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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-06-23
RISING SUN, CECIL COUNTY, FRIDAY, JUNE
ATMOSPHERE AS A LIQUID.
1t Can Be Kept in Bottles Like Any
other Fluid.

1t Can Be Kept in Bottles Like Any
other Fluid.
The royal institution has just given a
peculiarly interesting demonstration OF
the splendid results that may be
achieved if the highest skill in investi-
CATION be combined with an adequate
command of means, says the London
Standard. The liquefaction of air, re-
garded as mere feat of mechanical in
genuity, would command the admira-
tion even of those who value knowledge
mainly for it's use in what they call
practical life. But of infinitely higher
value, in the esteem of the true student,
are the inferences suggested-it would
be premature to say the conclus-
ions attained-as a necessary incident
in bringing about this wonderful
change of form. 1t has of course long
been assumed in theory that the differ
ences between solids, liquids and
gases are matters of temperature and
pressure. Platinum can exist as fine
vapor where there is heat enough to eX-
pand It's atoms; and, conversely, hydro
gen might be kept in hard pellets if
only it were possible to get that tenu-
Gus element sufficient number of de-
grees below freezing point.
But then the philosophers despaired
of creating, or rather maintaining, on
this globe of ours either sufficiently ar.
dent heat or sufficiently deadening cold,
The speculatively possible was the
practically impossible, Enough has
been done already to dissipate despair.
Some time ago we were told that oxy-
gen had been reduced to palpable form
that human eyes had positively seen
the vital gas" at the bottom of the
vessel. That was triumph indeed.
But Prof. Dewar, in alliance with the
Goldsmiths' company, has pushed the
area of conquest further still. The
mixed gases of the atmosphere have
been reduced to the liquid state, not as
a mere fugitive spirit that evaporates
and disappears as soon as it is fixed in
bounds, but as mere liquid, like any
other liquid, that can be kept in bulb
and hung up in a heated room without
any very rapid loss of its volume.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-06-23
A CURIOUS COLONY.
Twenty Thousand People Living In tn
Crater Of a Volcano.

twenty Thousand People Living In the
Crater Of a Volcano.
Thirty miles from the city of Kuma4
tnoto, Japan, is the volcano Aso San.
This volcano has the largest crater in
the world. 1t is more than thirty miles
in circumference, and peopled by twen-
ty thousand inhabitants. Think of walk
ing for miles among fertile farms and
prosperous villages, peering into school
house windows and sacred shrines we'll
within the shell of an old-time crater
whose walls rise eight hundred feet all
about you. 1t gives one queer feeling.
Hot springs abound everywhere. In
one place l saw the brick-red hot water
utilized to turn rice mill. The inner
crater is nearly half mile in diameter,
and a steady column of roaring steam
pours out of it.
The last serious eruption was in 1884,
when immense quantities of black
ashes and dust We're elected and carried
by the wind as far as Kumamoto, where
for three days it was 80 dark that arti-
fetal light had to be used. But what
interested me most was to learn that
out of that old-time crater had como
not only a stream of pure water and
many kinds of farm products, but young
men, who, seeking a wider school and
home than the mouth of vigorous vol
cano, had found their way to Kumamo-
to, Kyoto and America, and were now
foremost among the Christian ed
ucators and preachers of Japan.
The pulpit orator Osaka, the prin-
cipal of an English school at Kuma1
moto, who is graduate at And
over, and one of the Doshisha profess
sors at Kyoto, New Haven graduates
all came from that valley of death.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-06-23
A RACE OF DWARFS.
Observations of Mr.. Walter Harris in th
Atlas Range.

observations OF MF. waiter III Inc
Atlas Range.
The existence of race of dwarfs on
the Atlas range, about which there
was an animated controversy last
year, has received unexpected confirm
alton. Mr.. Walter B. Harris, who
lately returned from a journey in
southern Morocco, communicates
these facts to the London Times:
While travelling along the foot of the
mountains he saw thirteen or fourteen
persons, none of whom were over four
feet six inches in height, natives of
the upper mountain regions.
The Moors describe them as ''a wild
people, living in houses built in the
rocks and snow, hunting mouhon with
extraordinary agility, and given to
shooting anyone penetrating to their
domains" He attributes their small
stature, not, as some have asserted, to
the fact that they are the remnants of
the trogidytes, but to the circum-
stances in which they live. He be-
lieves them to be "merely n certain
collection of Shleh tribes, who,
through the high attitudes at which
they live, and the extremes of climate
they are subject to, from their poverty
and inability to grow crops, from the
scarcity and bad quality of such food
as they are able to collect, have, in the
lapse of centuries, become of almost
extraordinary stunted growth"
On his return journey to the coast
Mr.. Harris visited the. artificial caves
of Ain Tarsilt, which, from the height
of the roofs and the size of the doors,
windows and alcoves for beds, We're
evidently the work of dwarfs. He
does not venture an opinion, however,
as to whether any descendants of this
people are still living
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-06-23
Social Signs of the Times.

