Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-09-20
TTRRENT r ITEMS,

FRED. DOUGLASS employs white
coachman.
THE watch factory at Elgin is assessed
ut $3.50, 900.
or Du0ib Inim0is wants the OK.
yoke abolished and harness substituted.
The Virginia Educational Convention
has voted against teaching girls algebra.
ESGLrsu capitalists have invested five
millions dollars in the coal and iron
business i'll Georgia.
T.. HANNAFoRD & Co., subscription
book publishers, have matured plan Of sell
ing books that enables their agents to coin
money. See advertisement.
The London Daily 7clegraph claims
to have the largest circulation of any
daily paper in the world.
CHLoRoFeRM will remove paint from
garment or elsewhere, when benzole
or bi-sulphide of carbon fails.
GEORGE BRANCH, of Leavcnworth,
blowed into the muzzle of his shotgun
and the gun beat him at his own game
THE population of New Haven is
about $1,000, and there are 600 per-
sons who are 70 years old and upward.
A NEBRASKA man who beat his wife
with Il harness tug was soundly tlogged
by fourteen women, a crowd of men
standing by to see fair play.
SOMETHING THAT TAKEs-The three
fold combination agency for selling Wealth
and Wonders Cf he BOuadleSS West" There
is much Sa'e money in it. See advertisement.
THOSE who have recently seen Cap
tain Jack deny that he is going into a
decline They say he looks dirty and
greasy and is rs fat as a well-fed pig.
A BROTHER in ii prayer meeting at La
Crosse added to his prayer: "And that
fellow who stole my horse--hit him with
a thunderbolt before he gets over into
Iowa
INDUSTRY isn't always rewarded. A
Sing Sing convict worked eighteen
months on Il false key, and it was taken
away from him the day he had it com
pleted.
The question of taxing church prop
erty is now widely discussed. Ohio loses
Sl50,000 in taxes yearly because $25,-
554, 725 of church property is exempt
from taxation.
CONGRESS- has passed Il law, which
will go into effect on the 1st of October,
that cattle in transit on railroad trains
shall receive food and drink at least
once i'll twentyfour hours.
AN English reviewer says there is
more poetry written now i'll one year
than was written during the whole of the
eighteenth century, and dyspepsia has
increased in the same proportion.
In 1872, there were eaten in Paris
10000 horses, 80 mules, so ml;les and
900 a. ses. The amount of horsedesh
consumed has doubled since 1869. Hip
pophagy is on the steady increase.
IT is reported that the question of an
international meri lian is about to be
discussed by the Academy of Science,
Paris, and that the English meridian
will probably be adopted.
The New York papers print Il fable
about Il man applying at IA Brooklyn
editors Office for work, and, during the
EDITORS absence, stealing pocket book
containing 800 from coat hanging i'll
the editorial rooms.
A PLANTER in jackson county, Flori-
da, claims that four mocking birds have
prevented the caterpillar from destroy
ing twelve acres of cotton, and the
Southern farmers are now listening to
the mocking bird.
AT recent session of the county
court held at Portland, Oregon, in com
pliance with petition to that effect, it
was decreed that the newly elected Sena-
tor from that State should be legally en-
titled to answer to the name of John
Nipple Mitchell.
If Columbus had put one dollar at in
terest, six per cent. compound, when he
landed upon this continent, at this time
it would amount to over 81, 900, 900, 900.
If one of the pilgrims had put 5000 at
six per cent. compound interest, to-day
it would amount to enough to purchase
the New England States at assessed
value.
We are curiously reminded that the
New World is becoming an old world by
the recent discovery "f .";"' ol three
spanish cities in the mountains of Tala-
manca, Costa Rica. A century has
passed since those cities were inhabited,
and among the ruins is fort with can
non all decayeda and rusty. The remains
OF the first white settlement in America
should be as interesting to American
antiquarians as the beggar- infested
relics of ancient Rome.
AN ARTIST IN BUTTER.