Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-16
Scientific and Practical.

DEPOSITS of coal, not inferior in quail.
ity 10 English came, have been discover
ed within $50 miles of San Francisco, in
Mendocino county.
The latest invention for travellers is q
combined compass, thermometer and
barometer-the latter measuring 49,.
600 feet-and the whole in solid sill.
yer case about two inches in diameter.
AGAsslz discovers many points of re-
semblance between man and fish.
The backbone, the head, the cavity con.
tanning the BRAIN, spinal marrow, and
the organs of digestion and breathing
are similar and similarity situated.
Fossil remains of some enormous an
inAl were found the other day near
Malheur City, Oregon. The tusks found
were four feet in diameter at the base,
and fifteen long. Portions of the head
show that the animal was two feet wide
between the eyes.
MINERS engaged in working valua,
BILE claim in Clear Creek county, COL,
situated on the north side of Lcayen-
worth mountain, at an elevation of b.
500 feet, found their progress impcded
by frost; even at the great depth of $50
feet, the earth and rocks were frozen in
Il solid mass together.
A NEW branch of industry has been
started in Florida, which bids fair to
prove exceedingly remunerative. 1t is
tho manufacture of feather flowers, that
will not fade or change color under
any circumstances. The flowers are
made OF the plumage.of the white heron,
while the leaves are taken from the
paroquet. They are usually rich and
attractive.
WATER-PIPEs are now being lined with
glass, III which there will be no oxide to
poison the water. A layer of plaster-of
Earns Is placed between the glass and
INC IRON, which, being a non-conductor
OF heat, prevents the water from freez-
ing IN winter, keeps it cooler in sum-
mer, and hlnders the pipes from burst
ing.
The railmill connected with the Penn.
sylvania Iron Works, of Danville, Pa,
recently turned out, in about ten hours,
l2O tons of finished railroad iron, the
number OF bars being 504, each of which
was thirty feet long, and weighed fifty
SIX pounds per yard. This was done by
one set OF men and one set of rolls, and
Is called remarkable days work.
The new iron bridge of the Maine
Central railroad over the Androscoggin,
at Brunswick, was shipped in forty DAYS
from the time the order was given, and
erected in eighteen days. 1t will aid in
understanding the magnitude of the
work to know that it consists of four
hali-deck spans OF lS5 feet each. The
bridge was built by the Phenixville
Bridge Works, and the contract price
was $50, $50.
lHE most remarkable engineering
ieat now in progress is to be the cross
ing OF the Andes by the Lima and Oroya
railroad. The mountain chain will be
crossed at an altitude of $1,000 feet by
tunnel 5000 feet in length. The
grades are the steepest known on any
ordinary railway. The workmen en-.
ployed are Cholos Indians, the only CD.
eratives who can endure for prolonged
period the rarified atmosphere at this
great elevation.
ALLuDING to lady dentists, the Cincin-
matt Commercial does not want the honor
of being the first lady graduate of
dental college to be carried off by
Russian Countess, but claims that honor
ior Cincinnati lady, Miss Lucy B.
Hobbs, who graduated in 1865. Another
graduate from the same institution was
Mrs. Marie Grubert, of Berlin, in 1870,
who was almost Immediately elected
Vice President of the Mississippi Valley
Dental Association. So Russia is not
ahead of America, after all, in enter.
prising women.
WHAT is the best butter?" exclaim.
ed an orator at a meeting of dairymen.
F." An old ram p responded a sheep.