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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-09-18
oysters Ane a Luxury in England.

We do not exactly long for the Port
Lincoln oyster of south Australia, which
sometimes measures foot across, and
which, fried in bread crumbs and but
ter, is as much as an ablebodied man
can consume at a sitting. Fortunately
oysters are found in every sea except,
perhaps, the Baltic, for some 2,000, 900, 900
are eaten annually in Europe alone. It
Is interesting to hear of "oyster gardens
near Sydney, where you go to bathc,
taking towel and an oyster knife, with
a loaf and butter, where you deposit
your clothes, and may eat as many oys-
ters as you can open for a shilling.
There is no doubt that the oyster thus
freshly taken from the bed may be tasted
in the greatest perfection. Travelling
disagrees with his liver, which is among
the largest and most important organs,
and keeping him in ice deteriorates the
favor, as it does that of all fish. The
somewhat melancholy conclusion Of the
whole matter is that oysters are palata-
BILE, wholesome, nourishing- expen-
sive-and that great many beds will
have been laid down before they can be
anything to us but luxury or medi-
cine.
They are recommended as ''sovran"
against the influenza, and calculated to
keep old people alive when all other food
fails; but we may long in vain for days
when a cookery book began its receipts
with Take a hundred and fifty oysters, ("
or .sTaka of oysters two nuarta - Rnt
as they say in a neighboring island, 'the
best way to cook an oyster is to eat him
raw."-Saturday Review.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-09-18
Our Two oranra states-

In the United States oranges and lem
ons are produced only in California and
Florida. The orange crop of the latter
is practically out of the way before that
of the former is ready for the market.
The California orange is of slower
growth than the Florida product and
does not decay so soon. The orange sea-
son in California lasts five months, be-
ginning Jan. 1, and it will be prolonged
in future. as the people are planting
Valencia oranges, which do not ripen
till July. The lemon is more sensitive
to frost than the orange, and it is pro-
duced with more difficulty in Florida
than in southern California, for the rea-
son that the former state is more subject
to frost.-L. A. Sheldon in Forum.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-09-18
Why She Wasn't Afraid.

The fresh air children see the country
with their own eyes, not with yours or
mine. They steadily refuse to crafty
the taste of sentimental and exacting
persons by becoming morbidly lost in
marvel, OF rapt in poetic fancy. Occa-
sionally one finds child whose mind is
sensitive, and who develops rare ap-
probation of the beauty of living close
to the heart of things, but usually these
charity children enjoy whatever comes
to them in just the same unrefecting
prosaic, wholesome way that we find
most gratifying and healthful in our
own children.
Very strange. and wonderful every
thing is to them, to be sure; but in a
land where everything is strange and
wonderful one loses sight of special mar
vel. A peculiar and disastrous hail
storm once swept over farm where a
dozen children were staying. The chill
dren of the household were terrified, but
the little visitors were perfectly calm.
II thought maybe it always rained
sharp glass in the country" said one lit
tie girl, when they asked her why she
wasn't afraid. .-Harper's Bazaar.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-09-18
TIE GLIMPSE.

Just for a day you crossed my life's dull track
Put my ignobier dreams 10 sudden shame,
Went your bright way, and left me to fall
back
On my own world of poorer deed and aim
To fall back on my meaner world, and feel
Like one who. dwelling mid some smoke
dimmed town,
In a brief pause of labor's sullen wheel,
'Scaped from the streets dead dust and fac
tory's frown.
In stainless daylight saw the pure seas roll,
Saw mountains pillaring the perfect sky;
Then journeyed home to carry in his soul
The torment of the difference till he die
William Watson in London Spectator
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-09-18
NOCTURNE.


