Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-03-29
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AN Ohio man has invented new kind
of buggy-wheel withont any hub OF
felloes. -
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, has opened bed
of lithographic stone, pronounced by
Philadelphia experts equal to the best
Bavarian.
MIR. WM. Copy, otherwise known as
Buffalo Bill" made a visit of inspec-
ton to Yale College last week under the
guidance of Prof. Marsh.sSxs
"a COMPANY has been gakized at San
Francisco, with aearSkai Hodk of $780,
|; 900, .fofithe publication n a newspaper
called the Vine Dealers Gazette.
OREGON is estimated to contain about
81 100000 acres of land, of which the
Government has surveyed up to june 30,
1872, only 10,140, 2sl acres, or, a little
over one-sixth of the entire area. y
IT is incorrectly stated that Bayard
Taylor intends to reside permanently in
Germany. He will return home in about
a year and half, according to his pres
ent plan, and will live in New York.
MARK TWAIN says that eighteen or
nineteen years ago the population of
the Sandwich Islands was 400, 900. Then
the people were happy and alarmingly
prosperous. Civilization reached them,
and in two years the natives numbered
only 100000. He thinks a few more
seminaries would finish them completely.
HENRY sWARD BEEcHER describes fash
ionab1e. religion as beautiful suit of
broadcloth and magnificent suit of
silk, locked arm in arm, and walking to
Grace Church and sitting and listening
to resplendent music, surrounded by
respectable people that send cards
through their scoachmen's hands to each
other. s@s y
THREE. milton Of dollars were invest
ed in 1860 ii this country in the manu-
facture of silk Now $1,000 operatives
are employed Nthe business, earning
IS, 900, 600 num. The growth of
mulberry treessior this purpose is still
limited in eiea, and the machinery
is so inferios -the raw silk must be
sent to EuroRsto be reeled.
The mada( woman in the United
States of AmeISSa is the one that lives at
jackson, Me Ind recently lent her fifty
dollar muff to a female acquaintance,
who sported II; alta small -pox funeral !;
who sent it home with neat little note,
stating this fact, and that as she "had
sprinkled it with benzine, the owner need
not fear catching the disease"
CARLorrA PATTI was born in Italy. The
oldest Patti girl, Amelia, who married
Strakosch, was born there, while Car
lotta and Adelina was born in New Or
leans. Their parents were poor, the
father being a fruit-peddler, suspected
of organ grinding antecedents. Car
lotta's lameness is owing to hip dis
ease in early life, which left one leg sew
eral inches shorter than the other
The annual report of the Philadelphia
Health Officer has just been made.
There We're 2O,072 births. and 2O,544
deaths in the city last year. The num-
Der of marriages was 6,496, and from
1860 to 1872 inclusive there were 211 ,033
births, 76, 126 marriages, and 200,94s
deaths. Last years figures will not be
as satisfactory to the local social econo-
mist as they might, but 1872 was an ex-
ceptionally unhealthy one.
The Southerners are engineering a
great cotton pool, the admission to
which is IS, to test the skill of competi-
tors in making estimates of the crop of
1872. The person coming nearest the
number of bales in the crop, as deter
mined by the Financial Chronicle of
Sept. l, 1878, is to have all the money in
the pool. Each competitor is to inclose
his estimate, with his IS, in letter to
G. w. Trotter, Secretary of the Augusta,
Ga, Exchange.
AN ingenious machine has been in
vented for spreading mortar on walls.
1t consists of trough three and IL half
feet long, furnished with two trowels,
one above the other, and the mortar is
spread by the moving of the trough up
the wall between two upright scantling,
by means of pulleys worked by crank.
The inventor claims that the machine
effects great saving of labor, time and
expense. ~A
;y.z.r. THE La TEST DOG STORY.
The dog seems to grow more intelli-
gent every day. The latest story is told
by the EllenYille On. W Press:
ga few days since. while Mr.. II. G.