Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-10
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GARIBALDI finds the sword mightier
than the pen.
CANBY never smoked, but always car
ried an unlighted cigar between his
lips.
Mrs. GEN Robert ANDERSON has been
very i'll in Paris, but at last accounts was
convalescent.
MASSACHUSETTS has had 100, 900 worth
of smallpox. The physicians fees
alone amounted to that sum.
The diameter of the earth is 1912
miles, and the surface of the earth is
nearly two hundred millions square
miles, nearly sixty millions of it land.
SOME young men marry for dimples,
some for ears, some for noses; the con
test, however, generally lies between the
eyes and hair. The mouth, too, is occa-
sionally married; the chin not so often.
COBRA poison has been discovered by
an English chemist to be identical in
its parts with the composition of beer
yeast, which supports the idea that the
poison is of the nature of an animal fer
ment.
CHARLES PARSONS, reporter at Will
liamsburg, N. Y, suicided the other
day. He left note to a brother re-
Porter, saying: "Fix this thing up fine,
Jim-put it under a double head Jim
did so.
The house in which Andrew johnson
was born, at Raleigh, N. c., was pulled
down the other day, and enthusiastic adj
mirers of the great alderman of his ma
tive village carried off a large portion of
the edificc as relies.
A sTREET-CAR conductor in Detroit
picked up a navy revolver from the floor
as several passengers We're departing.
A well-dressed woman claimed it, with
the remark: "That's the second time
I've lost that to-day"
A PAINTER, being asked to estimate
the cost of painting certain house,
rev forth pencil and paper and made
the following calculation: ga naught
is naught; three into five twice you
can't; I'll paint your house for $50.
GEN. CANDY used to be as famous fol
having a cigar IN his mouth as Grant,
but, unlike the President, he rarely
smoked, keeping, instead, the cigar il
his mouth and chewing it mechanically
until destroyed, when another would as
mechanically take its place.
THADDEUs STEVENS Caledonia iror
works, in Pennsylvania, with $1,000
acres of land, are to be sold, and the
proceeds given to erect, establish ano
endow Il house of refuge in Lancaster
for the relief of homeless, INDECENT or
phans who have lost either parent.
GEN. PENDLEToN, in lecture on the
battle of Gettysburg, recites the well
known fact that General Longstreet was
responsible for the delay at the fight
which lost the South her liberties, anG
he further charges that Longstreet's de
lay was intentional, and therefore Grim
inal
IT is suggestive circumstance that
with perhaps three exceptions - the
United States, Germany and Great Brit
aim all the civilized countries are
steadily increasing their debts. The
greater portion of them have been crea
ted within the memory of the present
generation; the great majority of then
are rising still with rapidity which is
adding annually hundreds of millions o.
dollars to the national liabilities of the
world.
AT the conclusion of the New Yorl
East Conference, Rev. DR.. Seymour
Loudon, a venerable clergyman of near
ly four-score years, asked to be PLACED
on the superannuated list, as his men
tai powers were weakening. DIR. Curry
replied to him in very affecting al
dress, and, in concluding, said the
brethren had subscribed a small sun
wherewith to pay his fare home and buy
him meats on the way, at the same time
handing the aged clergyman pocket
book containing SO, ,000