The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-09-25
Items of Interest.


but " to as great on extent as the real
article
There are in England one hundred
and eighty-seven ragged schools which
are attended by fifty thousand children.
The carnivorous plants known as
utricularia are to be extripated from the
ponds of the United States Fish Com
mission. 1t was found that they caught
and destroyed in large numbers the re-
Gently Matched fry.
Doctors say that the people who left
off drinking beer and took to tea have,
in many instances abused the latter,
and are troubled with what is known rs
"tea dyspepsia.
The dies from which the first United
States cents, those coined at New Haven
and called the franklin, were cast are
now used as paper weights in counting
room at New Haven.
The Revue BiJliographiQue reports that
in Paraguay tribe of Indians with tails
has been discovered. A Guaycuyos
child of eight years was captured with
tail foot long.
A firm in marlborough, Mass, re-
ceived from Baltimore cargo of rags
and in the centre of one of the bales was
found an old-fashioned pocketbook con-
tanning $40 Confederate note, gold
chain. and some small change.
A California physician claims, in the
Indiana Medical Journal that the bruised
pulp of eucalyptus leaves, which he had
been in the habit of applying to his very
bald head for the cure of headache, had
brought out new and abundant crop Of
hair.
They are about to rival America in
London in the number and variety of
their drinks. The list for the London
season includes corpse reviyers, fash of
lighting al-a-ba- gaum, fip-fap, gin and
tanzy. black stripe, locomotive, heap of
comfort, gin tizz, rattlesnake, ladies'
blush, stone fence, and sherry blush.
The growth of some of the Southern
States is illustrated by the statement
concerning Chattanooga that it has in
creased since the war "from clump of
whitewashed warehouses and shanties to
a city of $4,000 inhabitants from tax
roll of ST, 5000 to one of $1,000, 900;
and has increased its business capital
from 5000, 900 to $4,000, OOO."
Experienced lumbermen have always
held that timber cut in the spring was
not durable for building purposes Re-
cent scientific investigations sustain this
belief. It is shown that the richer the
wood is in phosphoric acid and potas-
SUM the more likely it is to rot and
mould wood cut in the spring contains
eight times as much of the former and
five times as much of the latter as when
cut in the winter.
A farmer near Washington, Pa, hay
ing occasion to take his horse from the
field to the stable. owing to the animal
suddenly becoming sick, unthinkingly
left his dinner basket behind, which he
was surprised to find ON returning several
days later had been carefully guarded
all the while by his dog, which would
not move from the victuals, although
several neighbors tried to frighten and
coax him away.
At Mt Airy, Nd, the other day, o
family of bees were lowering in the air,
looking for q place to swarm, when o
telegraph operator happened to pass,
and they decided to settle upon his head.
Several hundred of them descended upon
him and the rest were following. when
he ran, scraping the unwelcome in
truders from his hair and face with his
hands, but getting so badly stung before
he could clear himself that he tainted.
His face was terribly swollen and he suf-
fered severe pain.
At Otao, about twenty miles from
Saukim, ON the Saukim and Berber
Railway, stands huge bunch of rocks
about one hundred feet high, of some
what conical form. Advantage is taken
of the emienence of this rock for posting
sentries hence it is known as the
"Tower Rock" On the face of this
rock huge advertisement, two hundred
and fifty feet square, in letters of four
and q half feet high, indicates that
."Pears' soap is the best"