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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-16
What Mnkes 3 Man old.

To himself man is as old as lie feels;
to others, as old as he looks. here is
nothing strikingly new in this observa-
tion, but it applied well in an amusing
case the other day. On train that-was
coming into Boston there were two gem
tlemen sitting in contiguous seats.
One of them was gray and bent As
the train approached the station the
white haired man rose, took up his over
coat, hesitated, and glanced nervously
around. Then he said:
"Young man. will be much obliged
if yo will help me on with my over
coat
Inc other rose quickly and gave him
the assistance that was asked for
"There-owl Pm little stiff Thank
you," said the old man. @You are kind.
Some time you may be old yourself and
then you will be glad of young mans
assistance.
Tie other laughed Perhaps, sir,
he said, "you wouldn't object to telling
me how old you are?"
at? Oh, no. said the old man. @pm
63 wears old-almost GA, he said, with
q sigh.
indeed" said the "young man,
and now I'll tell you how old l am. 1
shall be II years old on my next BIRTH
day..
1t was his actual age, but the first man
fatty refused to believe it. and went off
with an air as if he thought the other
were trying to play rather bad joke.
-[Boston Transcript.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-16
Elephnnts Chewlng Gun.

A funny sto y Of ell plants comes
from the Pniladelp ia Biological Gar
den. A few days agp three elephant
we're discovered quietly chewing gum
with all the apF aren't enjoyment of the
school girl They had supplied them
selves with the article in the shape ol
so feet of rubber garden hose. which i
attached to Shydrant in the building
and used for cleaning out the stalls.
When not in use the hose is stretc ed at
length on the floor. Immediately beneath
the elephant cages In reaching for
nuts one of the beasts had accidentally
found the hos and drawn it into the
cage. All mad then taken a share. and
when discovered had succeeded in ruin
ing the entire length of hose.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-16
HUMAN oARNAoE.
Slaughter of a,e50,O0O Lives in Wars of
the Last Thirty Years.


Slaughter OF 2,25O,00O Lives in Wars of
the Last Thirty Years.
According to the estimates of French
and German statisticians there have
perished in the wars of the last 30 years
$500, 600 men, while there has been ex-
pended to carry them on no less than
the inconceivable sum of $4,000, 000,-
000 Of this amount France has paid
nearly So. 500, ,000, 900 as the cost of the
war with Prussia, while her loss inkmen
is placed at $4,000 OF these $4,000
were killed on the field of battle, S6, 600
died of sickness. accidents, or suicide,
and 10000 in German prisons. while
there died from other causes enough to
bring the number up to the given aggre-
gate The sick and wounded amounted
to ATT, 421, the lives of many thousands
of whom were doubtless shortened by
their illness or injuries.
According to DR.. Roth. German au-
thority, the Germans lost during the
war 10000 men killed or rendered
invalid. and $500. 900, 600 in money. this
being the excess of expenditure or of
material losses over the 81, ,25O. 600. 900
paid by France by way of indemnity.
DR.. Engel, another German stalistican,
gives the following as The approximate
cost of the principal wars of the last 80
years: Crimean war. $4,000 600, 900;
Italian war of 1859. $500. 600, 900,
Prusso- Danish war of 1864 SS5, 900 900;
War of the Rebellion (Nort,). So 100,-
COO 900; (South) 50. 800, ,0o0, 900: Prusso-
Austrian war of 1866, $3.50. 900, 900;
Russo Turkish war $125. 600, 900; South
African wars. $8,770. 900; African war,
S13 250, 900; Servo Bulgarian, sire, ,000,-
600.
Ii these wars were murderous in the
extreme. The Crimean war. in which
few battles We're fought, cost 750, 900
lives, only 30, 900 less than were killed
or died of their wounds North and
South, during the war of the rebellion.
The figures, it must be remembered, are
German, and might not agree precisely
with American estimates. The Mexi-
can and Chinese exl editions cost $780,
600 coo and $4,000 lives. There we're
$50 900 killed and mortally wounded
during the Russia Turkish war, an 45,-
600 each i'll the Italian war of 1859 and
the war between Prussia and Austria.
In the other wars the loss of life was
relatively less, which did not make either
the men or money easier to part " ith in
the more limited areas whers they oc-
Cured.
And this is but a part of the account
ing, since it does not include the mill-
ions expended during the last 20 years
in maintaining the vast arnaments of
the European powers. the losses caused
ly he stoppage of commerce and man
ufactures, and the continual derange-
ment of industries by the abstraction
from useful employment of SO many
millions of persons held for period of
military service extending from three
to five years.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-16
THE GREAT AUX.
A BIRD THAT IS PROBABLY Ex-
TINCT.

