Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-07-04
NUMBER Al.
GENERAL ITEMS.

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Troy is shipping street cars to Bombay.
Nearly all the summer silks are In stripes,
The healthiest spot on the globe is Zurich,
A Maine man has moved log times In %
years.
Free lunches are to bc abolished in Chi;
cngo.
Russia buys her locomotives in this couu;
try.
A Sioux Rapids Crispin has fallen heir 70
$4,000.
White coal is the newest product Of
Australia.
Cast off infants turn up in the canal as
Keokuk.
A woman keeps the leading saloon in Ok
ford, la.
An Indiana ycarling mule weighs l,045
pounds. ",.r
The ladies now use boquets Of artificial
flowers.
Baltimore cergymcn gather strength in
ten-pin alleys.
An so 900 dollar hotel will soon be erected
at Stockton, Cul.
The Russians make isinglass from stur-
gcon-baddcr.
A railroad from Lincoln to Fremont,
Neb,, is projected.
A horned rabbit has been caught at Tebu-
acana, Texas.
Watkins Glen is to be materially improved
this season.
The trade in chemicals is much depressed
in England
In Meriwcthcr County, Ga. there is
peacock "a years old.
Tortoise shell buttons for summer suits
sell for SIG per dozen.
A Swedish naturalist has discovered in
sects that produce iron.
A vinegar spring has lately been discov-
cred at Acworth, NY.
South Carolina has twenty-onc dcraulting
County Treasurers.
Two "lades" are at work "down in .
coal mine in Pennsylvania.
At Norfolk, Va. vessels are daily loading
with cotton for Europe.
the garden Of Governor Allison.
Twenty-eight feet long--A cannon being
manufactured Mt Pittsburg.
The Boston Sorosisians are talking about
IL permanent clubhouse.
Brazilian bugs, handsomely mounted, ore
the newest head ornaments.
Boston's new directory will be so bulky
that it will be put on wheels.
A Wilmington, Del, policeman rejoices
in the name Of John Evangelist.
The dam of Dexter. now owned in Uulster
County, N. Y, has toalcd fourteen colts.
A New Bedford firm advcrtises "rain
umbrellas, v which is pleasantly definite.
They are making champagne from oranges
in that land of the sun-F'lorida.
a law suit has been maintained for 81
years by plucky gras, widow out West.
Old-iashioned mits are to he revived next
summer for dowagers and >pinsters.
Business men in Peoria, ILL., have sub
scribed S25 900 to establish glass works
there.
Sixty-fye locomotives have been ordered
for Russia from II firm in Patterson, N. j..
Charleston, s. c., is to have home made
ice at 81 per hundred weight this summer.
An eleven Year old mother of Otego was
recently bcrelt Of her seven weeks old infant.
They have cast iron man in Wateryille,
VT, who eats maple sugar hot from the
kettle.
Taunton alcwiyes and May y-howcrs have
appeared in large numbers in the Old
Colony.
The Troy Fire Department use electricity
to unfilstcn their horses from the managers.
A Brooklyn girl, named Emma Friedland-
er. died lately from eating pickles and
vinegar
A Webster man buried hen in his hay
NOW, i'll March, and dug her cut again last
week.
Seven hundred and eighty officers are to
be elected by the people of -Alabama next
November.
There is a couple in kendall>yille, Ind,
who have been married to each other three
times.
One thousand and forty supposed frauds
are undergoing Investigation i'll the Pension
Office.
A catfish which three boys at Rock Island,
ILL.,, recently captured, weighed sixty-three
pounds.
Bringing a Iimburser cheese into Denver
is punishable by fine Of 800 for the first
offence.
The Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad il
to be sold, by decree of the Chancellor of
Alabama. on June 30.
Now that Utica has adopted Eour-inch
tires for heavy team wagons, Syracuse wants
to follow her example.
Returns from local registrars in England
show that nearly one hundred children have
been named Roger Tichbornc-
In some localities in Denmarl; Il man il
not allowed to drive Il white and black horse
together as it is sign of ill-iuek.
A Chicago company has undertaken to
build bridge acrossth Missouri at .sIchi-on,
Kansas, within twelve months.
A mysterious Pennsylvania couple clasped
hands across Il grave ut midnight recently,
in IL lonely cemetery, while an unknown
minister married them.
Alabama coal is naking'a stir in Cuba.
The shipments there have given satisfaction,
and extensive orders are expected.