Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-12-07
Foreign fiOSSin.

ELEVEN thousand shilling subscrip.
tons to the Burns Monument fund
have been received in the city of Glas.
gov.
FERDINAND L., who abdicated the
throne of Austria in 1913, in favor of
Francis Joseph, is approaching his
death. He is nearly so years of age.
THE Prussian Government has adopt
ed the use of American fiber paper in
the manufacture of bank notes, to pre-.
vent counterfeiting. The same paper is
used exclusively in Washington.
The displeasure of the Austrian Gov.
eminent with certain American Jour.
nails, it is said in Vienna, will probably
lead to the imposition of five cents on
every issue of political papers published
in the United States.
Ex,QuEEN ISABELLA of Spain still con
tinues to figure in social life in Paris.
A correspondent describes grand
birthday reception at her handsome
abode in the Rue de Reservoirs, on
which occasion about one hundred
grandees of different nationalities gath
cred about the stout lady who is so re-
markably ugly and uses fan with such
remarkable elegance.
The present revenues of Hawaii, Sand
wich Islands, do not seem adequate to
meet its expenses. The population
which numbered 1896 in 1910, hai
steadily decreased, owing to disease and
the absence of immigration, until, it is
estimated, it does not number at this
time more than $4,000 souls. Yet the
Government expenditures for the fiscal
year 1872 foot up $l,l3O,24l, nearly SIC
for every inhabitant.
THE United Kingdom Savings Banks
report, just published, is almost start
ling. In England alone the deposits
amounted, at the end of the year, to
the enormous sum of $l55, 100000, which
shows an average of more than 81 per
head for the entire population. In the
whole United Kingdom the amount OF
such deposits exceeds S2S5, 100000, not
counting the sums deposited with the
numerous friendly societies and similar
associations.
LEANpER used to swim across the
Hellespont for love: of Hero, and Lord
Byron, out of ambition, performed the
same feat; and now Lieut.. Moore and
Gunner Maloney, of the British sloop
of.war- Clearwater, have followed these
noble examples, swimming, on the 25th
of October, from Abydos to Sestos The
distance is about three miles, but the
current lengthens the adventurous
swimmers course to about seven miles
The modern name of the strait is the
Dardanell s.
THEY try to do these things better in
ngland-Government regulates every
thing abou. railways. The road-bed is
laid under Government supervision
royal oversight is taken of every rail.
No road can cross another or cross a
highw y on the same level; bridges or
tunnels must be resorted to. 1t is a
felony for passenger to cross the track
from one side of the station to the other
Switchmen are choicely selected. A
house is erected over the tracks, inclosed
with glass windows, carpeted and warm
ed. The handles of the switches come
up into this room. They are all num-
bered and are called "points." Con.
spicuous in the room is the painted
warning, "Mind your points," If the
switchmanmakes a mistake, something
worse than dismissal awaits him. His
odense is crime, and the State will
punish him by fine and imprisonment.
Two HUNDRED years ago Alsace and
Lorraine underwent similar but much
severer depopulating and denational-
izing to the one of the present year. In
October of 1860, Louis Fourteenth, after
conquering, obtained possession of the
contested province, set to work to turn
the inhabitants into Frenchmen. The
Cathedral was taken from its Protestant
worshipers and given to Catholics. No
Lutheran official was allowed. German
names were replaced by French. and an
order was given compelling all the
women to adopt the French fashion in
dress, and foibidding the men to wear
the high. pointed hats of the country.
Enormous taxes were imposed, not only
on men, women and children, but "six
kreutzers on every cock and four
kreutzers on every ten" The treasures
which We're kept at Nancy were all re-
moved to Paris, and for a while the
French rule was as irksome as is the
present German.
"The Wrong Shmell."
A high officer of the Sons of Tenn.