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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-10-09

DOR RENT.-A NINE ROOM HOUSE.
II all modern improvements. Rent nOder-
ate. Location desirable. Possession Rfven
Immediately. Apply at this Office. 10Bw
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For the RvESIEG CAPITAL.
The time of life that hath so quickly
flown,
Seems like journey through some des-
ert place
Where all is silent and stand alone.
Yet here and there. within g narrow
space,
A bright oasis cheers the travellers gaze.
The thought OF youthfulness and happy
days
Forever past, awakens oft tear
OF fond remembrance, as / turn once
To look upon the past and view each
year,
Wherein the heart recalls the scenery oI
yore
And then, as onward pursue my way.
! think how soon my journeys end may
come,
Perhaps my course is nearly run, the day
Is near when / shall reach my happy
home.
/ sigh for home
While here ! roam,
Tossed wildly on life's billow.
My song must end
And / suspend
My harp upon the willow.
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.-.,.o,l.. ". az. Railroad.

e.. lat 1891. passenger trains
% 90 AIiei Iii. AS follows:
a. - .,,a ARRIVE IN AEHAPoLIs
Lttlh 80 IN a nj Mall ed ~ ~ II
- 81 = ~ ETpress ...... 10 ga, 10.
frgr.ss ....st.3 q ~ 1aiI.........1.46 p. m
L'a1s '''---'15 55 o. m. Passenger''.'e.so p u
3D., -. wIIleave Annapolis at $50 a
ssaiI l,a'T n. Arrive 10 90 q. n, and SO pm
8 90 q, 2 .. .b arer run between baltimore
i',5 ssapSIls on ali the above trains. o.orv
iiy..l H. ,,s,gbt Tuesdsy and Friday at s.Ot
7. b''"' JAMES n. BROWN, u. 1. A.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-10-09

Sales of Murray Hill lots are now
the order of the day.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-10-09

D,I, lenglh-ll Hours and 80 Minutes
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-10-09
KEW OF THE DAY.

ocAL AND OTHERWISE.
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To.DAY's RECORD.

M ImPcniure,..'.' .'''' 20 an
Frasm femperaturc......... %
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-16
THE Western Commercial Con,

The Western Commercial Con-
gress, to be held at Kansas City
April Is, will consider all questions
pertaining to the welfare of the
Western and Southern States ire
spective of party. Among the sub
iects that will come under discus
sion will be: "says the San Antonio
Times: General business and ag-
ricultural depression-cause and
remedy; legislation as affecting COM
MERGE, transportation and finance
transportation and improvement of
waterways, lake, gulf and Pacific
ports; markets for Western products
tree coinage, metallic money and pa
per currency; promotion of manu-
featuring interests, irrigation OF
arid lands; uniform commercial
laws; taxation; Western mineral
lands and their development; immi-
grafton and the settlement of unoc-
cupied lands; cause and effects of
business combinations and trusts;
reciprocity and International trade
extension; Federal and State statis-
tics; and the Indian question and
opening of Indian lands. Texas has
so many interests at stake that an
able presentation from this State
might do great good. A second
Congress will be held in Denver on
MAY l.
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Hi, Cradle Was His Mo lher,s Shoe.

Boots and shoes have been used by
sailors to drink out of and to bale
boats. But surely the most extraor-
binary use ever made of shoe-since
the old woman of nursery rhyme fame
lived in one-was the following: a
dwarf son of French peasants was so
small that at his birth doH's ward
robe had to do duty for linen on the
occasion. At his christening his mother
thought he was far too small to carry
on the arm, so she made him a little
bed in her own wooden shoe, and in
this way carried him to church.
The same wooden shoe afterward
served him for a cradle till he was 6
months old. Further, we are told that
when the child learned to walk, and
the village cobbler was ordered to
make him pair of shoes, he found the
task 80 difficult that he had to give it
up; and no wonder, for at years old
the dwarf was only % inches high and
weighed s pounds. Chambers Jour
nal
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ZEE sUB-TKEAsuRY Plan.