Here is an item worthy to be pre-
served among the archives of sociology
as indicative of the tendency
OF the times: "Lost, at the
queens drawing-room, Buckingham
palace, pocket handkerchief with the
letter NJ in diamonds in the corner.
The finder is requested" etc. Another
item tells of woman who, in spasm
of economy, established her own hus-
band in plain clothes as footman upon
the box. He asserted his independ-
ence, however, by smoking a pipe
while in discharge of his new duty.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-06-23

Importers, Jobbers and Retailers of DRY
GOODS of every description, including
Dress Goods, Silks, Linen Goods, Mourning
Goods, Laces, Velvets, Embroideries, Quilts,
blankets, shawls, Flannels, Domestic Cotton
Goods, Ladies', Misses and Gents Hosiery
and Underwear, Gloves, Notions, Ladies
and Misses Wraps, Ginghams, Calicoes,
Sattines, Embroideries, Trimmings, &c.
Samples promptly sent, when we receive
instructions of what is wanted, colors pre-
ferFad. about the price required, &C., &c.
HAMILTON EASTER & SONS.
BALTIMORE, MD.
The morning call., 1893-09-18

great shanghai and expostulating ear
nestIv. The visitor paused and impress
siyely added a $40 bill to the wad, while
the cleaning eyes regarded him intensly.
He walked plump up to the deacon,
grabbed his hand and attempted to cram
the money into the broad palm. The deacon
wouldn't allow it-no. not he. He backed
away toward the yard, unfastened the
cate and disappeared in the stable. In a
minute he came out, halter In his hand.
Said he. with queer gruffness:
''Iye good mind to order you OH the
premises. ! see you're det.. rmined to steal
the mare. You're bigger'n l am and !!
don't know as | can help myseli; put II
you're bound to do it l s'pose you'll steal
this halter. too" -,
The old man had whirled around his
back to the visitor. He held his great nana .ha
behind his back. palm upward, and the
fingers were wriggling like loosters
claws. The Portland man tlptoed up
iammed the money into the ltchlng nst,
caught the mare and tOwed her away
behind his carriage. All this time he was
getting a good deacon's opinion OF grace
less scamp who would steal horse from
defenceless man on Sunday.
The morning call., 1893-09-18
OF NO USE TO HIM.
Schemes to Avert Matrimony Did
Not Interest This Married Man.
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
The man with an i'm portant air TOOK the
seat next to the amia able-looking man and
smiled.
Vacation trip, I s'pose," ventured the
important One The other nodded.
Ever hear of the engagement Insurance
company" asked the man of Importance.
You know in summer how very impress
sionable men are. Well, l represent
scheme that IS simply great. A man may
become engaged to 3 beautiful girl during
his vacation and upon his return to town
totally forget the fact, owing to pressure
of business, hard work, and so on. But
the girl may remember. and then there Is
likely to be trouble. Now you take out
policy in our company and we insure you
against further worry. Furthermore
But" interpOsed the amiable man, II
am NOT
That may be-" continued the other.
You do not seem TO be that kind; but
there's no telling what may happen. Now,
for dollar month you become member
of our company, and if you should be en-
gagged, and afterward suffer with lack of
memory ana a breach of promise case
looms up, why, then. we take the matter
out of your hands and settle it. See
Ouly one paltry dollar a month insures
perfect liberty to you. Do you not think
it would be well to take out policy ?'
The amiable man shook his head sadly
NO" he answered. sit is too late. l
have been married several years."
The morning call., 1893-09-18
HE'S A LIVE MUMMY.
He Has Been One for Seventy Years
and Is Now I04 Years Old.
MObiIe Rpgi3teI


