Evening capital., January 27, 1885, Image 2

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EVENING CAPITAL
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IT. i f. ABBOTT
AXMAPOLW. M. v
GKAPPLhtG A GRIZZLY.
Desperate Fight of Five§Men
with a Bear. |
One Man Holds Brain by the Ta while
His Companions Shoot, j
A recent number of the Denver
(Col.) News says: Sheriff Joe £*raith,
of Conejos county, claims to of
the greatest hunters in the
and to sustain this tells a
atory of the killing of a grizzly llsar on
Prospect Peak, in Conejos counflr, one
day last week, assisted by ‘Ward
Austin, county treasurer of (pnejos
county, Dr. Limburg, Billy Bchd, of
Hinkle & Co., and C. Lee, of (fhama,
formerly a sheriff of one of the? coun
ties of California. i
“We were out hunting deer?’ said
Joe, “and had camped the night before
in a valley by the side of a stream.
Upon turning out in the morni >g we
discovered that there had been i light
fall of snow during the night, aild also
that there were a large number of
bear tracks around the caorp. | Pack
ing up our duds we started tojfollow
the tracks which led directly fp the
mountain on the regular trail >which
wound around it clear to the s immit
and then over the range. W! en we j
had gone some miles and had r cached
a point about half way up, theftracks
suddenly diverged into some j aspen
timber. Following for a short distance
with some difficulty, we cam£ to a
place that was very much broke if, huge
bowlders making further progress
almost impossible. While deliberating
to do we suddenly heafd the !
grunt of a bear evidently near by. 1
With rifles In hand we looked ground
cautiously, and diicovered an opening *
between two of the largest rotjks and
marks showing the presence of ; bruin.
He was in a sort of opening o i short
'cave formed by the rocks, but now to
get at him was the question. JSo one
cared to follow him, fcs we wetfe sure
he was a pretty tough customertto deal
with, being evidently quite and
full judging from thegtracks.
At length an idea struck me, arjd, tell
ing the other boys to stay in Iront, I
cautiously around to the back of
the rocks and there saw a smalt open
ing through which the tail of bear
protruded. As lam pretty musuiar
and have a good grip I dropped my
rifle and grasped the bear's tall with
both hands, at the same time scouting
with all my might to the boys?on the
othor side to go in and shoot him* Talk
about pulling. That bear pulle*l worse
'than ten mules, and I thought
times my arms would leay|i their ,
sockets, but I braced myself with my j
Jteet against the rocks and held Jon, the
bear making a fearful noise ‘pli the
time. Suddenly I heard sever.n shots,
mid the strain on my arms
and I knew he was a goner. [ Going
around to the front I found tjhe boys
had gone in, and joined them- The
bear was rolling in death agoni< a, snap
ping at and trying to get lear us.
Finally we closed on him, whefi with a
last effort he rose clasped
Austin in a terrible hug, bruising and
scratching him awfully. At this
moment Lee plunged his hu£e knffe
into his heart, and he fell dead! They
all awarded the credit of the shot,
however, to Billy Seed. Tife bear,
which was a full grown grivudy, and
must have weighed over five hundred
pounds, we dragged outside w?th some
difficulty and skinned, it being impos
sible to take the carcass the long dis
tance to town. The skin Hat the
Hotel Brunswick, and you judge
whether he was not a tough Customer
■ < scratched and bruised, and! showed
n °,^ rßoa :- •.
easing mar
ble hearths. ;
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STAMPS BY THE MILLION, j
Talk with a Dealer* in Old 1
Postage Stamps.
An Old Lady’s Collection of a Million
Btampa—One, SSOO
“United States postage stamps, SSO I
a million," reals an announcement I
conspicuously displayed in the window i
of a New York stamp dealer. Beneath ]
| the placard is a mold of postage stamps 1
j at least two feet in height, extending
! clear across tne show window. They
! are tied up in little packages about
| three inches long and arranged in sym
j metrical order, like the earth woiks of
; a military fortification, several small
toy cannon being ranged at the port
holes along the ridge of the miniature
battery to complete the resemblance.
