The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-08-28
Items of Interest.

men of the house." advertised for @
place in CINCINNATI, and received $50
answers in two days-all from ladies.
The Iowa Supreme Court has decided
that hotel keeper who receives guests
knowing that there is o contagious
disease in his house is liable for damage
to any guest who may contract the
disease.
Young ostriches are warmed out of
their shells by incubators in California,
and manifest great astonishment when
they discover they are not in an African
desert. They have not yet become ac-
customed to being born on this CONT
lnent.
A Chicago hotel keeper had man re-
Gently arrested for stealing cake of
soap. The man pleaded, in extenua-
!tion of his offence, that he wanted it for
his collection of curiosities, it being the
first cake Of soap he had ever discovered
in a Chicago hotel.
Connecticut leads in longevity in this
country. The majority of very old
people are women. Among men, sold
iers and farmers are the longest lived.
A recent investigation found one hun
dred ministers who had passed the
century limit, but he found only thirty
doctors, ten lawyers, and ten actors.
According to tradition, famines occur
in Japan every forty or fifty years.
Modern history records great famines
i'm 1910, 1878, 1881, and 1885. This is
the fiftieth year since the last great
dearth, and as the climatic changes have
been frequent and severe, apprehensions
are felt as to recurrence of the
calamity.
Experiments by means of photo.
graphic plates in the Mediterranean
show that in the middle of sunny day
In March the rays of the sun are unable
to penetrate the water of that sea to
depth much beyond $50 fathoms. In
September the distance is reduced.
The depression at this depth on the
Photographic plate is not equal to that
made by starlight
Gen. r. Brinkerhoff declares that we
cannot blink the fearful fact that the tide
of crime is rising. He would gladly
doubt it, and figure it away, if he could,
but the statistics are pitiless. National,
State and county statistics all concur
that the food of crime creeps upward
year by year. lit must be checked OF
it will overwhelm us. he exclaims.
The Maine bird catchers, who drive
Striving trade in native song birds, use
"a cage divided into four compartments.
In one is captive, which, when taken
into the field, utters o call to his wild
brethren, one of whom is very likely, in
flying about the cage, to enter one of
the open doors and set free spring that
shuts the door. The favorite bird is the
red innet OF "redfroll, which is hardly,
easily contented, and sweet singer it
mates with the canary and an excellent
cross breed is the result
A young man in Brooklyn, after con-
sulting his watch. dropped it into his
pocket, when he was startled by an ex-
plosion, which was followed by many
Others in rapid succession. Before he
could remove his clothing it had been
burned through to the flesh and pain
full wound inflicted. The hand in which
he held the watch was also severely
burned. An examination proved the
explosion to have been caused by chlor-
ate of potash tablets, which he was in
the habit of carrying loose in his pocket,
and which were ignited by the watch
being dropped quickly upon them.
The Apaches have smoke signals by
day and fire beacons at night, and sys-
TENS of telegraphy understood only by
themselves The displacement and
overturning of q few stones on trail, or
bent or broken twig, is note of warm
ing like the bugle call to disciplined
troops. The many crosses dotting the
road sides of Arizona and New Mexico
mark the graves of murdered men.
"The country seems one vast grave
yard" writes Susan E. Wallace, "if we
may Judge by the frequency of these
rude memorials" Trained by their
mothers to theft and murder from child