Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-08-30
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600 cigars yearly.
THE fish-hook trade has been wonder
fully lively of late.
NINE cities of us will have industrial
exhibitions this fall.
A MILTON, N. Y, firm builds 1000
wheelbarrows week.
A CARLOAD of Chinese emigran iar
rived in Chicago last week.
The Indians of British Columbia are
fond of broiled white man.
THE San Francisco mint is turning
out 81, 900, 600 in gold coin every month.
| THIRTY-s1x pages is the least bit of a
love-letter that will be accepted by the
| Nashville belle.
Iowa, besides grain-growing capac-
ity equal to the whole of England and
Wales, has 20, 900 square miles of coal
fields.
THE vintage of the Australian vine
yards is estimated mt 800, 600 gallons;
that of California for 1872 WAS 4, 900, 900
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gallons.
The editor of Nevada ncwspape
! gives notice that hereafter he cannot be
bribcd with five cent cigar to write a
five dollar puff
FARMERS oranges have been estab-
lished at Kensington and Hampton,
Conn, and others are to Immediately
follow in different parts of the State.
THE whole number of deaths in this
country during the year 1870, from all
causes, was about 100000. OF these
lightning caused 202, and stroke
397.
DURING recent spell of weather
at Walla Walla, Oregon, the Their
mometer remained steadily at 100 de-
grees in the shade for seven successive
days.
BosToN has Modoc base club.
The players dress in Il variety of fantas-
tic "uniforms,' presenting a very
laughable appearance, and play a strong
game.
The work of rebuilding the burnt dis
trict # Baltimore has been fairly be-
gun, but the papers are still urging
the opportunity of making the site a
city park.
BY very unfortunate oversight
everything relating to the important
subject of mortality statistics is entirely
omitted from the new compendium of
the census.
A WEALTHY and eccentric citizen of
New York committed suicide the other
day. He willed his head to physician
for dissection, and the balance of his
body to his brother-in-law.
The young women who will study at
Michigan University during the next
college year number So, of whom will
study law, 81 will study medicine, and
IL will pursue the academic course.
The Oshkosh northwestern learns
that prairie chickens are very plenty
this season, more SO than i'll several
years in some localities. The probable
tiles are that ducks will be extraordi-
narily plentiful.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, has seven daily
papers, and the Dispatch, claiming 49,
600 circulation, comedies to the Gozcttc
$500; Post, $500; Commercial, $500;
Chronicle, 5000; Leader, 1900, and
Telegraph, 1880.
The photographers recently in con-
vention in Buffalo spent the greater part
of their time i'll discussing the question
whether photographer could be called
an artist, and finally, by close vote,
they decided that he could.
IT is noted that the Germans in Ten
nessee have, without exception, escaped
the clutches of the cholera They as
cribe the fact to the use of lager beer
instead of whisky and brandy, and not a
few say they owe safety to onions.
The Emperor of Russia has, for some
years, says London letter, been sup
posed to be suffering from softening of
the brain, though, of late, there seems
to be suspicion that his malady is akin
to that which carried off the Emperor
Napoleon.
The lightning struck nineteen times
within Il radius of a mile in Brattlcboro,
VT, during IL recent thunder storm !;
while the usual number of strokes for Il,
single shower is said to be three or four,
and seven is the rgest number pre-
viously reported.
A CORRESPONDENT III New York
paper suggests q national boarding
house in Washington for the accommo-
dation of members of Congress, where
they could draw ratlons the same as sol
diers. He says that by this plan their
salaries could be reduced to about So, 500
Il year.
HERE is terse epitome of certain
phase of life on the Pacific coast All
Foy gambled and lost at San Diego
July 10, and demanded back the money.
He accused the others of cheating, the