Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-11-01
ANNAPOLIS ND, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER l. 1890


E0tt0k K~utatASt AAa4 bcSohAc totRAAy
hlind.
General Longstreet IS writing history
of the war
Sarah Bernhardt owns 100 birds.
tiger cat. and half dozen dogs.
Mra George B. Mcclellan is entertain
ing very handsomely in London.
Mrs. Powers. Of Kingston. N. Y, il
worth $1,000, 600 and i 100 years old
Powderly says that he has never drawn
more than 5000 q year Of his S5,00t
salary.
Mr. Parnell's health is so precarious
that his physicians urge long sea
voyage.
Justice Bradley Of the United States
Supreme Court amusea himself making
almanacs.
The present Sultan OF Zanzibar is q
young man of 80 and one Of the 81 chill
dren Of his father.
justice Stephen J. Field is said to be,
in dollars and cents, the poorest man oa
the supreme bench.
Tennyson's back yard is said to b.
strewn with clay pipes that he has
smoked and discarded.
Miss Rachel Sherman has the reputa-
tiOn of being the best toast mistress in
politico society circles in Washington.
General Legitime, Hyti's exiled ruler.
will publish book in which will appear
the political history of his native land.
Rev. Sam Jones few years ago
bought piece of land in Georgia for
S. 900. and it is at present worth $50, 900.
Buffalo has firm named Irish & Eng
lisI. What is equally curious, Mr.. Eng-
lish is an Irishman and Mr.. Irish an
Englishman.
Brigham Young's youngest daughter
Is the latest lecturer. She will tour the
English provinces with Mormonism as
her subject
Miss Minnie Trueblood. president of the
Equal Suffrage Association Of Kokomo,
Ind, is one of the chief dry goods mer-
chants Of that city.
Oscar Wilde once played on harpof
q thousand strings" but he is out of
fashion now and devotes much of his
leisure to simple piano playing.
Miss Flora Wax, daughter of Boston
florist. has obtained the first prize and
medal at the Vienna Conservatory and
has gone upon tho operate stage.
James Jeffreys, of Russell county, KY,
has 10 children, including pairs of
twins He also has 10 brothers married,
and the II families have 81 pairs of
twins.
Father Osborne. an Episcopal clergy
man, well known in this country, is now
in South Africa, where he has been
doing some good work in community
of lepers
1t is whispered that Sir Edward GUM
ness, Bart, of the great brewing firm,
will shortly be raised to the peerage.
The barrel, like the pen, is mightier than
the sword.
Abner Dorsett, negro living in Hick-
ory Mountain Township, N. c., has the
largest head Of any person In the United
States, so far as heard from 1t is 80
inches in diameter.
Joseph Medill, editor Of the Chicago
Tribune, is reputed to be one Of the
richest newspaper men in the United
States. his fortune being estimated at
from $4. 0O0. 900 to $4,000, 600.
Popular subscriptions to monument
in honor Of Alexander IL Stephens are
solicited in Georgia. He is to have
bronze statue representing him in later
life as he appeared in Congress.
w. Il Harbin, the latest aspirant for
literary fame to come out of the South,
Is tall young man of 81, very slender
and dark. He was Georgia merchant
before he began to try his hand at liter
ature.
Ex-Governor J. Sterling Morton, of
Nebraska, father Of the arbor day for
economic tree planting out that way,
says that @more than e0O 000, 600 trees
planted by human hands are growing
in that State.
In the reichstag Bismarck once said
that ~it disturbed him to walk by his
fossilized self in Kissingen and Cologne.
II am not particularly susceptible" he
eaid. at another time, : to this kind Of
manifestation Of gratitude"
Mrs James g. Blaine, Jr., has been
obliged to undergo heroic treatment for
her rheumatism. The surgeons broSe
her right arm near the elbow, and intend
TO break her right leg near the knee,
with the hope Of also Strengthening that
member.
Matters are becoming decidedly inter-
esting in the holy land, and. indeed,
throughout all Syria The growing inter-
course with the nations of the Occident
has aroused the Moslem, Arab. and
Turk from the apathy and lethargy Of
centuries.
That iIiustrious Chinese statesman,
the late Marquis Tseng. has received the
highest posthumous honOrs which the
celestial kingdom can best0w, in
formal decree Of re emperor, that be
Aforgives him all his sins and crimes
committed during his life.
Walter Gould. vel known virginian
artist. who IN 1850 went to Florence to
spend an idle travellers two weeks, has
remained in that persuasive eity for 40
years, and his studio teas are among
tho pleasantest observances Of the FASH
ionable artistic circle to which Ho sells'
@Mrz Bowen belonged.