The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-10-16
items of interest

had o wart taken OF hex nose by faith
caro.
Cows in Key West are labelled with
the names Of persons for. whom thcil
milk Is kept
The refusal by teetos al tailor to make
clothes for rumsellers is . new cause for
temperance discussion III London.
The penalty for selling cigarette to
hoy or girl under sixteen years OF age In
New Hampshire has boon made $40 for
each ofcense.
The Emperor OF Russia travels in
rnilroad cars that once belonged to
Napoleon III. but they have been
greatly improved, and are said to be the
finest in the world.
A Baltimore negro has literally worn
two fingers of in many years of shovel.
ing coal. The case is reported by
physician as curiosity. There is no
apparent disease, and no Inconvenience.
The duty OF an official at Monaco is
to hear the petitions Of ruined gam
blcrs for aid TO get away. He gives
nothing out of sympathy, but endeavors
to suppress scandals and prevent TRACE
dies as cheaply as possible.
The modern beverage in cheap tav-
erns in Normandy is cider that tastes
like vinegar and water, and is sold ut
two cents o quart A tourist says that
a mouthful of good New England apple
juice would delight and astound O
| native.
Mr.. Blowitz, the London Times cor
respondent at Paris, is q German Jew.
His patronymic was Opfer, but, being
born at Blowitz, Austria. he adopted
that name. He is naturalized French
man. Mrs. Laurence Oliphant is said
to have discovered him when acting rs
Times correspondent in Paris.
The skeleton of man nine feet one
inch in height is said by the st. Louis
Glo6e- Democrat to be on exhibition at the
Office of a firm in Thayer, Oregon County,
Mo. The skeleton is further said to have
been discovered by party of men who
were exploring cave some three miles
in length situated about nine miles from
Thayer.
Cholera failed to strike single one Of
the 1000 women employed in the
national tobacco factory at Valencia,
Spain, though the disease ragged vio-
lently in that city, and the Medical
World recalls that tobacco workers were
also noticed to enjoy exemption from
attack during an epidemic at Amster-
DAM
Somebody remembers that Morse
once predicted that talking through
hundred miles of wire would become
common, and that ocean steamers on O
voyage would keep up communication
electrically with the shore. The first
prediction having come true, the second
is hopefully regarded, though regarded
as wild when made.
A persons ancestors are more numer-
GUS than at first contemplated. Taking
three generations to a century, one has
father and mother (two), grandparents
Qour), great-grandparents eight At
the end of the second century they
number sixty-four. Following the cal
cula ion you will find that at the end of
eight centuries one is descended from no
less than 16, 900, 600 ancestors.
Physicians throughout the country
have received circular from dealer in
human curiosities. The menageries are
supplied with beasts the world over by
single German firm, but the exhibits of
human deformity are found through
items in the newspapers. This specul,-
tor has planned to be monopoliss. He
says he will pay literally for immediate
information Of any physically peculiar
child, SO that he may get ahead of COM
petitors in bargaining with the parents.
SHRINKING IN WOODEN GOODS.
A German technical journal states that
WOODEN fabrics treated according to the
following simple method will be found