Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-07
All Sorts.
JEFF. DAVIS has gone to Europe.

JEFF. DAVIS has gone to Europe.
ALL the brothers and sisters of Eng
and Chang We're twins.
THISTLE TEA and poultice of thistle
leaves are said to be good for neural gia.
WOMEN are now eligible to any office
of school control OF management in
Pennsylvania.
THREE men were frozen to death near
Petrolia, Pa, during the recent cold
snap in the East.
Mr.. GGENN, of Colnsa county, Cal. ,
will put in 10000 acres Of wheat on his
little farm this spring.
Ir costs the people of the United
States from 800, 900, 600 to $500, coo, 900
per annum for feet gear.
A DIsGUsTEp Danburian wants to know
if woman was designed to be the equal
of man, why it is she can whistle.
THE statistics of Iowa show the i'm
portant fact that the greatest number of
thieves and mnrierers have blue eyes.
OLIVER KING, the Oswego, n. Y, fire
bug, has been convicted of larson in
the first degree, and sentenced to State
prison for life
JAMES JACKSON, of Banks county, Ga. :,
died recently at the age of 115, leaving
a widow aged 10, and several children,
now unhappily orphaned.
THE ST. Louis Crnsus, the late James
H. Lucas, left 1000, 00O-this in ad-
dition to $4,000, 900 which he gave his
sons during his lifetime.
The New York Pr0ducc Erchongc
weekly gives the total corn crop of the
United States for 1872 at 1,100, coo, 600
bushels, and for 1873 at S5S, 900, 900.
The experiment recently tried in some
OF the public schools OF using q news
paper for reading exercises instead Of Il
reading book is proving Il great success.
GEN. GRANT has purchased the ground
for his contemplated permanent resi-
dencc III Washington, at the corner of
Vermont avenue, Z and Thirteenth
streets.
The debt of New York city is now
$l06, 81 ,95;5-an increase of 50, coo, 900
since the custer of the Tammany thief
ring. The expenses last year were
sS,3}2, ,00O,O0
Mr.. NonpHorF, il his book, attirms
that attendance upon school is more
general in the Sandwich Islands than
anywhere else in the world. Attendance
is enforced by law.
Bishop ,WHPpLE mado good point
at missionary meeting when he said :
" If a man has grasped Christ with one
hand, he will be sure to extend the other
to his follow man.
JOHN A. BorrE, lager beer brewer
of Newark, n. j., having made an enor-
nous fortune out of the business, has
been converted, and is s. convinced that
lager beer making is wrong
BRET HARTE commands, it is said, a
higher price for his work than any lit
erary man in this country. Scribner's
NonthLy has paid him rs high as 800 a
page, and, like a sensible man, he would
take more. if he could get it.
A COMMITTEEMAN who called at house
in Philadelphia to solicit subscription
to the centennial celebration fund, was
asked Who's he? I've heard of St.
Peter and ST. Patrick and ST. Benedict,
and some of tn other saints, but never
heard of St Tennial before -
The whole number Of persons en-
rolled in the public schools of Kansas
is returned at 121 $50, an increase of
more than IS, 200 over the previous year.
The present number of schoOl-houses in
the State is 3, 1873, which are aggre-
gately valued at $3, 40S, $50.
JUDGE GRIER once set aside the I'M
Just verdict of a jury against an un-
popular man, with this remark ENTER
the verdict, Mr.. Clerk. Enter also set
aside by the court. l want it to be un-
derstood that it takes thirteen men to
steal mans farm in this court"