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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19

In two days in Buda-Pesth have en-.
countered more pretty women, in face
and figure, than in whole month in
other places. Their vivacity is also re-
markable, and it is no more than natural
that gallants are SO numerous. Romeos
and Juliets after sunset pass you at every
turn. To prim and precise individuals
like myself it is positively startling to
come unexpectedly upon two persons of
opposite sexes with arms around each
other or hands tightly clasped. Some
how, when you recover your equanimity,
the spectacle does not appear SO shock
ing. However it might be with other
nationalities, it has not the resemblance
of coarseness with these people. Their
demonstrations are exhibited in such a
spirit of unconsciousness and of Arcadian
simplicity as to be exquisitely refreshing.
Corr. Baltimore Sun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19
LEnTEN RESTRICTIONS.
Owing to the Prevalence of the Grip
the Pope Issues an Edict Mod
flying the Rule of the Church.

tAO 6OPO 4c60C6 Oh k9N1Cb 11OA-
flying the Rule of the Church.
Leo XIII has issued an edict mod.
flying the restrictions Of Lent in all
parts of the world where the grip is
prevalent.
The order of the Pope has been in
the hands of the Archbishops and
Bishops for number OF weeks. 1t
was so worded as to leave the edict
imperative should the disease have
disappeared prior to the beginning
of Lent, but as the grip is still prev
alent in most parts OF Europe, and
America. the order will be read in all
of the clutches on both continents
on Sunday, Feb. %, Lent beginning
March 2, and ending April II.
The order is similar to the one
issued by the Pope last year. 1t is
intended to obviate the possibility of
too rigid fasting and abstinence on
the part of many persons whose
health demands the generous use of
nourisbing foods, and yet who would
have regarded any departure from
the rules as an act of disobedience
Last year the use of meat was
allowed on all days of the week, and
the usnai rule for fasting was sus-
pended. just what the notifications
are this year will not be known until
the instructions are read in the
churches. The probability is that
the use,of meat will be allowed dur
ing the entire Lenten period.
There are two features of the strict
observance of Lent, fasting and alb
stinence. BY fasting is meant
reduction of the usual quantity of
food during the period. Abstinence
refers particularly to the use of meat,
If the order of the Pope removes the
restrictions as to both features, Lent
will not be extensively observed this
year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19
The Rntl, In van,s.

There is one great popular endowment
in Venice-the bath. Every one bathes.
There is no place in the world, perhaps.
whore there is such general taking to
the water on every summer day; and
not day only either, but all night as well.
It Is SO convenient to walk to the door of
ones own house and plunge from the
very threshold into the clear, cool water
So at almost any hour, gliding in your
gondola along the smaller canals. you
pass among merry parties of bathers,
who swim about your boat like sea
nymphs and tritons about old Neptune's
car. They chatter at you gleefully, per.
haps splash water at you, or swim up
and insist on shaking hands, with drip
ping fingers, over the gunwale Of the
boat. These swimmers in the canals are
mostly children, but sometimes they in
clude whole family party, old and
young. In the great harbor the street
boys plunge by hundreds. Such SWIM
mers as they are, tool They turn somer-
Baults as they leap from the quays, and
perform almost countless tricks in the
water until one fancies them school of
dolphins 1T play. These are the people,
with the accent on 3people. The
people, with the accent on "the.n go
elsewhere to battle, and chiefly to the
Lido. There are glorious sands, and
the water is perfection, despite the ab-
sence of surf. A barrier of rope, by no
means impossible, divides the women
bathers from the men.
Nowhere can one find more accom-
plished swimmers, or more graceful.
than on the women's side of the rope at
Lido. As rule, too, their bathing
dresses are handsome, modest, and well
designed to give freedom to the muscles.
and to offer as little resistance as possible
to their wearers' passage through the
water. For head gear, broad brimmed
straw hats are worn, though generally
half of them are left floating on the
water, while their owners dive and
swim. Italian women are not afraid Of
getting their hair wet. Is there any
esoteric significance in the fact? At
any rate it is fact. One sees no oiled
silk caps at the Lido, nor any woman
fearing to go far into the sea lest they
should wet their hair. On the contrary.
they all get their hair soaking wet and
when they come out they loosen it and
let il, dry hanging over their shoulders.
The men are fine, strong swimmers, too,
the equals of any in the world. Swim
ming, indeed, is an important part OF an
Italians life. People here do not con-
tent themselves with a quarter hours
frolic in the waves. They go in for
good, long bath of an hour or two or
even three. And this is not only daily
practice, but often occurs two or three
times day.-Toronto Week,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19
Antiquity OF the water pump.

