Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-01-06
Current Items.


made at the Topeka Land Office in No
vember, embracing an area of 3,l79
acres.
A POOR MAN i'll Sumner county, Kan
sas, hasn't but 81 900 head of cattle IN
the world-6,OO0 in Kansas and $4,000
in Texas.
A TENNESSEE farmer has been study
ing "What | Know About Farming"
He has raised pound of tea at an ex'
pense of $l5.
A COW assisted in the absorption of the
other day, by chewing up pocket-book
containing $50 in greenbacks.
A CoNNECTICuT paper says that n law
yer in the town of Bethel in that State,
hung out his shingle, but left after a
year, he having had but one case-that
was a case of inflammatory rheumatism.
CONSUMERS of spirits will be glad to
learn that process has been discovered
whereby the garbage of cities can be
distilled and four gallons OF proof spirits
obtained from every barrel of the scav-
enger's product.
INA French court, recently, as a wit
ness was about to give his testimony,
the advocate remarked: " wish to say
to the court that this witness is entitled
to entire confidence as he has not had
time to consult with the lawyers
Mrs. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, who has
been, since the death Of her son Tad"
living with her eldest son Robert, in
Chicago, is about to remove to jackson
Vile, Florida, for the winter, to rstore,
in that genial climate, her sadly i'm
paired health.
THE Cincinnati gazette has been dab
bling in lager beer figures, and finds
that during the year past the inhab-
tants of that city have expended over
$6,5OO,OOO in drinking beer, or thirty
seven gallons to each man, woman and
child in the town.
The English gunboat Growler, sta
toned at Rhodes, is constantly in pur-
suit of Greek pirate completely
equipped for war, who has already cap
tured many merchant vessels, and who
takes refuge in boys or creeks, W here
the gunboat cannot follow him.
A LADY in Hackensack, n. j., is the
happy owner of a hen which is at once
layer of eggs and destroyer of mice.
She was seen the other day to attack a
mouse, which she seized in her bill,
shaking it very much as does terrier,
and with such vigor that the mouse was
killed.
AT Portsmouth, N. H., recently, a
lamp left burning in private residence
was overturned late at night, and would
have destroyed the house had not Ia
vorite parrot, noticing what had hap
pened, cried out, lire, fire, tre, SO
Justify that the family were aroused
ana eAlihSuisiie" VIC ii'iiieS'
AN AGENT for a New York firm, trav-
cling on the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta railroad, got off at a way station
over night, and when he presented his
check to the conductor the next morn
ing on subsequent train he was elected
from the cars The Court of Common
Pleas at Augusta has lust awarded him
$4,000.
scuryr ;s on foot for taking sea wa.
tow 70 Iondon for estabI;sb;ng swim
ming baths, and supplying the water to
Pamlico as a first experiment, and the
water is to be changed entirely every
alternate day. The mode of bringing
M the water will be in lighters. towed
up the Thames by steam tugs.
WHILE u; Jones was III ooi"nious'
modeiing ms DUST Oh Ehase' d young
man OF the Spalkier oloer ol arcniIec.-
ure' aPProecheo nm one hlshI a. 30
ciai ea'hefihe, WIN 'he inquiry
so you are the mahwerItnat makes
MUG heads, am you! les, saio
ola dom, piahaiy' 40 you want he"
one! '-O"'o 'oto'e journal.
Mr.. BRYANT, of the New York Eveni,g
Post, has hung up catalogue Of words
that neither editor or reporter is allowed
to use. Among these interdicted words
are bogus. authoress, poetess, collided,
debut, donate, donation, loater, located,
ovation, predicate, progression, pants,
rowdies, roughs, secesh, osculate flor
kiss, lndorse for approve), lady flor
wife,, jubilant tor rejoicing), bagging
(for capturing), loaned (tor lent), post
ed (tor uniformed J, realized flor obtained).
p...u.;o.a - Coo--. W.,.
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Colonel Forney writes: More than
twenty years ago l made the acquaint-
ance of David Hoffman, of Baltimore,
the eminent lawyer and legal writer,
who died of apoplexy shortly after in
the city of New York, seventy years
old. | was introduced to him at the
dinner-tahle of Charles Jared Ingersoll.
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