Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-08-16
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kadiar." Shah
The champion billiardist of Indi-
una is a boy of II.
CoLoRaDo TERRITORY is big enough
to make thirteen States rs large as Mas
sachusetts.
The annual contest between the west
ern farmers and the Canada thistle has
commenced.
WHY was the elephant the last animal
to enter the ark? Because lie had to
carry his own trunk.
| SOMETHING THAT TAKEs.-The three
fold combination agency for selling =" WedM
and Wonders of the BOundieSS West" There
is much sure money i'll it See advertisement.
TuE New Hampshire Agricultural As
sociation offers upwards of $4,000 in
premiums at its annual fare. A silver
service is to be given TO the handsomest
baby exhibited under one year of age,
the Judges being the Goverlior, five ex
Governors, and two Judges.
The Paducah Kentuchian says can
effort will be made soon tc organize a
company to construct the Chicago and
Paducah narrow gauge railroad, to be
built between those two points, and
eventually extend from Paducah to the
heart of the cotton growing States"
AN angler on Trout Lake, Ontario,
lately had his hat blown away, and while
rowing hard to recover it was surprised
to see it spinning across the water ut u
| tremendous rate. On overtaking it he
found that a large trout had taken an
artificial fly affixed to the hat, but the
| line broke before the trout could be Sc
cured
NOTWITHSTANDING the assertions of
the Alaska Fur-Scal Company that their
monopoly is not profitable, Mr.. Bendell,
who has long resided in the Arctic Ter
ritory, declares that the seasons catch
of seal is worth 81 900, 900, and of this
the 800 Aleuts who do the catching
for the company, receive only S4O,-
600.
EDWIN BoorH is 80 years old, Maggie
Mitchell 80, Lolita 30, J.. p. Barrett 35,
Frank Chanfrau 81, John Z. Owens 81,
John Brougham 55, Lester Wallack SO,
Boucicault SO, Mrs. Chanfrau 32, Miss
Nelson 30, Joe Jefferson 45, Anges
Ethel 81, Clara Morris 80, Mrs. Bowers
60, Il. A. Sothern 40, John Collins 70,
Ben De Bar So.
The paralytic stroke received recently
byVice- President Wilson is more serious
than it was first thought to be. 1t is on
the right side, impairs the hearing, and
distgures the face. Physicians say that
absolute rest for year or so will be es-
sential to his recovery. 1t is hoped,
however, that he will be able to preside
in the Senate next winter.
TIE Persian Shah, Nasr-ud- -deen, came
to the throne in 1913, youth of sixteen.
The Spectator says that Anglo-Persian
opinion about him is that he has, when
not bothered to talk French, considera-
BILE capacity He rules over four
millions of subjects, in IL country twice
as large rs France, and so poorly civil
lied that lack of roads alone sometimes
occasions famine in one district while
abundance of food exists in the next
THE commencement of work on the
Cauca Railroad, in the Republic of Co
lombia, is an event of much interest.
The road begins ut about 400 miles
south of the Isthmus of Darien, and
will cross the Andes there, about 10000
feet high, to the Cauca river, which is
navigable, runs northward, and empties
into the Atlantic. 1t will probably fur
nish steam communication across the
continent of South America sooner than
any other line. The chief contractor is
an American, and our nation will be en-
: titled to the credit, not only of having
built the Pacific and Panama railroads,
but also of having contributed much to-
ward those of Chill, Peru, Costa Rica,
Mexico, and Colombia. The world
keeps moving.
The Boston Erprcss states that the
highest courts of Massachusetts, have
decided, in numerous instances, so thai
it has become well-settled principle o
law, that "no particular form of words
is necessary to constitute Il marriage
nor does it require the intervention o
minister of the gospel, civil magis
trate, nor any one else. A man and wo
man can marry themselves. A life insu
rance agent can bind the twain just a
firmly as an archbishop, and the fiat o
state-prison convict is as irrevocabl
L as that of chief justice. No mer
2 promise of marriage, though followe'
1 by cohabitation, amounts to a lega
union; but if the man says L take yo1
t for my wife, and the woman says,
take you for my husband, then the
are married"
1 The New York COnin,ercial Adue,
S tiscr says that the aggregate annus
t production of paper is 1000, 600 tons, {
: which nearly one-third, or 317,3S7 tons
J, is produced in the United States Will
4 Germany produces 100000 tons, an
T, Great Britain exactly the same quantit
t as Germany, the French product bein