Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-11-22
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CURIOUS CoNDENsArloNs


a Michigan poultry man bnries his
chickens i'm sand heaps over winter, aud
when warm weather comes draws his
supply of spring chickens from tho
earth
A bereaved husl and in North Carolina
put the t,uching inscription on his de-
parted wife's tombstone: = A little while.
In "little while" 1T lree weeks--he
married again.
III. Warren. newsboy on the New
Haven and Derby Railroad, is now 50
years of age lie has been selling
papers "a years. For 25 years he has
never missed day when the trains ran.
At St Augustine, Fla, strange fish
was caught 1t measured two aud
half feet in length, was of the exact
color of silver. and had fangs like those
of rattlesnake. 1t novel swifter than
ordinary fish.
Truckee. New, had snow banks and
.ce all summer, and only in spots did the
earth thaw out to the depth of foot or
so. Overcoats were worn all summer.
and coal stoves bIazed away every day
N August except two.
A merchant in Texas town began 10
years ago TO advertise previous to re-
moval to other quarters he would make
great sacrifice He is still at it. and
she fact that he has not removed doesn't
seem to have aroused any suspicious
that he is a sharp advertiser.
A Boston man who was determined
to get at the root of the matter has dis
covered that only one man in so ever
had his umbrella stolen, and that only
one in l. 900 ever leaves one behind him
anywhere. The average man only has
six umbrellas in a lifetime
An Idaho bank on which there was
a run piled upon the counter what was
supposed to be $40 600 in gold This
stopped the run and brought in deposit
ors. and when the trouble was over the
gold was taken down. The packages
contained iron washers cut to the thick
ness and size of $50 gold pieces.
The Boston Record reports marriage
by phonograph A man waited upon
the minister with a phonograph. The
minister spoke into the apparatus the
questions and the bridegroom the re-
sponses of the marriage ceremony. The
impression was then posted to the bride,
some hundreds Of miles away, and she
and the minister of her village went
through the same process, the last min
ister pronouncing the couple man and
wife.
The hat worn by Napoleon at Eylau
was sold in Paris in 1885 for S400. The
coat worn by Charles XII at the battle
of Pultowa brought over 100000. A
wig that once belonged to Sterne, the
great English writer, was sold at public
auction in London few years ago for
81, ,050. In 1916 a tooth Of Sir Isaac
Newton was purchased by nobleman
for So, $50. The buyer had costly dia-
mond removed from his favorite ring
and the tooth set in its place.
The death of w. G. Hill, the Seattle
millionaire, recalls the incident by which
he obtained all his wealth. When Hill
and r. B. Kinne were both clerks in the
United States Land Off e at Washington
city, Kinne observed that DIR. Maynard
did not prove up on his homestead at
Seattle with the same wife that he had
when he took the land Kinne told Hill
about 1T, who made the hllng, and thus
became a millionaire. The filing was
on the best portion of Seattle's water
front
Norman T. Gassette, prime mover
In the big project of the Masonic Tenn
pie, to be the largest building on earth,
said: "The structure will have its halls
and corridors on the various floors
named as are the streets, so as to do away
with all idea of altitude. Suppose
woman wants to see some one on the
eighteenth floor. She will draw sigh,
murmur Eighteenth foorP and proba-
bly, go home without seeing the person.
But if she is told by che elevator boy that
her friend is up on Morris street, why,
of course, there is no idea of altitude.
-fChicago Herald.