“We do not deal in stamps of this
kind ordinarily,” said the proprietor of
the store to a Mail and Express re
porter, “as they are only of the com
monest varieties, one, two and three
cent stamps of the present issue. We
purchased the whole lot only a few
j days ago from an old lady who had a
> mania for collecting them and simply
as a curiosity. She sent them to us in
a big trunk and told us there wa9 a
million in all. Most of them were
tied up as you see in little bundles
containing five hundred stamps each,
but a large proportion were loose in
the trunk. She began collecting them
nearly ten years ago, she told me.
when some one advertised for a million
j stamps and promised to pay SIOO to
the first person who collected that
number. She started her collection
with many others who saw the adver
tisement, and so far as known is the
only one succeeding in getting the re
quired number. Of course, the adver
tisement was a joke, and whoever in
serted it never expected to see any one
! persevere in collecting the million
| stamps. Our customer, however, was
not discouraged, and finally became so
r interested in completing the collection
that she interested all her friends and
acquaintances in the cause, and peo
ple used to send her stamps from all
parts of the country. We paid $25 for
the lot, simply as a curiosity.
“Hero are foreign stamps that we
sell for SIOO a million,” continued the
dealer as he opened several wide, deep
drawers filled to the top with used
postage stamps of foreign countries.
“These comprise about fifty varieties
of the commonest stamps in use, prin
cipa’ly English, French, German and
Italian. They are not worth any more
than ordinary two and three cent
United States stamps in our business,
and we can afford to sell them cheap.
They are sent to us by the bushel by
the agents and collectors whom we
have in all foreign countries, and we
simply take them as they come. The
rarer varieties are sorted out and plac
ed in catalogues, but the moss are
| dumped into these drawers and sold by
• the bulk.”
“Do many persons purchase in this j
way?” .
“Yes, especially those who are start
ing collections, and do not care to buy
perfect specimens. They can get a
thousand for ten cento and tak9 their
chances of getting a good variety. I
suppose there are a million stamp col
lectors in the United States and Cana
da, and the number is increasing every
year. Every boy at some period of his
life has the stamp collecting mania,
but after collecting a thousand or
thereabout, the majority gives it up, or
lose interest in the work. Others go
on and make fair collections. All the
way from $50,000 to $200,000 have
been spent by wealthy gentlemen in
making the most perfect collections,
in the very valuable collections nearly
all the stamps are unused and in many
instances the collector will pay high
prices for specimens of the first proofs
taken from the die. A very good col
lection of used stamps, including all
the stamps issued, except the very
rarest, can.be made for S2OO. Some
times SSOO will be paid for a rare
stamp when only a very limited num
ber are known to be in existence* But
this does not occur often. The num
ber of postage stamps which have been
issued by all countries since 1840, when
they first came into fashon with the
! I or*r 5,000. Thera era hundred, of
1
THE DAY.
j Italy is the land of criminals, saylT
j the director-general of Italian prisons.
;It has 325 prisons v. ith a constant
; average population of 40,000 offenders
against the law. Of these more than
j 6,000 are murderers. ,No other nation
< in the civilized world has such a large
proportion of criminals.
No form of amusement has ever haul
|in this country so great a popularity
jas roller skating. It is said that no
town of five thousand population is
j without' its public rink, and in the
i larger cities such establishments ab
sorb so much time and money that
little is left for the travelling enter
tainments.
The volcano of Kilawea, on the is
land of Hawaii, is 14,000 feet high
and is said to be again showing a bad
disposition. Five years ago last month
it gave the town of Hile a free show
which it endel by ringing down the
curtain of oblivion on the town itself-
The mass of lava was half a mile in
width, thirty to fifty feet in thickness,
and buried Hile much as Vesuvius did
Pompeii.
A New York paper asserts that
‘Canadian merchants and manufac
turers who have large mails save a
third in their postage expenses, it is
said, by sending their mail matter in
bundles by express to the nearest post
office on the United States side of the
boundary line, where they mail it at
the two-eent rate, whereas they would
have to pay three cents if the matter
were mailed on the other side.”
