Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-12-07
Current Items.

ST. LOUIS has 81 Hour mills that use
$4,000 bushels of grain per day.
THE music in Christ Church, New
York, costs over $4,000 a year, and is
very artistic.
THE latest thing in fruit dishes is a
huge silver watermelon cut in points
and lined with gold.
The eastern and central sections OF
the Hoesac tunnel are now only about
one eighth of a mile apart.
AN inventor has supplied long felt
want by inventing gate hinge strong
enough to support two lovers suspended
by the arm pits.
THE newspapers of the country are
urged to warn advertisers that post,
masters are forbidden by law to deliver
letters addressed to initials or fictitious
names, unless sent to the care of some
responsible person.
IT is said that there is only one real
Chinese woman IN the United States,
and she is the wife of a San Francisco
merchant. The olve-eyed females so
common among the Mongolians of the
Pacific slope are all of Tartar extrac,
| ton.
The Masonic Reviep says: "One-half
of the motives which prompt men to
| be admitted to tine rites and mysteries
of masonry is an intense anxiety to
learn the secret which they suppose to
be hidden in the tiled lodge room" I"
Not a very high motive.
WHAT alcohol does for men, opium is
doing for women. Tho Bureau of Sta
tistics reports three hundred and fifteen
thousand one hundred pounds of pre-
pared opium rs being imported into
this country during the year 1871, to
supply the demand of the unfortunate
victims.
A San Francisco paper states that the
great demand for money (gold) in Lon.
don has caused the Directors of the
London and San Francisco Bank TO
draw 81, 100000 from their office in that
city. The whole of this amount has
been shipped during the past thirty
days through the postoffice. 1t is stated
that there is steady stream of gold"
flowing cut of the State of New York
and London.
Or coffee, Belgium consumes annually
nine pounds for ch inhabitant; Hol-
land, 7; Switzerland, 7; the United
States, 5; Germany, S; France, 3; Aus
tria, | !, and Great Britain less than one.
In the consumption of tea, Great Britain
heads the list with three pounds for
each person; the United States and
Holland come next with one pound ;
then Russia with quarter of pound,
while other countries consume insight
ticant quantities.
IT is to be regretted, for the sake of
the progress of Honduras, that work on
the Inter.oceanic railroad in that coun-
try has been suspended for want Of
funds. Sixty miles of the road have
been completed on the Atlantic side,
and the remaining lO7 miles to be built
have been surveyed and the greater
part of the material is on the ground.
The internal traffic on the part of the
road already completed, however, does
not pay expenses, and it is probable
that the whole enterprise will be aban.
doned.
VINO goes next? There is literary
society in Philadelphia, composed of
ledTlltSS lCUuOClt5Ie, WuiCu lS tIylHS "
prove that Columbus did not discover
America, any more than that Shake
speare wrote "Shakespeare." There is
no protest we are capable of making
that will turn people, who believe
themselves endowed with a mission,
aside from their purpose still we would
have been so glad to have felt free to
rely upon the popular belief-or super
stition-regarding Columbus.