The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-10-27

Publicist holds that the human race
is enfeebled by success. That's bad.
Personally, though. we are robust en-
I ough to take chance on little sue
cess.
BY 1920, and even before, the pres
ent rate of growth continuing botn
in New York and in the London area,
the population of the New York met
ropolitan area will be more than that
of London at the same time.
The grewsome murder on an Eng
lish railway suggests that there are
possibilities of things even worse
than the always promiscuous and Oh.
ten indecently crowded conditions OF
American travel.
Those new twenty-dollar gold certln-
Gates may not be artistic in the true
esthetic degree, but most people VIII
not be prevented by the delicacy OIL
their susceptibility from acquiring as
many. specimens as they can ieglsi-
mately.
at is" says the Florence tGa.'
Times. "much more comfortable, Dota
to yourself and the rest of the woria3
to be a pleasant ass than an unpieas'
ant bear" But why be either an ass
or a bear?
School gardens in the cities are one
of the minor compensations to the
tenement for the deprivation OF coun-
try air and vegetation, and Inc az
sence of any other playground than
the street. They are recent l"sef
tuition in America, although Europe
has known them for long Tune
The kite, according to ornlthoiosf
cal authorities, is declared to De eA
tinct, and it is practically SO. But
vigilance committee has nevertheless
been formed in Wales for the protec'
ton of the bird. A photographer re-
Gently traced one of the only pair
of kites known to exist IN Soutn
Wales to a cave in the mountains and
with a lucky snapshot secured pno-
tograph. The home of the pair is De-
ing kept a secret.
The returns of it's five-year census
make it evident that when the next
federal census is taken New Jersey
will advance several ranks among tne
States, certainly passing North Caro
lima and Tennessee in population anu
treading on the heels Of Kentucky. IL
will move I'D from sixteenth to four
teenth place.
The greatest aggregation OF popu'
lation in the history of the worid VII.
soon be gathered about the waters OF
New York Bay and in the country oil
rectly tributary Already it is popu-
lation more varied in its race eie'
ments than any ever brought togetn-
er in history.
The announcement is made that the
inventor of the "pigs in clover puz.
gle has just died, and that ne dieu
poor. Coupling this with marx
Twain's assertion in "The American
Claimant" that it was Mulberry Sell
ers who invented the puzzle, the pow
erty is explained. But Mulberry Sell
ers is immortal.
Josh Billings must have foreseen
the noble roster of subscribers in
"Fads and Fancies" when he wrote:
IAN American aristokrat IL the most
ridilsilus thing in the market They
are generally ashamed of THAR anses-
stors. and If they hav emmy and live
long eruff they generally hav citizens
few be ashamed ov THAR posterity.
The daughter of Pittsburg mil
lionaire has just been married to an
Englishman whose title at present is
merely that of captain. But he Is tne
son of a lord who in the natural
course of events, and provided he Is
decent about it, will die.
Saws the Cleveland Leader: There
ought TO De no uilhS uPon "S
tugs trespassing in Canadian waters
there, should be no tugs in forbidden
parts of the lake. The entire lake
and all the other lakes on the bound
arv should be covered, as to fishing
by a carefully drawn and vigorously
executed international agreement LOT
the proper protection of the fisheries
In some States specific forms OF I'M
fitness for matrimony have already
been made the subject of statutory
prohibition. notably in Connecticut
and Minnesota, which forbid the mar
riage of the epileptic, the feeble-mind-
ed and the imbecile. and in Michi-
gan. The marriage of lunatics is void
in Maine. Massachusetts, Kentucky
Nebraska, and the District OF Column
bia.