The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-06-08

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The trouble with naming the big
gest battleship" Uncle Sam or New
York is that it might not long remain
the biggest, suggests the New York
World.
The simple life marches, boasts
the Indianapolis News. Witness the
appearance of peasant members OF
Parliament before the Gear without
court consumes.
It is now estimated that at least
5000 were killed in the California
disaster. The railroads of the United
States killed 1896 persons in 1905
and injured 55,466 more, but the ex.
tent of this slaughter makes little
impression on the public mind.
In looking over the picture" maya
zines we confess, declares The Queen,
to becoming somewhat stated with
photographs of actresses, of ladies
brushing their hair, cleaning their
nails, erasing their wrinkles, and the
rest
An Illinois man is suing financial
journal for libel for saying that he
11s1 MI 1Yrah
business to enter the banking busi.
ness Considering what cruel blow
this was to the financial standing OF
a plumber, suggests the Atlanta Con-
stitution, it is probable that he will
be awarded heavy damages.
There can be no question that the
prevalence of certain diseases has In
creased during the last halfcenturys
Conspicuous among these, says the
Practitioner, are diabetes a1d in.
somnia, both of which are largely due
to the mental stress OF harder
struggle for existence.
One of those Chicago professors has
discovered that the first pair of trous-
ers were made in Egypt in the year
10000 B. c. We might ask, says the
Atlanta Constitution, how the pro.
fessor made the discovery, but do
not wish to encourage his loquacious
mendacitys 50 49, rs.,
An English critic declares the art
of singing IS dying out. He thinks
too many people labor under the de-
fusion that they can sing, and in or.
der to suppress them he proposes to
organize a society for the prevention
of singing, except in the strictest
privacy This man, says the Atlanta
Constitution, deserves to be encour.
aged, particularly as the Good Ola
Summer Time" is in our midst again.
There Is hardly an article demand
ed by the Spanish importer which
this country cannot supply. and the
Spaniards are showing disposition
to come to the United States for
much that they require, observes the
Boston Transcript They ought to
take some satisfaction from the fact
that since the war the Spanish Ian
guage is more widely studied in this
country than ever before.
According to our consular reports
new industry is being developed In
France. After the cream is skinned
from the milk and sold the casein is
extracted from the skim milk and ap-
piled to industrial uses. The greatest
part of the casein is exported to Ger
many. where 1t Is used in the manu-.
factlre Of playing cards and of an I'M
itation of ivory for piano keys. The
diaries OF the district of Etien7e.
where the new industry has taken
footing, deliver hundreds of millions
of quarts of milk which are probably
consumed in 1t.
Among the latest conclusions OF
science is the assertion that the
smallest particle of matter which is
now appreciate by our sense. asserts
the Christian Register, contains forms
of energy so small and so numerous
that millions of them may have free
CdrculatlOn IN Ou0 dCOm VI AAn1s0A'
There is nothing absurd in the sup
position that one such atom might
furnish a dwelling place for the dis
embodied spirits of as many human
beings as ever lived upon the earth.
Athletics are no longer fad in this
country, or a matter of scattered and
intermittent interest. OF associated
and independent clubs devoted to
sports we have more than 1900; of
men and boys who go into games
end contests in and out of the clubs
we have ten million-an eighth of
the population. Yet the first at.
tempt to form an athletic club here
similar to those long known in Eng
land dates no further back than 1866.