Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-01-10

THERE are 122 oranges in

HERE are IlA oranges Ill california.
In Russia, blonde women are consid-
cred frights.
CUBA has virtually an area of AZ, 4OS
square miles.
CALIFORNIA sends 1000 bales of cot
ton to market this year.
CALIFORNIA pays 81, 600. 600 year to
Scotland for wheat bags.
Iowa boasts of woman who has been
mother-in-la lawed sixteen times.
The years have Innings just as goblets do;
The old year is the lining of the new
Filled with the wine of precious memories,
The golden tras doth line the silver is
ELEVEN hundred people own Is, ,O00,-
900 acres of land in California, which is
an average of nearly 1900 acres for
each person.
JAY Cooke and family are intending
to give up their residence at German
town, and propose boarding in Phila-
delphia during the winter.
The faculty of Dartmouth College
have decided that ale is hurtful to their
students, and have secured the closing
of every saloon i'll the village.
THE oranges of Kinds county, Georgia
have employed a lawyer to attend every
session of the Board of Supervisors, and
watch the interests of taxpayers.
YES, sir when man in Louisiana
finds stranger in his hog-pen he has Il
right to shoot that stranger down." is
the decision lately rendered bya Louisi-
ana Judge.
A KENTUCKY lass lately -ent her
shawl to an invalid gentleman who was
q passenger with her in stage, and
when it was returned to her there was
$500 greenback pinned to it.
ONLY few years ago Upper Egypt
had an average of only five or six rainy
days in year the Pasha, however,
planted millions of trees, and the aver
age is now fortysix days to the year.
ONE of the propositions for the new
Constitution of New Jersey is /: "No
donation of land or appropriation of
money shall be made by the State or
any municipal corporation to any relig-
ious society or corporation"
tance has just been made in Newfound-
land in the shape of TOMBSTONE, which,
in texture and quality, rivals the far
famed oil-stone of Turkey for sharpening
the finer edged tools, and is ofunlimited
extent.
DIR. BURDoN-SANDERsoN, in making
some experiments on the electrical phe-
nomena which accompany the contraction
of the leaves of a sensitive plant, found
the currents produced are subject in all
respects to the same laws as those of
muscles and nerves.
The advocates of the superiority of
woman are advised to introduce the rule
that woman be weighed by Troy weight
like other jewels-and men by avoir-
dupois. This would give to young men
of 20, 143 pounds each on the average,
and to young women of 20 about 146
pounds each.
A COMPANY has been incorporated at
Denver, Col, to construct canal from
Platte river canyon, in the Rocky noun
tains, to the eastern borders of Colorado,
over $50 miles. 1T is to carry 800 feet
of water, which is to be used to irrigate
the plains. The enterprise will cost
$40, 0,0OO,000
The New York E'cening Post says
the propensity of selecting Yankees for
otfice-holding is illustrated by the fact
that there are about 10000 persons in
Canada who have emigrated from the
United States, and this class have some
half dozen Representatives in the Do
minion Parliament, who are among the
most influential men in that body,