other five.
New York Weekly.
On several occasions Jennie had
watched her mother as she heightened
her dress by letting out the tucks. One
morning she came into the house with a
caterpillar rolled up into a ball. @Oh,
put down that ugly wormi" cried her
mother in disgust. Jennie dropped the
caterpillar, whereupon it elongated and
began to crawl away. @Oh, mamma,
exclaimed Jennie in childish surprise,
@look at it letting out its tucksl Har-
per's Young People
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29
sArLKp a uNpREp rEARs.
faofs Concerning the vigiiAnt, Probably
the Oldest Vessel AfIeat.

facfs Concerning the vigtlant, Probably
the Oldest Vessel Ahoat.
A Baltimore correspondent OF the
New York S.a writes: A remarkable
vessel, fore and aft schooner Of about
so tons register burden, called the Vigil
liant, is now and has been regularly rum
ming from Santa Cruz to St Thomas and
vice versa, as a passenger, freight, and
mail packet for upward Of four score
years. The Vigilant. it is said. was
built in Baltimore. Nd, during the very
first years of our national Independence,
making her upward of 40 years old.
She was OF the Baltimore clipper class
so famed many years for speed, and
must have been a wonder and a beauty
when launched.
The vessel is probably the Oldest known
vessel afloat But do not picture to
yourself from the description of the
venerable Vigilant a rickety. creaking,
working tub with double gang at pumps
to keep her free in any kind of seaway;
a vessel with great seams, with oakum
working out with every pitch into
head sea. MOI She is the tightest,
l.
possibly imagine. Pumps are seldom
used except to free her of water that
has been dashed into the washup to keep
the vessel sweet / have found less
creak in her than in a fine Bangor
schooner two months old that | made a
voyage in. She has always had the best
care and attention that can possibly be
given We, sci. II a bolt is defective it
is backed cut and replaced with new
one; il knee b m. rib, or stanchion
shows a sign Of rot it is strengthened or
replaced; if PLANK, guardboard. keel,
keelson. stem, or stsrn posts needs 1t, it
is strengthened or made new, always
rigidly preserving her original form and
model Only the best material is used
in making her repairs and replacings
She is to-day, with her century and more
YEARS age, a better vessel than those
cheap soft wood thrown together craft
from Nova Scotia, just launched, that
one frequently sees ] venture to say
that her present owner, Mr.. Pentheny,
would not change the Vigilant to-day
for any brand new vessel of the same
size built in Nova Scotia, independent of
her historical value TO him. She was
built in the days when they only turned
off good vessels. Some years ago there
was vessel called the General Golf,
whose age exceeded that of the Vigilant,
the senior of all vessels. Generations
have come aud passed out since her keel
was laid, and generations may yet come
and go before she ceases running If her
good luck continues
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29
TIMELY TIPS

All people have opinions; only few
have knowledge.
A genuine portrait of Columbus haa
been discovered. It was painted In 1901
and will be seen at the Worlds Fair.
The old Dutch -four miller said: II
never bother myself what roads the
folks come-I only want good wheat and
rye
Walt Whitman says; Strictly judged,
most modern poems are but larger or
smaller Jumps of sugar, or slices OF
toothsome sweetcake.
The name of President Tyler is now
temporarily revived. Miss Mollie T..
Seawall, recently successful novelist,
who took the $500 prize offered by
Boston periodical, is his niece.
The Count of Paris viii visit America
this fall He is very favorably known
in this country through his history OF
the civil war. He has written Of that
event with ability and discretion.
Miss Katharine Woods now admits
writing "Metzerote, Shoemaker. II Is
the novel of Christian socialism, and has
had large SALE Her new story will be
entitled "The Work of the Beast.
English newspaper writers are notori-
ousIy of in their knowledge of Ameri-
can geography and they are not much
better posted as to American literature
The London Figaro attributes Maud
Muller to G. B. Aldrich.
Baifour, chief secretary for Ireland,
has good literary Judgment He reads
a great number of American newspapers
and says he likes their brightness and
snap English newspaper writers donot
know how to be playful
Germany has q heavy responsibility
for the introduction of the abominable
trash which 1t calls rum, gin, etc, into
Eastern Africa. It has done more to in-
jure the black population than all the
missionaries can do to reform them for
the next 80 years.
The place to send old stamps Is the
Aisle des Billode, Locle, Switzerland.
In 1888 this asylum received over 1,OOO.-
600 stamps, Of which the best the chill
dren assorted and sold for $40 to deal
ers and collectors, while the others were
used for decorative purposes, rooms be-
ing papered with them.
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SCRAPS

