Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-06-05
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Roses 10 and 10 inches in cireumfer>
ence are common products of Southern
California.
, At Petersburg, Va. stealing flowers
from graves has become so common that
the police have been compelled to inter-
fere.
! Not Chinaman now lives in Lewis
county, Wyoming T., where there were
600 year ago. There are said to be
only So new remaining in Seattle.
A man at Walnut Creek, Cal, stole
, some paste diamonds from two burlesque
actresses. Believing them to be genuine,
he stole horse to enable him to get
away more quickly, and was arrested ON
the latter charge alone.
The Apache Indians who have been
educated in the English language gather
up and preserve all the newspapers while
on their hostile raids, and then pass their
leisure time in reading comments made
. upon their movements and barbarities.
! A stick of timber $50 feet long and IS
inches at the butt and straight as pen
holder, was shipped from Olym ia w.
iooe WSCh- IL was IuC pltCC VI
timber ever shipped down the sound and
was intended for a flag staff at Port Dis
covery.
A little girl who realized that her 81
months old baby brother was bald and
toothless and believing in the etficscy of
prayer added this request to her "Now
! | lay me down" etc., the other night
ooh, Lord, b ess little Percy and do
give him some hair and some teeth"
1t is beginning to be admitted that
the increase in cyclones is real and not
apparent. A great many theories have
been advanced to account for it. Elec-
tricty generated by railroads, denuda-
ton of forests, cultivation of the soil,
and other causes have been assigned.
During the month of April 1900 pas.
sengers arrived in San Francisco by
steamers from Panama, Mexico, Austral-
ia, Hawaiian Islands, Japan, China, and
British Columbia. By the same routes
1883 emigrated. Of these arrivals /, 444
hailed from Japan and China, and 43S
took their departure for the 8 sme coun-
tries. The through passenger traffic by
railroad last month embraced 16, 992 ar
rivals and 10, 225 departures.
A juvenile hnnging bee was held in
Adams, Ore, recently. Several chill
dren assembled to lynch little Charley
Springler, hung him to beam and were
gyreting gleefully around their victim
as he swung, black in the face and about
ready to climb the shining steps, when
man, who fortunately had business
there at the moment, frustrated the
tragedy.
George w. Chaplin, Of Pine Meadow,
Ct. was recently tried for selling cider
without license. His defense was that
he sold the cider in his store, but stipu~
lated that it should be drank upon a
platform outside his door, on another
mans property. The State did not con-
was fined one dollar and costs.
A large grey eagle was shot last week
10y a farmer named Irby, about three
l,ilcs west of Blackstone, Va. He had
cen it once or twice before in the imme-
oiate vicinity of his house Being good
hhot, the gentleman crippled tine king of
oirds with rifle charge. 1t was beau
tiful specimen of it's kind. Its wings
when spread measured feet A. inches
ION tip to tip, and its talons measured
nearly & inches in width.
A Chinaman has been arrested at Spoa
kano Falls, w. T., for having removed
the figures so from revenue stamp in a
very skillful manner and pasted them on
a one dollar greenback in such skill
full manner as to make it appear as a
fifty dollar note What is most singu>
lar is the fact that he succeeded in GET
ting the bill changed, carrying away
for it fifty dollars in good money.
Mr. Edward Atkinson, the distin-
guish' d statistician of Massachusetts,
has undertaken to solve the whole labor
pr blem in this way. He demonstrates
that in the city of Boston single man
can live comfortably, wholesomely. and
even enjoy some Injuries, on 5000 per
year. One room for two persons, $50
each for rent; clothing $45; washing
%; fuel, $40; food, 52-or $172 for ey-
cry necessary, leaving $2S for superi:ui-
ties or for the savings bank. 1t is not
nee 'sary to enter into the details of Mr..
Atkinson's pan. Suffice to say that he
has figures in enough of everything to
satisfy any reasonable person, and de-
cares that he has purchased everything
h m eff.
A Western newspaper contains the
following: Everybody in this camp
knows Tow err, the Mono mine Towser.
This dog Towser rides up and down on
the cages, through drifts and crosscuts,
and goes al over and through the mine
perhaps oftener than any miner of them
all. Yesterday brilliant idea struck
John O'Neill and some others, and they
spirited Towser into back yard. They
washed his hair as cl an to the skin as
it poss bly, could be washed, and then
CAREFUL PANIED and muddy waiter to
the very highest percentage. and the
en'ire dog assayed in fine gold $23 II,
as weighed on Soderling's scales. When
Mon, assays $23.17 to the dog, she is
certainly starting out on boom. and
we defy any mining camp on thu
Pacific coast to beat it."
"Pick it Up Quick"