Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-08
CURRENT ITEMS.

GREAT BRITAIN had II 1876 accidental
deaths last year.
GENERAL MCCLELLAN has gone to
Europe with his family.
INDIANA has just redeemed State
bank bill issued in 1910.
One clergyman in Hartford, Conn.,,
has married 400 couples.
IMPRISONMENT for debt, in England,
will probably soon be done away with.
of raw tomatoes at one sitting the other
day.
A YOUNG lady at Grafton, Ohio, has
made one paper of pins last her eleven
years.
Mr.. MEAcHAM, the Peace Commits
sioner, has been featuring about the
Modocs.
The shrinkage i'll railway stocks
and bonds since the beginning of the
financial stringency is estimated at
5000, 900.
DURING the month of September there
were thirty-six railway accidents in En-
gland, five of them attended by loss of
life, and all causing injuries more or
less serious.
In Paris the old sardine boxes are
gathered up by rag -pickers and sold to
builders, who fill them with mortar and
use them in the construction of cheap
dwelling houses.
) IT IS now announced, on the authority
of that "eminent physician, that it is
not healthy to rise before s o'clock in
the morning. This applies only to men.
Wives rise at seven and start the fire, as
heretofore.
Mr.. HARVEY, the Russian traveller,
tells us that the beauty of Circassiau
women exists only in the imagination
of poets and romancers. He says they
lack nearly all the things which go to
make up beauty.
C. G. FuLroN, editor of the Bali-
more 1merican, says that, during
nearly five months sojourn in Prussia,
Austria, and France, he never encoun-
tered anyone hboring under the effect
of Intoxicating liquors, not even sufi-
. GENTLY exhilarated to be noisy.
, AMONG the members of the Wyo-
a ming Legislature are "Black Jack
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t Shaw" and "Grizzly Graham" The
A Speaker will also have to recognize "the
gentleman from Hen Foot Claim" and
the gentleman from Buffalo Horn
Corners"
l ANNA DICKINSON, in the course of a
: recent lecture in New York, delicately
l advocated the propriety of the abolition
l of the side saddle. It's use, she insisted,
is Injurious both to horse and rider
5 while the practice of riding astride she
: has found, by her own experience, to
be safer and better in every way.
VIRGINIA has the oldest lunatic asy-
lum in America, which is also the oldest
institution of the kind in the world,
3 with single exception. II is at Will
iamsbu g, the seat of William and Mary
College, ard was opened for the recep-
ton of patients a hundred years ago,
namely, on the 18th of October, 1913.
, ARGENT postoffice decision is that if
IL postmaster knows that letter ad-
l.. l. e
person living within the delivery of an
other Office, it is his duty to forward
such letter Gf it has been prop erly pre-
paid), without waiting for a request to
do So and without additional charge for
postage.
, MISSISSIPPI comes from two Indian
words, n,issi, great Cor michi, as some
tribes pronounced iD, and sipi, liver.
Michigan was at first called Michieami,
from michi, great, and gani, lake.
Kentucky means in the Indian torgue
the long river, and Ohio means bear5 j.
full. Alabama is named from an Indian
tribe, and was originally written Alba
mon by the French settlers.
MARTIN L. CONWAY, who shot Pom
eroy, and Moncure d. Conway, now a
resident OF London, are frequently con-
founded since the late episode in Wash
jngtop, and not without reason. Both
figured prominently in Kansas politics );
both are natives of Maryland, of about
the same age, both became noted about
the same time for extreme anti-slavery
opinions; both attained considerable
distinction, and both are very eccentric.
They are in no way related to each
other.
DURING the exercises of the Baptist
bodies of Illinois, at Canton, the other
day, the statement was made by one of
the speakers that the Baptist Church
had increased in the United States, dur
ing the past 30 years, 100 per cent.
This is exclusive of the Free-Will Bap-
fists. Other statistics We're given, show
ing that this was the highest rate of in
crease of any denomination, the next on
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