Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-12
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journalists.
New York has more than | 600 I'M
dcrground residences.
THERE are 1870 notarics public in
the State of Michigan.
ALLIGATOR skin travelling bags arc
among the latest novelties.
THE census shows that there are
35, S1t moro men than women in Wis
consin.
From 100000 to 10,OOO,OOO sheep
are boiled down annually for their tai
low in Bucnos Ayrcs.
A MouNTETANK ut Vienna is exhibit
ing piece of leather which he vouches
for as the work of President Grant.
EVERY Indian band is ready to raise
the war-whoop, and, should war be
probable, every red man will be ready
to hatch-it
The European marine budgets for
1873 amount to $35, 2j6, 1870 for
France, S26, 5GS, 2l5.90 for Russia, and
$40, 9l2. 50 for Germany.
The present population of the princi-
pal cities of Great Britain is as follows:
London, 1886, ,072 Liverpool, 505, ,274 !;
Glasgow, 49S, l62 ; Manchester, 35l, ,057;
Dublin, 81 I, ,G66; Edinburgh, Dos, SOB.
THERE are 100000 dwellings, in the
United States. Admitting that on
the average they cost 81 900 each, which
is a very low estimate, we have s., ,0O0,-
600, 600 invested in the dwellings, of the
people.
THE cotton belt of the South en-
braces an area of three hundred millions
of acrcs-capablo of raising cotton
enough to make shirt for the globe
England uses thousand millions of
pounds II year.
SECRETARY RICHARDSON has given no.
tice that the $50 bonds of 1862, cou-
pons registered, "will be paid on and
after the 9th day of September, 1873,
and that the interest on said bonds will
cease on that day" The total amount
is $50, 100000.
UNTIL recently it was supposed that
water had little motion below fifty
fathoms. 1t is now known, however,
that in certain localities there is motion
i'll the water ut Il depth of 500 fathoms,
nd Ine
source of injury to submarine cables.
TIE United States stands at present
at the head of tobacco consumption,
using 100000 600 pounds year then
follow Austria, G5,00O,000; Germany,
5O,00O,0O0; France, 100000 En-
gland, 10000, 900; Spain, 20,000,00O !;
Belgium, A, 100000; Holland, 3, 900, 900;
Sweden and Norway, 2,3OO, 900; Italy,
2,00O,00O.
TIE Russiaa, Muoii1c of Il very re-
cent date publishes long, descriptive,
and statistical article on Khiva. 1t csti-
mates the number of inhabitants at
$40, 900, and of the capital at 90, 600.
The citadel in the center of the city was
mounted with twenty cannon at the com
mcncemcnt of the war. The Khan can
muster 5000 soldiers in uniform, and
armed with percussion rifles, but quite
untrustworthy. He relied chiefly on the
inacccssibility Of the capital from the
Russian side.
THE coming horse, according to the
Hopkinsvillc Conservative, is Dixie,
from the Philip and Romulus stock,
aud distantly related to the Hamble-
tonians. 1t was bought for 81 900 cash,
and the owner now refuses $25, 600 for
him. Dixie, still unframed, can trot
his mile i'll two minutes and twenty-five
seconds when thoroughly trained it is
said that Dexter must look to his laurels.
Kentucky is favorable ground for
horse culture Two of her horses, re-
Gently shipped to New York by Jcssup
IL Means, brought $1,000 each. Mr..
james Parish has just declined 81, 600
for his trotting mare Lucille, mare
which, still young, promises to bring a
fortune to it's master.
poMADEs FROM HUMAN FAT.-Thc
question is now often suggested, what
will we do with our dead, and the advo-
Gates of incrcmation arc increasing We
doubt, however, if any of our readers
are economical and matter-of fact
enough to be pleased with the method
pursued by some gravediggers in
Palermo. These practical men, it
seems, were III the habit of cutting up
plump, ilcshy corpses, boiling them, and
using the grease thus obtained for max
ing salves and pomades. 1t is needless
to say that as soon as knowledge OF
this trade reached the authorities the
business wasinterrupted by some arrests.
ONE of the most remarkable banking
enterprises that ever came under oul
notice was that of the Farmers Bank
which collapsed in this city some two
weeks ago. At II meeting of the credit