Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1875-10-02
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% the curricuiu:n of the IIolyo!,e Femal.
Seminary.
ST. Louis il to have The largest rcssemar
steel works in The world, which will give
employment 10 over 1900 men.
Miss Newton, Of Delaware, poisoned her
self because hci mothsr mispronounccd
word in the presence of company.
Fcrde Taylor, a woman of Carson, Cal,
who had contracted an appetite for opium.
smoked II hundred pipes of it at one sitting,
and died in the enruing slumber.
An establishment in Boston licensed to
sell "victuaL'," was found TO contain china
eggs, a wooden ham. some imitation of pas
try, and a large stock of real liquor.
A lucrative opening for young ladies' has
been made by the decision of m lrdiapa
court, that the fact Of Il girl being engaged
to several sentlomen AZ once is no bar 10 her
sueug each Of them for breach of promise.
The light at Atlantic City can be seen
LfOn tIt tlrtk tl " vessel lIlilctttl IiIicS
out ut sea, while that of the Cape May
light house can easily be distinguished in
clear weather q distance of forty-three
miles.
Miss Nixon. th. daughter of Judge Nirch
Of the United States District Court, at Tren-
ton, N. j., won boat race of quarter of II
mile over two competitors of her own sex,
the other day, in two minutes and seven
ceconds.
There are thre. lady editors in Califor-
nia-Mrs. Russell, of the Santa Barbara
Inder, Mrs. Gordon, Of the Stockton Lead
or, and Mrs. Lynch. of the hendocino Dis
patch, and they all publish Democratic
papers,
A "SSociety for the protection of birds
useful to the farm. er" is one of the societies
in French depaI .ment All nests found
are reported to tn, society and protected by
it. In the past year the society protected
2l4 nests.
William Ingraham n chose q sapling in Sa-
voy, Mass, from which TO hang himself;
and it bent with his weight SO that his legs
trailed on the grcnnd, compelling him to
strsngle himself to death by leaning heav-
lily in the moose.
A colored man calling himself Bob Black
hawk. who attempted, ut Detroit, the mel
and difficult feat of standing upon the head
of common barrel and constantly rotating
OF turning round, fox twenty-four hours,
completed his task
The new cave an! rock under the Amer
lean Falls, at Niagara, has been called
"Shadow of the Rork," in honor of u vol
ume of poems written unde; that title by
A. D. +. Randolph, President of the Book
Traders Association.
Santa Anna is seventy seven years old, but
is still erect and slelader, and his black hair
and black eyes yet preserve their original
brilliancy. He is A. fond of cock-ighting
as ever, but hasn't money to indulge in it
as much as he woull like.
The Count Samaileff, who drives n four-in-
hand of gigantic Siberian hounds around
Paris, has been called off the streets by the
authorities, who want him to confne his
"doggoned" amusement to times when the
hydrophobia isn't al ouud.
A man in Medina, Ohio, while riding in
procession behind lis wife's remains the
other day, overwhelmed with grief, had
sufficient strength to stop the procession
and jump out of the carriage to pick up
knife which he detected in the road.
Stone, the sculptor, now engaged at Car
rara, Italy, upon Il colossal statue of Gen.
Baker (who was killed at Balls BluR,) for
which $4,000 WAS appropriated by the last
Congress, writes to il friend ut Washington
that the work will be completed in October.
A man whose face had been badly burn
ed went to Merhanirs,'lla, N. Y, and at the
depot was mistaken for asmall- -rox patient.
The terrified by-stan,lers fled, and soon tho
whole village was in consternation On the
following day about two hundred persons
were vaccna'ed.
The steamer upon which Ristor had ell
gagged to sail from San Francisco for Aus
tralia on the Dist nit, left port without her,
but with all her company on board. When
the captain discovered that she was lacking
he put back to port. She had paid for her
ticket $1,000 including suite.
! A certain hysterical woman is intensely
hated by hotcl-keepers, livcrymen, and
others at Newport She is wealthy. and her
request that tho commanders of vessels
should not fire salutns there has been COM
piled with Consequently the harbor il no
longer a rendezvous for ynchtsmen.
( Mrs. Golfers, "A Springfield spiritualist-
medium, has retired from public business.
In published card she says: 81 have
long thought, and l now know, that it is
impossible for medium TO be absolutely
strictly honest aud get adequate remunera-
ton for the time and trouble expended"
A SCHOOLGIRLS ANSWER.