Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-09-06
CURRENT ITEMS.
BASEBALL has invaded Japan.


THE Tichborne litigation has cost to
date over 100000.
GEN. FREMONT owns little island
near Mt. Desert, Me.
JOSEPHINE MANSFIELD is under treat
ment in Paris for cancer.
THEY who talk much should beware of
those who listen attentively.
THE Bishop of Winchester had a can
Ger at the root of his tongue.
Ir is better to retrace wrong step,
than to pursue wrong course.
A CALIFORNIA dog revealed murder
by bringing home a human arm.
THE Louisville Couricr-Jo",mat says
ex-President Taylors grave near that
city is neglected and forgotten.
Ir is mistake to suppose that they
who hearken attentively to our Ian
guage believe every word we may say.
The fact that no monument marks
the birthplace of Washington is being
commented upon as II national dis
grace.
A TEMPERATURES of eighty five degrees
is such extraordinary head in Lon
don that it is considered worthy of a
cable-telegram.
The Reading penn Dispatch ejacu
1,to 70 fhot
Gen. VIM. T. Sherman will succeed
President Grant.
PnoF. TYNDALL is trying to invent a
light by which the bottom of a lake COW
cred with sixty feet of water can be
searched with the eye.
The placing of the SIG, 900, 900 bonds.
which it is desired to raise for the pur-
pose of the Centennial Exposition, is
being negotiated for with Jay Cooke
& Go.
The Pope has decided that, notwith-
standing the charitable objects of the
order, Free Masons are liable to excom-
munication, like members of any other
secret society.
AS some boys were flying a kite, late
ly, in field near Woodstock, Ont, it
was attacked by a small hawk, which
got entangled in the paper and cord, and
was secured.
CURRY powder is now used by blondes
for dressing their hair, just as it some
times is by cooks for dressing their rab-
bits. OF course curry comb is the
implement with which it is applied.
HEINE hated England and the En-
| glish. He said once: 81 am firmly
convinced that disappearing French
man is spectacle more pleasing in the
eyes of the Lord that praying En-
glishman.
The women of Wyoming are in arms,
not socially but politically. They
propose to nominate one or two ladies
as candidates for the Legislature, and
support the party which ratities the
nomination.
IT is confidently asserted that black
teeth will soon come into fashion. A
dye for them has already been discov-
cred. 1t will be novelty for the love
sick poet to indite sonnets to the "ebon
teeth" of his Dulcinea.
The populations of Tweed and his
confreres amounted to thirty millions OF
dollars. Two years have expired since
New York city and the country were
astornded at this stupcndous stealing,
yet not Il dollar has been disgorgcd and
nobody brought to punishment.
THE whole amount of the national
debt of Great Britain is close upon
$3, 466, 773, 100; tho dividends of which
are paid at the Bank of England half
yearly. For looking after this little
matter of three billion-odd dollars,
the Government pays one million dol
lars.
PARIS is said to be suffering. Its
commerce is languishing. Work is hard
to get and very precarious, and the poor
suffer even more anxiety than from
present actual privation. The war did
enormous harm to Paris by engender-
ing habits of idleness, drunkenness, and
INSTRUMENTATION. 1t is hoped that the
departure of the Germans from France
will improve the state of things.
The Hon. w. T. Cody, the original
Buffalo Bill" J. B. Omohundro,
otherwise "Texas jack" and J. b.
Hickok, known as "Wild Bill are to
travel with their own combination dur
ing the coming season, acting in Fred.
G.. Marder's drama OF "Butfalo Bill, "
and another new drama of the same
author A corps of Indians will be
among the attractions.
OUR fences are valued at one thousand
eight hundred millions of dollars, and
it costs nincty-eight millions of dollars
to keep them in repairs. Illinois has
two million dollars invested in fences,
sixty per cent of which are boards,
post and rail, and forty per cent. wire
and hedges. These fences cost one hun
dred and seventy-fve thousand dollars
nanually for repairs.