Rubens, in 1626, charged the Duke
of Buckingham $2,500 for two por
traits, computing the price at SSO a
day, for fifty days’ work. Mr. Whist
ler, in London, recently sold six draw
ings for prices varying from SIOO to
S4OO, saying that he had finished some
of them in twenty minutes. Rubens
lived 200 years ago; Whistler lives
to-day. The one worked for future
glory; the other works for present
gain.
The apostles of male dress reform in
England appear to be in deadly earnest
i Their present gospel is the inculcation
I of the blue coat and brass buttons, white
waistcoat, light gray trousers and
powdered hair. If they succeed in
this, they will try to intorduce the
brown coat with brass buttons, shawl
pattern waistcoats, brown cloth knee
breeches, gaiters fastened with a dia
uond buckle, and square toed high
heeled shoes.
Sir Andrew Clark, an eminent
English physician, in a lecture recent
ly defined health as the state “in which
existeu e is itself a joy, in which it is
a delight to see, to hear, to think and
to be; in which men are able to dis
charge the duties of life, to bear the
trials of life, to resist the temptations
of evil and to go on the journey of life,
getting and giving joy.” Well, if that
be health, how very few people ever
are in health at all!
Instantaneous photography has gone
on, wonderful stride by wonderful
•iride, until it has come to pass that a
Dakota photographer has “taken” a
tornado. The potograph, as described,
“represents a black, twisting, vertical
aerial spout, at the top and bottom of
which Is a confused mass, cloud-like in
appearance.” The achievement will
not seem so remarkable when it is un
derstood that the tornado remained in
night from a given point for two hours.
Dr. E. O. Davis writes to the Cin
cinnat Bancet and Clinic that, having
jeen a sufferer from blood poisoning
until he became a total wreck, he
visited Las Vegas, New Mexico, took
the “mud baths” administered there,
and recovered his health. It seems
that these baths of mud are made of
earth through which the hot mineral
waters of the place have percolated for
ages. The patient is dropped into a
cavity in this earth, and becomes real
ly “poulticed. ’ The Doctor should be
familiar with the subject, for he went
through the process sixty-eight time
Nothing pays like realism at the
theatres now-a-days. The extent to
which it is adopted sometimes is illus
trated in the piny of the “Great
Mogul,” at the Comedy theatre in
London. One of the singers, Miss
John, takes the part of a snake
charmer and plies her art upon two
r cobras. These reptiles are fine, well
developed specimens, whose sinuous
’ movements were not at first quite
’ agreeable to the prima-donna; but she
soon became accustomed to her work,
and was able to tie the cobras in knots
’round her neck and to let them kiss
her without a shudder. Her perform
ance with them has become highly
popular.
The Italian population of California
has grown to be very important, both
as to numbers and as to wealth and
intelligence. There are pow 7200 Ital
ians in San Francisco. In other parts
of the State there are 28,000, and in
other Pacific States and territories
9500. Altogether there are 45,000 on
the Pacific coast. From 1849 to 1862,
immigration was composed almost en
tirely of single men, but since the lat
ter date, families have predominated.
Nearly all come directly from Italy,
the coast furnishing fishermen and the
rural districts farm-gardeners and
farmers. They were born among
vineyards, olive and orange groves.
They are, therefore, naturally expe
rienced and practical orchardists.
A new opening for artistic skill has
sprung up in London. There are ar
tists now who devote much, if not all
their time painting fiowers on skirts
and trains of ladies’ silk and satin
costumes. As much as SSO or $75 is
often paid for the decoration of one
dress; and floral trimming painted by
hand is not infrequently charged for at
the rate of $55 a yard. If this kind
of thing goes on, ladies, instead of sell
ing their old dresses, will have them
cut up and mounted, with a view of
framing them R 3 “flower pieces.” The
walls of a belle’s boudoir might be
covered with reminiscences of her re
cent triumphs in the shape of groups
from hand-painted skirts or particu
larly brilliant sections of floral trim
ming. •
A Calcutta correspondent of the
London Times writes: A return pub
lished in the Governmental Gazette
shows that the number of persons
killed by wild animals and snakes in
1883 was 22,905, as against 22,125 in
the previous year. Of these, 20,067
| deaths were due to snake bites, 985 to
! tigers, 287 to wolves, and 217 to leop
ards. The loss of- cattle from the
same cause amounted to 47,478 animals
j being an increase of 771 on the figures
for the previous year. It is some
what remarkable that while the great
majority of human deaths is set down
j to snakes, only 1,644 cattle are said to
have perished from that cause. Near
! ly three-fourths of the deaths occurred
1 in Bengal and the Northwest Pro
vinces. Tha number of dangerous
1 animals killed during the year was
! 19,890, and more than a lakh and a
I half of rupees was paid in rewards.
