Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-24
All Sorts.

from Los Animas, distance of $50
miles.
MANY planters in the South are hold
ing back their cotton on account of low
prices.
NEBRASKA reports 1872, 4s3 as the
number of head swine owned in the
State in 1872.
The State of Iowa produced in 1872
$40, 169 bushels of barley, and the
wool production aggregated 2,34S, SS4
pounds.
The new iron works of Ironton, Mo,
are the largest and most complete in
the United States, and have capital of
81, 100000.
The Methodist Episcopal Church,
gained in money $i,O0O,O0O, and in
membership 5000.
WHEN Boss Tweed took his scat in
the Senate in 1868, h, weighed 3O4
pounds when weighed at Blackwells
Island the figure was 263.
Ir is said that nearly 900, 1000, 600 of
letters, 10000, 900 of postal cards, 1OO,
oob,Ooo vi newspapers, dlltt lVU,oou,ooo
of book packets pass through the En-
glish postoffice annually. That's where
the paper goes.
The beautiful habit of opium-eating
is increasing i'll this country. From
three to five years of indulgence wrecks
the finest constitution, the eyes are
sunken, the frame is emaciated, and
death ends the wasted life.
CALIFORNIA has about 5000, 900 head
of sheep. The wool crop in two shear
ings, at an average of ten pounds per
head, would amount to SSO,O00,O 600
pounds, or 100000 more than the
total product of the United States in
1871.
The principal lines of transportation
from the West to the East include 1O,-
600 miles by railroad, 1000 miles by
river, 900 miles by lake, and | 900 by
canal, and the total amount of through
freight carried over them in one year
1S7l-72) was 7, 933, 21l tons.
The Rev, +. L. Hale says "a man
may send from Lands End, in England,
to kirkwall, in Scotland, the longest
distance in Great Britain, from will
dcrness to the edge OF the icebergs,
over q distance of 700 miles, tele-
graphic message at one cent Il word.
AS EVIDENCE of the importance of the
produce interest the following figures
give the aggregate sales in New York
city last year: Butter, $40, 1000, 600 !;
cheese, $l5,0O0,0 600; wheat, s24, ,00O,-
900; flour, $40, ,0OO,0 corn, s26, 900, :
600; petroleum, $50, 900, 600 cut meats,
So ,OOO,O0
The foreign trade of Great Britain
has not been satisfactory to her mer-
chants this year SO far. That nation
sold $32, 500, 900 less of cotton, linen,
silk and woolen fabrics, and had to buy
$50, ZOO, 900 more of articles of food III
the first nine months of this year than
in the corresponding period last year
The official exhibit of the trade of the
United States with foreign countries
for the year anding June 30, 1873,
shows balance of trade against the
country of $14, ,4S4, ,5S4, the imports be-
ing based upon specie values, and the
exports based upon mixed values. The
foreign exports during the same period
amounted to $2S, 140, 511.
The Habit of Saving.
The only absolutely certain way of
inculcating habits of economy is to begin
with the children, and accustom them
to self fcontrol and self-der ial by saving
portion of their pocket-money or the
earnings of odd minutes. There will
be even greater necessity for economy
in the next generation than this, since
&l,, ,NE, ara
being very lavishly drawn upon, and our
successors are likely to live under mar
rover conditions than we do. The city
of Ghent, Belgium, has set us a good
example in this matter. Without Gov
ernmcnt influence, and mainly through
the instrumentality of the school-mas-
| ters and schoolmlstresses of that city,
tive-sevenths of the children who attend
the schools have become savings bank
depositors. They bring their centimes
to their teachers, who deposit for them;
and Ii, ,032 of the attendants upon the
schools are thus practicing frugality.
Out of 1889 boys and girls i'll the pri-
mary schools, 1858 have savings-bank
accounts, the aggregate sum deposited
by them, according to a paper read be
fore the British Association by j. q.
Fitch, being 274, 602 francs. In the
infant schools (the habit of saving be-
gins thus early) there are 3, 3,039children,
of whom | ,020 are depositors of 66, ,523
francs. In the primary schools for the
classes who pay for instruction, there
are 1,079 scholars, GAO of whom deposit
%, ,6S7 francs and in the schools fol
adults, held evenings and Sundays. out
of 3, 2S5 men and women, 2, SS9 are depos,
tors to the amount of 99,252 francs
Thus over 800, 900 are deposited in the
savings bank through this agency in
that little city.
\ LOCOMOTIVE WoNDER.-A singular
specimen of locomotive has just been
turned out of machine-shop at Glou-
cester, N. j., which bids fair to create
quite sensation among railroad men,
1t is four tons in weight, and designed
tc run on one rail 1t rests upon two
wheels, one following the other The
rail or track npon which it is to run, d
sample of which is laid in the yard OF
the builders, is styled "a "prismoid
or one track railway and is composed
OF several thicknesses of plank, built
upon the style of an inverted keel of 8
vessel, with flat rail on the apex
Upon IL test trial "a speed of about
twelve miles an hour was attained, ano
the inventor and patentee claims that
the speed can be almost doubled on {
heightened track. The capacity fol-
running curves is very much greater
than the two-rail system. The revolv