The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-16

Now comes a physician with the
assertion that pumpkin pies are filled
with microbes. Well, it shows that
the microbes have good taste.
A genius has invented safety
shaving brush. 1t is said to work
beautifully if only the barber is al
lowed to work it.
A writer in the Brooklyn Eagle
calls Lake Chelan in the State Of
Washington the most beautiful sheet
of water on the continent; yet how
many people east of the Rockies ever
heard of it? asks the Boston Trans
:ript.
It is true, though, that in the Uni
ted States divorce has grown SO pre-
valent in the last generation as al
most to constitute condition of linn
tied marriage for those who want it,
states Harper's Weekly.
Pipelines are to be laid by the
Standard Oil Company from Red Fork,
/. T., to the oil fields near Florence
and Boulder, Colo. If the plan works
with success, extensions will be made
from Denver to the Wyoming oil
/ fields.
A student of the population Of the
anthracite region of Pennsylvania re
ports that there are 100000 people,
inhabiting that section, of whom 43o,-
900 are foreign-born OF this latter
number more than $4,000 cannot read
or write.
Copper mining once lourished in
ireland. The Ballymurtagh mine, in
Wicklow County, averaged 5000 tons
Of copper pyrite per annum between
1910 and 1843. Desultory prospect
ing is going on at the present day In
several localities.
After three months trial of the re-
suits of backing out the betting news
from the newspapers in Ermondsey
(London) public library, it has been
decided to continue the practice. on
the ground that it excludes an unde-
sirable class of readers.
The American Rhodes scholars are
winning honors in athletics at OK
ford. It is to be hoped, says the New
York Tribune, they will do equally
well in the chief thing for which Ok,
ford stands, which may be embodied
in the Horatian maxim-"Respice
aspice, prospice"-Look back On the
days that have passed. look on the
aspect of the present day, and look
also into the future.
An English-speaking nation has
grown up on the west side of the At
lantic which has done, and is doing.
more than the parent country to give
the tongue world vogue, says the
Chicago Tribune. Twothirds of the
people who speak English live in the
United States. The industrial and
commercial conquests which this
country is gaining tell in favor OF its
people's tongue. A century ago
French, Spanish, and German were
far ahead of English in the number
of persons who used them as vehi-
Gle of speech. But in the lapse OF
time English has passed all OF them
and is spoken by more people today
than is any other civilized tongue.
The application of electricity to
general agriculture has been sue
cessfully made in southern France
and has been followed in Germany on
an even greater scale. states the
Cleveland Leader. Power is provided
from a central plant and motors for
threshing grain, grinding OF hour
pumping of water, ETC., are rented to
proprietors. who find that the work
can be more quickly and cheaply
done than by the use OF horses. The
application of electricity to growing
seeds has been found exceedingly ad'
yantageous. such use of the subtle
agent having been first made by the
experiment station at Amherst, Mass.
There has existed, and still exists
to some extent, a false sentiment
that labor is degrading or belittling,
observes the Cincinnati Enquirer. The
contrary is true. An ideal condition
of society can come only when every
member of it recognizes that he is
bound to exercise whatever skill or
strength or faculty he possesses to
its full capacity. not selfishly or for
the sake of gain merely. but for MS
own happiness and development and
for the benefit of all. And there
should be no restriction on any one.