Obeying Instructions.
The New York Critic tells a funny
j story of Lieutenant Schwatka, of arc
tic expedition fame. Shortly after his
return from King William Land, the
lieutenant went to a photographic gal
lery to have his picture taken. “Now,”
! said the photographer, while his subject
| was arranging an arctic costume over
his ordinary New York dress, “you
I must take some striking attitude—just
j look as if you saw a polar bear.”
j Lieutenant Schwatka suddenly began
i to tremble from head to foot, his knees
knocked together and his face assumed
a look of intense terror. “Hurry up,”
he exclaimed to the photographer, who
was looking on in helpless bewilder
ment; “I can’t keep this up forever.”
“But what is the matter? What has
happened to you? I can’t make a
negative while you are going on in
that way.” “Oh,” said Schwatka, “I
thought you said you wanted me to
look as 1 would if I saw a polar bear.”
! Five Cities.
Mr. Ruskin thinks that all right ed
ucation should include the history of
five cities—Athens, Rome, Venice,
. Florence and London. The history of
, Athens, rightly understood, teaches
- all that we need to know of the relig
, ion and art of Greece; that of Rome,
j the victory of Christianity over bar
. bar ism; that of Venice and Florence,
► j all that is essential in Christianity as
. | Illustrated by Christian painting;
; ] sculpture and architecture; that of
t ; London, with its sister Paris, Chris-
I I tian chivalry expressed in Gothic
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CHEMICAL^
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CITY DRUG STORE,
OPPOSITE CITY UOTEI
' | Physicians’ Prescriptions accur4t)
pounded day or night. Alw a * J?
all lne Standard
i PATENT IEDICIR
OF THE DAY.
Also a General Assortment of
Fine Toilet Article^
IN
Co mis, Brush**, Toilet Soap, dr
with a Variety of ’***■
Fancy Articles!
Usually kept in a first-class Drug
Arctic Soda
FIVE CENTS a CLASS
With all the purest flavoring
of our own manufalure. We maktu,
cialty of this during the season. i>JJ
ular attention paid to filling <s3
orders.
GEORG t£ KUILMAH, I
Propntu I
REOPENING I
THE OLD RELIABLE I
MY HI & nil
HOUSE,
Formerly conducted by the late GV*||
Franklin ,
Has been reopened under the firm null
Geo.E. Franklin &Co,|
110 CHURCH ST. I
This well-known house having ea)onJ
the confidence of the people of Ajuupoiil
and Anne Arundel county for moKttafl
half a century, is now rcopend, and til
be conducted upon the same UmukE
principles, and we solicit the patrowJ
of the old firm. Our stock will m\>rm
a general assortment of
DRY GOOD!
Fine Groceries, I
CANNED GOODS FRUITS,
| Also a general assortmeut of
Builders’ Hardware!
Agricultural Implements, 1
Carpets , Matting and Oil C'Mk I
Together with a general
Merchandise.
GEO. E. FRANKLIN & M
No. 110 Church WW
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R. R. MACRUDEI
DEALER IN FRESH
Family Groceril
Canned Cood*,l
FRUITS. I
And b General Assort©*** 1
COUNTRY PRODi)®
SUCH AS
Butter, Eggs, Potatoes. I
Also for sale Crock fry wart. V
ware, Woodenware Tinware,
t with everything found in
* Grocery. Fine brands of JM
; HAMS, SHOULDER” & J
1 Fanners and gardeners ars are
our general assortment of ■
Fllll & MEM
l (2n season} which have I
, great our from reliant
I strive to please our curt*** ■
EtTQooda delivered
’ of the eRy. mo^u
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