German workmen are the worst paid
laborers in Europe.
The Crown Princess of Denmark is the
tallest princess in the world.
People eat 90 per cent. more bread
when the weather is cold than when it is
mild.
Telling hair raising story to a bald
man is deplorable instance of misdi-
rected energy.
Mrs. Brown. of Saco, Me-, is not yet
75, but she has seen seven generations Of
her family.
In Paris by paying a penny persons
are allowed on depot platforms to wit
ness the departure of friends.
Peoria, Ill, is now the greatest whisky
town in the world. The distiileries of
the city have a capacity of 18O,O gal
Ions day.
The three reasons which good woman
presented for 0bjecting to preacher
were striking ones She said that, in the
first place, he read his sermon; in the
second, he did not read it well; and in
the third place, it was not worth read
ing
A Tuscarora, New, newspaper pre-
pares the young mind for the coming of
new school principal by the remark
that ~the officials teaching weight is
about 225 pounds avoirdupois. which,
under certain conditions, might be made
TO approximate a ton.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29
Tha or Mada Youne.

DR.. Br0wU Sequard's elixir Of youth
may be an Important discovery. but every
one knows that DR.. FrankIi0 Miles New
Heart Cure certainly is. It has given
thousands afflicted with serious heart
disease New Lease Of Life. Druggists
who can observe It's effects on many
customers everywhere speak very highly
Of Ii. Mr.. Jones Weaver, of Knig ghtsiowns
Ind, says: Il have sold much OF DIR.
Miles New Cure and have received many
God reports. ! sold some to one Of tie
leading Masonic State officers and Il did
him 3 great deal Of good. " Sold By
J. W. Hodges q Co.'S City Drugstore.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29
A wlfe storv.

Some fishermen engaged in Belfast
Lough recently picked up a very large
seagull, which was seen approaching the
boat with wings outspread floating on
the water, lDut quite dead. The men
were puzzled to account for the progress
it made through the water, as it went
faster than the boat; but as it came near
it was found that, wound securely round
the body and under the wings, was q
string of cordage, which, on closer ex-
animation, they discovered was attached
to large paper kite then flying above
them at considerable height The kite
furnished the propelling power. The
bird had evidently, while flying at Bel
fast, got entangled In the string Of q
boys kite, had been unable to extricate
itself, and, taking to the sea- had been
drowned in It's efforts to obtain freedom
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29
.Rpactmen caaea.

8. II. Stafford. New Cassel, Mis-, was
troubled with Neuralgia and Rheuma-
tism. his stomach was dis0rdeFed, his
Liver was affected to an alarming degree,
appetite fell away, and he was terribly
reduced IN flesh and strength Three
bottles Of Electric BitteFs cured him.
Edward Shepherd. Harrisburg, Ill.,
mad & running sore on bis leg Of eight
years standing. Used three bottles OF
Electric Bitters and seven boxes Of Buck
lens AFnfca 6alye, and his Leg IL sound
and well. John Speaker, Catawbas o.,
had i've large Fever sores on his legs doc
tors said be vas incurable. One bottle
Electric BItsem and one box bucklen'e
Arnica ealve cured him entirely. Sold BY
]. w. Hodges q Cos Drug store,
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29

The publishers of Mr. Bellamy's Look
ing Backward" must find it difficult to
keep their announcements Of the editions
up with the sales. It leaped from the
seventy fifth TO the hundredth, then al.
most Immediately to the hundred and
twelfth; and now the hundred and
twenty-second edition is on the market.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29

slam so happy, she said Ever since
my engagement to Charles the whole
world seems different do not seem to
be in dull prosaic New Jersey, but
in"
-Laplanda1 suggested the small
brother.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29
WANTS, FOR SALE, &c.

We will insert in this column advertise.
um@nta Of wants, For Rent, For Sale, Lost,
found, no., not exCee ding four Ilnee. ONE
W EEk. or lesss for 10 Cents.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
FOR RENT OR LEASE.

