The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-07-22

native, but the ratio of church attend
ants (including all denominations
is five natives to one white.
Some interesting statistics are PUB
lisned as to the number of Japanese
newspapers, says the London Globe.
The total is about 1000. In this mat.
ter, as in others, the advance OF the
Newest Civilization" has been rapid.
The first newspaper was published in
1852. In 1879 there were 266 newspa
pers in the country; in 1886 these mad
increased to 200, and in the past
eighteen years this number has
doubled. Toxic alone has 100 news
papers. The journal enjoying tho
largest circulation is stated to be the
Dsisst Skimpo New Times). which
has 100000 subscribers.
Pretty soon, the Department of Ag
ricnlture predicts, all the macaron:
sold in America will be made of Am
erican wheat So recently As 1So? the
department sent an agent abroad to
lOOk lUT 5GSGS vi luO Adlu VAS0eo o~Ne
in macaroni making, and be brought
home good load of samples. The re
suit has been that last year the Da'
kotas alone raised 10,500,000 bushels
of the new grain, which is tough and
hardy and a good climate resister.
Three years ago not a single factory
in the country was using macaroni
wheat in making macaroni. This
food when made from ordinary bread
-four is the inferior quality. In 1908
we imported more than million dol
lars worth of macaroni and vermi.
celli. Macaroni -four makes excellent
griddle cakes; on the whole it seems
to be a case to say Welcome strang
err"
According to Consui-General Hollo
way, writing from Halifax. there are
seventy-nine municipalities in Ontario
which own their water-works, thirty
five which have their own elec-
tricity, two supply gas, two have mu-
nicipal cemeteries, one possesses
dock, and one operates its own street
railway. There was an average an
nual loss on the municipal street
railway and electric-lighting system
combined at Port Arthur of $1,S70.95
for the period of four years ended Dec
81, 1902. The municipal gas plant at
Brockville, which was established in
1901, realized an annual profit OF $4,-
600 on an invested capital of $4,000,
but the natural gas sold by the cor
poration at Kingsville showed loss
of $243.3S on an invested capital OF
$4,000 The business of supplying
electricity to consumers by munich
palities has been begun too recently
in most cases to admit of statistics OF
profits and loss. In Bracebridge there
was an average annual profit OF $780,
% and electric lighting and electric
supply combined, which were first pro-
vded by the town in 1895; but at
Hespeler, where the system was es
tablished in 1900, there was loss of
$3,08460 on an invested capital OF
<15, 48348.
The latest dictum of the food ex.
perts is that fish is no more useful
as a brain food than cabbage or roast
beef. They admit, however, that is
is easier to digest and assimilate
than meat and this fact doubtless ex
plains the preference which brain
workers have manifested for such
food.
To enable physicians to study the
diseases of wild animals, an infirmary
is to be fitted up within few weeks
at the Geological Garden, in PhiladelI
phia, say The Philadelphia North Am
erican. During the last two years $50
animals have died at the Philadelphia
Zoo, the veterinary surgeons who were
called in being unable to cope with
their diseases, through not under
standing the maladies of wild ami.
mails. tuberculosis has been peculiar
ly prevalent among the monkeys this
year, and, although all precautions
are taken, it seems at present to be
impossible to prevent a considerable
mortality from this cause. The palm
house is to be converted into an up
to-date animal hospital. BY remov-
ing ailing animals promptly at the
first symptoms of sickness. it is be-
lieved that mortality among the in
mates of the Zoo will be greatly les
sened.
What the people of the United
States hope ultimately to see in Porto
Rico is, I take it, government wise
ly and honestly administered for ths
Porto Ricans to the largest possible
extent by the Porto Ricans, says
James S. Harlan in The World today
A permanently established govern.
ment wisely and honestly administer.
ed for them by Americans only, would
be of no special advantage to either
people OF involve any great lesson
either for them or for us. What we
wish in that island in not so much
the success of the Americans VINO re-