Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-16
All Sorts.
THE Pope will be 81 next month.

ARCTIC explorations by balloon is the
coming project.
FRUIT will be plentiful this fall all
over the Union.
PRINCE ARTHUR will soon be made
Duke of Dublin.
The Danbury Ne'rs man will lecture
next fall at $3.50 night.
Two HUNDRED acres of land were re-
Gently sold in Florida at five cents an
acre.
In New Mexico there has been more
snow this winter than for twenty years
past.
In Utah a criminal condemned to
death may choose whether he will be
shot or hanged.
The little busy bees of the United
States produce annually $S,OOO,OO0
worth of honey.
DR. SCHMIDT, of tho University of
Athens, after "a years Of labor, has
completed a map of the moon.
IT has been discovered in New Jersey
that an excellent article of whisky can
be made of saw-dust, tan and mo-
lasses."
The ceremony of cremation was re
Gently put in practice in England upon
the body of Lemontinia Smith, Il IA
nous gypsy oracle.
IT is probable that the principle of
tteam navigation of the canals will be
applied in various improved forms dur
ing the coming season.
The census of France, just completed,
shows population of 36, 102,92l OF
this number, 21,S65, ,625 live in cities,
and 13, 495, $40 in the country.
ACCORDING to the State Secretary's
report, Ohio contains tifty-four liquor
distilleries and 47S breweries, the
products of which amount to $l3, 263,-
S3S.
A BIG diamond is now on exhibition
in Boston. 1t is as large as a hazelnut,
and is worth 600 tons of railway iron,
300 tons of sugar, or 5000 barrels of
flour.
HEREAFTER no portrait is to be placed
upon any of the bonds, securities, notes,
fractional currency or postage of the
United States, while the originalof such
portraits is living.
IN1S72 there were 67, 1O4 miles of COM
plete railways in the United States, the
average cost of which is set down at $55,-
104 per mile. 1t is estimated that there
are now IS, 900 miles of completed rail
ways.
The number of industrial establish
ments in France is 150,0 giving en-
ployment to 100000 hands, and en-
ploying steam power equal to $50, GOO
horses. The business done amounts to
81, 400, ,000,0
In one year, five ocean steamships,
the Atlantic, the City of Washington,
the Ismalia, the Vile du Havre, and the
Europe Qately), have been lost, togeth-
er with nearly 500 lives, and many mill
ions of property.
The New York Tribune was not the
first paper of that name. The Chicago
Tribune was established as a weekly
Democratic organ April 4, 1910. Its
New York namesake was first published
on the 10th of April. 1871
Or the iron produced annually, En-
gland produces more than one half of
one fifth, France about one twelfth, and
Belgium one twenty yfourth these four
constituting the great IRON producing
countries of the globe.
The bridge over the Kentucky river,
on the Southern railroad, will be the
highest on the continent. 1t is 275 feet
above low water, and has a span ,236
feet. The towers, erected by John a.
Roebling, years ago, cost 500, 900, and
rise 395 feet above low water.
A PUPIL in the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum at Hartford, who saw the Essex
statesman on the train bearing Summers
remains, wrote out this description of
him: g saw Ben Butler in the draw
ing-room car, and his eye opens nice,
but his other eye somewhat cross
shuts.
TwENTY-FoUR years ago Senator Stew
art, of Nevada, who has just completed
the most magnificent house in Washing
ton, was singing hash in canvas res
taurant, and afterward drove a pull
team regularly up the long and diff
cult hills between Grass Valley and
Marysville.
HERE is an estimate of the number of
acres of land in the extreme West, which
are actually yielding rich stores of gold
and silver. The Government owns the
property, but has never received cent
for it !: California. 5000, 900; Oregon,
100000; Washington, 1000, 900 :;
Idaho, 1000, 600; Montana, 3,000,0O0 !;
Colorado, 100000; New Mexico,
100000; Arizona, 1,000, 900; Utah,
100000; Nevada, 100000 Total
16, ,000,0 acres.
Lazy Beavers.