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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-03-04

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at the Conrt House Door, Annapolis, all
that Lot of Ground and improvements,
situate at the corner OF State House Cir
Gle and Francis Street Fronting about
i3 feet on State House Circle and about
s. feet on Francis Street. now occupied
by James A. Bond, as a Restaurant. and
by the u. S. Express as an office.
This is the most desirable location in
the city for Restaurant and enjoys a
large and profitable patronage.
TERMS OF SALE.-One-third of the
purchase money 10 be paid in cash on
the day of sale, or the final ratification
thereof; the residue in two equal install
ments OF six and twelve months respec-
lively the credit payments to bear in.
terest from the day of sale and to be Sc
cured by the bonds ole the purchaser
with sureties satisfactory 10 the under
signed.
JULIAN BREWER,
. 23td Executor.
TuoMAs BASIL. Auctioneer.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-03-04

THg New York Herald doesn't
want the earth: it only wants to
name the National ticket for both
parties this year. II its advice were
followed which ticket would it sup
port z
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-03-04
FRIDAY, March 4, 1885,

THIS day one year will be a
proud day for Maryland Demo
erats when Arther Pue German
is inaugurated President Of the
United States.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-03-04

DY VIRTUE of an order passed by
ID the Orphans Court for Anne
Arundel County on the 2nd day Of Feb
ruary. 1892. and by power vested in the
undersigned by the last will of John q.
Daute. the undersigned, aslExecutor,
viii offer at public sale on
The St. Johns herald., 1892-04-21
A Tree with a History.

One hundred years ago Mir. Marr, of Cape Elizabeth, Me, set out a willow slip, which grew to be good-sized tree. Mir. Marr was an obliging sort of per- son, and he kept his grindstone-one of the few in that vicinity-under the will low by the roadside for the convenience of his neighbors. Some of the neigh bors were ungrateful yolzels, for often, when they had done grinding their axes, they would try the blades upon the sheltering tree, so that its beauty was spoiled and its life endangered. Then Farmer Marr drove lot of spikes into the trunk, covering the heads art fully with bark, and when the neigh boring vandals had spoiled few axes they quit trying edges on the willow. Marr and his neighbors are all dead and forgotten these fifty years, but the will low still f1ourishes, and the ax marks are obliterated, while the protecting spikes are grown deep in the heart ot the great trunk.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-04-21
Manly Indenendence.

There is an attorney in town who is telling of little experience he lately had with an odd character from the rural districts, says the Minneapolis Journal. It seems that the granger went to the lawyers office for the pur- pose of getting deed made out for some swamp land he was selling. The
 listener of woes heard the old mans request, and then picking up pen and paper he proceeded to jot down the par ticulars in the deal. Your name?" from the attorney. Philip Ward" from the farmer. What is your wife's name?p ''Eliza A." "What does A stand for?" 1T don't know-never asked her." replied MT. Ward, uncon- cernedly. Don't know your wife's middle name, and you an old man and married to her for a good many years, as you say? Why, this is rich. Whats the reason you never asked her what her middle name was?" "Well, see here, young fellow," returned the un- inquisitive Ward, "I'm pretty inde- pendent cuss-allus have been and allus intend to be-and the fact is I'm too in- dependent to ask her."
The St. Johns herald., 1892-04-21
uuLoRs AND COLOR BLINDNESS
The Three True Primary Colors Are Red,
 Green, and Violet.

The Three True Primary Colors Are Red,
 Green, and Violet.
 Color blindness is serious defect wherever found, says the United Ser vice. It is especially so in seafaring men and in those employed on rail- roads. Possibly it is less important in a soldier, although it must impair his efficiency materially. Nor is it possible to repair tke defect by education or study, apparently, for it is now gener- ally agreed that color is due to sensa- tion. According to Wursch and Young the normal eye has only three color sensations a red, green, and a violet and the apparent color of any light which falls on it depends merely on the relative intensities of the excitement produced by the light on the three organs of sense corresponding to these sensations.
 In color blindness one or more of these organs of sense is wanting or inn perfect. The most common form, Daltonism, depends on the absence of the red sense. From the ex- periments of Holmgren on two persons, each of whom was found to have one color-blind eye. the other being nearly normal, it was found (what could other wise have been only matter of theory) that those persons could describe the various colors with one eye, but that there was dead uniformity of color when looking with the other eye. Thus was obtained description of color-blind vision in terms of normal vision.
 The old artists considered that there really were three primary color sensa- tions-blue, yellow and red. But Helmholtz and Maxwell have now con- clusively proved that the three primaries are red, green and violet. Certain mixtures of violet and green can be made to give blue, which ac- counts for nearly half of the spectrum from the blue end, when combined, ap- bearing of that color; ana red and green will also give a yellow-most mixtures. however, giving one of an orange shade.
 It is commonly imagined that blue and yellow mixed in certain proportions produce green. The true source of the green was pointed out by Helmholtz. It is the one color which is not freely absorbed either by the yellow or by the blue pigment. The yellow pigment removes the greater part of the blue, indigo and violet rays; the blue pig ment removes the greater part of the red, orange and yellow. Thus the light which finally escapes is mainly green.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-04-21
FREE LUNCH TENDS.
Some Examples of Terrible Gastronomi
 Dcv g. stion ia EaGIaE,d.

