Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-15
TTRRENT ITEMS.

of 9,76l men.
THE largest farm in England COM
prises 5000 acres.
BRITISH capitalists are creditors of the
world to the extent of IS, 900, ,0O0O, 600.
AGAssIz has decided that the eel is
neither fish nor snake, but an eel.
THE 40, 900 miles of British railway
cost twice as much as our 900 miles.
Fully two-thirds of the writer's of the
New York press are under 35 years Of
age.
THE value of the property of Great
Britain and ireland is estimated at so
600, 900, 900.
THE mail from New Sweden to Carl
bou, Me.-eight miles-is carried on
foot by W man.
For the city printing and stationery
of the last ten years, the corporation
of London paid the sum of .E13, 729
19s sd.
A MODERN Sarah living in Ritchie
county, Va, aged SO, recently pre-
sented her husband, aged II, with an
infant son.
RuBY-R glass is better than yellow
glass for the windows Of photographers
dark rooms the latter does not absorb
all the blue rays.
THE largest Touring mill in the
United States is being built in Minneap-
oils. 1t will cost 100000 and contains
forty run of stones.
MANY Americans in Europe, whom
the panic rendered penniless, have been
furnished free passage home by the
steamship companies.
Miss LOUISE ALcoTTs mother, who is
old enough to kn' W better, says {" [ am
73, but mean to go to the polls before [
die, even if my three daughters have to
carry me-.
SWITZERLAND has 1000 primary
schools, 5000 teachers, and 100000
scholars. The education of children is
compulsory in all the cantons except
Geneva and Uri.
ARTEMUs HALE, of Bridgewatcr, Mass,
is the oldest surviving ex-mcmber of
Congress. He has just passed his Goth
birth day, and is hale and hearty. His
sister, aged 96, lives with him.
A PHILADELPHIA paper suggests " a
meeting of the editors of the country,
North and South, for the purpose Of
cultivating fraternal relations in advance
of the centennial commemoration.
A COLOGNE journal states that 235
young men of that town have just been
condemned to fines Of 50 thalers each
for having emigrated to America con-
trary to the military law. We presume
that the condemnation was i'll each case
by default
TYNDALL, in a letter to Nature, COM
bats the theory entertained by many,
that the rainbow is reflected after the
fashion of an ordinary floating cloud
which emits light in all directions, and
which, by the light thus emitted, paints
it's image in the water.
IT is announced that Mr.. James Cor
don Bennett, tired Of seeing one after
another of the Government polar exhibia
tions come to naught, has decided to
send out "Her0l9 polar expedition
Mr. Benefits instructions WILDE, "Dis-
cover the pole. Spare no expense"
Mrs. STEPHEN TREApwAY, of Mt.
Sterling, KY, has saldle-mare which
was taken from her by some Federal
so.,.io.s,s during the war, and was gone
nine years and nine months, to the very
day, when she astonished the whole
family and neighborhood by returning
home by herself and of her own accord.
The exports of wheat from Jan. to
Oct. Il Of the present year, from New
York, were 20,265, 45S bushels, while
from the corresponding period in 1872
they were only 9,502, 2O5 bushels. The
receipts of wheat at New York from
Jan. | to Oct. Is were 25,G36, Iii
bushels, compared with 1895, i06 in
1870