Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-12-20

IHE annual eaten OF COullSn is valued
at S15, 600, 900.
THE Modoc glory cost the Govern
ment 81, 600, 600.
BEN WooD won $50, 900 onsthe result
of the Ohio election.
GIN. BURNSIDE bankers after
Sprague's Senatorial mantle.
THE time for building fires with kero-
sene has about come around.
THERE are sixteen American sculp-
tors in Rome and eleven i'll Florence.
RHODE ISLAND is the richest territory,
IN proportion to its square miles, on the
face of the whole earth.
\ VERMONT woman, who recently fol-
lowed the remains of her irregular hus-
band to the grave, remarked that she
had one consolation, she knew now
where he slept nights.
Mrs. ELLEN TUprER, who is called
the Bee Queen of Iowa, is considered
the best living authority on everything
relating to breeding and hiving bees,
their habits and diseases.
The workingmen OF Detroit have
matured plan for forming ward or
ganizations, with a central committee
for the purpose of securing employ
ment and relief for each other during
the coming winter.
Ir is stated that during the year end
ing August 81, there We're thirteen hun
dred railroad accidents i'll this country,
resulting in the death of three hundred
andforty-one persons and injuring four
teen hundred and ten.
INK is one of the things in which
modern science seems to have made very
little improvement. An analysis of the
ink found ON a manuscript of the year
go showed that its composition WAS
similar to that of the inks now i'll gen
eral use.
WHEN different colors are mixed to-
gether the result is not the destruction
of any of the coloring elements
OF their chemical combination. The
microscope shows that the particles of
each of the colors entering into the mix
tllre remain entirely separate and I'M
changed.
AN English veterinarian adduces
facts to show that rabies or canine mad
ness is very rare in extreme southern
temperatures, while it is of frequent
occurrence i'll the temperate zone. The
disease is less frequent in Spain and
southern Italy than in other European
countries.
VARIOUS practical experiments in the
Il IA trIn
that the cold weather is coming on.
can be studied by those who are obliged
to get up early; and interesting facts
concerning the effect of friction ON
matches, and heat on coal and wood,
may be CLEANED by those whose duty it
is to light the fire.
RENr-universal rent--is the cancer
that eats out the vitals OF Ireland Be
fore the famine year, the rents paid by
1,OO0,O0O of farmers aggregated SlO,-
000,00 to $4,000, 600. Six hundred
thousand farmers now pay an aggre-
gate of nearly $50, 000, 900 and the
tOwnspcoplc pay %l0,00O,0 900 more
making one hundred millions year of
rent drained out of this island anG spent
in Great Britain.
4 FRENCH savant has been expert
meptinS upon llimself-not however i'll
the interests of science-to decide
whether tobacco is injurious to the
mental faculties. While he was II user
of tobacco he observed Il rapid decay in
the faculty of memory and after six
years of resolutc abstinence from the
use of the weed i'll amy form he enthusi-
astically declares that he has expert
enccd veritahle resurrection of health,
mind, and memory.