The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-11-27
items of Interest.

to be the essential elements of wealthy
recreation.
The sparrow has not only lost caste
abroad but he is loosing it at home. The
country papers of England are filed with
o discussion by farmers as to the best
methods for his determination.
A church in Orlando, Fla, having
shown signs of falling on recent Sun
day, the congregation fed in body,
and local paper, speaking Of the inci-
dent, remarks that it occurred just as
the collection was about to be taken up.
In Canterbury, Eng, the other day, q
curious brass box was dug up. Its name
and purpose was mystery until being
opened, there was found inside three
buttons piece of tin and o scrap of
paper. Then they knew it was an
ancient contribution box
A Partisan belle, who made profuse
use of cosmetics from the soles of her
feet to the roots of her hair, one day
took medicated bath, and on emerging
from it WAS Mortified to find herself as
black as OH Ethiopian. Her physician,
however, restored her by bath of sui
phuric acid diluted with water.
A creditor i'll Mexico can have deb
tor arrested on the day the debt falls
due. The prisoner is chained to post
five days, guarded by ON officer. At
the end of the time, if the money is not
forthcoming, the mans labor is sold to
the government at forty cents day for
as many days as will be necessary to
discharge the obligation.
Prof. Josef Korosi, the statistican,
finds that the rich class averages fifty
two years Of life, the middle class aver
ages forty-six years IL months Of life,
the poor class averages forty-o years,
seven months Of life From this it is
obvious that the possession of wealth,
and the resultant exemption from priva-
ton, lengthen the average life nearly
ten years.
Many of the pretty anemones-the
wind flower, the meadow anemone, the
passe-aeur, and the wood anemone-
were long since swept into the pharma-
copmia under the name of pulsatilla.
Now the sea anemone (lNedusa aurita) is
found by some specialized scientist to
possess what he calls medical proper
ties. and its beautiful head is to be
ground up into o specific for the govt.
The japanese government consti-
tuted mixed commission of native
and European scholars, with the object
of finding the way of expressing the
immense mass of japanese written SYM
bols in European letters, and of fixing
rules for spelling Japanese words in our
alphabet. They have so far succeeded
that they have compiled q Japanese
dictionary printed i'll Roman characters.
There are in Atlanta probably 100 old
men and women who practice voudoosim.
They tell fortunes, point out the VIII ere
abouts of lost and stolen goods, furnish
love philters and cast spells upon people
and cattle. The superstition of the
black races never leaves them. They
cannot be laughed ont of it or educated
out of it.
A Montreal butcher attending church
at lie Perrot q few Sundays ago, finding
himself unable to kneel on both knees,
knelt on one only and slightly bent the
other. A church warden insisted upon
his getting down upon both knees The
butcher vainly pleaded that he was
doing the best he could. He was arrested,
charged with having committed an act
of irreverence, and fined.
A manufacturer in Breslau has re-
Gently built at his factory chimney
over fifty feet in height entirely Of
paper The blocks used in its construc-
ton, instead of being of brick OF stone,
We're made OF layers of compressed
paper jointed with silicious cement.
The advantages are the fire-proof nature
of the material, the minimum of danger
from lightning and great elasticity.
An exchange says there is a very
simple way of avoiding the disagreeable
smoke and gas which always pours into
the room when fire is lit in q stove
heater or fireplace On damp day. Put
in wood and coal as usual but before