Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-11-07

The SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS OF THE
AaE.-A letter from Chicago speaks
of an extraordinary discovery made
in that city, by an inventor who has
succeeded in perfecting an instrument
which is reported to convey sound by
the agency of subtitle, imponderable
fluid, electricity, over an unbroken
circuit of unlimited extent without
the interposition of any automatic re-
peaters, which in the ordinary trans
mission of messages occurs about every
$50 miles to renew the current Of cleo
trity. 1t is said that the inventor has
transmitted sounds distinctly audible
at point over an unbroken circuit of
2,4OO miles, reproducing on a violin
attached to the receiving wires tunes
played on piano key board at that
enormus distance with the greatest de-
gree of accuracy, which has led many
celebrated electricians to predict, from
the great success of the experiment,
that time will come to pass when the
ordinary, troublesome, manipulating
instrument will undoubtedly be aban-
doned for the more unsophlsticated
way of transmitting the sounds of the
human voice along the conducting
wires, so that we may laugh and chat
together with ease and comfort without
the worry of telegraphing.
Poor Max Adlerl Hear what he
has to say about hotel clerk a can
shake hands with the governor, sit be-
side an alderman, and smoke with a
state senator, and never feel my little
ness but when | come to stand in the
presence of modern hotel clerk |
feel that awe and inferiority which
tourists feel as they stand in Yosem-
tie valley and look up at the noun
tain tops thousand feet above.
The New York Agency Of the Pub
lie Library of Kentucky Gift Concerts
sold three thousand tickets for the No
vember drawing on Saturday, August
90. This is the largest number ever
sold, two thousand being the other big
day. These Gift Concerts are so sol
idly endorsed that the public have
land justly perfect confidence in them.
The lucky person who gets the capital
prize of $250,ooo will have a good
thing of it.
FEMALE OcCuPATIoN.-Four ladies
of position in London have become
house decorative artists. They un-
dertake the whole furnishing, uphol-
STEERING, furniture, and all that tends
to embellish the interior of a dwell
ing. They are said to be remark
ably clever and very successful. They
have served a regular apprenticeship,
and acquire thorough knowledge Of
the business.
The Borden Mining Company
PIT" coal. from their shaft in the
heart of the Georges Creek Valley,
Maryland, by its richness and purity,
has been found especially desirable
for locomotive and steamer use, for
either of which it is unequaled by
any coal in the United States, wheth-
er offered under the name of Cumber-
land coal or Georges Creek coal.
The HopeweIl furnace, in Warwick,
Pa. has blown out. A new hot blast
i being added to the furnace in Dauph-
in county, Pa. The probability is that
the furnace will be kept in operation
all winter, contract having been
made with the Pennsylvania Steel
Company to furnish the Baldwin works
Philadelphia, with 1000 tons Of pig
iron.
D. B. Grant, president of the Grant
Locomotive works, in Paterson, N. j.
sailed for Russia recently on the stea-
mer Celtic, to make a compromise with
the Russian government on the con-
tract for locomotives which the compa-
nv has failed to fill on time, and 500
families in Paterson are anxiously wal
ting the result of his efforts.
A movement is on foot in England,
backed by ample funds, for the pnr-
pose of securing to farm laborers an
interest in the land. 1t has become
extremely popular, and is supported
by capitalists and influential land
lords.
Syracuse, N. Y, has sensation in
mechanics the removal of a large brick
building from one piece of ground to
another. Chicago contractors are do
ing it.
Prosperous out there. The Califor-
MIA founderies and other manufactures
are so crowded with work that they
are running night and day.
New Business Locals.
Why suffer with bad cold if one bottle
of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup will cure a
cough of the worst kind. DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup is sold for 25 cents pc: bottle, or tv,
bottles for 81 90, in every respective drug
store in the United States.