The LOWER FLOOR, now used as
U. S. Postoffice, of the building known
as the Annapolis Opera House.
The floor may be subdiyided to suit ap-
plicants. For further information apply
to G. A. CULVER,
s26 Secretary.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29

The greater the task. the greater the
reward. You have to be married 50
years before you can have golden we'd
ding.
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EOR RENT-Three pleasant, bright
a. and com Portable ROOMS ia q very desira-
Bile art OF the city. near the Nae Academy.
For particulars apply at this Office.
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TOR RENT.-A NINE ROOM CON-
y venient HOUsEi1 a good ne ghborhood
2l I'm Apply "a Green street
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Many Persons are broken
down rrvm overwcrx or kousehold eares.s
BrOWn's IrOsl BligcrS Rebuilds the
system, aids digestion. removes excess Of biles
and cures malaria Get the genuine.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29

E,0R SALE--A tfrst- class and renumerative
IT Retail BUSINESS in the City OF An
napolis. Address, "A B. G." CAPITAL Ofiice.
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HUNDRED PAIR PIG-
w EONS. Call or address statlng price.
o4 63 Charles Street. Annapolis, Nd.
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WANTED A SITUATION AS sRAM-
w STRESS Apply at IS Market Street, =
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EOR sALE-A GOOD BUILDING LOT
in d. sirable location. For particulars
apply TO this Office. o24
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L FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. Ap-
4 ply ~ the Office Of the CAP1TTL. OPP
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29
BROWN S IRON BITTERS
Cures Dyspeps ia, IN
digestion G Debility.

A GENTS-Mark Twain's last book will pay
n you better than any other this Fa l. 40.-
600 already sold. Every one likes IL. viii
sell splendidiy for Chris mas. Our workers
sell from fifteen 20 forty copies q week.
Write pror PITY to A. J. POTTER Manager,
care Of e. L. Webster Co.. 3 81 tn Street.
New York. o0
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29

EoR REM r-A SIX ROOM HOUSR No Is
II Prince George Street. Good Yard. Ap
ply to e. A. SHJOU URBAN, lat Hanoi ev St,
Annapolis Md. OILS
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WANTED Employment by an honest
w sober. and industrious Young Man. to
take care Of horses and do genera work Re-
ferences given. Address THO5. OH NEY,
Eastports A. A. County. Nd.
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T OST-In going from the NavalAcademy to
II Charles. Conduit, Cath dral or Duke Of
GloucesEs street, q Lady's gray Crocodile skin
Capital Office. oc20w
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FOR RENT.-Three Furnished ROOMS
IL for rent No. 50 Conduit Street. SO
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29

rs NOT one Of the old worn-out.
potash. mercury. sarsapariilas
thousand doses for a shilling med
icine. 1t Is remedy which never
fails In Blood Diseases. and always
builds up the general health of the
patient.
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CURED Ilerself and Her enid,

Cured Herself and Her child.
s. s s. has relieved me OF terrible scrofuia
from viii b had suffered for years. Ii affected
my nose first as catarrh, then carries of the bone,
and continued to eat until it destroyed the soft
bone In the right side Of the no {, then went to
my throat and later on to my lungs, and it looked
as if was doomed 5. 5. S has cured me- and
has also cured my little daughter OF the same
Treatise on FLOOD and Skin Diseases mailed
free SWIFT SPwcIFtc Co. Atlant-. Ga
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-10-29

xNYIDE-AWAKE and intelligent men want
w cd 10 sell the GREAT WAR LIBRARY
on easy monthly payments. Contains the
work8 Of Generals Grant, Sheridan, Sherman.
Hancock. Crawford. Mcclellan and Custer
Ten volumes Grand st thing in recent years,
Our agents are averaging over ffty collars
profit per week. w ite for terms 10 A. J.
POTTER Manager. care of Cha les L. Web
ster g. Co, East 14th St., New York. oil
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XTTANTED IAN ACTIVE, HONEST MAN,
w Salary 800 monthly IL suitable with
Iv responsible New York house. keferen
ees. MaNUFACTURER. lock Box 1885,. N. Y.
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ESOR SALE--A ane BLACK MARE. Saddle,
II Harness and Four Seat DAYTON, win
be sold cheap for cash. For further particu-
lars apply to ALEX. HART. No. Is Maryland
Avenue. n7r1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
GREAT ENGINEERING EXPLOITS.
Good Examples of Recent American Skill In
Large Undertakings.