The Farmers Alliance pronounces
with great unanimlty says an ex.
change in favor of what is known as
the sub-treasury plan. This plan is
that the government shall loan
money, through the agency of sub
treasures, upon imperishable farm
products and on land. .
The plan is based on false politi-
cal economy, especially if, as is as
serted by its advocates, it is intend
ed to increase the volume of the cur
rency of the country. AS a matter
of fact, every dollar that could be
loaned by the government under the
proposed law on the years crop
would simply take the place of dol
lar of currency which is issued under
the existing stote of things.
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Looking Ahead.

Governess-Of course you must take
your writing lesson. How in the world
will you ever become business man
like your papa if you can't write9
Little Dick-Oh, I've dot that all
fixed with Birdie De Pretty. We've
talked it all over.
''What has little Birdie De Pretty to
do with it, 1 should like to know2"
'TWhy. she's dom to be my typewriter. :"
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STATE NEWS.

May L.
STATE NEWS.
Huntsville has organized cor
net band.
FIT. Worth had $4,000 fire Sun
day night.
Grapevine has a genuine case
of spotted fever.
"A private school was opened at
Hutto last week with fifty pupils.
"A new road will probably be
built out to Roberts from Greenville
says the Herald.
The Texarkana foundry and
machine shops were destroyed by
fire Saturday night.
The new Methodist church at
Hubbard City is fine structure and
handsomely furnished.
Indications are that Wilbarger
county wheat will average twenty
bushels or more to the acre.
Camp Langtry and the Post at
Del Rio has been abandoned. The
troops will be sent to Fl. Clark.
The Gordon public schools,
Young county, closed Friday night
with an exhibition at the Odd Eel
lows hall.
The contract is let for a fine
two story brick hotel at Marshall.
The building will measure 64x60
feet and occupy corner lot.
The business of the Greenyille
postofice has increased during the
year sufficient to entitle the office to
raise in the postmaster's salary to
$500:
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Vickrey, of
Bell county recently celebrated their
golden wedding. Six children and
nineteen grandchildren were at the
reunion.
The wheat and oat crops of
Fannin county are reported to be in
excellent condition. Corn planting
is ali done and many persons have
planted their cotton.
Sherman Register: Superin-
tendent Lennon of the public
schools is of the opinion that it will
be almost imperative to build anoth-
er school building, and it should be
built in the Fifth ward.
Corpus Christi is now entitled
to the name of Soldier City" there
being three frst-class military Or
CARNATIONS in the city, all composed
Of Corpus Drawn and bravery, so
says the Gulf News.
1t is claimed that the fruit cul-
bure in Southern Texas will yet out
rank that of California. The pro-
ducts of the section can be placed
upon the market three or four weeks
in advance of that of the Pacific
slope.
The Bell county. poultry associ-
alton will hold meeting on April
25 to adopt constitution and by
laws. The Office are: J. J. Rob
ertson, president; John A. Cole,
Temple, vice-president; J. G. Collins,
Bolton, secretary.
w. @. Cash, the murderer of E.
I. Young was acquitted at Dallas
Cash is from Lincoln
county, Ky, and alleged that Young
who was a near neighbor, debanched
MS wife, then sold out and came to
Texas. Cash obtained divorce in
1889, three months ago came to DIAL
as and shot Young down like dog
n the street. The former husband
md wife were remarked after the
curry brought in a verdict of &C
luittal.
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MISS CARTER, of Wilmington,
Mass, says an exchange, has made
her name household word by do
mating to the town in which she
lives $4,000, the income of which
is to pay for painting houses in need
of it, provided the applicant does
not own dog and is member of
some temperance organization. "
Money has been put to worse use
than this" What's the matter with
joining a temperance society and
giving away your dog if your house
needs painting.
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theirs grave

AN order has been given to the
director of the mint to secure anoth-
er design for the silver dollars. The
eagle with untitled wings must go.
He looks too much like buzzard.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-16

No man is wiser for his learning;
it may administer matter to work in,
or object to work upon; but wit and
wisdom are born with a man.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-16