The water pump of to-day is but an
improvement on a Grecian invention
which first came into use during the
reign of Ptolsmias Fhiladelphos and En-
eFgetss, 1888 to 291 B. C. The name,
which is very similar in all languages. is
derived from the Greek word pempo, to
send or throw. The most ancient de-
scription we have of water pump is by
Hero, of Alexandra. THERE'S no authen-
ito account Of the general use of the
pump in Germany previous to the be-
ginning of the 10th century. At about
that time the endless chain and bucket
works for raising water from mines be-
gan to be replaced by pumps. In the
18th century rotating pumps. like the
Pappenham engine, with two pistons,
and the Prince Rupert, with one, wero
irst used. Pumps with plunger pis-
tons were invented by Morland, an Eng
lishman, in 1914; the double acting
pump by De la Hire. ne French acad.
emician.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19


The vicar of St Botolph, Aldgate, is
determined, If possible, to persuade his
flock to adopt more reverent demeanor
while praying than that now commonly
observed. He refers regretfully to the
subject in his parochial magazine, point.
ing out that the @leaning forward post
ure is not an appropriate attitude for
prayer. In order to effect his purpose,
he has made alterations in the seats,
which he thus describes in the parish
magazine: For sitting on they are the
most convenient seats which can be de.
sired; for half kneeling they are produc-
tive of torture. They are constructed SO
as to induce reverent attitude of wor-
ship and upon hassock about six inches
high all, except those who are physically
afflicted, can kneel throughout the serv.
ice without discomfort. = Galignani
Messenger.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19
Fluids a. yrs.,..

1t was formerly considered injurious
to take fluids with the meals, owing to
the fact that the juice of the stomach
was thereby diluted and the digestion Of
the food retarded. A noted Russian
physician has conducted extensive expert
ments to determine the effect of taking
fluids with the food, and gives as the result
OF his researches that "on the whole the
widely spread custom of taking fluids
during or just before ones meals proves
to be rational and fully justified on
strictly scientific grounds. Totake fluids
with the meals is almost as important an
adjunct to digestion as the mastication
of solid food preparatory to swallowing
it."
OF course the quantity of fluid to be
taken depends on the feelings of each in
dividual.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19
A Vast Interest.

There are about $4,000 locomotives in
the United States, of which one-half are
used in hauling freight trains. 1t is esti-
mated that these cost $450. .0O0, 900. There
are 100000 cars of all kinds, of which
$4,000 are passenger cars and the re-
mainder freight or service cars. The
former cars cost about $3.50, ,000, 900 and
the latter $500, ,000, 900, or an approxi-
mated cost Of rolling stock of 81, 500, ,O0O,-
600. To every five miles of railway in
the United States there is a locomotive;
to every mile of road there are six freight
cars; to every five and one-half miles
there is passenger car. Each year
freight engine hauls $1,000 tons
of coal; each year a passenger
engine pulls 10000 passengers. The
railways of the United States en-
ploy $1,000 persons. tits estimated that
the railway interest provides living for
S.OOO,O 900 in this country, or nearly one
twentieth OF the population.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19
Now Try This.

1t will cost you nothing and will
surely do you goou, if you have a
cough. cold. or any trouble with throat
chest or lungs DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for consumption, coughs and
colds is guaranteed to give relief, or
money will be paid back. Sufferers
from la grippe found it just the thing
and under its use had a speedy and
perfect recovery Try,a sample bottle
at our expense and learn for yourself
just how good a thing it is. Trial
bottles free at L. R. Kinks drug store.
Large size Soc. and $l.00,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19
A chinsss Flance.. Social sunnr...,o,

A Chinese Fiance's Social Suppression
As soon as Chinese girl is betrothed
she is placed in different relations to the
world generally. She is no longer al
lowed such freedom as hitherto. al.
though that may have been little enough.
She can not go anywhere, because ID
would be inconyenient- she might be
seen by soma member Of the family into
which she Is to narry-than which it is
hardly possible to think of anything
more horrible. The imminent risk that
the girl at some unguarded moment
might be seen by the family Of the fut.
ure mother in law ia a reason W, nv 40
few engagements for air'- ny %
,..e re : " = ...cn the girl lives-an ar
-..ngement which would seem to be for
the convenience of all parties in great
variety of ways.-Irish Times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19
Had tn. cone.lt T.h.n Out or Him,

Had the Concett Taken Out OF Him.
Some years ago certain rising painter.
the engravings Of whose pictures are well
known in England, was at party, where
the conversation turned upon the power
of the will.
One of the guests, remarkably con-
ceited man, boasted that no one could
will him to do anything he did not choose.
The artist took up the challenge, led him
into the middle of the room, and looked
him straight in the face some little while.
The others awaited further developments.
After time the boaster said:
II told you so, sir. You may look at
me as long as you like, but you are pow
erless to will me to do anything"
@Oh, am ?" replied the artist. "Pve
been willing that you should stand in the
middle of this room for five minutes look
ing like an ass, and you've done it T"
London It'd Bits.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19
Ages OF Frees.