Value of a Single Egg They Were PIentl-
full Few Years Ago--A Live Bird
Would he Worth Fortune at the
Present Time.
A single egg of the great aux is said
to have been sold within few years
for more than $1,000 Twenty years
ago the same egg, or another like it.
brought about $3.50. What the price
will be 80 years hence it would be un-
safe to guess. The value of birds eggs,
like the value of other things, depends
largely upon their variety.
The great aux was a common bird
within the n emory of persons now liv-
ing, and in the early part Of the last
century was SO abundant on the islets
about Iceland that the inhabitants often
filed their boats with the eggs. Little
they thought that single broken shell
would ever be sold for $780, As late as
1914 two birds were killed in Iceland.
Since that time none have been re-
ported. pr, badly not a single one re-
naming alive.
These last two specimens were cap
tured by party of fourteen men in an
excursion to precipitous rocky islet
now known as Eldey. They landed at
the only landing place, and among the
innumerable rock fowl congregated
there they saw two auks. of which they
at once W ent in pursuit.
The birds ran before them-the great
aux could not fly, fact which prob
ably accounts for its extermination-
with their heads erect. and their little
wings extended, moving with short
steps about as fast as the usual gait of a
man. Both were caught and strangled,
and their bodies are now in the museum
Of the University Of Copenhagen. At
the same time single egg was found,
but it was broken.
Thus, so far as can be known, ended
the life history of the great aux, or
northern penguin. The only relics of it
that are known to exist, according to
Professor Newton. are "71 or 72 skins.
skeletons, 3S or Al detached bones of
different birds, and 65 eggs Massachu-
sets gunners assured Audubon that the
great auk-the "garefowl, as they
called twas once CO mon about
Nahant and the islands in Massachusetts
Bay, and its bones have heen taken
from sIell heaps at Marblehead,
Ipswich, and Plum Island.
An almost perfect skeleton, now in the
British Museum, was found on Funk
Island, off the coast of Newfoundland,
and Methodist missio airy. who was
stationed on the coast of Newfoundland
from 1918 to 1928, informed Mr.. Board
man that the "penguins" were seen
there in considerable numbers through
out that time. Il was mmon for boys
to keep them tied by the leg as pets
And yet the discovery of single liv-
ing bird would now be telegraphed
round the world as great scientific
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-16
Old Pioneer"
(E,TABLIsHED 1S19.)
THE AMERICAN FARMER
NEARLY HALF A CENTURY UNDER THE
SAME MANAGEMENT.

Devoted TO Farming, Stock Raising.
Fruit Growing, slarRet Gardening, the
Dairy, the Poaltay Yard. etc., etc.
Special attention is paid TO Fertilizers and
Manures, including those Of commerce and
the farm.
Reports of Representative Farmers Clubs
are notable feature Of lis issues.
Its Home Department is filled with
charming reading and practical suggestions
for the Ildies of the farm household.
The most competent, successful and ex
perienced men and women have charg, OF
the several departments
No Farmer in the Atlantic Saies, from
Delaware 10 Georgia, can afford to be with
out this old aud reliable adviser and guide
on farm work.
The American Farmer is published twice
ever month, ton the Isl and l5th.) Ii is
beautifully printed on line white paper. IN
clear type $100 a year. 70 any one SEMI
ing a CLUB of five, an extra copy will be
senl free.
SAM'L SANDS. & SON Publishers
BaI,imore, Md.
THE MIDLAND JOURNAL and the Amer
ican Farmer Will lie clnbbea together and
sent 10 any address for Sl.75 for one year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-16
CHEAP REsTAURANls.
Snme rlaccs Where Ono Can Dine for
Three Cents a Plate.

