Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05
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WE learn that flax has been cultivated
in Egypt for 5000 years.
ILLINOIS raises a tobacco crop worth
more than 81, 0O0, 900 yearly.
SEVEN women of st. Louis are going
to start job printing Office.
The Iowa Wesleyan University has
organized class of journalism.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
Iars have already been expended to keep
Stokes from the gallows.
The London Times says there is dan
ger of Americas degcnerating into II
fourth-class nation like Spain.
SIXTEEN miles in thirty nine minutes
is the latest call of time made by the
steamer Mary Powell on the Hudson.
The San Francisco papers say the
Chinese immigrants simulate the small
pox in order to facilitate the smuggling
OF opium. For "ways that are dark p"
who can equal the heather Chincc?
"A PITTSBURGH paper made rather
ridiculous blunder recently, and yet
there was only one letter out of place.
The editor said "thc Legislature pasted
(passed) the bill over the Governors
head"
THERE is a youth living in Alexandria,
Va, who is about to proceed to Boston
for the purpose of starting from Bunker
Hill on tour through the Northern
States, carrying the Confederate flag un-
flrlcd.
The brewers and maltsters of the
State of New York have about 800, ,0O0,-
600 invested in the business and employ
$4,000 pcrsons-not counting those en-
gagged i'll dispensing and drinking their
products.
CURRENT PARAGRAPH: "Thc two hun
drcd divorce lawyers of Chicrgo are in
mourning over the silver wedding that
occurred there inadvertently last week.
They ask for a suspension of public
opinion, since this is the first time they
have slipped up"
The editor of the San Francisco
Chronicle, after stating that he has "no
desire to engage in a personal con-
trovcrsy," proceeds to characterize the
editor of a rival newspaper as "a
drunken and cowardly idiot, who dis
graces journalism.
DANIEL BooNE's rifle, shot pouch,
powder horn, hunting knife, and sec
tion of II beech log on which he cut his
name and the date, 1774, are in the pub
lie library at Louisville, Ky. The
wooden stopper of the powder horn still
bears the marks of his teeth.
THE towers of the Cathedral of
Cologne have reached the height of two
hundred and thirty feet The construc-
ton of the spires, which are to bring
the total height up to six hundred feet,
will be commenced. Six years more are
required for terminating the work.
TIE bridge now in process of erection
across the river Tay, in Scotland, will
be, when completed, the largest iron
bridge in the world, and already takes
rank as the most important engineering
work now being carried out in Great
Britain. Its total length from shore to
shore is 1920 feet.
PLANTANouR, proprietor of the comet
which destroyed the earth ON the 18th
of August last, is now in Paris. He
has Il paper which he desired to read
before the Academy, in which he demon
strates that the sun S heat is decreasing
and that we shall all be frozen to death
about the year Poll.
AN artist from Il New York illustrated
paper visited the steamer Frolic recent
ly, by permission of the Secretary of
the Navy, to take the portrait of Capt.
Tyson and the crew of the Polaris, but
they positively declined to allow their
pictures to be taken, and declined to
give any reason for their refusal.
Or the Connecticut State Senators
four are farmers, five arc manufacturers,
four lawyers, four merchants, one
butcher, one auctioneer, one surveyor,
and one carpenter. Of the 241 members
of the House 1l5 are farmers, Is are
lawyers, s clergymen, 81 merchants, 6
physicians, and the rest are divided up
among various callings and pursuits.
THERE is now ON foot the gigantic
project of tunncling the Rocky Noun
tains. The investigation has been
thorough, and the conclusion is that the
project is feasible in every particular
The idea is to tunnel the mountains
from boint about one mile below
Black Hawk to the Middle Park, run