Dev ssetion ia EacIalsd.
 The "Gfntton Of Kent, Fuller places among his wortnies. who devoured, at a single meal, .'four-score rabbits and eighteen black pnddings, London meas ure." Coming down to more recent S.mes, there is the probably apocryphal story of Scotchman who ate a solan goose by way of whct for dinner, and of Welsh no5leman who dcvoured Q bevy Of partridges for breakfast every morning.
 There is also a well-known legend, which found it's way into Punch, of a certain eminent politician who entered an eating house near the Old Bailey, and, after putting away seven pounds and half of cold boiled besf, observed checrfully to the landlord: Capital beef this! One may cut and come again here.'' To which the landlord, regard ing him grimly, made reply: "You may cut, but I'm blowed if you shall come again!''
 We are tempted to add one more story, says Blackwood's Magazine, which we believe has not yet found it's way into print. On the derby few years ago a well-l<nown man of busi- ness-let us call him Mir. X.-went down to Epson with the rest of the world, and after the great race was over bethought himself of lunch. 1t was then four o'clock and he was raven ously hungry.
 Seeing TO friendly coach or carriage at hand, he entered one of the refresh ment booths, where three-and-six- pence meal was provided for all corners. He attacked some ribs of beef and soon cleared tAem to the bone; then he ''went for chicken, which also disap- peared: finally he espied pigeon pie at the other end of the table, which had not yet been touched, and ordered the waiter to bring it to him. But the waiter after a whispered conference with an individual in black, who had been observing MT. K performances with suspicion and alarm, cawe and said confdentially:
 If you please. sir, the governor says as how he won't charge you nothing for anything if you will go away at once.'
 Mir. K, however, insisted on his rights and declined this obliging offer; then he proceeded to make a vigorous on- slaught on the pigeon pie.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-04-21
THE AGE OF POLITICS.
An Interesting Lecture by n Famous Pro-
 lessor of Vienna, Austria.

An Interesting Lecture by Famous Pro-
 lessor of Vienna, Austria.
 ''Public spirit in the nineteenth cen tury," was a theme lately treated by Prof. Dr. Adolph Erancr of the Univer- sity of Vienna, Austria. He insisted on the necessity of particular promotion of the spirit of patriotism in the students. The spirit of modern society, he said, is exclusively and one-sidedly determined by natural science, which has caused a neglect of the development of political discernment. Nothing attracts the att tention of the general public at present but subjects of natural science, even women profess being interested in these questions, and, on the other hand, to be indifferent to the facts and relations of the political world. This spirit of the exact sciences has even infected men of law and philosophy, who will reduce criminal law to psychology, will talk of the physiology" of law, of love, of art, will lecture on the physiological meth od' of law and write books of many volumes on the structure and life of the body of society,"" It is an influence of this physical spirit that people con- tenn the past ages of the world, even going so far as to hold the middle ages and actually also the empire of ancient Rome in contempt.
 A change must come and it is already preparing; the historic, political school of research has resumed its labors with courage and frankness. This reaction is also necessary result of events The new awakening of constitutional life, the immense creations of great states men in the service of popular ideas and the wonderful problems offering for so- lution on the basis of broader principles and which everybody knows cannot be solved by measuring and weighing or by logarithms and equations, all these circumstances have infused new energy into politics as science and popular interest. It will require all the wisdom and power of the political spirit to solve these difficulties and avoid fatal crises in the state organism attempting to assign to e3foufth estate its just position in the social organization. It is the struggle with this problem which will make the, tYenteth century a po- litical age, and n9bedy must hope to be able to fill his5phnAih in jtunless he shall have acquireda sufficient political edr cati0u
The St. Johns herald., 1892-04-21
THE SIZE OF AUSTRALIA.
New South Wales as Large as Our Origi
 nal Thirteen Colonies.

