Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-10-18


while truth will get stuck in the door
way.
Ten thousand two hundred and fifty
books have been copyrighted i'll this
country since New Year.
A MAN in Griffin, Ga, was bitten by
snake seventeen years ago, and is still
drinking whisky to cure it.
a HAwKINsvILLE (Ga.) merchant has
received Il box of umbrellas, shipped to
him from New York in 1869.
THE south wall of the Grand canon of
the Arkansas, just above Canon City,
Col, is l, 700 feet perpendicular.
A SPEECH of the Due dc Broglie, at a
recent banquet, seems to point to All
early restoration Of the French mon
archy.
A TEN-YEAE-oLD French girl burned
her fathers house because he had
whipped her for not knowing her cate
chiSm.
HPPoPHAGY is on the increase IN
France, and culinary artistes are cudgel-
ing their wits to invent new styles of
serving it up.
CONSIDERABLE alarm prevails in En-
gland over the steady decline in horse
hesh-not the wasting away in fatness,
but the falling off in numbers.
STOKES is outrivaled by a prisoner in
one of the county jails Of Pennsylvania,
who has been waiting for Governor to
sign his death warrant since 1850.
AN Englishman has discovered the
secret of the Yankee nasal twang, which
he says came from the English counties
of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Mid
dleseX.
A BROOKLYN man has invented lite
preserver, which consists simply of two
sleeves of India-rubber, to be drawn on
over the arms and then inflated by blow
ing in them.
The artificial butter made in New
York is becoming very popular, and the
producers have been so successful that
they announce a quarterly dividend to
stockholders. A manufactory is soon to
be established at New Haven.
AT local election in California, the
other day, a majority of the votes were
cast for a woman for constable. The
Judges refused to count them. however;
and she didn't get the Office. But it is
claimed that Under the language of the
California Constitution, she was eligible
to the office, and can secure it by man
damus from the courts.
THE official returns of the hospitals
Of Paris show that of the 50, 900
births in the city during the past year,
1886 were illegitimate. The pro-
portion of illcgitimates to the number
of inhabitants is not quite up to that of
Vienna, which has 5000 for 1000, 900
inhabitants, while the population of
Paris is nearly 1900, eco.
The construction of the breakwater
at Alexandria involves the labor of over
two thousand Arabs, assisted by Il dozen
locomotives, several hundred trucks,
forty other steam Engines, both station
ary and moving, a dozen lighters, six
steamers, and an immense floating steam
derrick. The hreakwatcr is composed of
blocks OF concrete; each of which weighs
twenty tons, and it will consume in all
about 3J, coo of these blocks.
OSE of the healthy regulations of the
English railways is that no one shall at
tempt to get on or dismount from train
i'll motion. 4 man named Arthur Baynes
was recently fined so for attempting to
get into car after the train had started,
50 for assaulting the guard who had az
rested him, SO for tearing the said
guards coat, and so more for costs.
He thinks it would have been cheaper to
wait for the next train.
The number OF stars visible to the
naked eye in the entire circuit Of the
heavens has been usually estimated at
about 5000. An ordinary opera-gla
will exhibit something Ike ten t;m6s
that number. a comparatively smal!
telescope easily shows 100000; while
there are telescopes in existence with
which, there is reason to believe, not
fewer than y, 100000 stars are visible.
And yet, when all of these are seen and
numbered, the eye will have visited but
a mere speck in the illimitablc bounds
of space.
now TO 4 TOID 4 COLD.