Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-09-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The question of the hour is always one
OF great moment.
Blaine will open the Maine campaign
with speech. Persons who didn't
just know what the Maine campaign was
to be opened with can now calm them
selves.
An exchange prints the statement
that the guillotine is to be superseded
In France for electricity as a means Of
putting criminals to death, and refrans
putting 1t under the head Of shocking.
Westward the shortage epidemic finds
Its way. The treasurer of Garfield
county, Wyoming Territory, is $12, 500
behind in his accounts, and hiss turned
his property over to his bondsmen. This
indi Gates inexperience.
1t is slid Jenny Lind's daughter,
''who has her mothers voice Is coming
to this country to sing with it. AS
Jenny Lind's notes were always as good
as gold, the young lady will probably
demand their market value.
Tramps in Dakota are not too lazy to
do the ''crow act" That is, they act as
scare.crows in the wheat fields, taking
turns at standing on platform high
above the wheat and occasionally yell.
ing or throwing q stone at the birds
They are paid very little besides what
they eat.
The historic car, abraham Lincoln
once the most elegant on Southern rail
roads during the war periods, and subse-
quently used to convey the remains of
President Lincoln to Springfield, is now
said to be employed as section hands
boarding car on the Central Pacific rail.
road.
A French physician. having tested his
theory, advocates sleeping with the head
the brain receives more plentiful brain
supply and is, therefore, better nour
lshed. Is is now in order for some one
to follow this with the recommendation
that standing on the head is sleeping
posture. for the reason that it is impossi-
BILE to have too much of the good thing.
A basting- machine that is said to be
able to do the work of fifteen girls is
being tried in large clothing house in
Boston, and the employees OF the house,
both girls and men, are considerable eX~
cited thereby. The opposition to this
labor saving machine is likely to develop
into strike. At present the matter is
in highlands of the District Executive
Board.
A new and plausible explanation of
the destructive fires occurring in Pima
forests is offered The pine resin cxud-
ing from the trees is often of lense
shape, and before it thoroughly hardens
F.! frequently of crystalline clearness. 1t is
surmsed that while in that condition
resin lens may focus the suns rays upon
some light twig or resinous point and so
start blaze that quickly eats up
forest.
Nebraska has q country editor named
| O'Brien, who ''knocked OUT two rival
editors in succession the other afternoon.
The first of his assaia ants was aimed
| with pistol and the second with a cow
hide, but the valiant O'Brien licked both
of them with his bare fists. Now his
neighbors want to send him to Congress
as colleague of the pugilis:ic Laird.
The mint julep is an old colonial Vir-
ginia drink. 1t was invented in Virginia
| by wealthy planter, who had COM
pany of friends at lis house. A great
hail storm came up, he gathered the
hailstones, and on the inspiration of the
moment concocted that delicious Lever
age which we call mint julep. Its fame
spread, but at first they never made it
except when it hailed.