The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

I'm appearance an uncut diamond
resembles piece of fine gum arabic.
-One-quarter of all the people born
die before six years, and one-half before
sixteen.
American pumps are known in
China and Japan, as well as in all parts
of Europe.
"A steel bridge is to be built across
the Niagara gorge near the old railway
suspension bridge.
The highest range of mountains is
the Himalaya, the mean height being
$4,000 to $4,000 feet.
With load of 400 pounds camel
can travel twelve or fourteen days
without water, going forty miles day.
The city council of Pierre has
passed resolution exempting from
taxation for five years any lots on
which artesian wells are sunk.
1T is estimated that territory equal
to the whole surface of the globe has
been dug over 100 times in order to get
room for burial places
"A four-year-old boy in Cooper's
Mills, Me-, is constant smoker, and
his parents are proud of his ability in
that line.
-Mantell and Fremantel remind us
OF the covering once worn by our an
cestors, the latter owing its origin to
the frieze cloth formerly worn in En-
gland.
Slightly uMixed-He-Qookin at
painting of Columbus first landing)
'Wife, what's this 'ere paint'n all
about?' She-"Can't yer see? Why,
its Wash'n' ton cross m the Delaware"
Silhouette was the name of
French minister in ante-revolution
times. He was stern economist, and
the courtiers had their pictures made
in profile and black. facetiously claim
ing that M. Silhouette had made them
SO poor that they could not have reg
ular portrait painted.
-Tommie-"Does Deacon Jones al
ways tell the truth?" Mamma-''Why,
Tommie, of course he does What
makes you doubt him?" Tommie-
SWELL, he said his little boy could
whistle Gates Ajar,' and l can whistle
louder'n he can, and 1 always have to
open 'em with my hands. Inter
Ocean.
The royal commission on labor
pays a tribute to the superiority of
feminine taste over that of men in
various industries. Barmaids are en-
ployed in England in preference to
men, on account of their ability to
''set forth the food in an appetizing
manner" and to arrange their counters
tastefully.
-Manetho hourished in the reign of
Ptolemy Philadolphus, about 800 B. G.
He was keeper of the sacred archives
in the temple of Heliopolis. He wrote
general history of Egypt, now lost,
and drew his facts from the sacred
had attributed to him poem, which is
praised, and a work on the rites and
ceremonies of the Egyptians.
The women of the west are taking
ample advantage of their new political
privileges. They took an active part
in the school elections in Seattle, Spo-
kane and other Washington towns,
going to the polls in companies of from
dozen to a hundred. Candidates of
their own sex were nominated in sew
eral districts, which helped greatly to
enlist the interest of the women.
There are but seven or eight of the
1904 issue of silver dollars known to be
in existence. This coin is called ''The
King of American Rarities " The
'legend" of its scarcity is that YES
sci bound for China had on board al
most the entire mintage (1s04 was $19,-
57O), and was lost at sea. By others it
is claimed that the fiscal year ending
in midsummer June S0) the report en-
tered on the register of the mint in
1905 (sS21) included the mintage of the
months of 1904 subsequent to the fiscal
report and entry of that year.