Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-03-30
Current IICInS.


The Charity Islands in Saginaw Bay
are to be made Il summer resort.
In the Southern States SlO,952 have
| been raised for monument to General
Lee.
HARRY DICKENS, the novelist's second
son, has just graduated with honor at
Cambridge.
| HAVANA tobacco has been successfully
cultivated on the sandy Illinois rivel
| bottoms above Peoria.
AN invoice of fifty factory girls, i'm,
| ported from Scotland, arrived at Nor
wich, Conn, on Feb. u.
AN autopsy on the Louisville Ledqer
| lately deceased, reveals the fact that il
died of trife too much Bourbon.
A MARRIED woman in Mobile forward
ed an obscene valentine to u widow OF
that city. for which she will pay a fine
of $500 and lie SIX months III the county
jail
THE Mont Cenis Tunnel cost 1916 pei
| linear yard, the cost OF the lloosac tun-
mel is about 5000, and that of the most
expensive in England, the Saltwood, is
only $500.
The Chicago Times says: The differ
cnce is just this; st. Louis is 4 brick
city, but is settled by 'wooden men,
Chicago is wooden city, but lis inhabi-
| tants are bricks.h
SOME idea of the vastucss of St. Paul :
Cathedral, London, is had in the fact
that no fewer than II 900 persons were
under its roof on the occasion of the
royal Thanksgiving.
A NAKED child of John Fcight was
actually baked to death III Woodland
Saull county, Wis, a few days ago. 1t
cfcpt III front of Il hot open wood fire,
and was unable TO escape.
SOMEBODY tells the ScienHfc 1meric2l
OF u way to clear well of carbonic acid
gas. II is to lower red hot iron to the
water, so as to produce a little steam.
The vapor instantly ab3orbs the gas.
An onvious locomotive set fire TO
Brandrcth's pill manutactory at Sing
Sing, on Monday, and our lIspng re
porter says there wathn't a brand reth-
cued from the burning.-Nce0 York
NorM
THREE young men of HaWkinsville,
Ga, recently contended for the orange
eating championship of the State. The
champion got outside OF 2S oranges, II
being the number disposed OF by all
three.
An apparatus has been invented TO be
attached to the bottom of ships, for
sounding an alarm when the keel enters
any stratum of cold water. AS iCcbergs
retrigerate the water 'Or considerable
distance, time'y warning is gwen of the
danger from their proximity.
Tue submarine telegraph cables in
China are suffering from the attacks Of
minute CruStacel SO small rs 10 bcscmce-
ly perceptible to the naked eye. Var.
ious breaks have been traced To the
agency of these animals, who Imbcd
themselves i'll the gutta pelcha.
ApyIcEs from Arizona show that the
massacre al Marines station was COM
mittcd by Indians who entered the
premises ON the pretense of being
friendly, and cut the occupants to pieces
with their knives. They are believed to
have been from the Date Creek reserva-
ton.
AS but comparatively few private res
licences in London or Paris boast OF the
luxury of bath room, there are estab
lishments whlch make u specially OF
sending to your house all the conven
fences for bathing. A cart drives up to
your door with Il barrel of hot water,
slippers, bath, towels, etc, everything
heing prepared. and the necessary ;rti-
clcs removed at the cost OF one shilling.