Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1896-01-20
CAPITAL JoTTlNGs
Picked Up Here and There by Oar Ubiqui
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This is the candy season.
Valentines are appearing.
Fishermen are taking rest.
"A pair of slippers-a pair of skates.
-Bustles and hip pads are fashionable.
Bow to the plumber and coal dealer.
-Violets are the popular flower of
the day.
Every horrible man says he has been
"asked.
Christmas trees are filling thC va
cant lots.
Every smart girl must have a Marie
Antoinette fchu.
The earliest form OF the glove was a
mere bag for the hand.
IF you can skate your place is on the
ice and not on the earth.
Society is gay. Lots of teas, lunch
cons ana leap year parties.
60 to r. +. i. Hopkins for a fine
oil stove, just the thing to heat the bath
room these cold days
Labor is drudgery only when We do
not put heart in our work.
Water gas was first successfully en-
plUyed in metallurgy in 1880.
Look out boys, it's leap year and
the old maids are ready to "pOp."
EARLY spring dress goods are already
displayed, and have chilling effect.
The churches were slimly attended
yesterday owing to the disagreeable day.
More legislation and less ball0ting
was what You were elected for gentle
men.
IF you have broken your New Year
resolutions, get them together again for
Lent.
-R. Il. l.. Hopkins has for sale the
best grade of oil and gasoline stoves on
the market.
1T is quite probable that the Euro
pean war will continue to be fought on
paper.
1t is better to give a poor man some
thing to eat first and give him tracts af-
terward.
New stationary is filling the mails
with acknowledgment of Chrestmas re-
membranes.
The sting of bee is only one thirty
second of an inch long, imagination
does the rest.
Chicago criminals are now asking as
high rs $50 spot cash, for numbering a
man to order.
The up-to-date wedding ring is made
in Is or % karat gold, plain, round, with
inside beveled.
The most arristocratic blue blood
nose turns to common red when Jack
Frost touches it.
Revival services will be continued
at the First M. L. and Wesley Chapel
during the week.
The trustees of the Presbyterian
Church will meet in the pastors study
tomorrow night.
Most all of the girls are willing to
keep house if only the fright one" will
provide the house.
IF you turned over new leaf the
first of the year put little mucilage on
the under side of it.
There is a brand of whiskey sold in
town, three drinks of which made man
hug his mother-in-law.
Gomez is the cat that worries the
rat that lives in the house Of straw the
Sprniards have built in Cuba.
Eve was the only woman who ever
believed the man who told her she was
the only WOTc rc he ever loved.
SNOW and rain fell alternately yes
terday throughout the day, and in c0nse-
quence few people were on the streets.
1T seems perfectly safe to tell your
'sbest girln now how much you would
have liked to take her out sleighing over
the holidays.
The Easton Democrat is advertised
at mortgagee's sale-making the third
of Easton 5 newspapers that have been
sold recently.
- We do good printing. We do fine
printing. We do excellent printing.
1 We do the best printing. And we can
back what we say. Try us.
The great blizzard of last winter be
gan on February 7th, from which it can
be seen that there is plenty time yet to
bring us plenty cold weather.
The Marques of Queensbury thinks
that marriage should be terminable at
the end of TWO years, at the wish Of
either of the parties concerned.
During the late freeze number Of
young men Of Annapolis transformed
their bicycles into ''icycles'' and made
very fast time on the river and ponds.
Stack and LABEL without dOnbt
the greatest horizontal bar performers
| in the world are well worth the price OF
admission at the Opera House tonight
: Swearing off is SO virtnous an action
that many men who performed it the
first of the year have already begun
qualifying themselves to do it again nexI
year.
The upper crust Of vaudeville vii
be the attraction at the Opera House to
uight. In this company there is not 3
feature that does not embrace merit ant
originality.
Advertising ID business. Whatever
applies to business applies to advertising
Every business axiom is an advertising
axiom. Every business principle is al
advertising principle.
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