No Mexican school book makes
any mention of the war with the
United States. This country is sim
ply spoken of as bounding Mexico
on one side, and of raising large
quantities of pork and corn.
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VIRTUE is its own reward-some-
times, says the Fort Worth Gazette,
William Roberts of Liberty, Mo-,
last December found a man who
was sick and seemed to be homeless.
He took the poor fellow home,
nursed him back to health, fed him,
let him go, and forgot about it. A
few days ago he was surprised to
learn that tie homeless invalid had
just died in Kansas City and left
him a whole block of brick
buildings there, and a fat pile of
money in bank. Feed the and sick,
and if you don't get brick block in
Kansas City you may get golden
corner lot somewhere else, which is
the next thing to Kansas CITY.
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IT IS rumored that the Mexican
Congress will create the Office of
vice president. If it does it should
also create an additional Office, the
incumbent of which should be re-
CURED to see that the vice president
did not have the president put out
of the way.
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S. GARL1NaroN LEAK, an attorney
of Dallas, whose card has appeared
in the BANNER for some time, has
skipped for trying to levy blackmail.
The Sunday Sun of Kansas city
roasts the gentleman who parted his
name in the middle and disgraced
the State which, we blush to own, he
came from, that of Georgia. The
Times-Herald, of Dallas, gives him a
considerable roasting. The Times
Herald says he came from Georgia
with a great flourish of trumpets,
but that it is not known what music
the band will play when he marches
out of the metropolis" The BAN
NER drops his card and his name from
its subscription list.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-16

The white women of Topeka,
Kansas, elected Democratic mayor
at the late election. They voted the
Democratic ticket because their
husbands and the negro women of
the town voted the Republican.
Bully for the white women of To-
peha.
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

An excessively fat animal often
proves barren.
The more an animal is exposed the
less it will produce.
Since 1861 100000 people have
died in Philadelphia.
-Four men were killed in mine
disaster at Lyons, Kan.
William Waldorf Astor has opened
business Office in London.
Cults conscience never troubles
it while its stomach is full.
The more dyspeptic is the often
er his wife makes mince meat.
The fast man runs his life out
trying to keep up with himself.
General Butler ranks well up
among the rich men of the Hub.
cit is more blessed to give than
to receive" "What is?" Medicine. .
A mans experience is either some
thing he has or something that has
him.
George Francis Train is an agile
and muscular as he was twenty years
ago.
Man would not that there is such
a thing as light if there was no dark
ness.
There is one thing that may be
said of spider-there are no flies
on it.
On a majority of western farms
clover should be grown more than
it is.
We often think of the goodmoney
that is going to waste coin collec-
tions.
How old people love to moraIize,.
and how young people dislike to
listen.
She is only half mother who
does not see her own child in every
child.
A gentleman never makes the
statement that he can prove that he
is one.
The Canadian parliament has been
summoned to meet on the 29th of
April.
Hogs will pull a farmer out of
financial hole quicker than any other
stock.
It takes brave man to tell the.
truth when a lie would save him
money.
fany mans tongue is too long, it
is because his neighbours cars have
made it so.
1t seems to be a hard Job Tor
Palestine to rid herself of the small
pox plague.
In one moment resolution may
be formed that will take all of life to
carry it out.
The devil don't care how much re-
ligion you get if you never do any
thing with it.
A shade tree should never be taken.
from a dense forest, and be set out
in the spring.
The Texas State Lumberman's
Association meets in Houston on the
18th instant.
Preachers and churches who please,
everybody are the kind who never
have reyivals.
If a man is known to the world as
3 fool, it is his own tongue that first
proclaimed it.
Ellis county corn is said to be
rather slow in coming up. 1t is IT.
regular as yet.
To be meek in spirit is not only
to inherit the earth, but to own real
estate in heaven.
Try a small brush, not too stiff, for
potatoes and other roots,
and save your hands
The real estate agent never CON
cedes that there is such a thing as
''sins of commission"
A furrier one advertised: 'Capes,
victorines, etc, made up for ladies
out of their own skins"
Curiosity becomes a vice when it
is only an itching to learn what is
amiss respecting others.
Are the woods of the Amazon
called "virgin forest" because they
have never been axed?
The State Horticultural Society
will meet at Lampasas, July 1, 1891,
and continue three days.
The loss of situation must be
quite embarrassing. It causes the
loser to feel out of place.
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RETURNED missionaries from Bor-
neo report that the women of that
island demand that their husbands
be warriors, and that the proof of
their being SO depends upon the
number of heads they can show. In
that country man in order to get
a wife must at least get ahead.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-16