We have received q letter from Lavaca,
AK. The letter is in the script of an
aged writer, aud the envelope bears the
mark of the Lavaca Postofice. 1t has in
ternal evidence OF being genuine, and the
writer of it claims that seventy years ago
he determined to preserve himself with
drugs. and that he has succeeded so that up
TO date he is 104 years Old. He does not
disclose what drugs he has used nor the
process of applying them, whether inter-
nally or externally, nor does he send us
his photograph to show how he looks after
being preserved for so many years. But
we print his letter:
MIR. EDITOR-PTeserVing my living body un-
I'll have reached 1O4 years ! am glad 10 tell
what / have done.
About seveny years ago 1 was told that in
olden times. and even in modern times, the
people had way of preserving the dead. The
idea struck me that If the dead could be pre-
served by drugs, perfumes and chemicals, why
not preserve the living? l told my friends and
nelghbors that believed that the living body
could be preserved as well as the dead, but as
they had never seen II tested they were not
prepared TO give an opinion. l concluded to
try the experiment. but my neighbors advised
me TO let nature takes its own course. as 1
would die as soon As my time came. j began
the experiment, regardless of my friends opin-
ion and protest, and now l look back and see
they are all dead.
commeuCeu preserving MY UOuy seventy
years ago, when was "a years of age, which
now makes me 104 years old. undertook the
experiment for the purpose of preserving my
body ana prOlongine my life, and have met
with success, which gives ME ample satisfac-
tion. But even now some people say that they
don't believe the living body can be preserved
and human life prolonged. The reason that
they don't believe in preserving the living body
and prolOnging human life is this: They are
still going to mill as their fathers and grand
fathers did, with corn ln one end of the sack
and rock the other. NV efforts n
ing my body and prOi0nging my life have been
crowned with success. and now, as far as / am
concerned. the people may cry out from the
Mills and mountain tops that they don't believe.
but in all probability may live long enough 10
hear the clods OF earth fall over their graves
and the sound of their voices siencec in death.
q. n. GROOM,
The morning call., 1893-09-18
Personal NOTES.

Editor c. C. Powning Of Reno is at the
Palace.
Judge T. F. Baldwin of Stockton is STOP
ping at the Palace.
DR.. Leopold Joseph Of Cincinnati is reg
istered at the Palace.
II. S. Smith, prominent lumber man of
Sanger, Is at the Palace.
H. j. Fish, a ship-builder, of New
Haven. is at the Baldwin.
j. w. Alexander. a coalmine-0wner of
Glasgow. IS al the Baldwin.
Joseph Knowlton, the hotel manager, of
Woodland, is at the Baldwin.
c. T. Lindsay, the well-known fruit
raiser of VsalIa, is at the Grand.
J. w. Searles, the borax manufacturer
of BOrax Lake, is registered at the Russ.
j. G. Hamilton, Holister merchant of
prominence, is at the Russ with his W ife
Sheriff U. S. Gregory of Amador County
is down from Jackson and is at the Grand.
Hon. Theodore Reichert is down from
Sacramento and is registered at the Bald
win.
w. G. Montgomery, the prominent fruit
raiser of Vacavllle, is stopping at the
Grand.
r. j. r. Alden, prominent merchant
and shipper of Vallejo. is registered at the
Baldwin.
General manager ID. M. Ierrington OF
the Carson and Truckee road is down from
Carson and is registered at the Palace.
A. c. James, the several-time million
aire coffee-raiser of Central America, ar
rived overland last evening. with his wife,
from Chicago and registered at the Occi-
dental. Mr.. James If hardly past 80 years
of age, but he owns an 5000. acre coffee
plantation near Quezaltenango, in the
western part of Central America, and is
rapidly adding to bis already immense
wealth. He hes visited the Worlds Fair.
was much pleased with his trip and will
return to his Central American interests
in short time.
Sir Gervas Glyn, baronet, of London,
and his friend, A. w. James, are regis
tered at the Calforuia. They have just
finished trip TO Yosemite Valley and
will leave Thursday next on the Alameda
for New Zealand. where the barOnet has
large property interests. These two
travellers finished long series of sight
seeing and hunting expeditions through
India but short time ago and have made
a modest attempt to see America through
the agency of our Worlds Fair and Cali
fornia's Yosemite Valley.
The morning call., 1893-09-18
KEEPING 1T HOLY.
A Deacon Who Respected the Sab
bath and Also a Good Bargain.

