Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-24
CURRENT ITEMS.

A SCHOOL history of the United States
has been prepared by A. II. Stephens,
of Georgia.
A coRoNER's JURY in Kentucky took
the liberty of finding a man guilty of
murder, and sentenced him to Jail for
life.
Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE has Just been
elected chairman of the Maine Repub-
lican State Committee, for the fifteenth
time.
CALFoRNIA anticipates n Chinese emf
grafton of $4,000 this year, and CON
siders it can alarming condition of
affairs.
A WESTERN paper announces that
board for the summer can be obtained
at large and shady brick gentleman's
residence.
ACCORDING to the last census there
are in the United States 81 ,S5S male
physicians and surgeons, and 525 female
physicians.
The wall around the city of Khiva is
ten feet high, and has Just been strength
ened with hanking towers and mounted
with sixty guns.
The fisheries of the United States,
according to the census, employs 20,50i
persons, and their products are valued
at $11 ,606,5l2.
Or the $3.50, 400 acres of land in the
Pennsylvania oil region, drilled over and
accepted as oil territory, only ), IA acres
have ever produced oil.
CINCINNATI talks again of monument
to Gen. William Henry Harrison, and
proposes to erect it on the one hundrcdth
anniversary of his birth.
MASSACHUSETTS, produces goods to the
value of 1888, 9l2, 800 annually, and four
counties alone produce 1896, O00, 900
worth of the aggregate amount.
Gov. WooDsoN, of Missouri, has par
doned convict with condition that if he
becomes intoxicated by the use of strong
drink he shall be remanded to prison.
TIE Bccchcr family have written Il
library The collected works of Ly-
man, Charles, Edward, Henry, Catha
rine and Harriet would fill an alcove at
Harvard or Yale.
IT is curious fact that the farmer OF
Illinois or Missouri must sell two bush
els of ripe corn to get money enough t.
buy n can of sweet corn put up greer
and holding less than one quart.
GEN. JAMES SHIELDS is the only MAJ
who ever represented two States in tn,
United States Senate. At one time h,
was Senator from Illinois, and subse
quently Senator from Minnesota.
, ONE of the corpses picked up at the
Atlantic wreck had on a quilted vest
and in every diamond of the quilting
there was a sovereign, there being in al
about eighty, equal to about 300.
A FATHER and two sons, II few year,
ago, married three sisters in Iowa. Tn,
undutiful sons have driven their I'M
happy parent to the verge of insanit,
, by trying to explain the relationship o
their children.
AN inquiring man at Albany thrus
his fingers into horses mouth to Sc,
| how many teeth the horse had. TIL,
horse closed his mouth to see how man,
fingers the man had. The curiosity o
each was fully satisfied.
Mr. GUNGLE, butcher of Princeton
Wis, hung his rifle from the ceiling
muzzle downward, the other day, ex
tended himself on the bed beneath ant
in the range of the weapon, and thcl
worried the thing off with stick. The
bullet went through him beautifully.
A VIRGINIA railroad conductor has in
vented Il revolving signal-light, to b,
attached to the rear of trains, by which
the engineers behind them can tell by
the speed of their rotations, as show
by the succession of different colorcc
lights, at what rate the trains are NOV
ing, and when they are at rest.
A MASSACHUSETTS medical man has
recently been examining into the com
position of the daily food of the average
) Massachusetts person. He estimates
that every resident of the Bay State
! who is above the age Of five years, is il
,, the habit of consuming pie at least twic,
, each day. A more appalling picture o
reckless and widespread intcmperanc,
has never before been presented. -Ncu
/, York Times.
DEATH from lightning is thought to be
quite painless. Owing to the velocity
J with which the electric current moves
it is believed that person struck by
lightning has no prcmonition of TIL,
blow which he receives. The nervous
system requires n certain interval o
time to become conscious of pain. The
time of an electric discharge is but ;
small fraction of this interval hence
as n sentient apparatus, the nervous sys
tenn is destroyed before consciousness
can set ip.
RIVALING TRINITY STEEPLE.
The new building which the Western
Union Telegraph Company is soon go