Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-10-30
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factory girl ?" "Yes,l Bill, she's salts
factory"
Gold fish were first brought from
China to England in 1891, and were then
great curiosity.
The Somerville Journal makes it out
that the eagle is the aristocrat of birds,
because he moves in the highest circles
When the phonetic spelling comes
into us it will always be rite In order to
rite rite, to rite rite, rite-AndreUs'
Queen.
The way the king of the Sandwich
islands carves chicken is to take hold
of both legs, draw long breath, and
Pull for all he is worth.
The reason more umbrellas than
watermelons are stolen, is thought to be
because the thief doesn't have to plug
the umbrella. 1t is always ripe for the
harvest. t.-Fond du Lac ReDorter.
According to statistics collected by
the Insurance Chronicle, 1855, Ols. 1855
worth of property has been destroyed
by fire in the United States during the
last five years.
A good COW ought to produce 5000
pounds of milk annually; but in this
country the average is only about half
that, while in Holland 10000 pounds is
only considered lair yield.
The valley of the Mississippi has
1881, 900 square miles of territory, Its
waters make about 10000 miles Of navi-
cation, and its valleys give Level routes
to vast system of railways.
Texas commenced raising wool in
1645, and has now 100000 sheep.
1t is estimated that Montana will pro-
duce this year so, 0O0, 900 pounds of wool,
nearly as much as California.
Mrs. Haussmann, of De Witt county,
Texas, has for five years in succession
sent the first bale of cotton to Galveston,
and has received handsome premiums
for it each year. This season she also
sent the first bale of cotton into Hous-
ton.
The Jersey Belle, owned by Mr..
Films, of Scituate, Mass, is claimed to
be the best butter COW" living. She
is described us being beautiful animal
of rich yellow fawn color, diversified
with white, weighing nine hundred and
fifty pounds, and yielding over seven
hundred pounds of butter in year.
"How came these holes in your
elbowsP" said widowed mother to her
only son. "Oh, mother, hid behind
the sofa when Colonel Gobler was say
ing to Maria that he'd take her even II
you had to be thrown in; and he didn't
know I was there; so held my tongue
and laughed in my sleeves till / bust
em.n
Rev. Mr.. Clough, of the American
Baptist mission to the Teloogoos, South
India, says in the Missionary Magazine !:
In five different hamlets the idols were
all given up to me; two of these we had
been trying to get for some years The
whole number of idols given up was
about 100, and all but twenty were
shapeless stones.
The Workingman in Portugal.
In the most civilized countries of
tourist haunted Europe, the beggar and
the professional Snowman are prominent
figures in the landscapes. In Italy the
mendicants swarm in every gorge, re-
placing the banditi who have been
hunted down by the bersaglieri. In
Switzerland they beset you at each pass
and col, whining at your heels as you
enter the villages and leave them. Even
in Germany, where begging is strongly
forbidden, they make silent appeals
while the carriage changes horses, and
limp nimbly along at the side of the
forewheel, where they have you at an
advantage when pulling up steep. In
the rural districts of Portugal there is
no nuisance of the kind. There is an ex-
cellent system of voluntary relief. The
country is decidedly underpopulated,
and the peasants, for the most part, are
well-to-do. In some provinces they are
=, -orse off than in others; but everywhere
thou are well fed and comfortably
clotheo; while in the more fertile and
nonulous ,,arts of the north they may be
so;d n bo reI' 'stively rich. 1t is not un-
usu,l to see a laborer's wife wearing
pola ornaments on her person on Sunday
of the value of from twenty-five to one
hundred dollars. And the good man
himself has his gay festa clothing, with
buttons of silver on glossy velveteen,
and re e;oices in the dandyism OF spot
lose white shirt front, lighted up by n
cold stud N the central frill. lie works
hard. 70 he sure; sometimes his toll, in
the long days oil midsummer,will extend
to sixteen hours; but then he lives un-
commonly well. lie can even aifora 10
be something of an epicure. ana ne re-
ioices in variety OF diet tnat laporers
might well envy. His bill OF fare IN
eludes beef and bacon, dried goldfish
which is the common de}icacy oil all
classes--lard, bread and rice, olives anu
olive oil, with a luxurious profusion OF
succulent vegetables. He is allowed
gourds and cabages at discretion, nor
can anything be more suitable to sui
try climate. And, like the Frenchman,
and his nearer neighbor, the Spaniard,
he is always something of cook. Not
that he has studied refinements OF cul-
sine; but he can dress the simple ingre-
dients of his banquets in fashion that