The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-01-01
Items of Interest.

anoint with grease. Repeat this process
as the poison deve ops, and one or two
applications will cure the most obsti-
nate cases.
A Scotchman is suffering from pain
full disease of the hand and wrist,
brought on by the pressure against the
palm of q round-knobbed cane The
surgeons say that the thing to carry is
stick with q plain, smooth, cylin-
drlcal handle.
The London police have received
orders not to take into custody person
about to commit suicide, but to apply
for warrant to apprehend him on a
charge Of misdemeanor. The medical
Journals call this docking up the stable
after the horse is stolen"
In Russia the students at the military
school at st. Petersburg are required to
study the details of the battle of Gettys-
burg, which the emperor regards as the
greatest one ever fought, and large
diagram, representing all the corps and
divisions engaged, was prepared by the
Russian Government to enable its mill.
tary students to study it intelligently.
1t seems almost useless to warn people
not to take overdoses of opium and its
alkaoids. An English Clergyman, who
had been accustomed to take morphia
pills for sleeplessness, continued the
habit against his physicians express
instructions, and one night took num-
Der of them equal to a grain aud half
OF the drug He went to sleep and
never awoke.
Asia possesses the most powerfully
equipped hornets. The Indian Nedicay
Gazette tells of man who was bitten on
the neck by one of them. Within ten
minutes he became cold, pulseless and
unconscious. He was robust man,
but the use of active remedies only
brought him to after couple of hours
The hornet was of medium size, bright
yellow and striped with black.
The Truckee (Cal) Republican says
that up in the businesses of the Sierras
is q lake SO surrounded by bold cliffs
that it is impossible to reach its shores
save by one narrow cleft of rocks. 1t
has circumference of at least mile,
and beautiful fiat surrounds it which
is utilized for pasturage. 1t is probably
the crater of some extinct volcano, and
is exceedingly deep.
A curious public house is among the
latest attractions in Paris. It is called
La Taverne du Bagne. The walls are
hung with paintings representing the
horrors of convict life, iDterspersed with
portraits of notorious Communists. All
the walters are dressed in convict uni
form, and wear the chains and 6oulets of
the regular torc0t, The landlord is
Citoyen Maxine Lisbonne, one of the
leaders of the insurrection of 1871.
A simple and effective method of
bleaching bones, to give them the APP
pearance of ivory. has been discovered.
After dlgesting the bones with ether or
benzine to recover the fat, they are
thoroughly dried and immersed in u
solution of phosphoric acid in water,
containing one per cent. of phosphoric
anhytlride. In few hours they are
removed from the solution, washed in
water and dried
A singular library existed III 1886 at
Warrenstein, near Cassel. The books
composing it, or rather the substitutes
for them, were made of wood, and every
one of them was specimen of q differ
ent tree. The back was formed of its
bark, and the sides were constructed of
polished rIeces of the same stock. When
put together the whole formed box,
and inside of it were stored the fruit,
seed and leaves, together with the moss
which grew on it's trunk and the insects
which fed upon the tree. Every volume
correspondent in size.
"The free shooter" is the name given
to q hunter or marksman who, by enter
ing into compact with the devil, pro-
cured balls. six of which infallibly hit,
however great the distance, while the
seventh, or, according to some, one OF
seven, belonged to the devil. who di-
rected it at his pleasure. Legends of