Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-01-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There will be five one-legged MEM
bers in next Congress.
A real estate firm at Orlando, Florida,
sold $4,000 worth of property III
1885.
Less than 1900 tons of shipping was
bu 1t in the vicinity of Boston the past
year.
An improvement in ralroading is the
heated freight car for carrying sensitive
fruit.
During the year just closed there
were % murders and IS suicides in Lou
isville, KY.
A courtship of twenty years has just
ended in the marriage OF the couple at
Branchport, N. j.
Georgia man swallowed his tongue,
ard came near atrangl;ng before a does
or could get it bac k IN position.
A Coieridge, Neb,, farmer has rig
which can milk a COW with the ease aud
satisfaction of the average domestic.
A lemon raised at Enterprise, Fla,
weighs one and three, quarter pond
and measures 14xl5 inches in circum-
ference.
Dolls to the number of II, 900 and s.
600 baby carts were destroyed by he.
cent fire in great toy factory a.
Brandenberg, Germany.
In Butte, CAL, the newspaper rivalry
is SO strong that the county printing is
done for nothing.
Gamb ing in stocks is said to be
good deal more prevalent among the
women of Chicago than it ought to be.
Reports from different rostc flices
throughout the country ipdica'e that
Christmas cards are going out OF FASH
ion.
In Paris the theatrical managers are
obliged to keep up the free st, which
takes $500, 600 year from their purses
The old steamer Beaver, the frs
s cam vessel to navigate the Pacific
OCEAN, it is said, sank asst month in the
barbor at Victoria, B. G.
The completeness OF the work done
by the earlier astronomers is shown by
the fact, recently sta ed, that out of the
5000 or more nebu'p now known the
Herschels had discovered 5000.
An examination OF choked sewer in
Maryville, Cal, the other day, revealed
that the trouble was eau ed by several
bushels of bottle shoppers. How such
quantity got there is u mystery.
Edward Slocum,, of New Richmond,
Mich, received in pay as a soldier the
first 81 greenback issued. marked Sc
ries A, No l, and darel August l, 1862
and lie still has the bill in his posses.
sion.
The new balloon constructed By the
Ne ndon aeronauts will be directed by
steam engine. as directed by M. Henry
Giff.rd. Electricity will be given up,
owing to its want of power for continu-
Gus action.
Contagious diseases have excited the
people of Fairhaven, Miss, to such de~
gree that the horse cars carry two bags
Of clmphor as disinfectants, one at each
end, placed there by the Board OF Health.
The biggest ruby Of the crownless
King Theebow is missing. 1t was called
the Man gin Budda mya. Once ,lam-
sci stole the gem, but at that time it
was restored to the royal lock box and
the hap!ess maid put to death.
Among the requests received last
week at the document room OF the House
of Representatives was ono from a
Western citizen, who wanted complete
set OF the Congre ssional Record, from
its first number, and another from an
Ohio man wanting a new revolver.
Morning wrappers are trimmed with fur
The popular notion that the inhabi~
tants OF Chinese cities are given to Ut
wholesome habits does not seem to be
we'll founded. DR.. Dudgeon. in recent
work on the diet. dress and dwellings Of
the Chinese, says that the people lave
admirably adapted themselves to their
Surroundings, and enjoy mgxmum o!
comfort. "They have good many less
sons ye to teach us IL respect OF living
and practical health" After al expcri~
ence of over 90 years with them, he says
that "they are subject to fewer diseases,
their di. eases are more amenabie to
treatment, and they possess q greater
freedom from acute and intiammatory
aft 4ctions of all kind, if, indeed, these
can be said t. exist at all, than obtains
among Western nations.
The investigation of savants in the
matter of the musical sand, of Kanai,
Cal, which have excl ed SO mrcl in
crest on the part of geologls;s and
others, shows that they possess a pecn-
liar microscopical structure. The grains
are found to be Chiefly composed OF
snail portions of coral and apparently
calcareous sponges, they are a more
or less perforated with small holes, in
some distances forming tubes, hut
mostly terminating in III ma cavi ies,
which are frequently enlarged in the in
terror of the grains, communicating wi
the surface by a small opening. There
were also in the sand small black parti-
cles, formed principally of crystals OF
augite, Depheline ard magnetic oxide of
iron, embedded in classy matlix. The
structure of these grains explains, it is
thought, why soand is emitted when
they are set in motion.
A dose OF Red S ar Cough Cure viii
prevent you disturbing the congrega-
ton, and put You i'll right frame OF
mind TO enjoy the services. Twenty
five cents bottle.
Open work Scotch plaids are to be worn in
the spring, cut into lengths for trimming
plain stuffs.
TAKE THE TESTIMONY of seven out of
every ten men YOU meet, and they will
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