The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-10-30
Items Of Interest.

of plate much ornamented The tables
being long. the salt was placed about
the m'ille and served as q boundary to
the different quality of the guests.
Those of distinction were ranked a bove,
the lgee below being assigned to, The
dependents, inferior relations of the
master, etc.
OF The devices put in use by actors to
keep from smiling, the. simplest and
most effective is to put small wooden
button in the mouth and bite down on
it every time the impulse to laugh
makes itself manifest Some grit their
teeth. or criuee their toes, and Hughey
Dou"herty. the famous minstrel. re-
sorted to to the scheme of sticking o
pin il lis thigh
Some curl us details regarding the
communion services in Of EN- times are
furn shed by Andrew Edgar Onenotice-
able thing was the quantity of claret
and Burgundy consumed In 1890 there
were used at the first communion a
second puncheon and six and half
gallons. The total cost was $50 In
1856 he corporation Of Glasgow paid for
the same purpose as much as $500.
The present slang "chestnuts;" came
from an old French custom, where the
watehmen in the prisons had to drop,
every half hour, a chestnut into recep-
tacle, which thus became record of
duty done or neglected A missing
chestnut. became the subject of anxious
explanation which was gene ally false
hood and like all falsehoods. stupid.
These stories became known as chest
nuts. . 100 'A7s
A boy in California school remarked
that the teacher had red hair. He was
whipped to make him retract, but he
insisted that he could not tell lie, and
he had the utmost confidence in his
Judgment in color. The woman. declared
that she would beat him to death unless
he changed the word from red to
auburn, and he abused his conscience
to that extent, but afterward took the
case to the trustees, who sustained him
and dismissed the -bright-headed pun
Usher.
When Nine Zelie, from the Theatre
Lyriqne, at Paris, was making profess
slonal tour around the world she gave
a concert in the Society Islands She
agreed to sing an air from Norma and a
few other songs, and was to receive in
exchange third part of the receipts.
When counted the prima donna's share
was found to consist of three pigs,
twenty-three turkeys, forty-four chick
ems and 5000 cocoanuts.
A patriarchal couple named Leger,
who have done much to make up for
the shortcomings of many of their
countrylnen and women in repopulating
France, are now living at Rozoy- Beval.
in Aisene. They have had twenty
seven children, of whom twenty five are
now living, and three are serving in the
army in Tonquin. The father and
mother aged respectively seventy three
and sixty-eight, cultivate farm, aided
by six other sons Of their twenty
seven children twenty-one were boys.
The woman gave birtn to five in one
year-three on the 81 vi january and
two on the 9th OF December.
VERY PRETTY THINGS can be made out
of common checked glass cloths by
working stars of colored wool and
cotton in each alternate square-blue
stars OF the blue checks, and pink on
the pink. The work is really effective
and makes up into nightdress cases.
brush bags cabin tides, toilet covers,
bed coverIets or morning aprons A
nightdress case of checked glass cloth
worked with plain blue stars, lined with
pale blue sateen, trimmed round with
lace and finished off with pale blue
ribbon bow, makes q pretty present,
accompanied by a brush bag to m itch.
The same may be done in pale pink.
For a bed cover ct several lengths of
glass cloth must be joined and the
alternate squares worked over. There
should be lining of pink or blue
sateen, and border of broad, coarse
lace or white ball fringe. A morning
apron looks pretty in this work,
trimmed round with lace and with
bows on the pockets. Wool is more