IT is estimated that there are fully
5000 families who live in shanty
boats along the Ohio river, floating
along from town to town and feeling
as happy as though they owned the
earth.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-16

Many think that sleep is lost time;
but the style of your work will be
nightly affected by the style of
your slumber. Sound Asleep is the
sister of Wide Awake. Sleep is not a
subtraction: it is an addition.
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"A GREAT strike of miners in Penn
sylvania is expected to begin May
LIST. Unless something is done to
turn the workmen from their pur-
pose, $4,000 men will cease work,
and the trouble will involve more
than 100000 men.
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SPECTATORS out West are buying
up all the hay in sight with view
of cornering that product. If the
men who are engineering this scheme
are not careful the live stock of the
country may eat a hole it.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-16

JUsT before adjournment congress
passed an Indian depreciation law
that will probably result in placing
SIS, 100000 in circulation. This law
practically removes all restrictions
and limitations, enabling every set
tier or his heirs to obtain pay in full
for all looses occasioned by Indians.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-16

r. @. Mills has gone to
rson, KY, to visit the home
lis boyhood, He carried with
IN small cedar to plant by his ia
theirs grave.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
ox1pIzED WATER.

Peroxide of hydrogen, or oxdized
water, is rapidly taking an impor-
tant place in medicine, and is already
declared to be necessary, and not
merely good or useful. AS ordinarily
sold, the peroxide of hydrogen is a
81 per cent solution, yielding Is
times its volume of oxygen. In its
applications, this solution is said to
be nearly as bland as water, causing
smarting only on such surfaces as
the interior of the eye or the nose,
yet it acts so powerfully as ger
micide as to kill anthrax spores in a
few minutes. The chief value of the
peroxide is in stopping suppuration
and sterilizing wounds, which it does
more effectually than any other SUBJ
stance. 1t cleanses all pus from
cavities not easy to reach, as in alb
scess of the brain, and so thorough
ly are the microbes devitalized that
one application only is often quite
sufficient to stop abruptly the for
nation of pus and cause the speedy
healing of large surfaces. 1t has
been of especial service in operations
on the eye. It is also claimed to
bring away diphiheritic membrane
very quickly and easily, and may be
snuffed up into the nose to render a
fetld discharge odorless. The per-
oxide of hydrogen is unstable COM
pound, with powerful oxldizing and
bleaching properties, but may retain
its germicidal power for months if
kept cool and tightly corked.
DR.. Guido Bell has reported the
case of man, with several ribs
broken by fall, whose heart beats
were very loud at the distance of a
foot for about half an hour; and a
previous case in which, after con-
fusion ofthe thorax, the heart sounds
were plainly audible the whole
length of a large room, and even
farther
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A FARMER who has raised turkeys
many years, and who takes great
pleasure in making experiments,
writes that charcoal, turkey-fat and
diamonds are alike in some respects.
1t is fact that more fat may be
gotten out of charcoal than one
would suspect, without a knowledge
of chemistry. Here is an account
of one experiment: -Four turkeys
were confined in pen and fed on
meal, boiled potatoes and oats.
Four others of the same brood were
at the same time confined in another
pen and fed daily on the same arti-
Gle, but with one pint of very fine
pulverized charcoal mixed with the
food-mi1ed meal and boiled pota-
toes. They had also a plentiful
supply of broken charcoal in their
pens. The eight were killed on the
same day, and there was a difference
of one and a half pounds each in fa-
ver of the fowls which had been
supplied with charcoal, they being
much fatter, and the meat was supe-
rior in point of tenderness and
flavor.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-16

