Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-01
CURRENT ITEMS.
A TEXAS cattleraiser has pasture O
100000 acres.

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100000 acres.
THERE is girl in Minnesota without
any legs who offers $4,000 to any man
who will marry her.
FEMALES are now largely employed as
clerks in drug stores throughout En-
gland, and are said to prove very COM
pctent in the compounding of medicines.
A PHYSICIAN of Naples has transfused
blood from the carotid artery of lamb
into the veins of lady exhausted by
hemorrhage by means of gum elastic
tube.
SOME idea of the mining activity in
Nevada may be formed from the fact
that the United States Mint at Carson
is coming about million dollars a
month.
A LADY in Montpelier, VT, has large
picture of Ruth and Boaz," worked in
worsted, in which there are 500, ,21O
stitches. 1t took eight months to do
the work.
GA MAN who can marry and does not
ought to be damned" is what the Rev.
J. E. Wicks, of San Diego, Cal, is re-
ported to have said in sermon on
marriage.
WITHIN the n years last past New
Orleans and the South have suffered
thirty-five epidemics from yellow fever
The disease shows a marked decline
since 1866.
CHLoRoFoRM has lately been used as
an anasthetic on Il patient during a
journey, so that the ill effects, which
otherwise could not have been borne,
might not be felt.
The New York Times thinks "it
would not be an exaggerated estimate
to say that forty or fifty millions of
greenbacks lie boarded in the negro
cabins of the South"
EBONY weighs S3 pounds to the cubic
foot ignum vitae the same hickory,
50 pounds birch, IS pounds; beech,
40 pounds yellow pine, 3s pounds ;
white pine, 25 pounds cork, Is pounds.
SOME enthusiastic friend of the Cen
tennial Celebration proposes that at
noon on July 4, 1876, all the bells, can
mons, locomotive whistles, organs, trum-
pets, drums, and other musical instru-
ments in the United States "burst forth
in sounds of joy and praise"
DIR. SAMUEL JOHNSON wrote in 1884 {:
"The fate of the balloon I do not much
lament; to make new balloons is to
repeat the jest again. We now know
method of mounting into the air, and l
think we are not likely to know more !"
And who, since some recent events, is
going to call DIR. johnson liar?
EDINBURGH, with no obvious trade, no
manufacturers, no active commercial
life of any kind, and deserted by the
aristocracy, is yet a growing and pros
porous city, with very high degree of
middle-class comfort, and an unusually
high level of culture and refinement. 1t
is eight hours from London in 1853 a
coach ran once a month, and was two
weeks on the road.
SENATOR STEWART, of Nevada, occu-
pies the most costly and elegant of the
new residences at Washington, and it is
probable that Jones, his colleague, who
is millionaire and fond of display, will
not allow Stewart to outshine him.
Thus the biggest splurge in the capital
will be made by the smallest Gn popu-
tion) and least important State in the
| Union.
The growth Of private banking houses
in America bears a close relation to the
rise of similar firms in Europe. Most
of our really solid bankers have been
British, French, and Germans, who, for
some reason, combine responsibility and
penuriousness i'll about equal degrees
Shylock is still the truest type of money
lenders. You want good-nature and
the liberal hand least of all where you
keep your deposits.
THE Emperor of Germany recently
| issued an edict in his role of King of