Some Places Where One Can Dine for
Three Cents a Plate.
The cheapest restaurants in the world
are undoubtedly in Berlin.
The effort to introduce horseflesh in
New York as an article of food la
brought all the facts concerning the
Berlin restaurants promptly to the front
There are dozens of places there where
the meat of horses is eaten regularly.
and they are indorsed by the health
authorities of the German capital
These restaurants furnish meal f
horse meat, bread. and coffee for the
moderate sum of six cents.
I This would seem to be the led rocE;
charge for meal. even in Berlin bu
there is still a lower grade of restaurants.
Very few tourists visit the restaurant
on the outskirts and building districts
of the city. where the very poorest Ger
mans buy their meals.
In these places there is long bencl
placed in front of table, in which souI
plates made Of tin are sunk into the
wood. The plates will hold a little
more than pint Of liquid Opposite
each plate OF pan IS tin spoon Chained
to the table.
The prospective diner enters the res
taugant, places three cents opposite his
plate and then shouts thick soup" or
thin soup according to his epicurean
desire. Then the comfortable and in
variably very fat old woman who runs
the restaurant waddles forward with a
teaming kettle in her hand. fills the
pan in front of the dinr With soup,
seizes his money, waddles back to the
stove, and then returning slams large
and square lump of black bread down
i'll front of the guest
The description is not alluring. but in
reality everything about these cheap
restaurants is SO exquisitely bright anu
clean, the soup is SO good, and the bread
so nutritious that no one need be afraid
Of it. Such places in the poorer district
Of London and New York at tile prices
would be blessing during the winter
months. 4 New York World.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-16
Children NnvelIsts.

Several years ago James Payn excited
discussion by declaring that novel
writing is a profession Of much profit to
which parents might we'll train their
sons, but it was not remarked at the
time, think, that when the parents are
themselves novelists tie children. sons
or daughters, seem often to take to fic-
tion naturally. Thomas Hood wrote at
least one novel. and his son, Tom Hood,
wrote several. Alexandra Dumas Fl s is
by some thought to be a greater man
than Alexandra Maximus. Miss Flor
ence Marryat carries on her fathers
business at the old stand. dealing rather
in rosewater than in salt water. TIE au-
thor of "The Ring of Amasis' is the son
of the author of "Zanoni" and "a
Strange Story" Thackeray left daugh-
ter who has been able to make pretty
little jacket out of that part of her
fathers mantle which fell on her, and in
like manner has the son of Haw thorne
cultivated his portion of his fathers
OeniIls
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-16
BELLIES OF THE BIBLE.
Much the Same Ornaments and Style OF
Dress In SoIomon's Time as Now.

