Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-15
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| SADDLES came into use in the fourth
century.
PTTTsBURaH' s oldest is III years and
four months of age.
OVER eleven hundred miles of railroad
are now completed in Texas.
CALIFORNIA and Oregon produced 2s,-
972, 4S3 pounds of wool i'll 1872.
A VIENNA microscopic has demonstra
ted that flies disseminate smallpox.
| A MAINE woman ate four quarts of
oysters in fifteen minutes, and won 800.
In Oneida county, N. Y, fourteen
girls took advantage of leap year to Sc
lect husbands.
A RHODE ISLAND couple recently cele-
brated the seventy y-second anniversary of
their marriage.
The Republican General Committee
circulated 13,196,000 campaign docu-
ments last fall.
IT costs more to keep the family stove
burning at Duluth than to feed family
of four persons.
PLATES of coarse salt with large
spoonful of vitriol poured in daily are
recommended as disinfectants.
CoLoRADo can cover all her debts and
go $4,000 better. Arizona is out of
debt and has 1000 cash ahead.
A CITIZEN of Hartford occasionally
wears pair of woolen socks which his
mother knit for him fifty years ago.
PIocHE, New, leaves it's natural health
fulness to be inferred from the fact that
no one has ever died natural death
there.
WHEN Kentucky editor has the mis-
fortune to burn ont, all the other editors
in the State send him $40 each, making
81 200.
The next Episcopal Bishop to be con-
secrated in the United States will be the
one hundredth in the line of American
succession.
The Charleston Courier is for sale.
There is good opening there for man
who can stand it to wear bullet-proof
suit the year round.
The fashionable equipage in Paris
this winter is gilded carriage drawn by
four or six white dokeys. Such vehicles
are within the reach of all ladies' with
large circles of admirers.
The cooperative plan is to prevail
quite extensively among the first-class
baseball organizations next season. In
stead of receiving stated salaries the
players share the profits.
NEBRASKA has 5000 Indians too lazy
to work, steal or die, and the authorities
think of offering some kind of a reward
for an epidemic that will sweep them off
into the happy hunting grounds.
The Nation says: "To bring gold
into circulation again will cost the coun-
try some hundreds of millions of dollars
in other words, it must be bought with
commodities and not with greenbacks.
A CARELESS nurse in Holyoke, Mass,
administered dose of aqua ammonia to
young child in mistake for castor oil,
and the babe died in few hours, its
throat and lungs having been burned to
a crisp by the liquid.
IT is remarkable circumstance that
every cent of aid Vassar College has
ever received has been from men, The
only gift ever received from woman
was contribution of hundred or two
volumes to the library.
A PIUTE Indian named Buffalo Bill"
recently got drunk and shot another In
dian at Virginia City. His comrades
organized vigilance committee at once,
seized Buffalo Bill, and binding him
hand and foot, beat his brains out and
then cut his throat.
The Yreka (Cal.) journal accounts
for the courage of the Modocs by saying
there are many Indians who become
affected with superstitious idea that
they are bullet-proof, and that the bullets
striking them will glance off This is
believed to be the case with few of the
Modocs, and particularly with Scar
faced Charley.