All the vast dark wonder of the night,
All the air for the brown moths wings tC
skim:
But the stars are far away from him.
And the open window is full of light.
The brown moth follows the candies glow
Where golden haired Lois reads and dreams,
Sc still thatan imagcd saint she seems,
With tapers before her and eyes bent low.
About her hair and the fame he wheels,
Her hair full of sunshine and sweeter yet
Than the yellow rose by the night dew wet,
So sweet that faint to the fame he reels.
In the sweep of his wings the candles fare,
And, what maddens him more, he does not
know
The dancing flame that scorches so
Or tho yellow splendor of her hair.
On hor brow and neck, In soft little rings,
1t lies like the tendrils of vine;
He has never seen web so fine,
And he fears to touch it with his wings
So he whirls and frantic beats at the light
Till in torture down on her book he slips;
She sweeps him aside with her finger tips,
And his life flutters out into the night
M. d. Hatch in New York Sun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-09-18
around. The Chinks alters DO. Git up
if vnr n nornin tn1. ni ,,,n,.,.iod

around. The Chinks alters DO Git up
il yer a-goin ter git married"
| Ling had vague idea that he was
very happy. The opium had brought a
peaceful feeling, but he was rather
stupid. Maggie sat on the edge of the
bunk and the cat walked across the room
with stately tread, glaring at her. She
paused at her feet, and at one bound
was on her lap. "Hello, pussyr' she
said, putting her face down and stroking
the fur. Like flash a paw shot out;
five hooked, sharp claws were unsheath-
ed and dragged across the girls cheek.
She gave frightened scream, and when
Ling looked he saw three red lines down
her face, from which blood was drip
ping. And the cat walked slowly across
the floor with the same stately tread.
GIVE got nice looking face nowi"
said Maggie, sand I think I'll have that
cat killed"
LESS" said Ling, "kill him." and he
rose dreamily and tried to drive the cat
out, but she wouldn't go. He gave it
up and cursed the spirit which possessed
the cat. Some enemy of mine has
died." he thought, .'and his soul has
gone into the cat" Maggie washed the
blood from her face and put on three
long strips of plaster, and then went
around to the Five Points mission, where
they were married. The minister, Mr..
Boughton, asked them both q great
many questions, and satisfied himself
that everything was all right Before he
dismissed them he said he hoped Maggie
would be happy.
81 hope so, sir" said she, "an they
say the Chinks are good to their VIM
men,"
They went back to the store then.
There was letter on the counter near
the scales. 1t had come from China and
was for Yee Sam Ling. The cat sat near
it and would not move. Ling pushed her
away with a stick, but she came back.
He was afraid to put his hand out fer the
letter, so he pulled it toward him with
his pipe. 1t was from his native town.
"Your good mother is dead" it said;
''the scourge devil carried her away. It
was her will that you return and marry
the girl she has betrothed to you''
The letter fell from Ling's hands; he
looked up and saw the cat still staring at
him.
"My mothers soul is there to curse
me, he whispered to himself, backing
toward the door,
sit is shell She has come across the
big water because did not return" and
he kept stepping backward.
"The curse has come upon mer And
he felt for his cue. Then he looked at
Maggie and saw the marks of the claws
With a shrek he opened the door and
rushed outl
"John's gone plumb crazyw said
Maggie to the attendant. "It's the
opium, guess. 1t knocks 'em all when
they get the habit"
Ling never came back, so Maggie
patched truce with her mother and
went back to the tenement. Nobody
but the minister knows she is Mrs. Yee
Sam Ling, and the new sign which
swings over the door of the little store
tells every one who looks up at it that
Sun Quong sells Chinese groceries there.
Sun Quong was the tendant.-Fred A.
Wilson in New York Evening Sun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-09-18
The "AIaneater of the Gulf"

The region in the vicinity of the north
ern extremity of the Gulf of California
is inhabited by rare and terrible crea-
ture-a member of the lizard tribe
called the "Maneater of the Gulf" He
is hardly large enough to warrant his
awe inspiring name, being only about
fifteen inches long, but is one of the most
poisonous creatures known to natural
lists. He is member of the lizard fam
lily, some akin to the famed Gila Mon
ster, and his body is almost as brittle as
glass.-St. Louis Republic.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-09-18
E.kImo Mournlnr Customs.

