Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

A goose that has been in the La Clair
.amily for Al years died in western New
York the other day.
A Brigadier General of the late war is
pursuing the humble though honorable
avocation of street car driver.
Mrs. Cleveland doesn't seem to be
bothering herself about grandfather
Folsom's will. She probably has one OF
her own.
The tomb of Mordecai and Queen
Esther is still visited by Hebrew pill
grims, and is well preserved in the town
of Hamadan, in Persia.
1t has been decided by a Brooklyn
church that playing cards isn't wicked.
and two thirds of the congregation have
quit using them.-Texas Siftings
New Workers are becoming so addicted
to club life that there is some talk of
establishing summer branches of New
York clubs at the watering places.
The elms of Flushing, L. l.. are sulf-
ering for the third year from the ravages
of the larve of the saw fly, an import
from Germany, which, very curiously in
its native country, confines its ravages to
the pine forests.
An II 34 pound lobster has just been
caught off y inthrop, Mass. 1t measured
ever all 291 inches. large claw IL inches,
and small cav 10 3.4 inches. 1t was q
remarkably symmetrical lobster for one
so old and large.
The suggestion is made In New York
City that during the summer rest be
taken in the building business from 10
A. NJ. to 4 P. NJ, end that the time be
made up in the cool of the evening or
by electric light.
The pages of the National House of
Representatives conduct fair business
procuring the autographs of members
They charge the autograph hunter $40
for the signatures of the whole House.
In the Senate he charge is only $, be-
cause of the fewer members.
During the summer the Saturday half
holiday in New York City has practical
ly become whole holiday, business
men leaving town Friday afternoon to
visit their families at the watering
places, to the manifest financial advant-
age OF the latter, returning to business
Monday morning.
Poisoning from ice cream has been
notably frequent in Europe this season.
Recently at St. Thomas Hospital, in
London, a boy II died from the effects
of eating poisonous ice cream. Be-
tween thirty and forty girls ana boys
who had partaken of the ice cream pur>
chased at the same stall had been sud-
denly seized with sickness
Held by wire ropes to the tip top
point of Sonnblick Mountain, a peak
10000 feet high in the Tyro!ese Alps, is
new block house. Thanking it is a
massive stone turret. A wire rope way
5000 feet long leads down the noun
tain. In this block house is to dwell q
meteorologist, and his observatory is
higher than any other meteorologist's in
Europe
Lightning struck an oak in Tippeca-
noe county, Ind, and tore it into splint>
ers. 1t is said that each years layer of
the growth of the tree seemed to have
been separated from the other and split
into strips about half an inch wide.
After completing its work on the oaks
the lightning ran 80 rods along the wire
fence, melting the wire in many place,
and tearing each post out of the ground.
In connection with the celebration of
Albany's two hundredth anniversary in
one shop window copy of the Albany
Gazette for September %, 1885, IS ex-
posed. 1t has the same charming vari-
of type and the cheerful exccntricities of
makeup that characterize all newspa.
pers of that age. European news.
court notices, runaway slave advertise.
ments and political documents are
mixed together as though the matter
had been shoveled into the form.