Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1875-08-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Lace making bids fair to 90 tho fashion
able morning occupation in the way Of
fancy work at watering places and the sea-
side this season.
Mrs. Gaskins. of Carteret county, N.
c., weighs GiO pounds, and ono Of her
stockings can hold bushel Of shelled
corn.
A society has been organized in GAL
weston, Texas, for the purpose Of buy
ing home in that State for Jefferson
Davis.
Ben Buffers new granite mansion In
Washington, at the southeast corner Of the
Capitol grounds, will be ready for him in
November next.
Fred Grant has ordered row Of houses
to be erected on n portion Of the Owen
estate, on Vermont avenue, Washington.
which lie has recently purchased.
The number of persons killed on the
railways of Great Britain last year was L..
10 and the number njurcd $3.50. There
were l3o collisions Of trains.
Mrs. Kimberly, very wealthy resident
of Liberty. Iowa, is an enthusiastic ad
mirer of fine CATTLE She has Just bought
famous bull named Breastplate for
$1,000.
They fed the snakes in the Garden Of
Plants at Paris on live rats until recently.
when Il rat killed snake worth 1000
francs. The snakes now take their rats
dead.
Ncwportcrs have been victimizcd by Q
fellow appearing among them with lead
jacket under his coat, and making bets
that they could not guess his weight with
in a hundred pounds
An unique exhibition has been opened
by an ex-policcman in Boston. consisting
OF bur; lars tools, rogues' gallery, prison
relies and portraits of noted criminals"
and all for the price of twenty-five cents.
At Galveston, Texas, recently, an old
lady who WAS Il witness in certain case.
was called upon to repeat some profane
language used by the prisoner. but stoutly
declined to do so, nor could she be COM
PEELED to it.
The Spiritualists Of Massachusetts, havo
just been holding q State convention.
They propose to build great Spiritual
temple in Boston; and it was said in tho
convention that Mr.. Dow, of the Wauerly
Mdyasine, had promised to give $4,000 to-
ward it.
Hammond the Pacific coast revivalist,
having boosted that he had converted oyer
a dozen Jews to Christianity. tho San
Francisco HcLrep Observer offers him 81, ,OO1
If he will produce one acknowledged Israel.
lite that hus been converted
1t is estimated that the new machinery
put on board the United States frgato
Tennessee, which Will shortly sail for tho
Asiatic station, will enable her to steam 164
statute miles per hour. making her the
fastest war snip III the world
In an English probate court a curious
case has recently been tried. Two elderly
maiden sisters made wills in each others
favor. but by some mistake each signed
the wrong paper. One of the pair dying
her supposed will was presented for pro-
bate, but was declared invalid,
A man in Nevada, shot by robbers, 70.
covered consciousness in time to hear opn
of the rascals say: Had we better shoot
him again 7" to which another replied:
mo. guess the cuss is dead He wisely
kept quiet until they had departed with
their booty.
1t is officially announced in Paris that
the vexed question of how tho restored
Vcndomc Column shall be crowned has
been settled. The statue of Napoleon.
as it was before the Commune, will be
replacc ccd. and the complete rsstQEation Of
the whole monument will soons e aecow.
plished
Yama Glwa, u japanese member Of the
class of 10 in the Yale Scientific School,
has left New Haven for Tokai, Japan, to
take II position in the Imperial college,
having anticipated the concluding work OF
the course and rased the examinations,
three months before the regular time Of
graduation.