New South Wales Large as Our Origf-
 nal Thirteen Colonies.
 Among the tacit misconceptions into which distant critics are most likely to fall about antipodean affairs is that which is based upon ignor; nee of the enormous area and possibilities of the colonies, says Scribner's Magazine. Especially is this likely in the United States, where the assumption may be that, as the population of Australia is about the same as that of the thirteen original seaboard colonies of America, the surface over which they are dis tributed is also approximately the same. As a matter of fact there is no such proportion.
 New South Wales alone is as large as they were; Tasmania, the Rhode Island of Australia, is as large as that state with New Jersey, New Hampshire and Massachusetts added; Victoria, the smallest colony of the continent, is equal in size to Great Britain; Queens land surpasses the united areas of Aus tria, France and Germany; South Aus tralia, one-third greater than Queens land, is nearly as large as western Aus tralia, which of itself has nearly four times the extent of Texas, while the two colonies together are larger than the whole of Europe without Russia.
 The seven colonies between them oc- cupy territory greater than that of the United States excluding Alaska. It is true that at present Australia has barely four million inhabitants, but these immense areas represent poten- tial population to which it is impossible to set bounds.
 No part of the continent is so hot and so unhealthy as to forbid white settle ment, and if the strip of low-lying coast lands in the north be omitted there is no part of it yet colonized in which Europeans cannot work. sf
 Port Darwin. the country about the gulf of Carpentaria, and an indefinite belt toward the northwest, lie within the tropics, and are suitable for tropical productions; but the high plateau of northern Queensland, which runs close to the Sea, is found thoroughly healthy for English miners and graziers, and enjoys a bracing winter. The back country, though waterless by compar- ison with the Mississippi valley, is able to carry stock well in most sea- sons, and with wells, tanks and dams may be made to do so in all years. The desert country of eastern Australia has yet to be found.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-04-21
Settling Day in Pennsylvania.

Lancaster county, Pa., has a custom that prevails perhaps nowhere else in the United States. Settling day" in that county falls upon April 1, and on that day thousands of country folks gather at Lancaster, the county seat. Bargains are made, contracts are en- tered into, debts are paid and new ones are contracted. If a man contracts a debt at any time during the year the understanding is, in the absence of specific agreement, that payment shall be made on settling day. A similar custom prevails in parts of China, but the Lancaster countians probably took their settling day from German an cestors.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-04-21
DEFiNITIoNs OF HOME.
Some Sentiments A5ont That Place Which
 Is LoveG by All.


 Is LovoG by All.
 The London Tid-Eits offered prize for the best definition of home. Here are some of the. pest of five thousand answers sent in:
 The golden setting in which the brightest jewel is mother"
 A world of strife shut out, a world of love shut in.
 An arbor which shades when the sum- shine of prosperity becomes too dag zling; harbor where the human bark finds shelter in the time of diversity. Home is the blossom of which Heaven is the fruit.
 Home is q persons estate obtained without in justice, kept without disquiet- udc; place where time is spent with out repentance, and which is ruled by justice, mercy and love.
 A grand old mirror through which both sides of us are seen.
 That source of comfort which youth does not fully appreciate, which the young men and n1aidens lovingly desire which the middle aged generally y,s sess and which the old rightly value.
 A hive in which, like the industrious bee, youth gamers the sweets and memories for age to mediate and feed upon.
 The best place for married man af- ter business hours.
 Home is the coziest, kindliest, sweet est place in all the world, the scene of our purest earthly joys and deepest sor- rows.
 The only spot on earth where the faults and faiiings of fallen humanity are hidden under the mantle of charity. An abode in which the inmate, the Superior being called man," can pay back at night with fifty per cent. inter- est every annoyance that has met him in business during the day.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-04-21
A FAMOUS WAR HORSE.
Death of Old Comanche of the Govern
 ment Service.

