Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25
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All ISUItSs
SWISS ribbon-makers name 1900
colors.
CHARLES SUMNER was in the Senate
twenty-three years.
LIvINGsToNE's remains will reposc in
Westminster Abbey.
THIS is the thirty year Of the
reign of Queen Victoria.
SKIN diseases are now successfully
treated by electricity alone.
GENEVA, Switzerland, purposes hav-
ing an international exhibition next
year.
TIE area of the British Empire is
about one-third of the surface Of the
globe.
A PITTSBURGH woman says that 900
reporters souls can dance upon the
point of needle.
FIJI glass tubes with fine dry sand,
close at both ends, and they will bend
easily after heating.
A HoBoKEN editor, being challenged
sent word in reply: "When [ want to
die | can shoot myself.
The manufacture Of wrapping paper
from rice straw is now successfully
carried on at new factory in Savannah.
A MAN was lately sentenced in Lon
don (Eng.) police court to six months
Imprisonment for skinning two cats
alive.
IT is estimated that the State of Mich
igan now contains so, 600, 600, 600 feet Of
pine lumber, and that at the present
rate of taking it off it will last about 20
years.
The gross receipts from the British
RAILWAYS have increased from $40, 000,-
600 in 1858, to $3.50, 900, 900 i'll 1872,
having more than doubled in fourteen
years.
EXPERIMENTS are being made by an
English railroad company to ascertain
whether steel tubes can proiitably re-
place those of copper and brass III loco
motives.
A RAPID drying ink is made by tritu-
rating carmine with some solution of
water-glass in a porcelain mortar and
diluting with water-glass solution until
it flows readily.
WHY California does not grow faster ::
Two men own nearly 1900, 600 acres of
land in San Joaquin valley the traveller
may ride fcrty-fve miles in Il line upon
it, and may follow a fencearound sin
gle pasture for sixty-tive miles while
one other man monopolizes $50, 900
acres.
The New York Times predicts that
within ten years Chicago will have q
worse fire than two years ago. She
is not careful enough with her fire linn
its ana lumber piles.
IRON Notifications are to be used for
the defense of German strongholds, the
experiments made during the past six
years having proved them to be almost
impregnable. These defenses will con-
sist mainly of drilled cast-iron gun
stands and iron-clid revolving turrets,
and, it is claimed, will make the land
and sea Notifications of Germany supe-
rior to those of any other State.
WORTH, the man milliner of Paris, is
q native of Lincolnshire, England. His
father was Il lawyer, but became re-
duced, and his children had to shift for
themselves. Charles Frederick wentto
Paris and learned to make dresses. He
married one of the young women of the
establishment, and together they have
gradually developed the most celebrated
toilet mandatory in the world They
employ l 1000 work people.
The latest thing in dolls is young
lady of tinted wax, who, when wound
up and given q high chair at the table,
reaches ont her arms, SEXES Il bit OF
bread, and slowly put. it in her month.
When she ..has done this certain num-
Der of times tits necessary to open her
back, remove the food, and wind her up
again. Would that human beings could
be relieved OF indigestion i'll the same
manner.