Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23
Current Items.

Current Items.
CHICAGO is now pronounced the finest
city in America.
NEARLY 100000 sewing machines are
annually sold in this country.
A KANSAS woman sent sixty-four
kinds of jelly to the State Fair.
The value of farms in Massachusetts
has decreased 81 100000 in two years.
THE Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York,
rents for $25O,0O0 year. and its profits
are $350,00O.
THE experiment of lighting ocean
steamers with gas has been made with
great success. The gas was manufac.
tured as it was needed, and no other
light is used upon the vessels so sup
piled.
In noting the claim that lager beer is
not Intoxicating, the Cincinnati Gazette
says: "An analysis of one specimen
made a year ago for this paper showed
6,l90 per cent. of alcohol another
specimen 6,l52 per cent, and third
5,63l.'
The Pail Mall Gazette says that of all
the mistakes people commit, the worst
is the one Of hurrying into new houses
before they are thoroughly dry. 1t is
the damp walls and slowly drying plaster
which mako the undertaken the next
man sought after the house agent.
DIR. DIo LEWIS leaks wisdom as fol,
lows d" Have right good talk, with a
f,Ip hal y,
hearty laughs, with each meal. This
eating alone at restaurant and shovel
ing in the provender in solemn silence
will give dyspepsia to an ostrich
ONE result of the late Franco. Prussian
wal was to add fresh impetus to the
popularity of champagne as a drink.
When the Germans overran the cham
payne districts of France, they found
the wine so delicious that, now they
have got back to Germany, they cannot
do without it. Champagne is in more
demand than ever.
1HE Apaches, VINO are now wnooplng and
kicking up their heels, and numbering
their white brothers in Arizona with the
imminent deadly breech.loading rifle,
have for their chief a profound student
of Shakespeare who, when under the
influence Of his "Great Fathers" favor
ite beverage, talks enthusiastically and
incoherently about the glory of being
ga king of such-sh-Reds and 'Paches.-
World.
Few realize the immense Importance
of Louisiana tibers. The stock of the
banana can be converted into paper,
and may be made valuable for that pur-
pose. The century plant, or aloe, the
palmetto leaf, stock and all, okra stock
and fiber, cotton stalks, cane bagasse,
several wild grasses, wild cane, or reed
cane and ramie, all make good paper
stock. Louisiana could load fleets OF
vessels with these materials.
The Council Bluffs Republican says
CAT the low price OF corn, and the price
it is likely to bring the coming winter,
it will undoubtedly be cheaper for fuel
than coal or wood. We have heard per.
sons who have tried the experiment say
that corn, at 22 cents per bushel of ~
pounds, was cheaper than soft coal at
81 per ton. 1t makes very hot fire,
is easily lighted, will last as long as soft
The Missouri Republican has changed
its form from q tolio to a quarto, and
brings out its first issue with sixteen
pages. 1t is printed on Walter press
the same which is now used by the Lon
don Times. The type impression m ,de
10y this machine is not 50 distinct and
readable as that of the Hoe press, but
this defect Is counterbalanced by the
fact that it prints both sides of the sheet
at once. The Republican, in its new
form, presents remarkably fine appear
ance, and its prosperity is attested by
thirty four columns OF advertisements.
A NEW theory, in opposition to the
old belief that the odor of cut flowers
in close rooms was injurious to those
occupying them, has been advanced by
d writer in Nature, who says that all such
fragrant plants us mint, clover, laven'
der, lemon and cherry laurel develop a
large quantity of ozone when in contact
with atmospheric oxygen in light. 1t
has been recommended that strong
smelling flowers shall be planted around
dwelling houses situated in marshy dis
tricts that they overcome the malaria
by the influence of their perfume. Sc
alter all, flowers, instead of being ex
cluded from the sick-room, oug mt to be
left there as disinfectant.