Much the Same Ornaments and Style OF
Dress In Solomon's Time Now.
1t is an interesting fact, and to great
extent true, says the ST. Louis Post DIS.
patch, that the style of dress and orna-
ments of the ladies of the present day
is much the same as in the time of
Solomon. With the many changes of
centuries the graduation of chignons and
crinolines, much of the simple grace
and easy symmetry of ancient Greece
has taken their place in the nineteenth
century.
The scriptures narrate great many
things about the style of dress worn in
the time of Solomon. In the law of
Moses directions are given concerning
the garments worn by the Israelites. In
the book of Judges the girls Of that
period are described by Deborah as "a
prey of divers of needlework.
Lemuel says: 3Their clothing is of
silk and purple.
In the frequent intercourse between
the Jewish and other natives the ladies,
tired of their primitive simplicity,
sought the fashions of the clever Egypt
ians, the elegant Phenicians. and the
luxurious Persians. Even the patient
Job became impatient at so much dress
ing and thought of the adornment of
tile person, and Isaiah denouncing the
women of the period" living for moth
ing but dress and Irritation, with their
great desire to "see and be seen.
The tunic spoken of in the time Of
Cnlnn,nF, nluOln lilo t1o
polonaise of the present time The belts
and fancy girdles and clasps and buciles
are the same thing as the leather girdles
and silver buckles worn in the bible
times We also find recorded the fact
that trains were worn to dresses, and
that camels' hair shawls were common
among the ladies of that age. Embroi-
dered mantles are also mentioned, and
they were fastened withgold pins. The
hair must have been elaborately dressed,
to judge from the bible descriptions
and many ornaments worn. 1t was
oiled. dyed, and put up in coils Little
curls were allowed to hang loose over
the forehead, and, strange as it sounds
the young ladies of Soomon's time used
paint to make their cheeks red.
Wells were worn and the sandals were
made of blue and violet colored leather
with fancy lockets.
Solomon, it is related, said to Shula-
mite: "How beauti ul are thy feet with
snoes, oh, princes daughtersl" Thin
nets were worn and earrings of bones
found and of great value were COM
monty used. Bracelets were worn upon
the right arm instead of the left, strings
of pearls and heavy gold chains around
the neck, rings on the fingers, and other
ornaments were fashionable. There are
many bellies spoken of by women in the
bible, and the history of some of their
love stories is very touching. The
beauty of the women of that time is
often mentioned, and life must have
been much as it is now among the young
people. If you will examine the script
ure to find anything used at the present
day which is still called by the old
timed names you will invariably find
the same article mentioned somewhere
in the bible. There is, indeed. little that
is new under the SUM-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-16
Packed. 1l,nt yYnl Not Rlp.

The advantage 8 of pocket lhat has
no sewed seams and can not rip, and
that is neat and smooth in the garment
are such as will be appreciated by every
masculine reader. Such a pocket is the
invention of an ing nious Yankee. who
calls his device safety seamless pocket
Tie popularity of these pockets is that
they are oven complete in one piec :.
No stitching or sewing is necessary t
make them ready for use. but they ar
urned out by the loom in tine exic
form in which they are required for
trousers
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-16
The Cowboys Day Is Gone.

met CO boy yesterday who was
returning from the Western plains t
his ho. in Ohio. He was sad aud his
face lore doleiul expression as he mar
rated tie ME ories of i:appy ranch lille
never to be again "The plains, SAT-,
ne, aare nothing like they used to be
Instead of herds of buffalo and cattle
they now have boomers. scrub stoca,
and scalawag dogs, and instead of Gu"
oys. as in the past, the inhabitants al.
settlers who have during the past 2
years squatted' in nearly every Sta {
and Territory west of The Missoui
R yer. So long a, they kept out of ths
grazing country we didn't mind the
ut sil.ce there has been such a dt.mai.'
for more land for settlers those fellow
have crowded their society upon us uIf-
Ill we had either TO fl hit, get out, or &C
cept them as neighbors.
guess the general run of my kind oi
fellows would much refer the first prof.
osition. but it doesn't pay. AS tor th,
iast, it doesn't go at all. | know we ars
rough fellows, and maybe we don.
seem any better in the eyes of the wor.a
than boomers,' but that sort of calctls
alton is 'agin' U.S. l guess no fellow
ever made a success # 'cow punching
who was lazy, and know / never me
any fellow on the range who'd liv
in schooner and starve his family
sooner than work. A good many of u,
could get little herds and keep at the
business if it wasn't for the boomers,
ut as they're coming we're going. ]
lon't think you'll find many of the old
cowboys on the range after this year. and
next year you won't know by visiting
what was oisce cattle range country that
here ever WIS such a set as genuine
cowboys ii Kansas City Times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-16
loves LOGIC.

