Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-22

Two Georgia girls raised ~, 900 worth
of cotton last year.
AND now thin plates of metal are COM
ing into use as wall-hangings.
ELKs take the places of draft horses
in some portions of Nebraska.
| REPPED goods are coming into fashion
again, especially Irish poplins.
BILLIARDS is becoming very fashion
able amusement for young ladies.
IT is estimated that 1000 acres of tim
Der are cleared daily in the country.
PENNSYLVANIA proposes constitu-
tional amendment making voting COM
pulsory.
MICHIGAN farmers drive into town with
red-hot stoves in the rear end of their
sleighs. ..
WELLS forty feet deep and over, at
Anoka, Mimi, froze over during the late
cold spell.
The 100, 900 cows of Vermont, by strict
attention to business, make $4,000, 600
per annum.
FRENCH modistes are attempting to re-
vive the medieval chatelaine bodice for
ball dresses.
ANOTHER bed-quilt sheet-the Cincin-
natl Gazette-is about to adopt the
quarto form.
A TENNESSEE newspaper boasts of a
new subscriber who is 101 years old.
Not very new,
AT Sing Sing the convicts complete
l 100 pairs of shoes and 100 pairs of
boots per day. e..
FIFTEEN firms in Cincinnati made last
year drunk with the manufacture of
II ,O3S, S29 gallons of whisky.
The soldiers at Fort Laramie are
obliged to attend prayer meeting or suf-
fer the loss of a months pay.
AN Indiana editor hires band to SER
enade him twice week, and he responds
by column of thanks next day.
The entire product of the lead mines
of Wisconsin since they were first opened
is estimated at nearly $500, 900, 900.
The mysterious name of the "monkey
wrench" was taken from its inventor, Mr..
Monkey, who still lives in New Jersey.
A NEGRO named Williams has been
sent to Jail i'll Salt Lake City as va
grant for lighting his pipe on the street.
WEST NEwBuRY, Conn, has two cats
with six feet apiece. 1t is not stated
whether they can yowl in two yards at
once.
A STEER with no hair on, and tail re-
sembling black-snake whip, occupies
stall at Woodward Gardens, San Fran
cisco. t.. ...
AN Omaha bride was married bare
foot because her lovers kinfolks dressed
that way, and she did not wish to seem
proud. -. .~ D.
In Kansas City, Mo-, it is estimated
that $780, 900 capital has been sunk in
trying to establish unsuccessful news
papers.
A SAN FRANc1sco goldsmith keeps his
apron in safe. Thirty-tive years ago it
weighed only two pounds, and now it
weighs seven.
IT was with regret that our Western
exchanges chronicled the fact that but
few Indians froze to death during the
recent chilliness. .
A MINE of lithographic stone has been
found in Virginia The only other mine
in the world is in Bavaria, and is being
rapidly exhausted.
WISCONSIN has enacted that hotel
keepers may not collect their bills from
boarders who are billeted above the sec
ond floor, unless their rooms be provided
with fire-escapes. ...
A KANSAS man recently drank two
bottles of whisky in fifteen minutes for
wager of 1876, and the loser is looking
for medium who will undertake to con-
vey the amount of the bet to the place of
departed spirits.
IT is said that Germans rarely commit
suicide in their native land yet in New
York city, last year, fully 40 per cent. OF
the cases of self-destruction were among
the Germans. The same ratio, it is said,
will hold good in other places having a
large German population.