Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-03-15

by striking reduction OF permanent
way expenses, and, at the same time,
marked improvement in the tracks.
IRooUo1s county, ILL.,, has 200 ar
tesian wells, all of small bore within
a radius of twenty miles. Not one
of them exceeds Is feet in depth, and
they yield total daily supply Of
SO, 100000 gallons.
AN ingenious policeman at Normal,
ILL.,, suggested curing balky horse
by fastening rope around the ami
mails jaw and hitching another horse
to the rope. The balky horses jaw
was torn off.
THE United Presbyterian Presby-
terry of Edinburgh has agreed to rec
ommend to tho Synod that marriage
with deceased wife's sister shall be
no longer bar to membership in the
Church.
In Japan, the 4th of July is now a
general holiday, because on that day
was fought the decisive battle of
Uyena, in the contest which resulted
in the establishment of the temporal
power of the Mikado,
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul company instructed its agents to
sell no land along their Immigrant
extension from Algona, Ia, for saloon
purposes, and the reser gation has to
be made perpetual.
LAW, phvsic and divinity are we'll
supplied with feminine members in
the United States. The lady doctors
number $50, and feminine dentists
400, while 69 women are preachers,
5 practise as lawyers. Some ladies
adopt two or three callings at once.
A Mrs Gibbs, living in St. Louis, nc
titles on her door plate that she is an
"elocutionist, poetess, washer and
ironer."
ANTHRACITE Coal DISCOVERED
For several months past persons have
been engaged in exploring the hills
near Okonoko, Hampshire county, W.
Va, in search of anthracite coal.
Saturday they succeeded in develop
ing vein Of anthracite, eight feet
thick, which is pronounced to lie a
good article. 1t is intended to give
this coal fair trial, and the owners
are confident that they have found an
article which will prove Of immense
value to the owners and to this sec
ton OF country C1UlItan.
BITUMINoUs GOALS are reported
quiet, with but few sales, and none of
the season contracts yet in the mark
ct. 1t has been suggested that an
agreement between the Cumberland
and Clearfeld shippers Of coal to the
tidewater markets, would result in
better prices to all; as it Is, they are
each one bidding against the other,
and the buyer is making use of this,
to bear down the price, until it is
now barely cost and expenses. Many
of the sa es that are made, merely
show the rates OF transportation.
Nothing for tie owner of the coal
lands, whose capital is being constant
ly depleted. This matter is worthy
Of consideration, and we should be
pleased to have the views of our con-
stituents there on.-~Coal Trade Jouw-
nal
KEEPING EN- AWAKE. Near Dun
fries, lived plou3 family, who had
adopted an orphan, Who, by the way,
was regarded as half Witt9d. He had
inhibited strict views on religious mat
ters, however, and once asked his
adopted mother if she didn't think ii
wrong for the people to com2 to
church and fall asleep, paying 10
better regard TO the service. She r.
piled she did, Accordingly, before
going to church next Sunday, he filed
his pockets with apples. Ono laid
headed old man, who invariably went
to sleep during tIe sermon, particu-
larry attracted his attention. Seeing
Inn at last noddiag and giving nasal
evide, ce of being in the Gland Of
Dreams he took Tie astonished Sleep
er blow with an apple on tie top
CT his bald pate, The minister and
aroused congregation at once TUNED
and Indignantly gazed at the boy,
who merely said to the preacher, as
he took another apple in his hand,
with q sober. honest eynressiOn of