Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1875-09-11

discovery of large bodies of sheet mica
in certain parts of Colorado has at
tractel considerable attention to TINS
new branch of mining industry. The
uses to which mica are now put are
almost numberIess first IN sheets for
headlights in vessels, fronts in stoves,
and in other places where it is eX
posed to severe heat, or other agen-
cies that would destroy glass second,
it is pulverized, and used largely, in
the manufacture of bronze, paints, and
coatngs for rejecting surfaces, such
as locomotive headlights, rehectors
and mirrors.
The number of sailing vessels has
greatly increased throughout the
world since 1870, while a steady in
crease is noted in steamships. Ac-
cording to report presented to the
London Statistical Society the total
tonnage of the great nations indicates
their relative rank as follows: First,
Great Britain; second, the United
States third, Sweden and Norway;
fourth, Italy; fifth, Germany, and
sixth France In 1874 the total ton
mage was 5,22G, SS6.
A conscience stricken internal rev.
enue taxpayer in New York has sent
the United States treasury half of a
five hundred dollar note as conscience
money, and will send the other half
when recip of the first half is amour
ced. A person of sufficient ability to
evade internal revenue cormorants to
such an amount should not hide his
light. He should go to Congress, or
be a lobbyist in the Maryland Legis-
lature
\ youngster being required to write
composition upon some portion Of
the human body selected that which
unites the head to the body, expound-
ed as follows: "a throat is convent
ent to have especially to ROSTERS and
minister's The former eats corn and
crows with it; the latter breaches
through his'n, and then ties it up.
This is pretty much all | can think Of
about necks.
Returns received at the Treasury
Department show that of 100000
ounces of Dore silver, purchased on
the I'd day of July, the amount Of
gold extracted from it was ;5225, ILL.,
II, and the amount of silver S2T9,-
4l3.79. This silver was taken from
the Consolidated Virginia NINE of Ne
yada
Lumber dealers in Ottawa, n. Y,
report a continued dizziness in the
lumber trade at that place and in the
whole of Canada and the Eastern
States. Reports from Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick say that many
mills will shut down for the season.
In the Monongahela coal trade
there are now engaged one hundred
and twenty-five steam tow boats and
three thousand barges and boats hay
ing an aggregate tonnage of 100000
ii tonnage greater than all the rest
Of the Mississippi valley.
They made some coal discoveries up
in New Haven the other day, and
here is what the State Geologist saws
about it: "When they made this
country, they burned their coal 50
hard that no body can persuade it to
catch fire now.
A Young mother has written poem
on Baby, the third stanza of which
has been much admired. 1t runs thus
DoXerty doodc-um dinkle UNI dunn,
Ium to its muzzery, muzzcry mum:
TiZzery livery boozery hoo,
No baby so sweet and so pity as 90.
A Missouri man tried to ride q
mule across creek thirty feet deep.
The man was drowned, but the mule
crossed in safety, walking on the bot
tom and breathing through his ears
4nontaur Americon.
As an evidence that the black race
cannot be civilized, a Georgia paper
mentions the case Of a negro who re
turned Il one-hundred dollar bill
which the bank overpaid him.
"By faith and not by sight" A
Reading man is completing new mo-
tor which is to run a passenger with
out an engine, "using no coal, water,
fire or steam"
If you want to hear the pure, sill
very Italian language in all its huen-
CIV and beauty. droD red hot nick al