Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-18

WOMEN are now admitted 10 fifty
American colleges.
The new Niceroy OF Canada is the
grandson Of Sheridan.
LEAD ORE has been found at Coiiey-
vile, Kansas, that assays 95 per cent.
JACKSON county, Kansas, pnii S2,777O
for gopher scalps last year, at 20 cents
etch.. > IL .'-' =.
THERE are three hundre and scv.
enty regular colleges i'll the Unit,d
States, according to the New York
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The dog crop Of the Union is esti-
mated at ~ 900 coo OF that number
upwards eof hundred thousand 90
mad annually, and bite about 10000
people. ..5
Snow was 50 deep in Little Cotton,
wood canyon, Utah, recently, that an
| or iinary question was: Can you OBJ
lige nue.. with All iron rod to bore for my
cabin p
THE business on the b ltimorc and
| Ohio railroad increases at an enormous
rate. Forty locomotives and 1000
cars will he added to the rolling stock
this year.
| Work upon the tunnel under the
| Falls of st. Anthony has stopped for
want of funds, and the committee in
charge find themselves eight thousand
| dollars in debt.
BY judicial decisions in Virginia, the
war, in the eyes of the law, continue
during the whole period from the l7th
Of April, 1861, to the Goth of January,
| 1870. when the State was ieadmitted to
| the Union.
In Turkey, when minister ofiends,
| they cut his head off In Russia, when
a Catscazy incurs the displeasure of the
| government, he IS sent 10 live in Paris
on 5000 nlbles a year. The punish
mcnt is capital in both instar ccs.
OWING to an accident in Maysville
| (Ky.) distillery the other day, a guam
| tity OF partially made whisky was turned
| into pond near the building. A num-
| Der of cows drank OF it lcely and be
came intoxicated, and number ofthem
| have since died.
TIE Pittsburgh Water Commi. sioners
| have become possessed of about 100
acres on Brilliant and Harrison Hill,
costing $675 ,000 The Commission need
still further site for the Croft's Hill
reservoir; but that matter has been
postponed for the resent,
A RUSSIAN printer has invented /,
| type-setting machine, which, the st.
| Petersburg papers assert, far surpasses
all similar machines that have hitherto
leen produced. 1t sets in an hour
10000 letters; it costs 5000 rubles; and
the setting Of 1000 letters thereby costs
only cents.
A MAN at Louisville ran away wi his
wife recently, mistaking her for another
woman She was disguised, the Iocal
chronicler says. Since the tragic event,
all tire neglected wives in that city wash
their faces and comb their hair in the
hope that their husbands may take
them for SOME body else.
SOMEBODY wrote repeatedly to General
Schenck, our Minister to London, for
his autograph. The General is said to
have written the following reply {:
:" Sir, hasten to comply with your re-
quest, and take this method of inform
ing you that you are an unmitigated
nuisance. K. G. Schench."
TENNYsoN S "Charge Of the Light
Brigade has Eeen translated into
Welsh, and the opening part reads as
follows: " Bhuthrwch y'mlean ddew
rion ganol b cynwr Oh ddryn angan
MarchogaPr chwe' channwr." Maya
zine readers will readily recognize his
language AS the one Walt Whitman has
been writing in.
AN enthusiastic ritualist, wishing to
make gift to his rector at Easter, or
| dered a beautiful embroidered clerical
vestment to be made. He gave dlrec-
;ious that the garment should be sent
| by express and marked G. q. d., and SO
it was, in the most elegant style OF fancy
needlework upon the back, where it
could plainly be seen of men and wo-
men. .a
TIE mails having, for a week, failed
to come to time in an Arkansas town,
| the local paper says it has been forced
| to draw ht htavily on the almanacs for
copy, and if communication with the
outer world should be still longer cut
off, :. we will be obliged next week to
make extracts from the Bible; thus
supplying some OF our readers, at
least, with matter entirely new to
thcm.'
A MAN named Hart, living about
twelve miles north of Chatsworth, H.,
the other day set fire to the stubbles in
a slough, from which his hay stack and
stable caught fire. He ran to the stable
to get his horses out, but before he
could untasten them the fire burst into
the stable. He managed to craw! out
with the help Of his wife. His little
son, five yeals old, who went out to
look for HIM was caught in the stable
and was burned to death with the six
horses ard Il colt. Hart was badly
burned.
Another Baby M0nstrOsity.
The Shelby (Ohio) News says "There
exists, al out three and half miles
north of Shelby, :, curiosity almost as
great as the double child of Morrow
county 1t is child about eight years
old, the body of which has never grown,
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