All Eskimos are superstitious about
death, and, although they hold festivals
In memory of departed friends, they will
usually carry dying person to some
abandoned hut, there to drag out his re-
manning days without food, medicine,
water or attendance. After the death Of
husband or u wife the survivor cuts
the front hair short and fasts for twenty
Eve days. st. Louis Republic
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-09-18

Fair Querist-Husband, dear, are there
two sis" in "business?"
Wideawake Husband (obtusely)-Cer
tainly, my love. A man. who goes into
business with one eye is going to be bad
y left. .-Pittsburg Rnltetin.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-09-18
There is a curious instance of an echo

There is a curious instance of an echo
at Tatenhill, Staffordshire. The tower
of the church there has an echo that re-
peats FIVE times the syllables uttered at
the centrum phonicum, which is about
seventy yards distance. Whispering
galleries can scarcely be considered any
thing but odd items in our sacred edi-
fees OF these there are examples in
Gloucester cathedral and st. Paul's.-
Gentleman's Magazine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-09-18

Sings Sweetly Though Nearly 80 Years Old.
Mrs. Emma Bostwick, once known as
the American Jenny Lind, has probably
retained her voice to a greater age than
any other public singer. She is now
seyenty-seven years old, but her voice is
still pure and fresh, and she sings in ad-
mirable time and tune. She is the
daughter of an English violinist, named
Gillingham, and began her career on the
concert stage when only twelve years of
age. By the time she was twenty she
was widely and favorably known. Her
voice had range of three octaves.
Theodore Thomas, then rising young
violinist, was among those who took
part in her concerts.
She was married in 1886, but did not
retire from the concert stage. For a
number of years she was the soloist of
the New York Philharmonic society.
She has never sung in opera, and the
wonderful preservation of her voice is
to be attributed partly to that, and part
ly to the care she has observed in her
diet and mode of life.-Exchange.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-09-18
The Mistletna.

Kissing under the mistletoe is relic
of Scandinavian mythology. Loki hated
Balder, the Apollo of the North,
and as everything that springs from
fire, air, earth and water" had been
sworn not to hurt the celestial favorite,
the wicked spirit made an arrow of
mistletoe, which he gave to blind Homer
to test. The God of Darkness shot the
arrow and killed Balder. Being restored
to life at the urgent request of the gods
and goddesses, the mistletoe was given
to the goddess of Love to keep, and
every one who passed under it received
a kiss, to show that the branch was the
emblem of love and not of death. The
mistletoe is a parasitical plant which
hourishes on the branches of many kinds
of trees in northern Europe. It is the
viscum album of botanists, and is fre-
quently found on the apple, and less
often on the oak. The druids regarded
it with peculiar reverence, from its con-
nection with the oak, the favorite tree
of their divinity, Tutanus, who seems
to have been identical with the Pheni-
clan god, Baal, or the sun. The plant is
very rarely found in Scotland and
nowhere in Ireland. 1t abounds in some
parts of England Brooklyn Eagle.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-09-18

The republic of Honduras is very rich
in the valuable wood called mahogany.
A survey of these forests estimates the
value of the trees of this variety which
are fit for market at &200. .O00. 600.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-09-18
LadIes
Tbiuk
then ACt.
That
woIrsACME:B!ackIn

rs CHEAPER than any other dressing
at any price, be it S cents, 10 cents, or
rs cents, you can convince yourself by
wearing one shoe dressed with Acme
Backing and the other shoe dressed
with whatever happens to be your
favorite dressing. While Acme Black
ing mil endure a monM through snov
or rain, and can, if the shoe is soiled,
bewashed clean, the other dressing will
not last a single day in wet weather.
Your shoes will look better, last
longer and be more comfortable if
dressed with VOLTS Acme Blacking.
WOLFF RANDOLPH. Philadelphia.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31
BACTERIA IN THE OATS.
The Disease That Made the Pennsylvania
Crop Last Year a Failure.

The Disease That Made the Pennsylvania
Crop Last Year Failure.
A new disease has recently attacked the
oats in this country, so that last year the
crop was largely a failure everywhere east
of the Mississippi river. In Pennsylvania
and New York it was almost a total loss.
When the plants were from four to six
inches high their leaves tnrned red and
died; no head was formed and no seed de-
velopment usually.
Farmers in various States have appealed
to the Department of Agriculture for help,
and an investigation has been made which
has brought about the discovery that the
complaint in this case is caused not by a
fungus but by bacteria. The tissues of the
oat leaves were found to be actually swarm
ing with these minute organisms, which
bored into them and ate them up. Ordi-
narily, where fungi is concerned, it is prac-
ticable to destroy them by spraying with
solutions of sulphate of copper and other
mixtures, but the expense would be too
great for oats. 1t was found that the seed
produced in the infected district was COW
cred with the bacteria, and it is feared that
the planting of it at this season will result
in bringing up diseased crop for the pres
ent year. Therefore, it has been recon-
mended that farmers procure all their seed
oats from Michigan or other portions of the
country in which the trouble has not vet
appeared. 1t is not yet known how the
remedy will work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31

