The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-10-23
Items of Interest.

hills. The wise insects always locate
over vein OF water.
There are in North America only
three species of poisonous snakes-the
rattlesnake. she copperhe-,l OF moccasin
and the coral.
The cabmen of Londca drove their
empty vehicles i'll the fun erhl procession
of popular comrade two abreast to the
extent of mile and half.
On the island of Marago, at the mouth
of the Amazon, there is four-footed
bird. In its growth one pair of legs
change into wings by process similar
to that of the tadpole into the frog.
The betrothed bride of Springfield
man objects to marrying while in mourn
ing for the death of relative, and he
has waited thirty-tive years for an inter-
vol in her grief, SO close together have
been the bereave.nents
An Alabama merchant, with many
debtors among the planters, white and
black proclaims that nc keeps an agent
riding through the State to discover
idlers, whom he will promptly liscrelit.
"Only by industry can You and thrive
together" he explains.
The Practical Photographer suggests that
in these days Of convenient photograph
ing appliances, those who visit in any
official capacity scenes of murder, wreck
or riot should apply the camera before
anything is disturbed, as the evidence
thus gained, being incontrovertible,
might possess incalcuiable value.
A cheese dealer states that much of
the social ed English cheese is made
in this country and shipped to Eng
land, whence it is returned, enhanced
in value by the sea voyage. Sometimes
cheeses are shipped backward and for
ward, two or three times, each voyage
adding to the richness of their flavor
The embalming OF Lincoln's and Gar
fields remains failed. Some of the
most successful embalmers maintain that
it is impossible to preserve a body for
any length of time unless the method
adopted by the Egyptians is followed.
which requires primarily the removal of
the entire internal organism.
After a severe illness an Englishman
shaved off his whiskers and otherwise
disguised himself. He then went to his
l. l.
sick man, who, he asserted, was now
dead. He thus obtained a certificate of
his own death. had his own decease
registered, drew the burial money from
his lodge, and decamped.
Barnum says that those who think
the world is going to ruin through rum
would see their error if they could look
back fifty years ct the drinking habits
OF New England. He drank freely until
1917. and was then converted to total
abstinence by speech of Chapins; and
in 1860 Willard Parker scared him so
ahou. tobacco that he has never smoked
since
Speaking of the trillmphs of German
surgery, a writer points ont number of
men now walking around in the empire
with only q fractional part of their
digestive organs. Some are referred to
as being without spleen, or having but
a single kidney, others lack gall blad-
der and several metres of intestines,
while the climax is reached by "the
man without stomach"
Richter was very fond of tame ami
mails, which he constantly had about
Lin. Sometimes mouse, then q great
White cross spider, which he kept in q
paper box with a glass top. There was
a little door beneath by which he could
feed his prisoner with dead flies In the
autumn he collected his winter food for
his little tree-frog and his tame spider.
Elbow 1 wish," he wrote once to his
friend Otto. "that you could have met
mo in HE street or in tie Harmony.
Then you would have seen my little
squirrel upon my shoulder, who bites no
longer.
The Bible contains 1865, $50 letters,
s10,G97 words, 1,173 verses, 1,194 chap
tels and siXty-six books The word
"and occurs 46,227 times, Lord "
1, 955 times reverend only once, and
that IL the eleventh psalm. The twenty
seventh chapter of Ezra contains the