Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-09-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

Jay were %, 40 %, the largest taken
in on single day since the structure
was opened.
Unsuccessful attempts at drowning
have been made at different times with
in month by a married couple in Bat
tie Creek, Mich,
Earthquake insurance, which is in
vogue in Italy, is proposed as sort of
companion for cy clone insurance in this
part of the country.
Two Fall River police officers have
been suspended for - days for inter-
fering with the Salv alton Army by blow
ing beans into their headquarters
The remains of house that experts
venture to say Is fifteen centuries old
have been unearthed in Rome. They
are in a comparatively good state of
preservation.
Cinnamon in some places of the Paci-
fic coast are supplying themselves with
arms, it is noticed. One gunsmith sold
II Winchester rifles to Cinnamon in one
week.
Ocean waves caused by earthquake
are Geographic. Those started on ia
panese waters on August 27, 1884, were
registered by tide guages on the Cali
fornia coast on the same day.
Peoria, H., has ghost that throws
stones from unseen places and makes
fiat-iron dance cau-can on the floor.
Peoria makes more whiskey than any
other place in the country.
The greatest balloon in the world has
been constructed in San Francisco. 1t
will hold $50, 1000 cubic feet of gas, and
was m ade to traverse the American Cone
tinent from ocean to ocean.
1t is understood that the officials
of the Treasury are very much
annoyed by the continual party
disagreemcnts and trouble at the Coast
Survey Office and there is likely at any
time to be general shaking up there if
it does not stop. Mr.. Randall is in favor
of Its abolishing the service for the pur-
pose of recognizing it. His idea has
been to let it go year w.thou: any ap.
propriation. and afer that to appropriate
the money for the service in another
way.
The Xenia (O.) "Gazette' proudly an
nounces that in that neighborhood 20
ad joining farms are the property of a.
many widows. A person could begin at
sunrise and by steady walking from one
farm to another keeping going till late
in the day and not in all that time place
his foot upon an acre of soil absolutely
owned by any man. These farms, in
the aggregate, comprise somewhere in
the neighborhood of 1000 acres. With
but three exceptions the premises are &C.
cupied by their respective owners.
a mystery that has long engaged at
tention in London is to be solved on
November %. when certain rooms that
have been sealed up for many years are
to be opener, in accordance with the
will of Sir John Soane. The day named
will be the anniversary of the death of
Lady Soane, of Mrs. George Soane, and
that of the gr nddaughter, Mrs. Rose
Marie Soane- Rody. Some people LOOK
for a revelation of art treasurers when
the opening takes place, and others for
the revelation of family secret
The Detroit M. E. Conference, in sess-
ion at Adrian, Mich, listened to
stirring address from the Prohibition
candidate for Governor and adopted the
report OF the Committee on Temperance,
''stating that the time was past when
the drunkard was an object of pity. He
should be punished and the rum sellers
should be placed IN prison. License
laws should be opposed. 1t was not
proposed that the pastors should control
the politics of their congregations, but
urged them to recommend them strongly
not to vote with political parties which
legislate in favor of the liquor traffic.
Church members were forbidden to rent
buildings for saloon purposes or go on
liquor lands"
The story is told that Henry Went
worth Monk, M. p, of Ottawa, Canada,
is at the head of company recently
formed, for the purpose of buying the
territory of Palestine and establishing
there the Capital of the earth. The cap
ital stock of the "New British Empire
Company is $40, 100000, and it is said
that 81, 500, 900 has been subscribed al
ready. Mr.. Monk, as President, has is
sued a prospectus, and next month he
will go to England to place the stock of
his company. The names CT the Presi~
dent of the United States and James G.
Blaine, of Maine, are attached to the
prospectus as honorary Vice Presidents,
and her Majesty Queen Victoria is named
as patroness.
The Tllden heirs have decided that it
would be the best plan to close Gray
stone for a while, and so the house in
which Mr.. Tilden died has been put in
shape for the winter aad is now in the
hands of Mr.. Tilden's old and faithful
servants, who have been in his employ
for years, while the family have returned
to their respective homes. 1t has not
been decided yet what disposition will
made of Graystone or the Gramercy Park
residence, and many are the theories ad.
vanced as to their probable disposition
A visit to the cemetery shows that some
kind hands have kept Nh. Tilden's
grave covered with flowers. The monu>
ment will not be erected until next
spring, as it will not be completed until
late in the autumn or early in the win.
ter.
In 1880 William Henry Rogers, of
Nova Scotia, obtained patent on fish
way of his own invention. 1t received
its first trial in the Liverpool river,
Queens county, N. S., and proved SO
successful that the Canadian Govern
ment Immediately adopted it. There
are now so of these fishways in
use in Canada and Nova Scotia and
others in course of construction. One
half of the cos. of their erection is paid
by the Government, besides what ii paid
Mr. Porers for the use Of hia patapt