Ssouth rather than in the north Still the
north has been worked for ages, and gold
and silver are turned out there by the mil
lions of dollars worth every year. Even
she northern mining regions are .compara-
tivelv little knowE. and Colonel Bivins, a
fwell-f1nown American miner who owns val
ushle property in the State Of Guanahauto,
tells ne that he has obtained a concession
For a Philadelphia Syndicate
to some wonderfully rich but uaknown gold
territory on the western coast of the coun-
try. The agricultural resources of Mexico
are little known and have been rs little
tested as its mines, and there is enough un-
titled land here to feed the whole United
States if it were cultivated. Just now
coffee planting is being largely undertaken
and new sugar and coffee fields are being
planted in a number o. the States.
Americans know but little of the Mexico
OF the present. They would consider it an
evidence Of ignorance if Mexican had
never heard Of the name of one of the
United States, but ninetv-nine Americans
ont of one hundred cannot name, without
looking at the geography, 5 of the % States
which make up this great Republic, and the
majority Of them look upon the whole
country as about as large as one of our
medium-szed States. The fact is, Mexico
is one-fifth as large as the United States, in
Guiding Alaska, and it is six times as big as
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31
Important Trade Name Decision.

Judge Thayer, OF the United States Circuit
Court at st. Louis, has recently handed down
tion against the defendants in the case of
The Hostetter Company against the Br,iy-
Tenap, Reiaert DistiIling Co., alias "Gobi
Spring Distflling Co., prohibiting tho nd.
vertisiIlE, manufacturing or selling OF any
article of stomach hittcrs, either IN bulk, by
the gallon or otherwise, or in any way MAX
ing use of tho namo 'Hostctterr except in
connection with the salc of the genuine bit
ters, which are always sold in bottles Sc
curely sealed; and also prohibiting the sale
OF any bitters in bulk, Enough tho name
"ilostetter" be not used, but the suggestion
made TO the purchaser that he can put them
IN the empty Hostetter bottles, and purchas-
crs would not discover the difference His
decision supports the Hostetter Company in
the exclusive use of the name "Hostetter''
in connection with either the manufacture
or sale of stomach bitters in any manner or
form whatsoever, and firmly establishes its
ownership in the name "Hostetter" MS a
ssTlndo S:.rlr. .
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31
DANGER ON THE SEA.
More Risk Walking Along the Street
Than in Ocean Greyhounds.
THE FASTER THE SAFER, TOO.
Experiments in Aerial Navigation That At
tract Attention.
A MACHINE FOR POLISHING SHOES
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH,

WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH1
". H. Rideing, in recent article, ad-
duces facts which tend to reassure the pub
lie as to the actual amount of danger in
yolved in crossing the Atlantic. He states
that in spite of all the perils by which the
passage is menaced the steamers of the trans
atlantic lines are so stanchly built and so
capably handled that man is less likely to
meet with accidents on board one of them
than he would be in walking the streets of a
crowded city. Those who are the best quail
fed to know, declare that increased speed
means greater safety. Swift steamers are
able to escape from areas of fog and storm
sooner than slower vessels, and are more
easily handled in Trick and in heavy weather.
From the rapidity with which they can be
maneuvred, they can avoid collisions which
would be inevitable under some conditions
with slower ships; if a collision becomes in
evitable their impetus enables them to cut
the obstructing vessel in two with compare
lively little injury to themselves.
As most comforting confirmation of his
opinions as to the safety of Atlantic travel,
Mr.. Rideing puts forward the testimony Of
fered by the record of 1890 During that
year there was no less exposure than usual
to dangers; nearly 1000 trips were made
from New York alone to various European
ports; about 100000 cabin passengers were
carried to and fro, in addition to nearly372,-
900 immigrants who were landed at Castle
Garden. Not q single accident was re-
ported.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31
Boot and Shoe Polishing Machine.

