Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-09-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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A parsonage to be built for Rev. DR..
Hall, of New York city, is to cost $751;
600.
A Chico Zeal. woman postponed her
wedding because it was ''too warm to
get married"
! A Philadelphia oyster dealer has
horse that eats oysters on the half shell
with remarkable relish.
One Lutheran missionary and 100, 900
gallons of New England rum were re-
Gently sent to the Congo in the same
ship.
! A mouse went into an Aroostook Sum-
day school and the superintendent
knocked him down and killed him with
a Bible.
A Richmond OIich.) lady is the
mother of seventeen healthy and thriv-
| ing children, all born within the past
nineteen years.
A residence of Trebein, o.. owns
mastodon tooth which is fourteen inches
long, ten inches broad and twenty seven
inches in circumference and weighs
thirteen pounds.
King Ludwig CT Bavaria committed
suicide last month. Any man who lives
in house with such name as Hohen-
schwaugan Castle ought to want to die.
De Alenil, st. Louis Magazine.
A prisoner in the Elkton Jail charged
with murder spends his time counting
the letters, words, verses and chapters
in the Bible. He claims to have made a
complete count, and is verifying it.
The rice harvesters of Louisiana res
ceive 81 so a day this season, and adj
vance of 20 per cent. over the wages
paid last year. The rice planters are
not satisfied, and talk of general reduc-
tion
The Danville "Breeze" tells of a young
woman riding with young man and
exclaiming at the sight of two calves
"Oh. see those two little cowlets."
"You are mistaken" said the young
man, ''those are not cow.et but bullets. ;"
''The monument erected to the late
Senator Anthony, of Providence" says
the Boston "Iournal", "is unique and
beautiful. 1t consists of tall granite
boulder, into which tablet is fastened,
the stone being covered with luxuriant
growth of ivy.
Lightning struck in the middle of q
potato patch at Plattsville. Ulster county,
during recent thundcr-s storm and
feet. Directly in the center of the Cir
Gle the tubers were uncovered and many
of them were baked.
MIR. George Casey has in his green
house at Auburn, N. Y, century plant
that is thirty five feet high and the stem
is six inches thick at the base. 1t has
thirty two Towering branches, with over
5000 buds and bright yellow flowers
The plant was purchased by Mr.. Casey
in 1887, and is GO years old.
A granite obclisk has just been erected
at Lippehne, in Germany, to commend o.
! rate the fact that on the oath of June,
1912, Prince Bismarck, at that time q
mere sub-Lieutenant IN a cavalry regi-
ment. threw himself into the lake of
Wendelsee and at the risk of his life
saved drowning soldier. Prince Bis
marck often remarks that he is prouder
him tor this act of bravery than of all
his seventy-six decorations.
Dallas Hill, of Norwood, Ca, made a
"fat meat pouitice" for a swelling and
went to led. While he slept, as only q
tired negro can sleep, rats, attracted by
the smell of the meat, came out and
gnawed on Dallas greasy fingers, LAGER
ating them badly, and possibly danger
ously, without waking him.
Fifteen years ago letter was received
at a nome in Maine, tossed unopened
| .uf0 L,,ro I'D
The other day the bureau was sold and
the letter found. 1t was at once for.
warded to its rightful owner, then in
Old Orchard. She found that 1t con-
tanned money intended for an old lady.
who. oddly enough was also spending
the summer in Old Orchard and who,
though SO years old, was right glad to
get the money so long in coming.
The people of Ventura, CAL, are going
to try novel experiment in sprinkling
the streets with crude petroleum instead
of water. 1t is thought that oil after
two or three sprinkllngs will lay the
dust for months. The experiment is
looked for with much interest.
A young colored man of Buffalo is
making money by giving remarkable
musical concerts. He holds his mouth
open, taps his skull with beer-mallet,
and thus plays tune il tones not unlike
those of xylophone. He seems not
only to have wooden head but an
empty one also.
About 100 persons day visit the con-
demned Anarchists in Jail in Chicago.
Half the visitors are ladies. They are
not sympathizers with the cause of anar-
chy, but regard the prisoners as a part
of the city's sights. The physicians at
the County Hospital are endeavoring to
get between So 900 and 81, 900 extra pay
for their services in attending the pos
licemen wounded during the riots.
They say their salaries are only for at
tendance upon paupers.
Mr.. VIM. F. Hilton has received from
a friend in Wallingford regular series
of four, five, six and even seven>leafed
clover. His friend, young man in
Wallingford, picked them all in that
neighborhood, and this, he says, is the
second specimen he has found there of
the seven leafed article. OF the six leaf
he las found more than two specimens
1--WE believe half dozen) while of fiyes
and tours he has found great many.
Wallingford, in spite of sand, must be a
good place for clover. - Hartford
Times
A Philadelphia peanut vender informs