Death of Old Comanche of the Govern
 ment Service.
 Word was recently received at Kan sas City, Mo-, of the death of Comanche, the most celebrated herse in the United States cavalry service, at Fort Riley. He was forty-five years of age and the only living thing belonging to the United States service which escaped the massacre at the battle of the Little Big Horn, where Gen. Custer and his com mand were massacred. He was one of the original mount of the Seventh cavalry, which regiment was organized in 1866, and had been in almost every battle in the Indian service.
 After the battle of Little Big Horn he was found covered with wounds, rider less and saddleless, some distance from the scene of the massacre. He was taken charge of by Capt. Rowlan and sent to Fort Riley, where for fourteen years he had not been subject to br1dle, and had been in charge of the Seventh cavalry. His death was due to old age. His skin will be stuffed and mounted and kept in the museum of the Kansas state university until the worlds fair at Chicago, where it will be taken for ex- hibition.
 Enterprising showmen have from time to time endcavored to secure Comanche for exhibition purposes, but the authorities have invariably refused to disturb his well-earned rest. Com anche was the horse of Capt. Keogh, a relative of Gen. Custer.
 Special provision was made for the care and support of Comanche. Once in awhile, when the cavalry troops were on inspection, Comanche was led out, saddled and bridled, but no one ever sat in his saddle after the battle of the Little Big Horn.
 It will be remembered that Custer's ill-fated command used the dead bodies of their horses killed by the shower of Indian bullets as barricade as far as possible. All the horses were saddled, as the troop had ridden into the valley and attacked the Sioux camp, and, as Comanche was found stripped of his accoutrements, it has always been sup posed that his saddle and bridle were taken by the victorious Indians, who, wounds, turned him loose. The body of every other horse that carried the brave cavalry into battle on that fate ful morning was found among the heaDS of the slain soldiers
The St. Johns herald., 1892-04-21
No Chance for Railroads.

It is almost impossible to find on the peninsula of Delaware and Maryland a point ten miles from navigable tide water. The whole region is cut up by navigable streams, and in the lower part of the peninsula small shipyards nre found in many villages, and, indeed, often clear outside of village limits. There are many good shipwrights throughout the region, and for nearly two hundred years much of the produce has been carried in vessels built within a few miles of where it was grown.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-04-21
A Mammoth Estate.

The Argentine Republic contains many large baronial estates owned by wealthy planters and cattlemen. One of the largest of them all, situated fifty miles from Buenos Ayres, is owned by an American named Pierson, who ac- quired it through marriage. The estate embraces 200,0 acres and it is days Journey to ride across it. The distance from the entrance of the property to the mansion is nine leagues.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-04-21
\ 4uAtSfff shnrk story.

One famous shark story has long been currentins1hszRsxy. -professed eye witness locates the incident in the gulf of Mexicax and fixes the date some where in the seM:g seventies. Accord ing to this historian the ship lay at anchor in a spot where many sharks were visible, and the younger officers fell to fishing through a port,hole with a great hook baited with a hunk of meat. Presently an immense shark was hooked and drawn up to the port-hole. Then sailor reached down, and, with a keen knife, ripped the fish so that only tho shell was left hanging to the hook. An instant later somebody cut the rope and the monster fell back into the gulf. And dye think that shark was dead?a asked the narrator. Not by darned sight. He swan round for h minute, and, before we knew what he was about, gulped down everything the sailor had cut out Of him."
The St. Johns herald., 1892-04-21
His Fayorite Author.

The other day visitor entered tho public library, says the Bangor (Mc.) Commercial, and passed some time ia looking at the list of new books. Then he went to the counter and il . fe'v lsl2- ments the librarian stepped asoas r2 attend to his wants. Sone tiraa- was passed ia inquiring about the late 5 publications, when he 1sszslst1c>,s s'IIave you any late books by''''es> 2slce } OickenS?"
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In All interview with IL reporter ut st.
Louis the other day, DR.. Thomas Bax-
ter declared that Americans are the
vandals who are now devastating Eu-
rope. They are" he said. 1.-The most
interchangeable relic hunters to be found
in the world. and every historic spot he
tween the pyramid of Cheops and the
Tower of London has suffered more or
less at their hands. verify believe that
my fellow cOnntrymen would chip the
nose from the Venus de Medici and car.
~ it away if they We're not watched.
And the women are even more agrees.
i've than the men. Relic hunting has
become craze with Americans.anlm man.
TESTS itself both at home and abroad.
The old chair III which Lincoln put Il
splint bottom has. to he kept in a wiz,
cage to prevent relic hunters carrying ii
away piccemeal. When jesse james
was killed the floor of the OOm where
he died was ruined by crazy relic hunt.
ers cutting splinters from it. When a
noted desperate is hanged the rope is
cut into fragments, and the man who
can secure a few inches of the hemp Is
enyied by his fellows"