Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-07-18
GENERAL ITEMS.

England spends SOL 900 900 year for
tobacco.
1t don't cost but S23 900 900 q year to
run Mexico. iaa
Gotham uses almost a million postal cards
per month.
A Hartford company makes s,o06,8O0
eyelets day. r IS
Augusta Ga, uses daily 100000 gal
Ions OF water. sf
There arc 100000 people within 35
miles of Boston. 'Vs
California promises 10000 bushels Of
wheat this year.
Bethel, Me-, has tapped Sc, 900 maple trees
this season.
There are | 100 crusaders enrolled in
W NllIlamsport, Pa.
1900 persons arc confined in the Texas
State Penitentary.
Virginia has paid 10000, 900 tobacco.
alone since the war.
Educational purposes" cost Schneetady
S25,2 ,20l last year.
Brazil furnishes the world with 4ON,OOO,-
000 pounds of coffee. r'.'.
Happy Russia! One physician TO- every
90 900 inhabitants. 7'N #'"A A' ''t
There are ono hundred and fiftyriour
oranges i'll Pennsylvania. r'-l''
Philadelphia makes over 81 900 ,0o0 worth
of paper annually. r'" tFf-
Coos County, N. r., produces, 9, 900 toms
of pctatoe starch annually. E' n'u
Michigan has $500 miles Of finished mil
way, valued ut Sis 900 900. ..
The average estimate Of the cotton crop
for 1874 is 4 1872 900 pounds.
Nashua: n: H., is daily shipping II ton
and a half Of maple sweetcning."
Five per cent of the entire population of
New Hampshire are above the age Of 70!
A mould weighing 3 900 pounds was cast
at a foundry in Louisville last week.
Six daily papers are published in Indian
apoS; the aggregate circulation is q, 600.
1t is said that Father Matthew procured
sos ,075 temperance pledges in ten years.
Nevada boasts that it will carry, up its
production Of gold and silver, this year, to.
$40,000,000.
There are millions of grasshoppers in,
Green County, Pa, that get un every time
the sun shines.
The last census of Buffalo shows over
400 Williams, each one Of whom is, OS
course, q Buffalo Bill. ~
New Orleans has lost 3O,o 900 inhabitants
in two years, and has 6,0O0 unoeeupied
houses and stores. .g
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phia. All of them are attached to tobacco,
establishments.
A Lightning Churn'' that makes eight
pounds of butter out Of a gallon Of milk is
the latest streak. Ef
San Francisco claims the third lowest
death-rate in the world. Zurich and Geneva
rank first and second.
Martinsyi!le, Ind, claims to, have pro-
duced the largest hog in the United States.
1t weighed ,l22 pounds.
Boston pays SIP 900 per year for church
music, when congregations stand ready to-
sing withou: charging cent.
Five years ago there was not arailroad in.
Colorado. Now there is nearly seven hun
miles, all in operation.
1t is said that you can get 1890 different
shades of kid gloves, though few persons.
care for more than Il thousand.
A young woman in Geneva; Ill., :, received
n present of 500 from her mother. for.
reading the Bible through in six days
One person killed and fonr injured every
working-day in the ycnr, is II pretty good.
record tor American railways:
Colorado which had not % mile of railroad,
less than five years ago, has now ten lines,
having Il total length OF GsS nileS..
Erattlcboro people have already, By OK
press, freight is not reckuned, sent away
this season l30 400 pounds Of maple sugar.
Salt Fake has rhecse three feet in dia-
meter, nine feet in circumference, thirteen
inches thick, aud which weighs as8' pounds
Russia has 1891 cotton factories of all
kinds, employing I75 900 working men. and
producing annually goods worth l62, 900 ,OOG
roubles. ...
No won'lcr that Worth earolinn is poor.
Eight hundred lawyers hTe been licensed
there within the last twenty years.
There arc 3.453 G8l unmarried women ir
England above the age of Is who are cn-
gagged in specific occupations, and are earn
ing money thereby. -HFa1.
The local census Of Richmond. Va
shows its population b. he SB, 1856. or about
5000 more than in 1870; 80 ,d32 being
whites, 81 ,2l3 colored..
During the month OF March six hundred
and sixty-lour buildings were erected n
New York. and one hundred and eighty four
are in process of alteration,
A Policeman in Detroit heard that citi-
zen OF Twelfth Street had been badly injurrl,
and he called ut the h.Nsse to- oitain particu-
lars lie iound tie man lying on the lounge,
his head bound up, and his face badly
scratched. He asked: "W hat j. the NATTER
Did he get run over, or fall downstairs -
'No, not exactly replied his wife: "but
he wanted to run the house his way, and
wanted to run it my way-and there he is"
A Whitehall groceryman marks the prices
of provisions ON the covers of his barrels
and casks He had q new clerk the other
day who mixed things. He got the cover Of
the sugar barrel, which was labeled 80 cents
Il pound, on the lard hrrel, and straight
way began to sell lard at o cents. The sud
dene define in the price attracted all tho
people in town. and the clerk thought he
was doing biz thing until the proprietor
returned paid him VB, and told him tn emf
CRATE to Troy, where smart people were in
demand.