The pine tree has a longer life than
trees of other species and attains an age
from 500 to 700 years; the silver fir
comes next with 425 as maximum, then
the larch with 275, the reed beech next
with 245. The maximum ages of the as.
pen, birch, ash. alder, and elm vary from
210 down to 100. The oak begins to de-
cay when about 300 years old, though
one particular variety of oak, the holly,
attains greater age than this.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19

1t is important that the agitators
for reform in government affairs
should get this truth firmly fixed in
their minds, that before any OF the
reforms demanded can be secured
the present class OF men who have
year after year been elected to make
laws, must be turned down and kept
out of the positions they abuse.
Another class of men must be elected
before any perceptible changes for
the better can be effected.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19
Rather Eeot,.,,e.,.

Sir Edwin Arnold is not entirely de
void Of egotism, which is pardonabls
considering the laudation hsaped upon
him. He says that after he had dictated
to Lady Arnold the opening lines of
"The Light of Asia, T" which came to
him in fash of inspiration, his wife
said: what is this ?" and the poet-jour-
nalist answered; ut is the beginning OF
o great poem.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19

A stranger entered the meeting house
In the middle of the service, and took
a seat in the back pew. Presently he
whispered to the man at his side, evil
IDENTIFY one of the old members:
sHow long has he been preaching?"
Thirty or forty years, think" an.
uwered the elderly man. II don't know
exactly"
"I'll stay, then," said the stranger.
He must be nearly DONE.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19
TOMORROW.


NAh, wait, v he cries, abut little longer,
The young eyes glowing with holy fire.
And man through me shall grow purer.
stronger;
My words shall echo, my deede inspire.
It lifts mans soul from its weight of sorrow:
The Good, the Beauty; dream and plan:
There comes tomorrow, and then tomorrow,
And yet tomorrow, and a man.
Blythe cliff whence the waves their gray
gloom borrow
The sweetest OF sweet-voiced Echoes
lay,
And murmured, -To-Morrowi To-Mor-
rowi To-Morrowi"-
Was there thrill as Of mocking laugh
ter,
Sounding long after,
And dying away2
The swift years speed and his life is Duty;
All. the old-time light in the eyes is dead:
II am faithful still to my dream of Beauty;
Tomorrow. tomorrow, is mine !" he said.
BY the cliff whence the waves their gray
gloom borrow
The sweetest of sweet-voiced Echoes
lay,
And murmured. Tomorrow Is minsl
Tomorrow n
Was there thrill as of mocking laugh
Sounding long after,
And dying away2
The swift years speed and the light Is failing:
The dim eyes turn to the misty west;
The white head droops. and he stands bewail-
ing.
Earth's wearied, detected. disheartened
guest
@Too latel There will be no morrow's greeting;
OF my grand, great Work but the ruined
shell;
have always dreamed, as the years were
fleeting,
There Is yet tomorrow The dark night
fell.
BY the cliff whence the waves their gray
gloom borrow
The sweetest Of sweet-vciced Echoes
lay;
@There is yet tomorrow n she echoed,
Tomorrow"
Was there thrill as Of tender sadness,
Changing to gladness,
And dying away2
Overland Monthly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19

II odorless whisky could only be fol.
lowed by odorless onions, odorless
cheese, odorless politics, and odorless
divorce cases, the world would feel com.
psnsatsd. kansas City Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19

aAll that I am or ever hope to be owe
to my wife, said Marrowfat. -That's
right, rretorted Hicks. blame everything
on your wife. It's the manly thing to
do. New York Herald.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19

is an international story, the
principal dramatic denouements
occurring in New York, Detroit
and England. 1t presents
graphic pictures of American
and English life among the rich
and the poor, the good and the
bad. Its author evidently has
made human life study, and in
his latest work gives a sire
resume of his observations.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19
You Should Read 1t,

and we feel certain that you will
persuade all your friends to
read it. d" Number SKIS Sister"
being a copyrighted story, whose
publication in this vicinity is
controlled by this paper, you
should renew your subscription
at once or, if not already read
er, order it without delay, as
you will have no other means to
secure it.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-09-07


