Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-01
POWER OF COMPREHENSIVE.

POWER OF COMPREHENSION.
1t was said of Thoreau, we believe,
that he could take up any given number
of lead pencils without counting. A
celebrated trapper once assured us that
he could tell how many balls he had i'll
his bullet pouch by placing his hand on
it, and without stopping to count them
and added: Il can tell the number of
bullets instantly, without stopping, as
you pronounce word without spelling
it, Southey was accustomed to take i'll
the substance of book in turning the
leaves over continuously, CHANGING down
the pages. Kondan, the magician,
trained himself to quickness of perccp
ton, when boy, by running past shop
window at full speed, and then trying to
tell what was in it. We once saw man
self by going from passenger to passen-
ger and telling almost every one where
he had seen him before, on such train,
i'll such hotel, in such street, giving
date and place to people with whom he
had never exchanged word. This
training of the faculties i'll particular di
rections is carried to a marvellous extreme
by backwoodsmen, trappers, and men
who guess the weight of animals. Per-
haps the most remarkable instances arc
the markers who leap from log to log ut
the mouth of a boom, standing on the
log, and translating instantly an old
mark into a new one. remembering what
equivalent to give for each of hundred
marks, and chopping it upon the log in
the time that it floats its length. 1t is said
that Thoreau knew the relative order of
towering of all the plants in the Concord
woods, and knew the note of every bird,
and a thousand out-of-the-way things
besides. -HcorM and Hon,c.
SELF-SEILING NEWSPAPER WRAP
PERS
During the last fiscal year 1924 $50
stamped newspaper wrappers We're sold
, at postotlices, and as the number of I'M
stamped sold by the general trade must
have been equal, or even greater, the
total number of stamped and umstamped
sold during the year would be about
$4,000 900, with an increase of thirty
four per cent. over the previous year !;
and yet, perhaps, not one i'll three of the
whole public ever saw OF used one of
these convenient wrappers. They now
have a onecent stamp, and are sold at
SIX cents for five wrappers, being only
one cent for the five wrappers, exclusive
of stamps. one-cent stamped wrapper
under the present law carries two
ounces, and will inclose large news
paper. With this reduced postage, and
the increasing knowledge of this con-
vcnient article, with millions of news
papers read daily, doubtless the number
will i'll few years run up to one hun
dred millions annually, carrying one
million dollars in postage, and thus aid
{ largely in "ditfllsing knowledge among
mankind"
The wrapper increases the sale of
newspapers to send to friends by mail,
and is, therefore, an advantage and
profit to all great newspapers.
NEWSPAPER STA TISTICS.
There were 42G, OO0,O0O copies of news
papers and periodicals printed in the
United States in 1850. There were only
81 100000 printed in Great Britain in
1851. We printed as many in 1885. 1t
is estimated that the number of copies
) printed in Great Britain in 1870 was
800, 600 900, and the same in France.
The census returns show that over
100000 900 were issued in the United
States in the same year. In 1870 the
number of journals and periodicals pub
lished in Great Britain was ,456 in
France, 1,GSS; in Prussia, 500; in
Austria, go; in Russia, 1877; in Italy,
1913; in Spain, 306; in Switzerland.
394; in Egypt, T; in Africa, Il; in
Asia, 30; in Turkey, 8; and in the
United States, 5,S7l.
The number of periodical publications
in the United States is now 6,432, of
which 507 are issued daily, lO5 tri-
weekly, 40 semi-weekly, 1850 weekly,
"A bi-weekly, 81 semi-monthly, 4 BIZ
monthly, and 80 quarterly. In the
Territories there are issued 81 of which
Is are daily. There has been an in
crease since last year Of $40 periodicals
of all kinds, chiefly weekly newspapers.
This increase has been largely in the
Northwestern States. Florida is the
only State where there is no daily pub
lishcd
BE4 ETTFII SNOW.
They have snow-storms III the Lake
Superior country that are worth men
tioning. Nine feet of snow has already
fallen, and has packed down to four feet
on the level. The Green Bay 1drocotc
says that at Negaunec, where the rail
way crosses the street, the snow was
shovcled into cars and drawn off by loco
tivcs. Pedestrians walked above the
sidewalks even with the upper sash of
the windows, and in entering II store Il
customer would face the door and slide
in There had been a snowfall daily