Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-08-03
Current Items.

MILK is selling at cent quart in
some parts of Minnesota
IT takes 5000 worth of gold leaf to
decorate p tirst-class sleeping car.
GRAssHorrExs five inches in length
are taking the stump in Wisconsin.
SIcKLEs received 100000 for his little
job in upsetting the old Erie directory.
A Mr.. GEORGE DAVIS, of Norfolk, Va,
is said to have discovered a process for
welding copper.
TEE Saengerbunders lately assembled
in st. Louis consumed 100000 kegs of
lager beer in one day.
The United States Signal Service will
soon place an observer upon the sum
nit of Pixies Peak, IA COO feet above
the sea,level, and more than twice the
altitude of Mount Washington.
AT a mass meeting in San Francisco,
recently, it was resolved to raise $l0,-
Thirty-tifth Parallel or Atlantic nd
Pacific railroad, and a committee vas
appointed to canvass for subscriptions
DURING the 3ls years following the
discovery of Hispaniola 81 SOC, O,00O,oN
worth of gold was poured into European
markets. Mr.. Thomas Hankey, writing
in the Economist, says that an equal
amount has come to Europe since
1928.
BosToN is beginning to import Japan
ese paper clothing. The paper from
which the articles are made is wholly
waterproof; is thin and light, an over.
coat W eighing two pounds. The goods
are capable of being washed several
times, and Will last a number of months.
A POUND of copperas dissolved in a
gallon of water is said to be the cheap
est and most perfect disinfectant to be
obtained. Thrown into sinks, cesspools,
etc, a quart or two of copperas water
will at once do away with any unpleas-
ant smell.
The wealth of some of our dairy dis
tricts is enormous. Herkimer, N. Y,
ships over 100000 pounds of cheese
and 100000 pounds of butter, worth
81, 100000 in the market st. Albans,
N. Y, ships 100000 pounds of cheese,
and 2,750,O00 pounds of butter, worth
in the market Sl,25O,000. The village
of Wellington, o., shipped 100000
pounds of cheese in 1869, worth
81, 100000.
New ORLEANS sends ship loads of fish
ing rods to Northern ports.
A MILWAUKEE boy has drawn the
Opera House prize in the Green Bay gift
concert scheme, valued at $4,000.
ABOUT $50, 900 young shad have reach
ed st. Louis, en- route to stock tn he head
waters of various Western rivers.
The entire number of Jesuits is given
as 5000; of these 7S3 are reported to
be in Prussia.
The Episcopal Bishop of Texas, in
visiting the parishes last year, travelled
$50 miles by railroad, 600 miles by
9S5 by hired or private con-
veyance, and 275 by sail-boat.
SOMEBODY has been foolng the Ooer-
1aad .Nomhy with an original article
from Macauiay's history.
The first gold known to exist i'll what
is now California was discovered by Il
native in the gravel hills of the upper
border of Los Angeles county, in 1888.
Don Abel Stearns, who came here from
Boston in 1929, examined the precious
particles; he subsequently sent speci
mems of the glitering dust to the Phil
adelphia Mint, and received from that
establishment shortly afterward not
only Il recei pit therefor, but gold coins
manufactured from the dust transmit
ted-and tbs in 1888, fifteen years
prior to the real carnival of gold-.San
Francisco Aha.