Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-05-06

Fred Douglass mourns that he can not
celebrate his birthday. He does not
know when he was born.
Senator Hearst's widow was school
teacher in Steelville, No.. where she was
married, and her husband was then a
poor man.
Mrs. Mary Brayton Young, who has
just died, was the heaviest mill owner in
Fall River, and possessed an estate valued
at $12, 100000.
Rev. DIR. Talmage's mouth is not half
so large as the pictures make it. He is
by no means homely man, as homely
men go in these days.
Sir Edwin Arnold is an absentminded
man and is somewhat negligent in his
attire. He has a mild eye, a calm face,
and general air of indifference.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts has left
England for a ramble through Italy.
Her health is very precarious and the eff
fects of her recent accident are telling
severely upon her.
Webb G. Hayes, son of r. B. Hayes, Of
Fremont, Ohio, lives in Cleveland, where
he is rated as business man of great
capacity and integrity. The young man
takes little interest in politics.
Miss Sophia Gregoria Hayden, the win
ner of the 81 900 prize for the best design
for a woman's building for the Worlds
Fair, is resident of Jamaica Plain, an
outlying district of Boston. She looks
very much like Mrs. Cleveland.
Captain Johann Orth, the missing
Austrian archduke, was signaled on the
Pacific Ocean some weeks ago, accord
ing to a statement in a French paper
published in Yokohama, but the story is
not received with credence in Vienna.
The Rev. Joseph Cook is strongly
opposed to Sunday papers. And yet IL
the Boston Sunday papers hadn't made
clerical white elephant of Joseph there
wouldn't have been enough of him to be
drawing card for $40 month con-
venticle.
Adelaide Ristori, the great actress of a
former generation, is nearer 20 than so
years of age, but, says Roman CORE
spondent, is still beautiful woman,
with voice strong and clear, her fine
figure straight and graceful, and her face
neither wrinkled nor yellow.
When graduation day came for Cadet
Joseph E. Johnston at West Point his
coat was so shabby that he found ii nee
essary to borrow better one from Cadet
Wilson. 1t is worthy of mention that
General Johnston forgot neither the bor-
rowing of the coat nor the cadet of whom
he borrowed it.
Captain w. w. Peabody, who has been
appointed one of the Worlds Fair Com
missioners to take charge of the Ohio ex-
hibit, is the right man for the place. He
knows exposition business as he knows
the business of railroading, and his ia
miliarity with that reaches from The
surveyors chain to the private drawers
In the presidents desk.
General o. o. Howard, who COM
manded the right wing of the army that
marched through Georgia to the sea.
says that Sherman's promotions in the
army to western commands were won
against the prejudices Of those above
him, especially of the Secretary of War.
who considered him erratic, his opinions
swollen, his estimates excessive when he
more to finish the war In the west.
Why Pay Rent.
The Granite State Provident Associa-
ton, has loaned out in this city to this
date, over three times as much money as
has been paid by its share holders. Every
loan that has been applied for has been
made. There has been large increase
in the business during the month just
past, and there was added to the assets
of the association over $32, 900 in twenty
eight days This shows that the plan and
the manner the Association is conduct
ing its business is meeting with popular
favor thought the country. Although it
has been very dull for the past month,
haye added . large number of shares TO
those already subscribed, of good sub
stantial citizens, showing that the Asso-
citation ia also growing in favor in this
city, as the increase in its. business will
attest. r. @. ELLIOTT, agent.