Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-01-28
PRICE ONE CENT


The rice crop is large.
Railroad cars are scarce.
China has no gold coins.
Steel flooring is to come.
Electric anes are success.
Fog signals go " electricity.
Our railroads employ 200. 600
Rothschilds run a free hospital.
The Arctic whale catch is larg.
Miss CARROTS bath tub cost 81, 600.
Paint is being made from potatoes
A ton of gold is worth 5000, 700 %
Photographing in color il promised.
England imports eggs from Canada
Artificial musk and emeralds are made.
Great Britain is Canada's best market.
Sunk in Panama Canal SA00, 000, ,0Oa.
Electricity is used in purifying sugar
New York has the best diamond cut
tiers
Weaterls. Pa. has the largest silk
mill.
Lebanon, Pa. has the biggest bolt
works
Gould made $50. 900 600 in day re-
Gently.
Germany uses iron bricks in street
paving.
In France authors hold copyright
FOR life
Since 81, s.27e, los persons have left
ireland
Washington city has 10000 negro
| Catholics
The drug physOstigmine costs ssO5.Oto
an ounce
Horsehesh consumption increases in
Germany.
The worlds diamonds are worth
81 o00. 900, 600
Powderly only eats two meals day
and they are light
mail train is to go from New York
70 Chicago in a day.
Vanderbilt pays q humorist for visit.
ing tile poor districts.
Fish planting in the great lakes is de-
clared to be failure.
The largest gold coin Is the gold "loof"
| of AMMAN, worth SEQ.
AT Lynn skins shaved by machines
make bad shoe uppers.
The Peoples party of Kansas favors
B-ilamy's nationalism.
San Francisco painters and decorators
will erect $50 600 hall.
A Chicago miser millionaire went 10
/ prison in default Of paving flan
CURRENT CURIOs
In France the navvies on the railways
work under umbrellas in wet weather
Nearly so, 900 tons of cork are used
for bottled beer and mineral waters COM
sumed annually in England.
| A medical authority in France says
the gradual depopulation of that coun-
try is largely due to the iinmoderate use
of tobacco
There is an interesting couple in Cin-
cinnati who have been engaged TO be
married for the last five years. but no
| time has occurred within that period
when they were both out of prison &C
| the same time
In Boston court the other day Cen
eral B. T. Butler put such complicated
aud tangling question to a witness that
the Judge, with clever drollery, an
nounced that he would give the witness
an hour to study on the question by ad-
| journing the court.
| As a delicate attention to bereaved
families who reside in hotels and board
ing houses, San Francisco man has
fitted up large and handsome mourn
ing saloon, where funerals may be held.
All the employees are attired in black
and wear black silk hats
The Detroit Free Press says: If boy
IS years of age should be left 10 acres Of
land in Michigan, and Ills guardian
should cover it with hickory trees, the
| income of the boy when he came TO be
/ 80 years old would be from 50, 900 to $11,-
900 clean cash off his little farm
There have during the past II years
been q series of fashionable crazes IN
Japan. The year 1873 was the rabbit
year. The Japanese went wild over
these little quadrupeds As much
as 81 900 was paid for a single specimen,
and speculations in $400 and $500 rabbits
were Of daily occurrence. Cock fight
ing. printing dictionaries by subscription,
| boating, whist, waltzing, gigantic fu-
nerals, and table turning are among
/ other recent crazes
/ IN LONDON GhSTe ~ u n1aA Wno AohVs@@
the business OF tattooing. The majority
of his patients are men who have de-
signs Of a naval character pricked into
their skin but there are also great
many women who employ his art. II il
may be termed such With women the
decoration is usually bee, a butterfly
a spray Of fioweri. or q monogram.
These ornaments aro worn inside the
wrist. 90 that they can he hiddea by tlaa
/ glove. If necessary
Fresh Desk Devices.
Political asprants will find the novel
inkstands designed after ballot box O
fitting auxiliary TO their desk equip
ments.
There Is beauty In the double inkskand
with ornamental work showing silver
Cupid on sea shell supported By two
dolphina
The skin Of baby alligator with
thermometer inlaid in the center Of it,
back and with its mouth fitted with .
clasp. forms letter clip convenient and