Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-08-02
CURRENT ITEMS.

JOHN A. DIX is the senior Governor.
He is IS.
BEN BUFFERS wife was formerly an
actress.
A NATIONAL Convention of Farmers at
Chicago is talked Of
THE population of Nebraska has
doubled in three years.
Two licenses to sell opium recently
sold ut auction in Honolulu for sos, 900.
THE California rainy season, ending
July l, produced 1894 inches of rain
fall
MARSHAL BAzAINE, it is said, will be
tried as soon as the Germans leave
France.
SAN Francisco had seventy-one wo
men III its Jail the other day, forty of
whom were Chinese.
MORE land has been disposed of at
the Lincoln (Neb. Land Office than the
entire agricultural area of England.
a BLACK bug crawlcd into mans ear
in Tennessee and he became insane, but
when it crawlcd out he was himself
again.
A CAT at Westport, Conn, last winter
had her ears and tail frozen off, and
now there is litter of carless and tail
less kittens.
AT the present time there are over
5000 Americans in Paris, who spend
on an average nearly, if not quite,
$500, 600 day.
In Nova Scotia the Governor must
sign all marriage licenses, but the Gov
ernor is dead and his successor is in
Europe, and hence Hymen waits.
A CHANGE in the New York law defin-
ing murder, made by the last Legisla-
tllre, makes it almost impossible to Sc
cure conviction in the first degree.
WITH the exception of small num-
Der, the last of the 3, 400 bodies of dead
Confederates have been removed by
friends from the Gettysburg Cemetery
and taken to graves in Southern soil
A New YORKER who advertises his
business little, just to let folks know
what he is doing, paid years advertis-
ing bill, the other day, of $4,000. His
earnings for the year were $65O,OO0.
JOSEPH CLOUD, of Trenton, has wa
gered $1,000 that he will, in 145 days,
row 3,627 miles without eating or sleep
ing in hotels. The rowing is to take
place between Trenton and Philadel-
phia.
The attention of scientific men having
been called to the increasing frequency
of sun-strokes during the last few years,
some of them are of the opinion that the
growing prevalence of the Use of iced
drinks may be the cause.
AND now scientists claim that the
moon, instead of being so "cold, and
chaste, and pallid," is in reality red hot
so much SO that no living thing known
to our world can live there This also
knocks the green cheese theory.
The metallic wealth of France being,
according to official statistics, II mil
lizards $50 millions of francs, the enor-
nous sum extorted from her by Ger
many, as a war indemnity, is equivalent
to two-tfths Of the French money
power.
ILLINOIS is the first State in the Union
i'll respect to the number of miles of
railway service. She has 6,526 miles of
such service. Ohio comes next, with
4,S77 miles New York third with 4, 726
miles; and Pennsylvania fourth, with
1870 miles.
In Calcutta, recently, Oh examining a
ship lying in dry-dock, it was found that
Il sword of a sword-fsh was embedded
in her bottom, near the keel. 1t had
penetrated the solid timbers to depth
of thirteen inches, and had evidently
been broken off by the shock.
The will of a Kentuckian, made be-
fore his marriage, and giving all his
property to the lady who became his
wife, has been successfully contested by
his legal heirs, it being held that the
marriage operated as a revocation, and
that the widow is entitled to only one
third.
Ir seems that the proposal to go to
Europe in sixty hours has a stirring and
attractive effect upon the average Amer
lean. That individual has never yet
travelled as fast as he has wished, and it
is doubtful if he ever shall. a late
number of the New York Graphic says:
"Judging from the number of applica-
tons made personally and by letter at
the Office of this paper, about one half
of the people of the United States wish
to go to Europe by balloon this summer.
ObliginG rs We would like to be, it ought
to be evident that it will he impossible
even to answer these letters personally.
1t must suffice for all to say that there
are absolutely no vacancies for excur-
sionists. The lifting capacity of the
balloon for passengers and ballast (after