Good Examples of Recent American Skill In
Large Undertakings.
Notwithstanding the fact that the great
Washington Monument and the great New
York aqueduct are accomplished facts, the
country is still in no danger of lack of
magnificent undertakings, says the Man
chester Union. The construction of the
Nicaragua Canal, although outside the
limits of the United States, is distinctively
an American enterprise, and the thorough
nature of the WORK at the beginning affords
substantial assurance OF a satisfactory end
ing Meanwhile there is no dearth of gigantic
undertakings nearer home.
A second bridge across the East river is
practically an assured fact, as the capacity
of the present structure is already taxed to
its utmost. But before this work is entered
upon, the great suspension bridge across the
Hudson at Peekskill will have been COM
pleted. A contract has already been made
for the great steel towers of this bridge, each
of which will weigh 800 tons. The New
York and New England Railroad, which
will operate the bridge, has contracted for
it's use and for that of the road east from
Scranton, with the Ontario and Western,
the New York, Susouehanna and Western,
the Lehigh Valley, the Lehigh and Hud-
son, and the New York and Northern, the
last named giving all the others entry into
New York for passenger traffic. The object
is to connect the coal fields of Pennsylvania
with New England.
Still another great enterprise now on foot
is to construct a railway tunnel under the
New York bay, between Bay Ridge and
Staten Island. The cost of the entire line,
including the railway from the Arthur Kill
to the outlet of the tunnel, is estimated at
Sc, ,OO0, 900, and it is argued that the trans
portation OF coal alone would repay the con-
structors for their investment. The tunnel
would give eight trunk lines access to and
outlet from the city of Brooklyn. While
this great project is attracting the attention
of capitalists, commission appointed under
an act OF Congress is getting ready to con-
slider plans for the proposed bridge across
the Hudson river between New York City
and New Jersey, which will be structure
equal to any yet contemplated in this coun-
try. 1t will be seen by these examples that
the spirit of enterprise is still active. and
that improvement and progress are the
watchwords of the present, no less than of
the immediate past.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

keys are used instead of the one little lever
used on Morse land line. The two keys
are fixed on one base and are both worked
with the fingers of one hand, usually two
fingers on one key and two on the other.
The left key sends current moving the
siphon so as to make the left-hand or up
ward line, and the right key sends reverse
current, causing the downward line. There
is no difference in the duration of the sig
mails, the "dots" are equal in length to the
"dashes." 1t viii readily be seen that it is
impossible to connect land line with a
long cable, and all direct conversations be-
tween New York and Paris or San Fran
cisco and London occur only in some ones
brilliant imagination.
There are only three submarine telegraph
cables running into New York City, and
these have only been laid within very recent
years, two of them little more than year
ago. Before these were constructed the
ocean cables only reached to Nova Scotia
and Newfoundland, and messages for
Europe were sent from New York to those
points by land lines. On this account in
terruptiops to communication with Europe
were frequent. 1t is now very rare that any
difficulty in that way is experienced with
cables
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

A large leopard had bounded on the
back of one of them, while still in the forest,
and he was now seated firmly on its should
ers, tearing at the poor animals neck with
the savage ferocity of its kind. The other
giraffe, mad with terror, soon left its COM
panion lar behind, the poor creatures life
blood flowing from its neck and streaming
over its sides. The sportsmen's dogs now
Joined in the chase, following close upon
the heels of the enfeebled animal, already
tottering to its fall. Soon they overlook it
and began barking at its heels, but the
giraffe did not give in without one struggle.
Lifting one of its hoofs it dashed it back
ward with unerring aim, striking down the
foremost dog and throwing it several yards
to the rear, where it lay struggling in the
agonies of death. But this effort was the
last. Jerking its long neck violently out
ward, the giraffe reeled over on one side and
fell heavily to the earth, severely crushing
the leopard in its fall. Both animals were
killed by the two sportsmen.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
TOILET TABLE FOR LADIES.

Description of Very Taking Piece Of
Furniture forethe Fair Ones.
A typical toilet table is heart-shaped,
with q point toward the window before
which it stands, writes "Bab" in the De-
troit Free Press. On it is a large mirror
framed in silver and heart-shaped in its out
line, and then all the little belongings, the
brushes, the boxes, the trays, are spread
out on the heliotrope velvet cover. Below
this, over velvet, is deep frill of lace,
and really for a second the effect is that of
a priests vestments. On the writing table,
which is OF mahogany, are sticks of hello
trope sealing wax, the note paper is a very
pale heliotrope, with cipher in gold, while
the telegraph blanks are in heliotrope
velvet case that has feur-de-lis worked
upon it in gold thread.
The minutest detail of the furniture is in
the proper shade, and it would be absolutely
impossible for young woman to have the
blues in that room; she might lay claim to
the "vapors"-that funny old-fashioned
word-but the blues would not be in
harmony. And the swagger girl is nothing
If not harmonious.