amount, swollen by the sums liberated
by suspending countries, has been per-
mltted &c A0w uninterPuptedly into the
few countries maintaining the specie
basis; that Notwithstanding all this prices
In these latter countries have for q num-
Der Of years been falling, and still have q
downward tendency, and have already
nearly sunk TO the level Of the prices Of
1847, when the great mines Of California
were discovered; that the most prolific
sources Of metallic supply are showing
unmlstaksble signs Of exhaustion; that
the yield is now and has been for some
years stationary or declining; that the
hope Ia neither entertained by the most
scientific explorer nor the most visionary
gold seeker that mines equally prolific
with those of Australia and California
will ever be discovered; and that in the
presence of this failing supply stands the
constantly increasing demand Of steadily
advancing populations. They insist that
these facts show that, even IL the precious
metals were otherwise fit fox money, the
utter improbability Of obtaining them In
sufficient quantity, except on the basis of
ruinous prices, interposes an insuperable
objection TO a money system founded
upon them.
They maintain that by reason Of the
great variations IN the supply of the
precious metals, and the purely accl-
dental relation which that supply has
borne TO the worlds demand for money,
the movement of the human race In
wealth and civilization has been fltful and
and not always progressive;
that the business of the world In all
times past, has been, through fuctus-
tions in the supply Of money, now Stimu-
lated by fever and now prostrsted by
collapse; that industry and commerce
have been alternately borne high on the
flood-tide of metallic production from
newly discovered mining fields and
stranded on the shoals of bankruptcy by
the refuent ebb; that, unfortunately, the
Gibbs and flows Of these tides are of un-
equal duration; that the fluX Of prosperity
has usually lasteO but q brief PERIOD
while the refux Of adversely, with its at |
tendant circumstances Of falling prices,
industrial paralysis, and destitute popu-
lations, have been painfully prolonged;
that the tide of metallic production which |
commenced it's food in 1847 turned In |
1866 to an ebb that still continues and |
threatens to pauperlze populations and |
bankrupt nations; that through the dis
covery Of steam as q motive power the
obstacles Of time and distance have been
overcome, and that the world
g no longer new; that the search for the
precious metals has been pushed to every
part OF the earth, with Indifferent sue
,ess, by Sklllful explorers fresh from the
ieldS Of California and Australia, and
hence, that the chances of discovering
lew and great mining fields, and more
gold fields, If not absolutely at
IN end, are less hopeful than at any
'ormer period; that the exploitation Of
Known mining fields has been prosecuted
n recent years with such energy, capital,
kill, and appliances as to forbid the ex-
)ectsion Of an increase In their yield,
md especially such an increase as would
upply the worlds increasing demand for
money; that however well metallic money
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-09-07

4 ~~SS@NtetA
They claim that rt would be more port
able, more difficult Of imitation, more
easily verified, more readily dlvlslble,
and lens expensive than metallic money;
that a. quantity controls the value OF
money, the all important quality OF
steadinesS In value could be better as
sured through system which subjects
that quantity to absolute control than
through the metallic system, which re-
mits the regulation OF quantity TO acCl-
dents and vlclssltudes, industrial and
political, sometimes through the resump-
ton and suspension Of the yield Of the
mines, and sometimes through the re-
sumption and suspension of specie pay
ments in any and every country; that as
paper money is prOduclble substantially
without labor and without expense, its ex-
elusive use would be an addition to the
public wealth equal to the entire cost OF
supplying and keeping up the supply Of
the necessary quantity of metallic money.
That In order 10 make 1t secure and pos
sess the highest degree Of utility, paper
money should be Issued exclusively by
the government to the exclusion Of all
other kinds OF money; that Il should be
regulated In value through an equitable
adjustment Of quantity by virtue Of laws
which should take effect only upon the
occurrence of conditions precedent not
dependent upon legislation, such az an
Increase or decrease Of population; that
1t should be recIprocally receivable by
government and people, and between the
people themselves; that It's each unit
should be convertible, not at any specific
time or place, nor into any specific guam
tlty OF any particular product Of human
industry, such as gold or silver, but at all
times and In all places whore the sover-
eign power gives il the right 10 circulate
and to the full extent Of the value deter
mined as above, and into any and all Of
the products Of human industry, includ-
Ing those metals.
They claim that every argument against
investing with the money function ma
terial not possessing intrinsic value 10,
when analyzeo, an impeachment of the
integrity and capacity Of the people and
Of their fitness for self. government, and
claim that the regulation Of the most
important institution Of civilization can
be more safely remitted to the edicts Of
chance than to the guidance Of human
wisdom.
That the failure In times past TO estab-
liSh satisfactory systems OF paper money
no more proves that such systems are
impossible than the lnnumersble abor-
tive attempts throughout the ages TO
establish individual liberty proved that
political freedom was impossible. That
II the French RsSignAts broke down, 30
also did the French republic, and mainly
for the similar reasons, that the French
people did not then fully comprehend
the true nature Of either liberty or
money. That the same degree Of virtue
and enlightenment necessary for the es-
tabliShment Of the one Is necessary for
the establishment Of the other. That the
failures Of efforts under revolutionary or
deSpotic governments to establish paper
money systems have no significance what
ever. That no such effort has ever been
made under free institutions firmly es-