Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-03-16
NUMBER 25.
Current Items.

The cities of Minneapolis and st.
Anthony have been united under the
name of Minneapolis.
OLYMPIA, Washington Territory, with
population of about 800, supports
two daily and six weekly newpapors.
OFFICIAL mortuary records show New
York to bo the unhealthiest city in the
Union except New Orleans. New
Workers try to explain away the CHASTITY
figures by the statement that it is
swollen by an exceptionally complete
record.
The water.pipes of jackson, Mich,
are frozen solid, and there are appre
tensions of great damage if a fire should
break out. Peoria, Ill.,, and other
Northern cities where the Holly system
has been introduced are similarly
afflicted.
THE work of widening the dells of the
Wolf river, Wis, was commenced last
week. These dells are natural cuts
through which the river passes, and are
100 feet high, 400 feet long, and only IA
feet wide. They will be opened to
uniform width of 20 feet.
The Montreal Ne,os says the first in
stalment of the new silver coin has Just
arrived from the mint being $4,000 in
the larger coins, that is, half and quar-
ter dollars. The smaller denominations
have been delayed by the breakage Of
dies, but will not be long behind.
THE handsome young girls in the
churches at Kalamazoo, Mich, are de-
90 tolr ,nllactinnc rhn
scheme is said to have worked very sue
cessfully. Some of the very attractive
collectors are frequently called back by
young men to receive second collec-
ton. The Kalamazoo deacons know
something.
WILLIAM H. BOYLE raised on ten acres
of land in East Hartford, last year, an
average Of $4,000 pounds OF tobacco
which he sold at SIS cents through, max
ing his total crop worth $l6,2S0. Mr..
Boyle claims that tobacco can be raised
for $3l0 ton, allowing literally for
manure, interest on land, etc.
The Supreme Court of Maine is turn.
ing its attention to natural history. Its
last discussion was as to the standing of
an oyster, and, after a thorough study
of the habits of the bivalve, it pro.
nounced it fish. The vexed question
is settled unless the oyster should APP
peal to the Supreme Court of the United
States.
A MACHINE has been invented in Utah
for killing grasshoppers. 1t is drawn
by horses, and consists of large apron,
which picks up the insects as it is drawn
| ii La 10 ~ of
rollers, driven by the carrying wheels,
and whatever find its way into the front
of the machine is obliged to pass be-
tween these rollers.
In the Chicago Postoffice, the other
day, there was found in the mails a
newspaper containing Sll0, which the
simple minded sender was trying to
forward to England under a two,cent
stampl The name of the party mailing
the paper could not be ascertained, and
the valuable package went to the Dead
Letter Office.
A FAMOUS beast-tEe Mad Elephant
of Mandla has just been killed, after
long and arduous hunt. The infuri-
ated beast had been roaming for months
through Central India doing enormous
damage. He had torn down a number
of houses, demoralized the crops, and
killed or mutilated over fifty human
beings, some of whom he ate.
WILLIAM F. Fox, of Romney, Ind,
near Lafayette, an old and well-knOwn
citizen, passed through that city, on his
way home, in charge of attendants, with
his mind completely deranged. He
had been to Buffalo with drove Of cat