The midland journal., 1906-10-12
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The Philadelphia Press declares
that the gamblers who were driven
out of Saratoga are now permanent
ly located in Wall street.
A poetess says that she lives on
diet of milk and prunes. That Is the
trouble with some poetry, is the
comment of the Atlanta Journal
There was once a man, observes
the st. Louis Republic, who tried to
please everybody When he escaped
he became a hermit.
The Pittsburg Gazette-Times learns
that one may become intoxicated Wlta
gasoline. You don't drink it, but in
hale it. This opens new posslblllties
to men living along the favorite au-
tomobile routes.
A politician who can't fall i'll or
have another and prior engagement
at the right time, according to the
st. Louis Post-Dispatch, has yet to
learn the rudiments of his profes-
sion.
The Sphere declares that literary
clubs are a very harmless form Oh
heroworship. They make just the
same excuse for literary people to
meet together as whist or bridge 10
a less bookish class.
The famous battleship Dread
nought was commissioned, observes
the New York World, less IMAM
eleven months after the laying down
of her keel There are some things
in which the British are not SLOW.
We take three years over here 10
complete a battleship.
In redress of grievances the Car
has granted to the peasants OF all
Russia almost as much land, notes
the Detroit Journal, as would become
available for settlement in the open
ing of a ,smallish Indian reservation
west of the Mississippi
In awarding damages in case
where a man was killed by an auto
mobile, the Lord Chancellor of Eng
land, has decided that deaf persons
blind persons and decepit old per-
sons are as much entitled to the use
of the public highways" as any driV-
er of a devil-wagon. In some quar-
ters this will be regarded as radical
ism, comments the New York Press
Corn is King of the crops, but cot
ton is still King of the exports, as
serts the Buffalo Courier. The value
of the exports of raw cotton for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1906, was
for the first time over 100000, 900.
This exceeded the value OF all the
exports of breadstuffs and provisions.
Norwegians have primitive way
of breaking Up old, wornout wooden
ships, according to the New YORK
Tribune. They take them to exposed
rocky parts of the coast, and, aIter
anchoring them, leave the breakers
of the next storm to smash them TO
pieces After the storm the hoating
fragments are picked up and sold for
firewood.
The fortunate beginning is with
sturdy heredity. Next to being able
to select our ancestors, as humorous
ly suggested by Oliver Wendell
Holmes, the New York Herald main
tains we should appreciate the bless
ing of being born strong and healthy.
Most of the diseases that are DIM
cult of cure descend in the family
strain. The acquired maladies are
largely the result of neglected pre-
yentive measures. But even with
these reductions of odds against us,
rendered more and more difficult by
the exacting strains and worries OF
advancing civilization, we are yet far
from matching our ancestors in con-
stitutional vigor, vitality and disease
resistance.
Spain is a backward country in
some ways, remarks the Hartford
Courier. but not in all ways. Consul
General Ridgely (Barcelona) calls
American notice to the fact that
Spanish railroad companies are not
free to run their trains or halt their
trains as they please. Every failure
to get train in on time exposes
them to a fine of $50 to $500. They
may not actually incur it, but they
risk it. Their only appeal, If the lo-
cal inspector reports them and the
provincial governor fines them, is to
the minister of public works. When
he says that the fine must be paid,
the case is closed.
Laymen who have had the care OF
dogs in large numbers or who have
sold them as means of livelihood
are the most sceptical about the
danger of rabies, declares the New
York Sun. For the symptoms usual
ly associated with the malady in the
animal they have an explanation