The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-08-21
Items Of Interest.


past year it is estimated that 372 of the
heroines have been blondes, and only
100 brunettes.
Revolving shelves set into the walls OF
the guests rooms are the newest device
in hotels. Things can be passed out or
in without the intrusion of u waiter.
The last duel between Parisians was
fought with pistols instead of foils !; but
the deadliness of the weapons was much
modified by n distance of seventy-five
feet, and single exchange of harmless
shots sufficed to satisfy the combatants.
An English cutler now makes what he
calls fisherman's knife, which weighs
less than pound, and is carried at the
belt, yet contains gait, scissors, weigh
ing scale up to twenty pounds, large and
small blade, screw driver and file, q
long disgorger and file, a tin opener.
a corkscrew, II gimlet, an eight inch
measurer, tweezers and pricller.
AS an evidence of the Ignorance wh:cl!
prevails through Wales, the vicar OF 1t
large district writes that he gave to Il
poor woman, whose daughter was i'll, a
little jar of extract of meat, telling her
ito boil it with certain seasoning. The
woman complained there was something
wrong with the thing. She had boiled
it for hours, and could get no charm out
of it. The fact was she had left the iar
unopened.
hreverent jokers put a gallon of wills
key into the baptistry of an indiana
church. after the water had been fixed
for the imm ersion of q reformed trunk
ard. But their trick was turned to
serious account by the victim, who,
standing on the edge of the tank in his
dripping robe, described the outrage to
the congregation and delivered ringing
speech for total abstinence.
Corks are now made impervious Ivy
simply soaking them for several hours
in o solution of one-half ounce glue or
gelatine i'll mixture of three-fourths
ounce of glyceline and one pint of water.
treated to a temperature of about 800
Cent Such corks may be made nenl.l;
proof against acids if dipped when very
dry for ten OF fifteen minutes into 4
melted mixture of four parts parafline
and one of vaseline.
Several famous writer's and orators nf
Boston were speaking of their lecture
experiences, when the subject of pay
was brought up. Each was certain he
had received the smallest sum. But DR..
Holmes made climax by saying
"Listen, gentlemen. I had engaged to
give lecture for five dollars. After it
was over q grave-looking deacon came
to me and said, Mr.. Holmes, we agreed
to give you five dollars, but your talk
wasn't just what we expected, and /
guess that tew-ffty will dew"
Moles are merely discolorations of the
skin resulting from some change in the
production of the coloring matter.
They are perfectly harmless, and conse-
.quently should not be interfered with
under any circumstances. They some
times, it is true, amount to disfigura-
ton, but are not then known as moles,
but as congenital nevi, or mother-spots.
These latter consist of dense network
of dilated blood-vessels, forming
tumor, more or less elevated above the
skin, for the obliteration of which
surgical operation is generally necessary.
The first germ of photography, as an
art, is supposed to have been presented
in an experiment at Priestly's, made
.about hundred years ago. From that
time the subject was studied by many
scientists, without any decided result,
down to 1889. In that year, Daguerre,
in France, and Talbot, in England, sue
ceeded in taking portraits by what was
for time called the Daguerreotype
process. Their discoveries were i'm
proved upon, and the name of photo
graph, which means sun writing, was
given to the, process
The cave out of which Israel Putnam
dragged the wolf is seldom visited be-
cause it is in stony, mountainous for
est, in remote corner of Connecticut.
A picnic party recently made the tedious
trip, which involved several miles of
rough walking. There are pictures in
primers of Putnam entering the cave