Livingston Journal
A Portland man went up into the coun-
try to buy a horse recently. 1t was on
Sunday, by the way. the only day that the
busy citizen could spare from his occupa-
tion. He had no definite idea just where
he was going, but he had his eye out for
anything on four legs that looked promis-
ing. Finally, as he drove along a pretty
country highway, he espied three horses
in small stable yard. He drove up,
hitched his steed and leaned over the
fence. looking the stock over. One young
mare attracted his attention especially,
and he was a6miring her when the house
door opened and an old man of very trim
countenanee came out. There were the
usual prellminaries about the weather,
and then the farmer asked: Looking for
anything particularp
well, / want TO buy horse, and / must
confess | like the looks of that mare there
very much. What is your price?"
"Cut, tut. ] never do business on the
Lords day. Why, sir, Pm deacon in the
church, and whatever else may do l will
not profane the Lords day by buying and
selling. Why. sir, seems as though all
you city folks wanted to come out here
and dicker on Sunday"
The Portland man commenced TO feel
ashamed before the grave, gray eyes of
this old man. The farmer continued:
Isn't there one day that you can rest
from your everlasting trading? Now, last
Sunday a man came along here, said he
was from Portland, and he offere1 $500 for
that mare. Dear me, ridiculousi Why,
she's WORTH mean scandalOus-to talk
trade on the Sabbath. Two hundred dol
lars never can buy her Why, she can
show two-tut tut. mean shall show
any one the door who comes round here
talking trade Sundays. No offense to you,
mister. see you take quite an interest in
the mare. You won't find a better one
round here, I'll tell you that. We had a
little brush on the road day before yester-
day, and l cleaned 'em out and-I con slider
that the least & man can do is to keen
from trading horses on Sunday. II man
should offer me $3.50 to-day (Sunday) l
wouldn't look at him; no. sir. l would
not"
The Portland man gravely took out his
pocketbook. and opening it. laid it on the
fence. Then he moisIened his thumb and
forehnger, and, not paying the least atten-
ton te tie farmer. he counted out S225.
doubled 1t up and advanced toward the
deacon. The latter danced backward.
| Tapping his hands deprecatingly like q
The morning call., 1893-09-18

for lonG-distance pole vault, which has
been advanced from his 26 feet 51s inches
10 27 feet inches.
An Oakland capitalist, Mr.. Lancaster,
has the plans ready to begin the construc-
tion OF a large business block at the corner
OF Adeline street and Shattuck avenue
The frontage win be the entire length of
the lot and the depth so feet. The lot was
purchased for $500.
The pulpit of the Unitarian Church was
occupied last evening by Rev. Mrs. Eugene
II. Pierce. associate pastor of the Pomona
Unitarian Church. The Rev. Lorin L.
Bush of Oakland, filled the pulpit of the
Baptist Church. AS yet no successor to
Mr.. Whittemore has been selected. zEz
Mr.. and Mrs. A. W. Higgins celebrated
their paper wedding Friday evening last.
The latest public demands set forth are
for a night school, a public park end a
children's playground. The public park
is an old bat still burning question.
The university library now contains
$4,000 volumes, mainly works of reference ce.
1t makes speciality of complete collec-
tiOns of periodical literature.
Professor Edward Green has returned
from the East. He was president of the
Worlds Botanical Congress. which met at
Madison, Wis.,, and was also made one of
the committee of seven to prepare a text
book on American botany for the Ameri-
can Botanical Society. Professor Greene
is considered the worlds greatest authority
en- botanical nOmen clature.
The morning call., 1893-09-18
GUNPOWDER SUPERSEDED.
Recent Experiments Prove That
Cordite is a Better Explosive.
Chicago Tribune.


1t begins to look as if the days of gun
powder as charge for the guns in the
British navy were numbered. Recent ex-
periments just concluded at the govern
ment proofbutts, Woolwieh, appear to
prove the decided superiority of cordite.
A 6-inch quick firing gun was loaded with
20 pounds II ounces of the ordinary black
gunpowder and yielded velocity of 1890
feet per second, with pressure strain oD
the gun of 10 tons per square inch.
The same gun was charged with IA pounds
ounces of cordite and gave velocity of
2274 feet per second and pressure of 15.2
tons.
More important still, after 220 rounds
had been fired, there were no signs of
erosion. The new substance is manufac-
tnred at the Government powder mills,
Waltham Abbey, and contains 56 per cent
OF nitro-glycerine, 81 of gun cotton and
OF mineral jelly. The velocity of the shat
along the bore of the six-inch gun was cal
culated 10 the miliOnth of second from
the hrst moment OF being set in M otion.
Minute as this may appear. Lieutenant II.
WhtklD. h. A, has invented an instrument l
which, 1t is said, will measure fractions
OF time to the nine-billionth part OF sec
ond. About fifty of the six-inch quick
The morning call., 1893-09-18
A CHASTITY FIND.
Portions of a r1utilated
Body in the Bay.
Thought to Be Part of a Woman to
Whom the Head Found Near
Sausalito Belonged.

