Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-21
All Sorts.
THE Changers number 75l, 125.

THERE are $1,000 people in Rich
mond.
WHATEVER is, is right" If it isn't,
we'll make it so.
The dentists are pulling through the
hard times remarkably well.
Do LEWIS says that high living is the
foundation of every cemetery.
NEARLY every pound of butter usedin
Florida is shipped from Ohio.
The cost of the London underground
railway was el 600, 600 per mile.
"HAY fever" is what Members of
Congress call the Granger rage.
THERE are 655 Good Templar lodges
in Wales, with $4,000 members.
A MAN at West Wheeling, Va, made
l76 kegs of eight-penny nails in a week
Harpcr'S Magazine is offered 100
articles Il week. Less than ten are ac-
cepted.
SIX PENNY kilograms are to be intro
duced in England, and half penny letter
postage.
In less than a century the whole ara
BILE land of the United States will be ta-
ken up by actual settlers.
The Athens (Tenn. Post thinks that
Andrew johnson will be the next Con
gresham from that district.
A FRENCH novelist has one of his
characters bored through with an auger
in the hands of an American.
In Naples barber will shave, cut
hair, comb, brush, black boots, and give
you cigar and call it square for ten
cents. ..-
ACCORDING to recent returns, the
total amount invested in English rail
ways is 1929 ,O90, 600, or about 81 ,640,-
100000
ONLY one man has ever dared to
climb the spire of st. Paul's Church,
London, though e20 is offered to any
one who will repaint the ball.
NAPKINS, sir napkins !" roared a
Green Bay landlord; "no, sir, we
haven't got any; but if you want to wipe
your nose I'll lend you my handker-
chief" .....
hphNb VIC llIptlltlllS ldIulIt III Ill
dia the Government will be called upon
to supply half q pound of grain per
day, for eight months, to $4,000, 900
people.
SAM FOSTER, of Washington county,
N. Y, threshed, by hand, ninety bush
els of oats in thirteen hours. Sam
should get out a patent for himself inn
mediately.
On the occasion of the one h1ndredth
anniversary birthday of Mozart, recent
ly, it was proposed to decorate his
grave, but no one was able to point out
the final resting place of the immortal
composer.
Or the 2,059 convicts sentenced to the
Maine State Prison during it's fifty
years of existence, there has been but
one clergyman, and, SO far as is known,
but one person who was II member of
Christian church.
The French Government has decided
that the Chinese museum at Fontaine-
bleau and the collection of arms and
armor at Pierreford belonged to the
private estate of Napoleon III, and
must therefore be paid for by France.
Corn meal, heated and placed in
bags, is recommended as a substitute
for hot water bottles and such like ap-
pliances, for restoring warmth to the
sick. 1t is said to weigh less, retain
heat longer, and does not chill when
cold.
THE enormous profits of street rail
roads in some cities is shown by the re-
port of the Third Avenue railroad in
New York. Its receipts last year were
81, 140, 246; /; expenses, 81 ,214, 1872, leav-
ing handsome dividend of 1926, ,694 on
50, 600, 900 of stock
In England, street railroads are com
monty known as tramways. The word
"tram" is said to be an abbreviation of
"Outram," the father of Sir James
Outram, renowned for his military ex-
ploits in India, having been the inventor
of trans and tramways.
THE question Of regulating railway
rates and management by law is now
pending in the Legislatures of Mime
sofa, Wisconsin,, Iowa, Missouri and
Kansas. The question is rapidly as
suming national Importance and will
hardly be settled short of the highest
judicial decision.
THIRTY SEVEN of the seventy-two Sen
atOrs in Washington are accompanied
by their wives, and nineteen have their
daughters with them. OF the 29S
have their wives with them, and many
of the others are accompanied by
daghters and lady friends.