The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-10-14
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The Philadelphia who complained
on the thirteenth of the month that
another man had used thirteen ways
to ALLEVIATE his wife's affections prob
ably attaches some Importance. to the
thirteen superstitions, says the New
York World.
Another illustration of the effect or
late hours is shown by the automobile
out at st. Louis that undertook to
climb tree at a. m. An automobile
will always do its best to show its
owner that it is not above enjoying
a lark with him, declares the New
York Tribune.
An Indian chief in British Columbia
bought coffin and key of powder
and then proceeded to blow himself
to pieces. His relatives are now won.
dering what ne wanted with the coffin
Artlessness is held to be the pre-
rogative of childhood. But why should
80 valuable jewel be denied older
people? Is there any virtue that Is
really unbecoming an adult? asks the
Burlington Hawkeye.
The man who says ooh, fudge"
when he feels profane may be a bet
ter example to the children, but some
how it doesn't seem that he would be
as much of protection against bur-
glars in the night, declares the New
Haven Union
A Smithsonian Institution authority
has predicted that within a few cen.
turtles the blonde type will have disap
peared entirely, and the Boston Tran.
script adds that New sYork business
men are helping along the fulfillment
Of the prediction by giving employ
ment only to brunette stenographers.
The interesting announcement was
made at the congress of geographers
in this city that there are depressions
in the floor of the Pacific Ocean more
than $4,000 feet deep, says the New
York Tribune. Into one of them,
then, the tallest mountain in the world
could be plunged and be entirely sub
merged-with room for deep
draught vessel to sail overhead with.
out danger Of grounding.
What has King Alfonso been doing
that he prepares such big sop for
his conscience as the enforcement of
bluer laws than we in Boston have
had for the keeping of Sunday? He
certainly must have been cutting up
something awful" to undertake such
penance as this, says the Boston
Transcript.
Oil is accomplishing wonders for
the comfort of railway travellers and
of those who live along the steel high
ways; it lays the dust on the roadbed
and annihilates the mosquitoes of it's
neighborhood at the same time.
1t is announced that the menacing
third rail is to be covered from one
end of the subway to the other, so
that no possibility can it become a
source of accidents. On every rail-
road line, surface, elevated or dep-ess-
ed, the formidable current ought to be
shut in so that it can cause no fatal.
ties, says the New York Tribune in
commenting on the statement,
Managers of Western railways will
arm engineers, firemen and trainmen
of the passenger trains, the New York
World states. The success and fire.
quency of hold-ups has called for some
action and it is believed that arming
the trainmen will insure some protec-
ton.
A little application of the old-fash-
toned maxim about the wisdom of go
ing to bed early might do good deal
toward solving the problem of the
city child's nervousness, opines the
Chicago News.
Rear-Admiral Watson was retired,
udflnS IcdCuCu IuC dSC VI w yCdiSs
but the Japanese field marshals, one
of whom is 65 years old and the other
&C, continue to do good work, as does
General Nodzu, at So. and other Off
GERS above the retiring age in the
United States. Sixty-two years is too
young, as a rule, for man to retire
from active service, the Philadelphia
Press declares.
In California recently the National
Guardsmen and regulars were in camp
together for a week. The Guardsmen
returned to their homes with painfully
sore feet and doleful tales of over
work and abuse by martinets.
At the close of the Manassas maneu-
varc t1,a t~oOpc nj fi,1