The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-12-18
Items of Interest.
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this position he lighted the fuse. fife
~sshot blew his head ensirSly fro n his
-boily. u. ela 20 ,rHij thaI !a
c. In colusa Coun.22, Cal, about year
ago, a youth shot hiesetf because a
young woman refused his offer of nlarri-
e'age. The girl said he was fool. but
tile Boy recovered. The other day the
girl committed suicide, because the same
boy refused to marry her. = =. -
- A Michigan firmer hurried to the
AS. isiance of a man whose team had
rbrohen down in the road, and received
six hens for his kindness. On return
ing home it was found that the fowls
We're his own property, and that all
their mates were missing.
A Belgian has invented q coffin to
ef1ectually prevent the possibility of
being buried alive The pressareeof the
earth thrown upon the coffin liberates
sort of stiletto, which is so placed that
on being disengaged it pierces the heart
OF the occupant.
Prof Galloway has noticed that. the
junior classes of boys in schools under
stand and profit by lessons iii chemistry
better than their seniors, whose obServ-
ant faculties and power of learning from
things hal been relatively weakened by
Their long course of grammar school
training.
A st. Louis drug company recently
received a package of aloes tied mp in D
monkey SKIN. A writer in Western
paper thinks this method of packing
rather rough on the monkeys. for it
takes thirty or more of the little fellows
to furnish wrappings for a single hun
dredweight of the drug.
In Australasia Il singular but beautiful
tree has been named in honor of Prof.
Owen. 1t propagates only by suckers.
The seeds will not germinate. They
are contained in n solid stone SO dense
that it cannot be broken with hammer.
Two years pass before the stone decays,
and then the kerne have persisted also
When the present Capitol at Washing
ton was opened, in 1918, the old one
was let to business tenants. One of
them, Anne ROYAL, ran two weekly
newspapers-the Pm Pry and the HINT
Tess-on the premises. AMI was the orig
inator of the American system of inter
viewing. She was indicted as common
scold in 1859. She lived to the age of
ninety-two.
A bee-keeper having been told that q
lad, through being repeatedly stung by
bees, had become impervious to any
unpleasant sensation when attacked by
them, resolved to experiment on his
own person. He kept record of the
number of times he was stung, and when
he began to cease feeling the effects of
the stings. Theresult was that all sense
OF feeling had gone when he had been
stung thirty times within few weeks
A Boston man in England has been
examining the original charter map of
Massachusetts,, and finds that the little
rocky islet called Middle Brewster, off
Boston Harbor, lies outside of the boun.
Diary, and was never claimed by Massa-
chusetts colony. It was, therefore, not
part of the United States, and must
now be deemed the property of Great
Britain, from which, apparently, it has
never been cut off.
The Roman dwelling house was in the
earliest ages Identical with that of Etru-
ria, and, indeed. of all Central Italy.
Although related to Hellenic prototypes,
the peculiarly Italian atrium, without
columnar supports for the roof, re-
manned in use even after the general
introduction of the Greek peristyle.
At Pompeii combination of these two
varieties of court is met with. the front
space being a simple atrium. and that
further within peristyle. Each inclo-
sure was surrounded with chambers.
There is talk in England of an inten-
ton to tax bachelors, and the absurdity
of the proposition affords much amuse-
ment. But the matter is not so outrage
ously novel, It has been done before,
Who does not know that such tax was
resorted to in old Rome and Greece?
Bachelors were heavily taxed, widows
were compelled to marry after one year
Of YnourninO- Gonna of tbapo NOV hovo