Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-08-23
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The London Times is said to have
netted its owners 81, 100000 (gold) last
year. Profitable Thunder.
The Cherokees of North Carolina,
numbering about 1000, will soon re-
move to the Indian Nation.
NJ. MAaNE, MacMahon's Minister of
Finance, proposes to levy tax of
10000, 900 francs on the French press.
A WIDOW lady in Chester county, Pa.
recovered $50 damages from neighbor
whose chickens did violence to her gar
den.
AN Illinois farmer who kept strict ac-
count with his corn crops for 10 years
reports that the average cost was 29l
cents bushcl.
QUEEN VICTORIA has dairy of 60
cows, and she sells good deal of but
ter, but the less she sells the more
money she makes.
LAUGHING photographs are becoming
the rage, and various devices are resort
ed to by photographers to get up grin
on the face of the sitter.
A VOTER praising favorite candidate
at a late Irish election, said, "He is as
fine Il fellow as ever lifted a hat to a
lady or a boot to blackguard."
THE London Swimming Club have
had their annual race. The distance
was l 900 yards, and the time made by
the winner was seventeen minutes.
TH' wealthiest and most fourishing
railroad corporation represented in Chi
cago has the worst depot arrangements
of any railway terminating in the city.
The heaviest brain on record was re-
Gently found in the skull of London
bricklayer who could neither read nor
write. 1t weighed sixty seven ounces
Fiery years ago there We're only few
hundred thousand tons of coal raised III
Germany, where now about 10000, 900
tons are mined as cheaply as iii England
before the price advanced.
HOWARD GLYNDoN, the poetess and
fiction writer, is deaf and dumb. Hcr
real name is Miss Laura G.. Redlon,
and she is now at Whipple's school at
Ledyard, Conn, learning the process of
hp-reading.
THERE are in Chicago's new hotel, the
Grand Pacific, fifty-nine flights of stairs,
thirty-eight miles of wire, 900 windows,
and ], ,O70 doors. The estimated cost of
the hotel was 100000. The actual
cost was 81 $4,000.
THE total annual consumption of tea
in the United States is about so, 600, 900
pounds, of which 10000, 900 is green
tea of various descriptions, about 49,
100000 Oolong, and the remainder
japanese and other varieties.
THE kalloun which the Shah smokes
on ceremonious occasions is covered all
over with pearls, brilliants, rubies and
This huge sum, if converted into con
soils, would produce an income of CO, 400
per annum.
AN English paper makes mention of
an enormous egg sent to the editor as
curiosity. 1t weighed 10! ounces, and
measured round the center eight inches.
Round the ends it measured 12I inches.
On saving the shell open, lengthwise,
it was found to contain two ordinary
yolks.
The Singer Sewing Machine Company
building, in Chicago, which was recent
ly damaged by fire to the extent of
1915, 900 or 100000, was one of the
finest structures in the city, having been
built at cost of 100000. The finish
was of the most elaborate and costly
character, in the style of Stewards
palace, i'll New York.
A NEW lock patent is out. 1t consists
in the attachment of an alarm clock to
II combination lock, which renders pick
ing or unlocking of the lock impossible
until the designated hour. The clock is
set upon the inside of the safe, and the
safe can be opened by no person, even
with knowledge of the combination,
until the appointed time.
A RAT ran up the interior of an ele-
plants trunk at Paris. The elephant
made frantic efforts to relieve himself of
this unwelcome visitor, but in vain.
Suddenly he paused and seemed to re-
fleet then he went to his basin, filled
his trunk with water, and amid the
great excitement of the lockers on,
elected the water and the unfortunate
rat with one sublime effort.
SAID an Hishman to the telegraph
operator, ''Do you ever charge anybody
for the address of message?" "No," I"
replied the operator. "And do We charge
for signing his name, sir ?" said the Gus
toner. "No, SIR" "Well, then, will
ye please send this? I just want my
brother to know / am here" handing
the following: "To John M'Flinn-at
New York-(signed) d)-Patrick M Finn. ="
1t was sent as Il tribute to Patrick's s
shrewdness.
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