Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-16

Current Items.
ME has 365 Catholic churches.

Current Items.
| ROME has 365 Catholic churches.
New YORK CITY is the home of S0,0O
Jews.
THE Michigan University has just ad
| United 10 ladies.
DON'T color your walls yellow. 1t pro
duces melancholy.
IT costs Ohio an average of 81, 200 tc
send man to prison.
THERE were 10000 Methodists bap
tized in this country last year.
The noodles will wear embroidered
coat-cutls and lappels this season.
ALL the slate pencils used in the
United States are made in Vermont.
THE intelligent dog turns up in Iowa
this time. The sagacious animal shot
his master.
YALE is soon to receive two more in.
voices of Chinese students, numbering
collectively l3l.
A LITTLE girl recently died in Wash
ington from the poison of nickel cent
which she swallowed.
A CINCINNATI mechanic has invented
a Contrivance by which cars may be
coupled without going between them.
The Metho" ist Episcopal Church is
talking of making its missionary con-
tributions for the coraing year reach
$l,OO0,0OO.
THERE is nothing like a good green
turf around farm buildings to prevent
dust from being blown into the parlor,
kitchen or dairy room.
JUDGE INGRAHAM, of New York, has
decided that watch belongs to that
class of necessary articles which cannot
be taken on an execution for debt.
A suREwD boy in Indiana has taught
his dog to pick potatoes. The boy pulls
the vines and the dog follows after, un-
earthing the potatoes with completeness
and dispatch.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Cleveland
Herald, who has just made a trip across
the State from the lake to the Ohio river,
says that never before has such heavy
crop of corn been harvested.
The head cook at one of the Saratoga
hotels gets 81, 800 for four months. I'm
der him are thirty Frepchmen as assist
ants, or cooks in the meat and game
departments, and twenty-five women as
vegetable cooks.
A New YORK lady of fashion wears q
beautifully carved, dark, glossy stone in
n cott Of ha Of
her husbands iavorite meerschaum !;
having induced him to stop smoking,
she now wears his pipe as trophy.
The acting Postmaster General has
decided that letters can only be deliver
ed to the person to whom they are adj
dressed. In the case before the depart
ment husband demanded letters writ
ten to his wife, but was refused them.
YREKA, Cal, the county-seat of Siski
you county, situated in lovely valley
in full view of Mount Shasta, once a
town of 10000 inhabitants, and the cen
ter from which millions of gold dust
was shipped to San Francisco, has now
a population of less than l2O0.
PHILADELPHIA proposes to erect .
building for our centennial celebration
in 1876 which will cover fifty acres of
ground, being nearly double the size OF
the Crystal Palace used for the London
exhibition of 1852 and third larger
that the building at Paris for the exhi
bition of 1857.
SPEAKING of Cincinnati, writer in the
Boston Post says: There is no city,
probably, of which so large q proportion
of society spends so much time abroad,
which imports SO large a proportion of
European custom and tastes, and which
losses so large a proportion of individu-
ality abroad.
The sponge trade off the gulf coast of
Florida is rapily assuming large pro-
portions. Twenty-eight vessels have
lately been engaged in the business, and
are reported as having been very sue
cesstul. These sponge banks will be
made source of revenue to the State
one of these days.
The extremely annoying interruption
of the postal relations with France
seems likely to be terminated by new
treaty, whereby the existing rates of
postage will be reduced one.half. The
main parts of the arrangement have
been agreed upon by the two Govern.
ments.
THE damages sustained by Americans
on the Mexican frontier within the last
six years are estimated at $4,000 900.
Besides this, over 800 American citizens
have been killed by Mexican marauders.
All the facts touching this destruction
of life and property will appear in the
orthcoming report to Congress.
GEORGE GRANT, of London, England,
has bought a tract of land in Ellis
county, Kansas, containing $1,000 acres,
on the line of the Kansas Pacific rail
road. He will lay out a town, to be
called Victoria, and will br ,ng from En-
land in the spring a large amount Of
blooded stock, farmers, stock-raisers
ETC., and make the land Immediately
productive.
English Children.
A writer in in the Galaxy says the
txyo yroat wonderful siuhts Of EurOpf