Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-02-07
All Sorts.


! KANSAS has sixty-one men who desire
to represent her in the United States
| Senate.
SvENTY EIGHT thcaters have been
! burned i'll the United States in seventy
five years.
SOMETHING over seven hundred mill
ion postage stamps had their eyes put
ont last year.
lr is said that there are more than Il
hundred women studying law in the
United States.
IT is announced that MIR. Bancroft.
our Minister Resident at Berlin, will
shortly resign.
a COUPLE were recently married Mt
Foxborough, n. H., after twenty-three
years engagement.
The Changers of Los Angeles, Gal.
recently put in 40 acres of grain for
sick brother granger.
The Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany claim 2,17S,00O acres of land in
Washington and Oregon, and $1,000
i'll Dakota.
A GEORGIA girl allowed 800 men to
kiss her at ~ cents head, and then
went, like a good girl, and gave the
money to the poor.
The Royal Museum at Athens, Greece,
is soon to come into possession of a
manuscript of the New Testament said
to have been written in the year 4S0.
A MIcHlGANDER has taken out patent
for pneumatic tube by which he pro-
poses to send grain from Chicago to the
coast in eleven hours, at cost of fifteen
cents a bushel
INDIANAPOLIS claims third place in
the list of the packing cities of the
world, and says it has the largest pork
packing house i'll existence, 1894 600 hogs
being slaughtered there last year.
THE flaming record of Andrew John
son pales its Intellectual fire before the
incoming glory of Gov. Hartranft, of
Pennsylvania. He has just sent eighty
two veto messages to the Legislature.
THOSE who pretend to know say that
the summer of 1874 will be very un-
healthy, as open, warm, moist winters
like the present are invariably followed
by seasons characterized by the preva-
lence of fevers of low type.
Ir is noteworthy that out of seventy
seven storm-warning signals displayed
at United States ports last month, sixty
two are known to have been actually
justified bystorm following. This gives
the gratifying percentage as S0.51.
PREMIER GLADSTONE has, it is said,
cautioned Mr. Arch to beware of using
again such threatening language as he
uttered lately at Bradford, Eng, where
he said that if Parliament were not care
full of the cause of the farm laborers he
would lead 800, 900 of them even to the
gates of st. Stephen.
ACCORDING to the customs of the In
dians of Washington Territory if a doc
tor or medicine man fails to cure
patient he must pay for the latters life
with blankets or blood. Henry Jack
son, a half-breed doctor at Olympia, had
no blankets, and was publicly shot be-
cause his patient died.
THERE are seventy bald d-headed men
IN Congress. No unprejudiced mind
can look down from the galleries upon
that Lake Superior of absent hair with
out feeling of regret that the absence
is thing with which the peculiar skill
of the aborigines had nothing to do
LOuisriUc Courier journal.
NOVEMBER, 1873, was about the cold
est of the last half century. But there
is some consolation in the fact that mild
winters frequently follow a cold Novem-
her. In 1927 November was famous for
its coldness, being the most severe
known for fifty years, but it ended with
a complete change, and the winter was
the mildest remembered for years.
E'rchangG.