The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-05-01

der the body, and
those pieces Of cord,
thanks to excellent
police work. trapped
E----A z--a "A -z him. The senti-
mental who say,
arthur "r'S""ne "Glve the poor
criminal another chance" will note
that the murderer was convict on
parole when he killed the woman. He
had another chance" and made use
of 1t.
Berlin reports a great Hitler forty
seventh birthday celebration including
fine display Of military power-air-
planes, war tanks, fighting men, APP
parently eager for fight. They were
young and could not remember the
last war.
Particularly interesting were two
lines In the song sung by storm troop
ers:
"Today we own Germany,
And tomorrow the whole world"
He Jay ulleT CeleDTdteu HlS
forty-seventh birthday old Rome cele-
brated her two thousand six hundred
and eighty-nnth anniversary. Mus
sOlini celebrates by launching two new
Italian cruisers and speeding up air.
plane production. lie tells Italian IA
theirs and mothers he must have Co.
100000 population for Italy not later
than 1850. In 1921, when Mussolini
took charge, Italy's population was
38,000,000. There will soon be room
and food to raise more Italians In
Ethiopia. Easy for all but the mother.
England, doing well In a business
way, with more than S2,000,00O,000
worth Of Bank Of England notes cir
culating among tradesmen, is collecting
gold and depicting the French reserves.
While England tries to keep down the
price of her "nO-gold" pound, France
Is afraid she will not be able to keep
up the value Of her gold franc. al
ready devalued by so per cent Of its
1914 value. What becomes Of the
'magic In gold?" Our dear old dollar
is worth only SO cents, and only deal.
ers in exchange know it.
Doctor Benedict, Of Carnegie labOra-
tories, finds that the adult elephants
heart beats from % to 80 times a
minute, less than half the human
heartbeat, and the elephant heartbeat
Is nine strokes faster when the ami
NAL Is lying down. Mans heart beats
more rapidly while he stands-be-
cause then 1t must raise blood the
full height of the body. Old poets,
with tired hearts, should do their writ
ing lying down-the bloods flows hori-
zontally with little heart-effort.
England is pleased; Sir Robert Had
field, who makes tough steel, an
nOunces a shell for British naval guns
that can pass unhurt through armor
plate twelve inches thick and explode
on the other side. Zone shell of this
kind fired in the region of the maya
zine would probably cause destruction
of modern battleship." England Is
manufacturing the shells rapidly;
others are manufacturing airplane
bombs that might make old-fashioned
naval guns and shells useless.
In Miami a lady, first name Lois,
and married, has husky triplet babies.
Two gentlemen, the official husband
and one other, demand custody of the
triplets, each calling himself the real
father. The alleged father" who Is
not the husband would submit to any
blood test, his lawyer says. How would
King Solomon decide that?
Clarence barrow, one of the coun-
trys most convincing lawyers, says
on his seventy-ninth birthday:
II say that religion is the belief in
future life and In God. don't believe
in either"
The hoptoad beside the track, watch
ing the express train go by, might
say, reasonably enough:
81 do not believe in such thing as
a locomotive engineer"
Moscow has returned to the Jap
anese government in Manchukuo, with
full military honors, the bodies of
three Japanese killed in a fight with
Soviet guards. The military honors
will not console the widows, and, re-
peated often enough, such Incidents
lead to war.
Europe envies our fortunate country,
which gives only paper dollars and in
flation paper bonds to Its citizens but
has, buried in the ground the biggest
lump of gold on earth.
A wonderful thing is micro-chemis-
try. 1t tells scientists that off the
coast of Greenland sea water contains
more gold than In New York harbor;
that one village in Switzerland has
less goitre than another because in
the first the dewdrops contain more
Iodine.
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