Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-10-12
Current Items.

ST. Louis is badly afflicted with small
pox.
The South has lost by the caterpl.
lars nearly $l00,000,000.
In the United States there are 6,55O,-
600 children attending school.
NEWARK, N. j., claims to be the third
manufacturing city in the Union,
STEWARDS new hotel for working wo-
men, in New York city, is completed.
A CUBIC inch of gold is worth $3.50.
A million dollars in gold. according to
the figures at the mint, weigh ust
about two tons.
AMONG the latest patent contrivanccs
designed to stop runaway horses, is q
pair of binders, by which the driver,
on pulling cord, instantly and effect
ually blindfolds the animals.
The great original sea serpent is said
to have been at last identified rs u mon
strous species of eel, 10y no means rar
in South African waters, which some
times attains the length of forty feet.
Our big bull thistle is tavorite in
European gardens, and our familiar
mullen does duty abroad rs the Ameri-
can velvet plant. Thus the weeds OF
one country become the petted and
ported flowers of another.
ACCORDING to Humboldt, the gold i'm
ported from America since the discove.
ry of llispanioa to the revolution OF
Mexico amounts to seven and a half
milliards, which is little less than the
last war debt of France.
The New iberia La Progress states
that near Fausse Point and other local,
tiles drinking water has been selling at
fifty cents per gallon. In New Iberia,
Mr.. Serrett. the hotel keeper, is paying
fifty cents demijohn for water.
PUNCTUATION is a wonderful thing. A
man telegraphed to Burlington for Il
school. "Shall come, or is the place
filled 2" Tie answer properly was.
"No! Place filled on the l7th.' The
telegraph operator received 1t. " No
place filed on the l7th.' The man
went for it, and was minus travelling ex-
penses.
JUST TAKEN HIS BlTTERs-We heard a
edy-looking individual with an alarm
ingly red nose remark to brother
soaker that he had "just had his bit
tiers, but that he did not mind taking an
other nip" His remark suggested a
train of reflection. How was it, we
asked ourselves, that the word % bit.
ters" had grown to be synonym for
gin, whisky, rum, and other alcoholic
stimulants. to which it was applied in
discriminatory? Bitters, we reasoned,
suggested the idea of {, healthful tonic,
not of q poisonous stimulant; something
invigoratng to the system, not an alco-
holic irritat, full of fusil oil, producing
present intoxication and ultimate insanity,
idiocy, or premature death. Moreover, our
idea OF bitters was totally irreconcilable with
s. gin cocktails, " rum punches" and "brandy
smashes," which, we are informed, are sweet
ened with sugar, and rendered doubly Injuri-
GUS with essences colored by means of min
eral poison. This was btter-sweet with VEN
geance. We mentioned this problem to a
friend. He solved it by exclaiming: "Whv,
don't you know that most of these bitters ad-
vertlsed as remedies are only drains is dis
guise? Topers know it, If you do not | must
make one exception, however," he added,
" and that's DIR. WALKERS CALIFORNIA VINE
GAR BITTERs; there isn't a particle of alcohal
or fermented liquor in it, and it its the best
vegetable tonic and Alternative in America.