Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-03-04
WHOLE NUMBER, s32.
lTEMS OF INTEREST.

There will be SO Sundays in this
year.
The richest man in Vermont only
counts up IL lriilc over $lOO,U00.
Through sleeping ears are now run.
ming from Washington to Now Orleans
without change.
! China had fire hrigades long before
any other nntion. All their manda-
! rims run with the machine,
! DR.. Lambert offers Z. reward OF ~
600 to any one wis will show him d
man over 10 years old.
Three Michigan editors have left
their offices for the pulpit during the
last Year.
Senator Jones Of Nevada, has had a
private car built for the exclusive use,
OF himself. 1t is IL richly furnished
house on trucks, and cost $11 600.
in the East Indies the ladies of tho
country are s',hjecte;;!! = - - - ~. =
building railroads and keeping them
In running order.
An economical japanese family can:
live on six cents Il day at home; but
to obtain the six cents is what causes
the suffering.
Maria Davis, charged with bigamy
at the Old Bailey, London, was re-
leased because the first husband, be-
ing totally blind, was unable to iden-
tify her.
In Japan sun-showcr Is called "the
Foxes Wedding" In New England
the natives mystcriously remark, 1.-The
devil is whipping his wife with o cod
fish tall"
Practical engineers estimate the cost
of the proposed free bridge over tho
| Ohio, connecting Cincinnati with Gov
ington, at present prices of labor and
material, at $75o,000.
The orange crop OF Los Angeles,
CAL, will not be more than one half
! rs large as last year. The lemon crop
| is also small and the trees are said to
! be fast dying.
Over 900 trees were planted in
! Minnesota during the planting
season, by contestants for certain pre-
/ miums which had been offered to
those planting the largest number.
/ Some men are always lucky. A hun
ter of Braincrd, Nina, while out in
the woods recently, discharged his gun
! to clear out the barrel, and unknown
to him fine buck happened to be in
| range and was shot through the heart.
The British War Department has
had the German history of the cam
paiSn of 1S70-lS71 translated for the
benefit OF the service, and will treat
the forthcoming Russian official story
! OF the Crimcan war in the same way.
, An exhibition Of manuscripts, coins,
arms, implements and other objects il
Illustrative of the history and industry
OF the East, will be prominent fea-
turc of the meeting of Orientalists to
be held ut st. Petersburg next sum
mcr.
Great Britain has now five iron -clads
under construction the Intiexiblc, to
carry four guns of the heaviest caIibrc;
the Shannon, Ii nine-gun screw ship;
the Nelson and Northampton, double
/ screw ships OF twelve guns each, and
the Temcrairc, an ciyht-gun ship.
Col. Xillette, the aide-de camp of
Marshal BaZaine, who aided in his es-
] cape, has finished the period of in-
prisonment TO which he was sentenced
ana has become wine merchant III
order to earn living, as he has been
deprived OF The right to a pension.
An English artist, Mr.. Hondless,
! while sketchinS recently near Gavin.
bic, in Dlmfricshire, discovered in an
open drain, the stone head of Il Celtic
battle-aXe, eleven inches and Il hulf in
thickness. This is said to be the lar.
gest Celtic t9ttlc-axe found in Great
Britain.
Many British manufacturers and
! other en-, ,..oycrs. have lately changed
pay day from Saturday to Monday for
the sake of the woriimcn. many OF
! wh0m have been in the habit of souan
derlng their wages in dissipation OF,
Sunday. A similar changer L talked o;
! Al NcN LHSiUuu.
! Vienna has just produced com.
pany Of youthful actors, whose ages
range from to II years, and who are
giving dramatic performances in th.
various theatres of Germany. Fairy,
stories have been dramatizcd for them,
and their acting is said 10 give the full
lest satisfaction to both young and
old
! There is a man now serving out Il
years Imprisonment in the Jail at Lex.
ington, Ky, who was convicted o.
stealing cotton umbrella worth sey-
cnty. five cents. As his board costs
sixty cents per diem, the authorities
will be out s2l9 ut the time Of Ills rc.
lease. But then, he will have beeu
punished and the majesty Of the law
upheld.
NeW Orleans is mystiflcd by the sud
den appearance OF a young stranger
who casually drqppa4 into billiard
saloon the otAar day, said he'd try "a
game or tive with the proprietor.
Though hG Didn't play much" AMI
since that time has used up every good
OlayGr that town can nrolure Hs