Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-29


THERE are now 36 oranges in Penn
sylvania.
MCMAHON has suspended twenty
journals.
THE italian budget shows deficiency
of nearly $4,000, 900 francs.
The average life of a Jew exceeds
that of a Christian five years. -
THE German navy consists of but
forty-two ships, carrying 3O7 guns.
old that produce tea worth five dollars a
pound.
IT is generally conceded that Speaker
Blaine will be reelected without serious
opposition.
SANDUsKY, Ohio, has a machine that
beheads and dresses from sixty to ninety
fish per minute.
Much of the business of the dead
letter Office arises from letters from
which the stamps have become de-
tached.
Col. JOHN HARPER and Fletcher
Harper, with five sons of the original
firm, compose the present house of Har-
per & Bros.
GEN. SHERMAN's report, which is
nearly complete, shows that our army is
down to twenty-five regiments, embrace
ing about $4,000 men.
A BABY in New Bedford has won i'm
mortal renOwn by swallowing thirty
seven buttons -four Of them brass), an
iron sewingmachine nut, gold sleeve
button, and a thimble.
ABOUT two millions more of the ordi.
nary postage stamps were issued to
postmasters during the month of Octo-
Der than during any previous month in
the history of the Postoffice Depart
ment.
PRoFANE swearing is abominable
Vulgar language is disgusting. Loud
laughter is impolitic. Inquisitiveness
is offensive. Tattling is mean. Telling
falsehood is contemplate. Ignorance
is disgraceful. Laziness is shameful
Avoid all the above vices, and aim at
usefulness.
A YOUNG German from Baltimore was
arrested at the Executive Mansion, in
Washington, the other day, while en-
deavoring to see the President in order
to obtain from him SIS, 900, 600, which
he claimed the President owed him. He
was put on the train for Baltimore, be-
ing evidently a lunatic.
SAYS the London Court Journal !.
"The habit of fourishing manufactur-
ers, brewers, bankers, and iron-masters
purchasing Scottish estates, is demoraliz-
ing Scotland. All the old hereditary
chieftains are disappearing as totally as
the English yeomen, and the clansmen
are being disinherited of their rights in
the soil"
The second thought is often the best
The Michigan Constitutional Conven-
ton has not only reconsidered it's re-
cent refusal to make women eligible to
school offices, but it has also rendered
her eligible to positions as registrars
of deeds, notaries public, and to such
other offices as the Legislature may see
tit to designate.
EX-PREsIDENT FILLMORE, and four
surviving members of his old Cabinet
Conrad of Louisiana, Secretary of War;
Hall, of New York, Postmaster General Z;
Graham, of North Carolina, Secretary
of the Navy ; and Stewart, of Virginia,
Secretary of the Interior-are expected
to visit Washington this winter for Il
friendly reunion.
A MAN in Eldora, Iowa, married again
the week after his wife's death, and his
neighbors gave him a deafening, chari-
vari. The bridegroom finally appeared
at window and administered scath-
ing rebuke to the crowd, in this manner
Amt you ashamed of yourselves to be
making noise about my house, when a
funeral took place here but four days
ago?'
PURITAN was name first applied in
1864, to English Non conformists. They
were class of individuals who wished
for wider separation from the Roman
Catholic Church, than the Established
Church of England seemed to afford
them. They professed to follow the
pure Word of God, in opposition to
traditions, human constitutions, and
other authorities. They were very for
NAL and precise i'll their manners, singu-
lar in their forms of legislation, and
rigid in the observance of their prin-
ciDleS