am a woman, and love you, yet
I'm not thing Of changeling smilesa and tears;
OF pretty wiles, alternate hopes, and fears.
To weep when you are harsh, and then for get
And laugh my grief away when your brow's
tempest clears.
am woman, and love you, though
IT'S not because you seek me, nor because
Your eyes command me while your voice
makes pause;
You have revealed yourself to me: know
That yours is not nature free from flaws.
am a woman, but my love means not
Submission to some other minds control,
Surrender of my body and my soul.
The love give to you I'd give unsought,
Since loving you makes my poor half-life
whole. -lElizabeth Leigh.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-16
wbat He Did witb ,he Flool..

A religious society, worshipping not
many miles from New London. Conn,
decided to build new church, and the
pastor, among others. was chosen to
solicit funds He did his work zeal
ously, taking not only the widows but
he childrens' mites as we'll. This
'nergetic pastor has class of children
in the Sabbath school. and on one Sun
lay, not long since, while instructing
them. lie compared hin's If to the good
lepherl. and then inquired what the
itter did with lis flock. One bright
yed little o pro p replied: He
ears them. All within hearing
mi,d at his 3, ,ser. &cspt the pastor.
-[New York Mercury.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-16
l3ucklen's ArnicA salvc-

The best satve u the word ior cur
bruises, sores ulcers, sah rheuln. feve'.
sores, tstter, chapped hands, chilb!ains
corns nd al sasu erapueD,, AM pvsi-
Vely cares psies, Or ue pay required.
~ gaaras,erd 70 ave perfect satls-
9tlon, - uvney retained, price zoe.
box. Tor sale b, L. Il. Kirk.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-16

An Ottawa. Kan, doctor has sent a
bill to widow for @doctoring your hus-
band until he died,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-16

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the completeness with which it records day by
day. the life of the city. State aud country.
Its field is world wide. and its staff. its special
CORES pondents so many and we'll organized, its
source Of news so numerous. that it appeals to a
wider constituency than any other newspaper
ever published in Pennsvivania
ssThe Press said one OF the managers of the
Western Union Telegraph Company "now receives
more telegraphic news than all the Phiiadelphia
newspapers combined" This statement is an
lucrative and conclusive. aud Fhe Press presents
as daily witnesses to its truth. its twelve to
twenty four bright and interesting pages.
But it is not only by its news enterprise the
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Telegram-herald., 1891-12-13

Tia warrior OF the sea, ths swordfsh.
b barring the bah out. the largest Of ths
sDod dshes, the fasssst ish that swims
and wisaAi the only sns thAt sotnah anA
eoaaaers thu whale. Anefhex senaxk-
sbis fact Is tia, the swosdhsh cross the
OCEAN twice each year. No baby sword
fsh has ever been seen On our coast, and
reward OF 500 hor one which was
Caught mere a foot or less IN length has
never had claimant. Swordfsh breed
IN Mediterranean waters, sad nowhere
else are young and old found together.
When warm weather comes they &C
abroad. crsssing the Atlantlc the sword
6sh stops awhile at Newport, Block IL
iand and Bar Harbor and returns in the
eocl or the autumn weather To It's home
and children Swor!fish average about
Eve or six feet in length and 800 pounds
In weight They are dark above and
whitish underneath. and are armed with
hard and pointed sword which projects
from their upper jaw and in length
equals about = third Of that OF their bodies.
tbs sword is = most powerful weapon
and its owner does not hesitate TO use is
either rs means u ofense or defenss.
The swordshavs been run through dories
and snip's bottoms and even through =
piece Of solid cak Ave inches thick.
Many a lunkiess sword fisherman has
lost his h1e on account Of the quickness
and ferocity with which this remarkable
fish uses his sword.-xeW York Tels-
gram.