Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-20
Current Items.

Current Items.
To maintain a yacht involves an ex-
pense of $4,000 Il year.
IT took forty tons of type to print the
summing up of counsel in the Tichborne
case.
LAURA KEENE, in her new magazine,
Fine ArtS, repudiates the woman'srights
movement.
CHEYENNE has ~ ised $4,000 of the
$4,000 required to erect fine hotel at
that station.
Mr.. A. S. ABELL, editor and proprietor
of the Baltimore Sun, is said to be worth
$l0,000,O00.
A BUTCHER in Flint, Mich, has boy
twins, eighteen months old, weighing
seventytive pounds.
JOSIE MANSFIELD has sued Fisk's estate
for 100000. She alleges that she holds
his note for that amount.
AN Indiana wife worked four years to
piece quilt, and then her husband got
drunk and tore it up in five minutes.
THE Goldfish in the wells of the fishing
smacks at New London are reported
frozen so stiff that their tails aye used
for booGacks.
A JEWISH hotel has been established
in Boston, where lsraelites can find food
cooked after the fashion prescribed by
their religion.
HENRY NIEMEYER, of Columbus, Wis,
raised 1000 pounds Of good Connecticut
seed tobacco on an area of little more
than one acre of ground.
a JUSTICE of the Peace in the Parish
of ST. Bernard, La, fined Joseph Can
trell and Philip Goi;erez $50 each for
fighting a duel with shot-guns
A HORSE in Norwich, Conn, is the pet
OF the newspaper reporters. With his
runaways and other antics, the Bailetin
man thinks he is better than a buzz saw
for items.
A DENVER restaurant man recently
charged traveller 80 for little lunch
he put up for the latter to use between
meals on the road between Denver and
Kansas City.
A NOTED hoop-skirt manufacturing
firm Of Bridgeport, Conn, having a large
and unstable stock on hand, have
chartered a shipload to Dantzig, expect
Ing to dispose Of the same.
Mr.. RoBERr C. WINTHROP has clock,
sill in good running order, which was
made $50 years ago for his ancestor, the
Governor of Massachusetts, when that
Stota wa. P,,itiSl, co1Cry
IL his recent trip to the Yosemite
Valley, Biarstadt, the artist, had a rem
c0ntre with a lynx, which he fellcd to
the earth with a club, leaving its death
10 he accomplished by his dog.
CHESTNUT timber is sent in large guam
titles from Connecticut to st. Adams,
W., to be used in the manutacture Of
railway cars. 1t is srid that the best
chestnut growths are in Connecticut.
The new hotel at Saratoga, ut yet
named, has been let to Bre,lin a. jjsey,
Of New York, for ten years, for 81 800
per year. 1t is brick, five stories high,
with $50 rooms, and will be opened
July |.
ROSWELL PARKER, of Detroit, caused
the arrest of his step.son, ten years of
age, for stealing from him 81. Little
Eddie pleaded guilty, and has been
locked up with thieves, burglars and
murderers.
No question ever brought before
Pennsylvania chapter of knights of
Pythias is as pithy as what to do with
dignitied female who had reached, un-
detected, the econd degree in their
IN their organization.
The allcgor;cal clock over the north
door of the Old hall Of the House of
representatives., at Washington, has
disd d, le wing no heirs, before the appro-
pria'ion was paid, and it is yet in the
Treasury.
A LADY in Lyon county, Ky, OF the
name OF Oliver, recently gave birth to
four children-two boys and two girls
all of whom are alive and doing well.
Thirteen years this same lady brought
forth three children at one birth, two of
whom are s i'll living.
A WORKMAN at Bran tford, Conn, lately
found attached to an AK rat frozen to
death. The rat had evidently tried to
lap something on the edge of the AK,
when its tongue stuck tight to the steel,
and the creature was kept there till it
died an innocent but untimely death.
CHAPLAIN JOHN j. KEAN, of the navy,
who was recently confirmed as chaplain.
and his commission dated back to some
time in 1861, has filed claim in the
Fourth Auditors office for $4,000 back
pay, in accordance with the provisions
OF the act of July Is, 1870, which pro
vidco that the increased ray of a pro
moted officer shall commence from the
date he is to take rank, Ns stoted in his
commission.