Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-28
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ONO has 2, 100 miles more railroad
than Massachusetts.
POTATOES are worth more than wheat
in Kansas and Iowa.
THE ex-King of Naples, now at Pariss
lives in very humble way.
THE annual income of Trinity Church,
New York, is about $500,000.
Do LEWIS says that high living is the
foundation OF every cemetery.
WHITTIER's head and eyes are out of
order, and he must quit work.
DIR. FRANKLIN proposed the turkey rs
! the national emblem of America.
QUEEN VICTORIA is gradually recover
ing from the grief of her widowhood.
THIS country has sown a terrible
amount of wild oats since its father
died.
For an English sixpence and hand
full of powder one can buy a wife in
Ashantee.
editor of the Philadelphia North Ameri-
can for 80 years. He is now in his S1st
year.
A KBNTuCKIAN has cured himself of
consumption of the lungs by the con-
sumption of spoonful of kerosene
daily.
HAMMOND asked an African at st.
Louis if he had found the Lord.
Golly," said Sambo, "am de Lord
lost 2"
The execution of Evans, the other
Hampshire has indulged herself during
134 years.
A MEDICAL correspondent of an En-
glish journal says that rheumatism and
govt can be cured by the free use of
asparagus.
A NEGRO by the name of Montgomery
"a former slave belonging to Jefferson
Davis-is said to be the richest planter
in Mississippi.
The Adams Express Company received
last year $3.50, 600 for carrying money
for the Government between New York
and Washington.
THE Governor of Maine recently sent
to the Legislature of that State the first
veto for fifteen years. Both houses
sustained the objection.
A WESTERN enthusiast exclaims "Pd
rather be a doorkeeper in the hall of
the Grangers than to shovel sugar in
the stores of the middlemen.
Hot alum water is recent sugges-
ton as an insecticide. It will destroy
red and black ants, cockroaches, spiders,
chintz bugs, and all crawling pests.
A CLINTON COUNTY, Iowa, saloon
keeper has been ordered by the courts
to pay IS, $50 to the wife of one of his
customer He has decided to quit the
business without the aid of the women's
prayers.
The total production of wool in this
country last year was ia, 600, 0O0pounds,
against 100000, 600 for 1872, and 146,-
800, 600 for 1871. The trade in foreign
wool showed Il decrease, the importa-
tions being AZ, ZIG, 1856 pounds, against
S,306, 5S1 for 1872.
PENNSYLVANIA groomsman, after
wishing the bride many happy returns
of the day, presented her with broom,
on which was inscribed the following
This trifing gift accept of me,
Its would commend
In sunshine Use the brushy part,
In storms-the other end.
The son of Sir Digby Neave, of En-
gland, heir to estates in England worth
800, 900 a year, was lately murdered in
the Wet Mountain Valley, at Colorado.
Not long ago one of lis brothers was
killed by bear, another by tiger, and
another fell in the Indian mutiny.
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type of nationality as strongly marked
on it's own soil as is found in America
There are more Greek heads in the
United States than in Greece. The
purest classical profile known to me is
that of New England woman. Mix
ture of races seems to produce the char
acteristics of all.-Kate Field.
In 184S the debts of the civilized
world amounted $8, 500, 900, 900. Now
they amount to 1924, 900, 100000. En-
gland, France, the United States, Rus
sia, Austria, Italy, and Spain own up to
wothirds. The remaining third is
shared by Turkey, Egypt, Portugal,
Brazil, Peru, and Mexico. England and
Denmark pay 3. per cent; France and
the United States to 6. Greece is said
to pay 33 per cent, and Honduras &c.
The peat beds near Morrison, ILL.,,
comprise 1000 acres. The peat ranges
from five to fifty feet in depth. Ar
rangements are now being made to turn
out two and half tons of pressed peat
an hour, worth So. so per ton. A ton of
it is said to be worth more than a ton
of coal. Extensive peat beds have also
been discovered in Southern Minnesota,
and large quantities will be taken out
the coming season