Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Electricity is now applied to the
bleaching of cotton and linen fabrics.
A chicken snake, killed in Florida,
was found to contain china nest-egg
An Amador county (Cal.) man has ap-
piled fora patent on a process for max
ing butter by boiling the cream.
Many persons slept in Paramount Park
on Sunday night in order to secure
choice places for picnic parties on the
Fifth.
Somebody has figured out that the
South African diamond crop up to the
present time amounts to 81 tons, valued
at 5000, 100000.
An immigrant who arrived in Los
Angeles, CAL, the other day, made the
trip from Kansas in a wagon, accompan-
led by his wife and five children.
The camphor laurel, from which the
camphor gum of commerce is obtained,
has been successfully introduced into
California. 1t is native of China.
Rose Leslie, whose immense size made
her famous as a circus attraction, has
died in Lowell, Mass, aged 90 years.
She weighed els pounds and measured
5 feet inches in height.
The manufacture of a bronze vase,
which, it is claimed, will be the largest
ever made in Japan, has been COM
menced at Osaka. 1t will be Is feet
high and over feet in diameter at the
mouth.
The bed of the ocean, says a foreign
writer, is to an enormous extent covered
nd or
remarkable is it to find the floor of the
ocean covered in many parts with the
dust of the meteorites.
Mrs. j. VI. Hall, of Tolono, ILL.,, had
hen that laid two eggs day. The
hen was killed, and out of curiosity an
anatomical examination was made,
which revealed the fact that the hen
had two egg sacks, each containing
fully matured egg, which would have
been laid that day.
A Lowell, Mass, paper says: I'm
doubtedly the most extraordinary class
in point of height that will be gradua-
ted from any institution in America this
year is at of Nichols Latin School in
this city. The total height of the seven
members is AZ feet, an average of six
feet each.
An Alamenda, Cal, man, who would
not trust to the knife alone to end his
existence, first turned the gas in his
room on full head, then cut his throat
and then finished up by putting two
bullet wounds in his head. At last &C
counts it seemed likely his attempt at
suicide would be unsuccessful.
III. -
or ocd manner the marriage of men,
Der of their tribe. Lately such an event
came off, and atterward about fifty of
the braves, including the bridal couple,
took tramp OF several days over the
territory, pitching tents at night and
giving dances and other festivities.
To polish plate glass and remove
slight scratches. rub the surface gently,
firstly with clean pad of white cotton
wool, and afterward with a pad covered
over with cotton velvet which had Leen
charged with fine rouge. The surface
will under this treatment acquire pol
ish of great brilliancy, quite free from
any scratches.
A bridge of concrete, 80 feet in span
with roadway ID feet wide and capa-
BILE of supporting safely a load of two
hundred tons, was recently built in
Switzerland in single day. Two
months time was allowed for the COM
plete hardening of the concrete, after
which time heavy traffic began without
apparent injury to the structure.
A Washington Life Insurance Agent
states that he has just conducted an in>
surance upon the life of man aged 102
years. This centenarian enjoys good
health, and appears to be in the posses
sion of his faculties. He states that his
father lived to the age of II, and met
his death from an injury due to the
breaking of milestone. His grand
father was. he asserts, accidentally
killed in his mil at the age of 1876. His
great grandfather lived to the age of
1873. The man in question distinctly re-
members his great grandfather, and has
now living great-!great-niece.
There is still flourishing in the porch
of the Convent OF Santa Sabina, in Rome,
an orange tree that is said to have been
planted in A. D. 1900. Another, in the
Monastery at Tondi, is supposed to have
been planted by Sir Thomas Aquinas in
1878. In the Moorish Alcazar, at Sew
lille. Spain, exists one that was planted
during the reign of Pedro 1, between
1850 and 1866. Others there are known
to be $40 years old.
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