Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-07

| A LONDON lettel-writer says that the
Prince of Wales has not read book
since he left college, aud that he de
clares himself unable to keep awake
over the cleverest novel more than five
minutes at a time.
The latest distinction that Gladstone
has achieved in London is the reputa,
ton, universally conceded, of wearing
1.-The most shocking bad hat of any OF
her Malesty'S subjects. Gladstone is one
of the men who can afford to do that
| sort of thing.
| HERBERT SPENCER is travelling in the
| Highlands of Scotland, and seems to be
| enjoy ing better health than he has for
years. He is very fond of fishing, and
| has spent most of the summer in pisca-
| torial sport in the Scotch lochs and
| mountain streams.
THlERs and the Orleanists in the
| French Assembly are moving heaven
and earth to prevent the election of the
| lmperialist. Rouher, from Con sica, where
| Deputy Abbatucci resigned to make
way for the foremost of the Bonapartists
| In case Rouher is elected the majority
| will refuse to unseat him.
The Marquis of Butte has been at the
| Passion Play at 0berammergan for a
month or more, sedulously attended by
his spiritual mentor and physical shad
| ow, Monsigno Capet- Catesby OF Lothian
and the gossips are greatly edited al
| the close cnn,t.",,o'roirip or the two ia
nous characters.
PAscHAL GRousSET, the notorious Com
munist. has the reputation of being one
of tho dalntiest and best dressed men in
Paris. Since his arrest and arrai On
ment for trial he has been more than
ever elaborate in his toilet, so much so
that the satirists on the Seine call him
the perfumed and curled cutthloat of
the Faubourg st. Antoine.
BJoRNsoN, the Norwegian novelist is
now pastor of Il village church near
Trondhjem, and is in receipt, from the
sale of his works, of Sc, 900 year, which
is considered a princely income in that
remote corner of Scandinavia. At the
beginning of his literary career no pub
Usher would take his books, and he
was forced to print them at his own ex-
pense.
The ex- Empress Eugene is said to be
in the habit of assuring her acauaint-
ances. very contidentially, that She al
ways loved Louis Napoleon-even be-
fore she married him-but that. since
their fall from power, his resignation to
and his patience in the
midst of adversely have raised her aticc-
ton to the point where worship is sup
posed to begin.
CLARA GorTsCHALK, sister of Colts.
chalk, the deceased musician and com |
poser, visited the Emperor of Brazil, |
while in London, and obtained from |
him solemn promise when he return |
ed home to look up her brothers eff,
ects. The pianist is said to have left a
good deal of jewelry, manuscript mu-
&c, and an autobiography nearly fin
shed. His sister is very DESTROYS to
obtain the autobiography for publica-
ion.
The Princess Mary Of Holland is said
o be five years the senior of her new
husband, the Prince of Weld, to whom
she brings vast fortune as a compensa-
ion for he superior age. She had de
to live and die maid, until
he met the Prince. when she changed
Ter resolution in an instant. She is re-
uted to be an excellent musician and
n accomplished cook, and, what is more
to have made her own wed.
ing cake.
EXPLORATION OF THE BASIN OF THE
ELLowsToNE.-The Secretary of the In.
erior received a letter from Professor
Hayden, United States Geologist, dated
Gulch, Yellowstone River.
ug. Is, III which he says: '
" The exploration of the Yellowstone
asin is now completed. Our labors
ave been entirely successful. Up to ,
lis time no accident has befallen any {
ember Of our party. We think no
ortion of the West has been more
'refully surveyed than the Yellowstone !
asin.'' F :
A care full Typographical map. hun. {
reds of sketches and Photographic
egatives, aud complete collections in -
ttural history and botany have been v
cured. On his return East. Professor s.
ayden purposes exploring a belt of
untry from Fort Ellis to the Union
tcitic Railroad, near Fort Bridcer, c
here the party will be disbanded about a
e lst of October, u portion of them 81
oceeding to Washington to prepare
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