Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-06-12
I1EMS OF INTEREST.

birds in Washington Territory.
Only 90 ont of the 200 saloon keepers
in Saginaw, Mich, have paid their State
license.
A Jackson, Mich, grocer has $50, 900
worth of unpaid accounts which he is
willing to sell for 500.
One of the Oldest if not the oldest
medical colleges of the world is the
iledica School of the Imperial Univer-
sity of Japan.
Two little girls have gone into bust
ness as dolls dressmakers at Holyoke
4 sign is hung out which reads: DOLLS
many girls patronize the young workers
Eridal parties in New York observe
the fashion of being at least an hour
late. At one fashionable wedding the
bride and groom arrived nearly two hours
behind time, and the Wedding was con-
sidered the most successful of the sea-
son
Prof. Newton. at the conclusion of q
series OF lectures on Greek and Roman
antiquities, referred to the vast number
of sculptures buried in the cellars of the
British Museum. He stated that they
had remained there ever since 1852, "de-
faced and begrimed with dirt utterly
useless to anybody. for in their present
position they cannot be seen unless by
the use of "a lantern"
Clark Moth, blind man, carries the
mail from Claryvil @, Sullivan county,
to Big Indian, Ulster county, N. Y,
distance of II miles, three times week.
The road is so rough as to be impossible
for vehicles, and the route Is accomplish
ed on foot. He has been the mail car-
rier on this route for 30 years, and has
never missed trip either in summer or
winter.
Mrs. Sutton is postmistress at Somer
set. Vt, she is larg and has frey red
hir, with the peculiarities of temper
supposed to go Herewith. She has
p anted the postolice box close to her
kitchen stove, and insisted on locking
the house and going visiting just when
she pleases. The people have tried all
s:ts of ways to expedite the mails but
she insists that two days in the week
is enough time to keep the postollice
open.
1t is said that pure negro never died
of phthisis before the war: now death
fir m phthisis is four times Us great as
ann ng the whites, concerning which
DR.. Upton, Of Selma, Ala, says: "The
change has come in my opinion, and he
result of the violent striking of the
>hackies from the hands of people who
for gene -ateons had lived as slaves; the
sudden lifting of all restraint, the vio-
lest swing of the pendulum from a sins
pie lie of toll and bondage to one of
liberty, license, and ali that inevitab e
brood of disasters that follows surely
and swiftly upon the heels of outraged
and violated natural avs"
A valuable discovery has been madewher
by faded ink on parchments may be SO
restored as to render the writing perfect
ly legible. The process consists in mois-
tening the paper with water. and then
pass over the lines in writing q brush
which has been wet in n solution of am
monia. The writing will Immediately
appear quite dark in color; and this col
or, in the case of parchment, it will pre-
serve. On paper, however, the color
gradually fades again; but it may be res
stored at pleasure by the application Of
the sulphide. The explanation of this &C.
t on of the substance is very simple. The
, iron which enters into the composition of
the ink is transformed by the reaction
into the black sulphide.
Mrs. J Roberts, of Philadelphia, has
in her possession simon pure nugget OF
gold with peculiar history. 1t CANT
from Central City, Gilpin county, Cole
Nicholas Paulin, German, hailing from.
Chic, was one OF the goll seekers OF
Central City, and lodged in hut of his
own construction, the roof of which he
covered with sod. Some months after
placing the sod on the roof heavy
storm struck the place and washed some
! of the sod loose. Paulin climbed on the
roof and began replacing the earth,
When. TO his establishment, he behold
the nugget, from which the earth had
been washed away. Mrs. Roherts sor
was super, ntendent of the m mes il
: Centla' City and a great friend of raulir
who, Just before he died of pneumonia,
soon after the find, gave him the nugget
A short time ago it was given out tina
= paper rails had been made and success
fully tested. Now, the same material
has been utilized for making pipes, and
a certain quantity of such pipes have
been exhibited in Vienna. The process
is as TO lows: Strips Of paper, the wid.f
= of which corresponds with the length o
one pipe section, are drawn through
! melted asphalt, and wound upon man
N dlel When the pipe thus made ha
. cooled, the mandrel is Withdrawn, anr
= the inside is covered with kind of en-
d. amel, the nature of which comprises TIT
:, main secret of the invention. ard is there
!, fore not made known. The outs de i
: pain ell with asphalt varnish and dustet
over with sand. 1t is stated that such
= pipe will resist some 1000 rounds inter
= nal PRESSURE, though the thickness of thu
:, s.ulf is only about one half inch.
$ Recently Published statistics of Brit
/ ish India give the entire population a
e, 253, 3S2, 595, and the superficial area a
4 1878, 044 square miles. 43,537, 1913 res
1 licences were enumerated. The densit
K of the pc u'ation reaches its maximum
81 in Bengal, where there are 4i2.3 inhab
e itants to the square m lie, the minimum
ol is found in Central India, with 1913, an,
A in British Burmah, with 42S to eacl
is square mile. For every 100 males Their
l are l24 females. The Hindoos and Budd
Il hists include 10000, COO; the Moham
II medans, $4,000, 900; Christians, 1900.