Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-08-09
CURRENT ITEMS.
e Shah cost Victoria S45, 900.

CURRENT ITEMS.
The Shah cost Victoria $4,000.
CONNECTICUT is the heaviest hardware
manufacturing State in the Union.
GEN. BRAGG, he of "grape notorie-
ty, is getting up water works at Atlanta,
Ga.& N'F -,- ~
OVER the entire North of Ireland the
crops are reported to look exceedingly
well. = 7ss-v. -gs "a ,-
BEES have been found in trees on the
Sierras at an altitude of eight thousand
feet.
THE English cavalry are to have
spiked helmets in lieu of the present
shake.
MEMPHIS has a population of sixty
thousand inhabitants and one thousand
liquor saloons.
BREcKINRIDaE and Buckner are at
Blue Lick Springs, Ky. 1t is not
their first experience in taking blue
ickings." -
JAPAN is the place to start a newspa-
per. The Mikado orders that all men
of certain social and political circles
shall subscribe to the new Japanese ps-
per or be beheaded.
The amount of tobacco paying duty
and cleared for consumption i'll Great
Britain steadily increases. Thus in
1S41 it averaged 13, OF. per capita in
1851, 16t o.; in 1861, 19h o.; and i'll
1871, 21l OF.
IT appears from the statistics that the
percentage of insanity and idiocy in the
United States is greater among the
whites than among the blacks. Among
the former the insane number one in
/ 943; among the latter only one in
k2,75o.
THE new Chicago directory contains
LOO pages and 1873, 070 names. S COM
mences the names of IA, 400 persons; b
13,9S4, and W4,000. The Browns num-
der 705; the Clarks, 432 the Millers,
1858 ; the Cooks, 233; the Smiths,
f;6F2.
ITs6s said that new hotel, to be
called Athe Centennial, which is to
eclipse everything in that line in this
Scountry, and rival the Grand Hotel in
Paris, is to be built in Philadelphia in
Time to accommodate the visitors to the
centennial celebration.
E~Mog31 1nn$799, upon which
eighteen est had accumu-
lated, was declafeo hull and void at
Lyons, N. Y, recently, on the ground
that $25 paid for services in procuring
the money for which the mortgage was
given constituted usury.
RUSSIA beats us in old men. One has
just passed away at Nijui- Novgorod at
the age of 1877, having been born in
1746. He served as cook to Catharine
H., and was in the ranks of the Russian
army all through the campaign from
1895 to 1914. His oldest son is SO.
DIR. HERMANN KLEIN, remembering
Haeckel's remark that in matters of de-
velopment we have UNLIMITED time to
draw upon, has written a pamphlet on
the age of the earth, in which he asserts
that is about 9, 100000 900 years since
the old mother of us all began to cover
herself with crust.
The Hot Springs, Ark, are believed
to have been flowing for $500 years, so
that they may lay claim to respectable
ty through antiquity. De Soto was
there; so was Ponce De Leon. Both
wrote glowing accounts of the waters to
the Old World, and for ages their pre-
vious virtues were handed down by abo-
riginal traditions.
For Frenchmen, who have been pay
ing SO heavy taxes for the German war
indemnity, to celebrate the 5th Of No
vember as Evacuation Day, would seem
q most natural, and, to the unofficial
mind, most proper, proceeding The
French Government thinks differently,
for reasons of it's own, which are not
given, and has forbidden any such cele-
bration.
The following is said to be an approx
mately correct classification of the adher-
ents of the various churches among En-
glish-speaking people: Protestant Epis-
copalians, 12.500,OO0; Presbyterians,
11,5OO, 900; Baptists, 100000 0; Con-
gregationalists, 100000 Methodists,
15,OO0,00O; Roman Catholics, 10000
O00-57, 100000 of Professionals, against
100000 of Roman Catholics.
In his late work on the "Physiology
of Circulation" DIR. Pettigrew gives the
following as the rate of the heart beats
IN man at different periods of life: In
the human fetus the heart beats ut 40
times per minute; at birth, 1870 second
year after birth, 100; third year, 90 I;
fourteenth year, 80; middle age, 40 !;
old age, 60, or even less. The varia-
ton i'll the beat of the heart in the low
err animals is still more remarkable.
FROM series of very curious EXPERT
mants inst mazda II oppoore +I,t A. .