The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-31

est level of prices from the producer
to the British Isle since 1862; the
visible supply is over two million
bushels less than year ago. Cash
corn was then more than ten per
cent. higher than now, and two years
ago more than fifty per cent. higher.
1t would seem as though new history
must be made if July corn does not
sell at near forty cents in Chicago
We advise buying July corn and
turning it over into succeeding
months if necessary, until profit
of five or twenty five cent per bushel
is secured.
The raj rates on corn from the
grower to the seaboard are but little
less than confiscations as compared
to the revenue derived by the farmer,
the latter receiving but nine to fifteen
cents per bushel in Kansas and
Nebraska, while many sections find
it the cheapest fuel. Exports and
New England's wants were never
larger.-1he Financier.
If ladies will wear birds upon their
hats, let it be the English sparrow. 1t
can be painted any color desired. In
fact the sparrow is thus used, and in
some places taxidermists make very
good thing of preparing the stuffed
skin for the hat and bonnet market
Now that the season is over for shoot
ing other birds, country sportmen and
boys are turning their attention to
sparrows. at Scranton. Pa, they are
killed by the boys with air guns.
Sparrow trap shooting has also been
inangurated. Many thousands of the
little pests have thus been got rid of.
A taxidermIst there pays the boys two
cents apiece for the birds, and a spry
boy can earn fifty to seventy cents in
a forenoon.
The condition of "farmers" in
Europe may be partially understood
bs the sketch of III" on the fourth
page. The women approach the
condition of beasts of burden and the
FARMERS" who do the work in those
old countries are called peasantry and
cottagers. The style of living they
are forced o.would be considered by
our farmers little better than the
condition their cattle and pigs enjoy.
"his is the style our American
aristocracy refer to when they talk of
more economy as the panacea tor the
ills our farmers complain Of
Few persons required any stronger
evidence that the editor of the Balti-
more american is sound asleep than the
Rip Van Winkleisms of that paper on
high license, but its latest declaration
that there has certainly been no phe-
nomenal increase of fish in the Chesa-
peake and its tributaries is sufficient
to remove all traces of doubt from the
mind of the most incredulous believer
in somnambuli:m, that the editorial
parsonage of that ancient sheet is sound
asleep. The immense numbers of
shad and herring caught in those
waters within the last half dozen years,
is matter of establishment to every
fisherman.
Something will be done about
money during this Congress, appar.
emily. Senator Sherman has intro.
duced bill which looks to the time
when the national debt will be paid.
1t provides for permanent national
bank circulation, the basis of which
shall be not only government bonds,
but gold and silver bullion. At the
same time Secretary WINDOWS house
bill provides for the issuance of coin
certificates and the coinage of silver,
as recommended in his message.
Rev. John Hall, the eminent Presby-
terrain divine, is sternly opposed to the
proposed revision of the Westminster
creed, and in this he is supported by
many of the most distinguished of his
brother ministers. 1t is to be observed
that generally the younger men of the
Presbyterian clergy and the theologi-
cal students favor revision, while the
elder ones are apt to oppose it. Like
wise, the laity OF the church are said to
be more in favor of it than the min
istry.
Great news comes from Vienna. Two
young doctors, brothers, of the name of
Jolles, have discovered the grippe bacil
lus. 1t is plainly not the cholera bacil-
lus or the pneumonia bacillus, and it
has head shaped like bishops cas-
sock. Therefore the young physicians
named it the bishop bacillus They
have already inoculated a rabbit with
the grippe virus and killed the RABBIT.
Now will they or any other doctor tell
us how to avoid taking the grippe.
The reigning families of Italy,
Austria, Germany and Portugal are
in mourning, the court of Spain is
in state of intense anxiety and sus,
pense, and the czar is said to be
almost crazy at times. God no
| longer smiles on royal families"