TEXAS strikes hands with Arkan-
saw, and will have nothing to do,
officially, with the Worlds fair, says
the Fort Worth Gazette. We have
100000 acres of school land for
sale, but we don't want it noised
abroad, for settlers might flock to
the state and buy this land, which
would increase the permanent'school
fund and add to the perplexity of
finding an investment for the money.
And the constitution stands i'll
virgin purity, and virtuous statesmen
applaud their own confluence.
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Ono politicians are discussing
among themselves the probability of
Sherman retiring from the Senate at
the expiration of his present term.
The chances are very fattering
that the senator will retire and be
succeeded by a Democrat.
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The labor market is more dis
turbed, says Bradstreet's than for
many weeks past, The situation in
the coal and building trades has be-
come more unsettled, while the coke
strike is, as far as may be known, as
far from settlement as ever. As the
interstate convention of miners and
operators at Pittsburg on Thursday
failed to agree, the bituminous coal
trade is brought face to face with a
depressing outlook. The demand
by the miners for an eight-hour day,
was the main cause of the dissolu-
ton of the convention. A strike on
May l is predicted to include all the
bituminous coal miners of Pennsyl-
yania, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana
and Illinois to enforce the eight
hour demand. To illustrate the i'm
portance of the step it is stated that
$4,000 miners will stop work, direct
ly affecting 100000 people, and nee
essarily indirectly concerning many
thousands of others. The result on
general business of such a wide
spread labor trouble could hardly
fail to be serious.
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SOLID SOLUTIONS.

A German chemist, ]. W. Van T.
Hoff, has drawn attention to the ex-
istence of solid solutions, pointing
out that when a solution freezes it
simply solidifes instead of yielding
up its solvent in a separate form.
Examples of solid solutions, con-
sisting always of solid homogene-
GUS mixture of several bodies, are
seen in mixed crystals, in minerals
whose crystals are colored while the
basic substances are colorless, in
amorphous glasses, in solutions of
hydrogen in palladium, etc.
A captive balloon, to seat ten
persons, is to be feature of the
forthcoming Frankfort Exhibition.
Telephones will enable passengers
to converse with friends below. An
electric motor will operate the pulley
controlling the ascent and descent,
and experiments will be made in cleo
trio propulsion and in filing the
balloon with gas prepared by the
electrolysis of water.
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FISH POISON.

OOA 11dIhOLSs dCCOIuluR W OSE-
man authority, have been found to
be most dangerous when kept in
immediate contract with the ice, no
i'll effects having been observed from
eating the other fish. The harmful
ness is attributed to the. impurities
frozen into the ice, which promote
the formation of the animal alkoloids
known as fish poison.
The original chronometer, made
in 1859 by John Harrison, and
awarded a premium of 100000 by
the British Government, has been
entrusted to an expert for examina-
ton cleaning preparatory to beng
shown at the Royal Navy Exhibit
ton.
Successful and satisfactory expert
ments have been made in Germany
with small locomotives for towing
heavy boats on canals.
RAIN AND DRAIN GAUGES AT RoTHAMsTED
The largest rain gauge ever made
is probably that used by Sir J. B.
Lawes and DR.. ]. H. Gilbert at their
experimental farm at Rothamsted.
It's area is one thousandth of an
acre. The funnel is of wood lined
with lead, the upper edge being a
vertical rim of plate glass bevelled
outward. A tube conducts the wa
ter in turn into four iron cylinders
being provided with infinitely di-
vided gauge-tube and holding rain
corresponding to one-half inch of
fall, and the tank containing an
amount equivalent to two inches of
fall. At this famous farm are also
used three drain gauges, each one
thousandth of an acre in area. They
show the amount and the compost
ton of the water percolating res
pectively through 20, 40 and go
inches of soil. Observations with
these instruments for the 20 harvest
years ending Aug. 81, 1890, give
following results: Mean annual
rainfall, 1929 inches. Drainage
through 20 inches of uncropped soil,
14.3S inches; through 40 inches,
1916 inches; and through 60 inches,
1851 inches. The difference be-
tween the percolation and the total
rainfall shows approximately the
evaporation above each depth.
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erecta monu-
Dry of the late
messy.
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of the builders of
Ships, says that New
danger of being bonn
g Italian feet.