Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-01-16
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The petrifed skeleton of a whale
over thirty feet long has been discovered
by an officer of the coast survey on q
range of mountains in Monterey county,
Cal, over 3, 800 feet above sea level.
There seems to have been prejudice
from time immemorial against sunshine
in March, and according to German
saying, it were better to be bitten by
snake than to feel the sun in March.
In Whitney's creek. Inyo county, CAL,
are found the celebrated golden trout.
They average twelve inches in length,
and are of slenderer make than common
brook trout. Down each side are two
bright golden bands, each little more
than an inch wide.
The Indians of Mexico illumine their
path by night with a phosphorcscent
insect which is far more brilliant than
our fire fly. They feed their lights on
sugar cane instead of from the kerosene
oil can, and increase their bril- iancy bv
dipping them in water. These insects
are said to afford light enough to read
by.
The state coaches of the lord mayor OF
London and of Queen Victoria are nearly
| coeval. Tie latter dates from 1862, the
third year of George III. 1t was about
1712 that the lord mayor first used a
state coach on November .. The first
coach lasted till 1851, when the one now
in use was built by subscription and pre-
sented to him. 1t is very similar to the
queens.
"The Tincida epigraph,' writes AL
phonse karr, sis the smallest of all
moths, being two lines wide when its
wings are outsprcad: but how mag
| nificcntly it is attired! 1t is robed in
gold and silver, and on the slvery gauzc
of its upper wings is traced, in letters of
gold, an inscription which no one has
vet succeeded in dccipherng though
fancy can read it thus: Mayimu1 in
| minimis Deus God is geatest in His
smallest works."
In ancient times cobblers made shoes
out OF hides, flax, silk, cloth, wood, iron,
silver and god; and in great variety of
| shapes, plain and ornamental. In the
eventh century the upper part of the
| shoe was made of leather, and the sole of
| wood The SaXons wore shoes with
| thongs. In the year 1910, in the reign
| of William Rufus, the great dandy Rob
ert was called 1.-The horned" because he
wore shoes with long points, stuffed,
| turned up, and twisted like horns. The
clergy waged war upon this fashion until
| it was discontinued.
The superstitions about numbers have
quaint interest. Ten is the lucky
| number Of the East Solyman the Mag
nifcent was called the ''perfccter of the
| perfect number" because he was the
tenth sultan. aud lie lived in the tenth
century after the prophet. lie captured
Fc!grade in 1921, Rhodes in 1922, de.
| feated the lIungarians at Alohacs in 1895,
and captured Buda in 1929. Under his
reign the Turkish empire reached its
greatest expansion and its highest pitch
of prosperity. The most popular num-
Der among Aryan nations is seven. Sin
| gularly enough it is also the lucky num-
Der of the Japanese. The most import
ant day of the calendar OF old Japan is
the seventh day of the seventh month
Guly) 1t is the day for the cbi!dren's
merrymaking. like our Christmas. The
japanese have also seven patrons of hap
piness-long life, riches, daily food, con
tentment, talents, glory and love.