Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-02-26


York daily.
The Bank of England was incorporated
July "a, 1894
Date trees seldom bear until they are
81 or 80 years old.
Professor Mason SAYS our continent is
inferior to the eastern.
The salary of the Vice President Of
the United States is 5000 year.
A dealer in artificial limbs SAYS that
10000 Americans have lost one or both
legs
The largest tonnage passenger steamer
on the Atlantic is the City of Paris
10. 500
The central arch of the bridge across
the Mississippi at St Louis, No, has a
clear span of $50 feet
Easter Sunday in 1891 comes on March
20 1t can never occur earlier than
March % nor later than April %.
There are 26 monarchies and e5 repuh-
lies the civilized world to-day. Sixteen
republics are in South America.
A full pardon by the Governor re-
stores the convict to citizenship as if he
had never been convicted or imprisoned.
Tie stone aqueduct in Qneretaro. Mex
ico, uilt in 1888. has "A arches, the
highest of which is 81 feet from the
ground.
Census tables show that while in 1910
there were 40 cities with population Of
10000 or over. in 1880 there were 2se
and the number has now increased To
44O.
There was a stage Of civilization be-
fore the tinder box came in, and that
was time when fire had to be kept In.
and il it went out borrowed from a
neighbor.
The speech Of Claudius, engraved on
plates OF bronze. is yet preserved in the
town hall of Lyons, France 1t was dis
covered in 1923 ON the heights of St Sc.
bastian, above the town.
The last battle fought on the soil OF
England was at Sedgmoor, July 8. 1886.
between the followers OF the Duke OF
Monmouth, natural son of Charles II,
and the forces of James IL
In every teaspoonful of human blood
there are about 10, 600, 900, 600 red COR
puscIes. but only 80. 600. coo white ones:
the blood of CLAIMS, Holsters, and nearly
all other invertebrates contains no red
cells, Lut only white.
BY aid of the polariscope DR.. Pineus,
of Berlin, claims to be able to detect GER
tain traces of past emotions in the hairs;
he explains that violent mental disturb
ances cause the hairs to become decolor-
lied just beneath the skin.
The center of population in 1880 was
SO degrees minutes 8 seconds north
aud "a degrees 80 minutes 40 seconds
west-eight miles west by south of Gin
cinnati 1t has moved 80 miles in a
generally westerly direction.
Nature produces tha light given by
the iirefiy at about one-four-hundredth
part of the cost of the energy expended
in the candle flame, aud at an insignif.
cant fraction of the cost of electric
light, or the most economical light yet
devised.
A cold wave is fall of temperature
in "a hours of 20 degrees over an area of
90, 900 square miles, the temperature in
some part of this area descending to 36
degrees; between 1880 and 1890 no less
than 091 cold waves were recorded in
the United States.
Electricity derives its name from the
Greek word amber, electron, because
Thales about 900 b c. discovered that
amber, when rubbed, attracted light and
dry bodies, and in tie twelfth century
the scientific priests of Etruria drew
lightning from the clouds with iron rods.
All watches are said to be compasses;
point the hour hand to the sun, and the
south is exactly half way between the
hour and the numeral XII on the watch;
for instance, suppose it is o'clock,
then point the hand indicating Nv to
the sun and II on the watch is exactly
south.
When Hadyn received from the Uni
versity of Oxford doctors degree,
which, since 1400, had been conferred
on four persons only, he sent in acknowl-
edgment a piece of music, exhibiting
perfect melody and accompaniment,
whether read from the top. the bottom,
or the sides
The word @habit" is one Of the most
peculiar in our language. If you take
of the first letter you still have "a bit"
If you remove the second, the word
''bit" is still on hand. Decapitate that
by removing "b" and it is still word.
Take off the 81" and you find the old
'habit'' not It" totally destroyed.
A railroad around the world is a pos
sibility of the future which eminent
European engineers are already talking
Of. Russia is building a railroad TO
connect ST. Petersburg and Kamschatka,
and when that is completed there is little
reason to doubt that in the course Of
time American enterprise will project
road to connect with it,
There are many quaint places in Nor
way The most northerly town in the
world is open to navigation the year
round, owing to the influence Of the
Gulf Stream. Hundreds of cataracfs,
towering mountains, and beautiful lakes
are sources of delightful surprises By
far the most fascinating is North Cape
and view of the midnight sun.