A machine has been patented for use in
the office or the home, which will enable the
matutinal "shine" to be achieved under new
conditions of ease and economy. The ma
chine is so constructed that the operator
can seat himself in front of it, place his feet
brush the inner sides at the same time, and
by alternating the feet from one rest to tho
other, enable the whole surface of the shoe
to be effectively polished. Underneath the
brush is depressible foot plate set on
springs to afford easy position for finishing
the top of the shoe. A belt from a driving
wheel engages with V-grooved wheel on
the shaft of the brush and drives it at a
multiplied speed. The shoes are cleaned of
dust or dried mud very quickly and the
backing is applied in the usual manner by
a daubing brush, after which the polishing
process is quickly completed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31
Scientific Value of Phosphate Records.

The phosphate deposits of this country, in
addition to their immense commercial value,
form.a wonderfully rich field for the investi-
cations of the scientist. Their formation
undoubtedly extended through many ages.
Fossils from the age of reptiles to the age of
the history of the intervening periods are
written in their strata as in book. The
great bulk of these deposits were formed of
the excrement of prehistoric animals, and
large quantities of the remains of the ami
mails themselves are constantly brought up
by the miners. The greater number of these
animals belong to species now extinct. Re
mains of land animals of every kind, from
the great mastodon to the diminutive bones
of prehistoric man are found in abundance.
30-foot shark of the present time has a
tooth half an inch long, but in these deposits
thousands upon thousands of sharks teeth
length, and with length of body in proper
ton,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31
Experiments in Artificial Flight.

The latest experiments of Hiram j. Max
i'm in aerial navigation have given results
which are attracting serious attention. A
large machine is being constructed of silk
and steel, with a plane ITO feet by 40 feet,
with two wooden screws 1S feet in diameter,
very much like the screws of ocean steamers,
only with broader blades. A petroleum
condensing engine will furnish the power,
In his previous experiments, Mr.. Maxim
found that one-horse power would carry 1873
pounds Is miles an hour. 1t was also
proven that the screw would lift 40 times as
much on the propelled plane as it could
push. A motor has been built weighing
1900 pounds, which pushes 1000 pounds,
and will consequently lift 10000 pounds
As the estimated weight of engines, gener-
ator, condenser, water supply (two gallons),
petroleum Gao pounds per hour), and two
men is about 5000, the indefatigable in
ventor is very confident of ultimate sue
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31
. Facts About Truck Farming.

For the first time the industry known as
truck farming has been made the subject of
census investigation. 1t is found that up
wards of S1OO, 200, 900 are now invested in
this industry, which involves the utilization
of over 800, 900 acres. Its annual products
amount to SIC, ,517, 155, requiring the services
of $50, 1893 persons, aided by 1886 horses
and mules, and IS, ,971 ,2O6 worth of farm i'm
plements and machinery. The income of
this comparatively new traffic, after paying
for labor, fertilizers and seeds, is estimated
at S52, 900, 900. Truck farming differs from
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31

market gardening in that the latter belongs
to small holdings within easy driving dis
tance OF cities and towns, while truck farm
ing is the production of green vegetables on
tracts remote from market, the truck farmer
being dependent ON water and rail trans
portation for the delivery, and on commits
sion men for the sale of his products. A
very considerable portion of the truck
products consumed in our great cities is
grown from 800 to 1000 miles away. In
consideration ofthe various districts whence
these supplies are derived, one is struck Dy
the fact that the centers of truck farming
are moving southwark and westward.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31
The Lip in Dental Operations.

A late invention in dental practice is q
device for protecting the lower lip of the pa
tient while operating. 1t consists of suit
ably shaped strip of German silver plate,
bent to form, when placed in position, an in
verted letter L. A soft rubber pad Is held
within the bentportion, which is detachable,
and is intended to rest upon the teeth to
cure. A loop of braid is attached to the
lower end, by which the patient can hold the
appliance firmly in place. Though designed
mainly to protect the patients lip, this de-
vice also protects the fingers of the dentist
from the cutting edges of the lower teeth,
assists in keeping the mouth open, and, pos
sibly, partially distracts the mind of the pa
tient from the operation.