OAKLAND-Two sections of a woman's
body were found floating in the bay. off
the long wharf, at o'clock yesterday
afternoon.
The parts were each about two feet long
One section was from the trunk. cut just
below the hips. and with both legs gone
at the thighs, and the other was in the
region of the breast. 1t Is believed 10 be
parts of the body whose truDkless head
was found wrapped in a wire screen in the
Government tidewater station at SauSalito
last Thursd ay.
The discovery was made by Robert
Stevenson of 1877 William street, who was
gathering driftwood on the long wharf be-
tween tower 1 and tower 2. Stevenson's
attention was directed to The presence of
the floating body by the unusual ripping
of water near the spot where he was
standing. He at once fished the ugly find
in by throwing loaded strings over it. and
then moored it to piling until the Coro-
ner could be summoned. The two pieces
of half-decayed flesh were removed to the
Morgue and now lie there in the little
back room.
A superficial examination shows that the
section taken from the breast 0au Deen
carefully cut off and the ribs sawed
through. The ends of the bones were reg
ularly severed. The lower part showed un-
mistakable signs OF having been cut with
a knife. the skin having slipped back from
the trunk. These parts were blue and
already partly decomposed and shriveled,
shOwiDgIevidence of having been immersed
in the water for many days. The two chunks
of flesh that were discovered were not
wrapped up. but rose and fell in the water
like pieces Of wood, and were without any
covering whatever. 1t was not possible to
say from the appearance of the fragments
what the probable age of the mutilated
body had been. Every indication points
to these being the parts of body that had
been carefully and skillfully dissected.
The saving of the bones and the carving
of the flesh suggest an operation by a
clever hand. 1t is believed by the author
tiles at the Morgue to be the cast-otf SUBJ
ject of some neigborng medical college OF
student. The theory Of murder is not Sc
riOusly entertained.
The morning call., 1893-09-18
SELFISH MANS soLILOQUY.
His Reasons Set Forth for Remaining
a Bachelor.

DaCncIOEs
Cassel's Magazine.
1 do not marry for many reasons. one
reason is that / am of very affect onate
temperament. l feel quite sure that IL is
better for me to love all women, as do
now. than to have to profess to love but
one woman-my wife. Let me think OF
some more reasons.
AS bachelor l get great many invita-
tion cards and pleasant attentions wher-
ever go. My married friends don't have
anything like as much luck, and their
wives make them angry By wondering why
it is so. 1t Is exceedingly nice when dine
out to be paired off with an unmarried girl
My married friends look across the table
at me envously. Any sort OF married
trump" is good enough for them. AS L
am l can do exactly as / like; go to bed at
9 or g. at my own sweet will, and break
fast in bed. or up at any hour. Most nus
bands can by no means do as they please,
even in so small a matter as this. They
are expected to be at home by 10 or IL
O'Clock or face cold coffee cold eggs, cold
toast and cold looks next morning.
Every married man marries for himself,
for his pleasures and comfort. Am l to
blame II l choose to remain single for the
same purpose? There is no more absurd
can't than the talk about 1t being mans
duty Co the race to take wife. OF course,
too, there is the dreadful possibility of the
marriage turning out i'll. 1t is next to I'm
possible for man to say definitely II can
be happy with surh a woman for my wife"
| know sweet young girls who five years
from their wedding day were untidy.
coarse. negligent women, either openly
loving their children to the neglect of their
hubaDds or openly Indifferent to both hus-
bands and children. This sort of thing is
frightful to think Of Married men in
some cases seem to get used to ii, but it
worries and kills the brighter part of
them.
matters of the heart. | have been in love
have always put off popping the question
until some other fellow had done il on his
own account Of these girls whom |
might have married only one now. as
married woman, seems to answer the ex-
pectatiOns / had formed OF her. The reali-
ZatiOn of this makes me more and more
fond of my bachelor freedom and ire
sponsibility. Besides / have gray hair
or two and my habits are getting fixed.
An astonishing number of men like myself
remain single for reasons much like those
/ have mentioned. Unmarried we have
one bird in the hand-contentment. How
can we tell that we may get hold of that
gay, lOng-tailed paroQuet in the bush, mar
ried felicity, If we suddenly change our
state?
There is an ideal woman / should like to
marry. Some day | may meet with some
one who is toera bly, like her. Then if l
arr not too old | will WOO her.