The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-11-20
items of Interest

items OF Interest.
The dryest -four contains from six to
seven per cent. of water.
At least one ton of gold is buried in
the graves of the dead every year.
Two Kansas City newspaper men ex-
posed medium recently by squirting
aniline dye on the face of materialized
spirit. The dye was, of course, found
on the medium after the spirit departed.
Frequently when young mocking-
birds are captured and placed in q cage
where the old birds can have access to
them, they will feed them for O few
days but finding they cannot recover
them they will poison the llit,e birds by
dropping the berry of the black ash
into the cage
A new bird has made its appearance
in Oregon with the head of pheasant
nnd the wing and tail feathers of q
grouse. A few years ago some Chinese
pheasants were let out and they I'M
doubleday interbred with the native
grouse.
A fruit dealer in London, rather than
have her boy attend school, put him
into an orange box, which was safely
corded up and showed under the bed
whenever she had occasion to go out.
The boy had become nearly demented
when he was found by the agent of q
benevolent society.
Under the Roman law mother had
no legal inheritance in the property of
her minor children child desiring to
marry need not obtain her consent; the
children were not in the family of the
mother, but of the father.
Some of the queerest names hail from
the Basque provinces of Spain. Two
officials in the Treasury Department at
Madrid, who claim Basque descent, call
themselves respectively Don Epifanio
Observation-Disclosures y Zengotide and
Don Juan Nepomuceno de Burisnago.
natstorecagoce accoccha.
The Indians of Mexico have plan of
wetting their blankets to form them
into shields in warfare. They are hand
woven, and fulled until thick and
waterproof. 1t is found that they even
turn aside bullets. either by causing
them to glance, or by swaying to the
blow, and thus defeating the penetra-
tive force of the missile.
In Valparaiso the conductors on the
street cars are women. During the war,
when most of the men were sent to
fight Peru, the employment of women
in this capacity was found successful,
and they have since been kept. They
are usually girls from twenty to twenty
five, dressed in q natty uniform of blue
flannel, with jaunty Panama hats and
pinafores.
Colored people are more successfully
photographed, as q rule, than white
people are, says an experienced photo.
grapher, the medium mulatto making
the finest photograph in the world.
Light compilations are hardest to take,
and light-colored clothing does not look
we'll in pictures. In taking pictures of
animals the instantaneous process is
best. Cats are the best sitters.
The gypsies are averse to alliances
outside their own race, and when one
of their young women married the
Englishman, Isaac Jowles, who after
ward was known as king of the gypsies,
her two daughters, very beautiful girls,
refused to be married except to gypsy
men. Their children were in every
respect like gypsies; the introduction
of alien blood seemed to have no appre-
ciable effect.
The founder of the sect called Shakers,
was Anna Lee. who taught that all
marriage was sinful. She was born in
England, but settled near Albany, N.
Y, and soon had number of followers
there. She died in 1884, in her fiftieth
year. The Shakers. i'll $ tie of their
strange doctrine, are usually very hos
pitable and friendly.
Hats are now being made in the