Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-10-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

winch Is SAID not TO nave been changed
for six years.
Masonic lodge composed exclusively of
women are said by a late Paris publicas
ton to be carried ON in France numer-
ously, and with the completest OF GER
monial.
Sixty thousand tons of coal. it is esti>
mated, are stolen every year from cars in
transit. At one station on the Erie road
the theft amounts to about 80 tons every
night.
Controller Trenholm says that of the
1869 national banks organized since
1868, but liz have become insolvent
from all causes combined, aud huff of
these paid their obligations in full.
A fcud between parties at Ash Flat,
Sharp county. Ark, caused some of the
parties to it to poison we'll Twelve
persons subsequently drank of the water,
some of them with fatal results
| There is Methodist Church at Kwae-
nee, III having for its regular pastor a
young women named Miss Downer, and
Rev. Robert West, editor of the 'Ad-
vance," speaks of her as an educated,
earnest and convincing preacher.
| A Kingston, N. Y, newspaper tells
of Marlboro colorel man who, having
earned 81 40 invested 80 cents of it in
three dozen bananas, ate them all on the
spot, and then ad journed to a saloon to
mois,en them with a dozen glasses of
beer.
There are now in Tennessee $50 tenn
perance alliances, 200 good templar orders
and 80 Womans' Christian Temperance
Unions. all of which are working with
a view of thoroughly organizing the
temperance element of the State.
South Bend, Ind. has several thou
sand less sparrows now than it had
few days ago The large hail which fell
there a few days ago, besides stripping
the leaves from the shade trees, killed
all the sparrows that had taken refuge
among the limbs
On Friday monster antler was
found by persons who are engaged in
cleaning out Yellow Creek, near Deca-
tur, Ind The antlcr is five feet long
and has SIX prongs, each measuring 1G
inches. The antler is well preserved,
yet has doubtless been there for ages.
l.. II. Lyster, of Medora, Ind, has a
pig which has six feet, all perfect, and
walks on all of them. 1t is stone bind
and totally deaf, but is perfectly he ,lthy
and thriving. 1t is on.y months old,
and weighs in the neighborhood of 80
pounds. 1t was raised by bottle.
A newspaper man in Minneapolis one
day caught young woman as she was
falling in the street. A few days after
he met her at the house of friend,
and they were introduced. A few
months after he asked her to marry him,
and she said yes. A few hours after
they were married, and not until then he
learned that she was worth $4,000.
Jacksonville, Ind, not content with
being the Gretna Green of the State, is
now trying to work IN a reputation as
gamblers paradise. A local item states
that fully 1000 keno players from Louis
vile and New Albany were in the city
on saturday night, and that no attem ut
was made to conceal the various games.
all the houses running wide open.
The full name of the owner of jaw
Eye>See is Jerome Increase Case. lie
comes into prominence again through
the unsuspec;ed marriage of his son to
the divorced wife of Racine mechanic.
Mr.. Case is worth about $1,000, 900,
made principally in the manufacture of
threshing machines before he INDUCED
preference for fast horses. He started
as blacksmith 40 years ago. The son
is named Jackson Irving Case, and. like
his father, takes to fast horses
Orientals do not prepare coffee for
drinking purposes as we do. Arabs
make it from the unroasted beans. TIL.
Sultan of Turkey formerly, if not now,
hasSa beverage made out OF the dried |
pulp and percarp for his own use, while
some of his subjects prepare decoc.
ton from the dried leaves of the coffee
tree. For this purpose the leaves are
prepared by process similar to that for
tea leaves. And good many suppose
that the leaves so treated contain larger
proportion of caffeine than the beans.
Succi. the Italian faster, receives let
tiers daily from all parts, asking for his
secret of living without food. The
other day the chief telegrapher of the
MediterraneanRailway at Grasslno- Scale |
sent him the following dispatch:
Being suspended from my functions for
month, beg you to send me little
bottle of your elixir so that may not
starve before resuming work. But Sue
CT refuses to reveal the secret that would !
solve the social problem which has
caused so many revolutions.
A London correspondent relates that
when the Queens last drawing room
took place Minister Phelps certified a
list of American ladies who were fit in
his estimation to be received. There
were great many applicants, and
among them was a lady who was the
daughter of one of the best known men
in New York and who had had very
high social standing there when a girl.
But she had since married man of the
stage and had come with him to live in
London, he continuing in his profession
under an assumed name. The Minister
fatty refused to put her name on the list
because she was the wife of man who
earns his living on the stage. Almost
at the same time the Minister was max
ing himse f very gracious to Mr.. Dixey,
attending the banquet given him there
and inviting him to dine at the Minis
teral residence. But this sort of incon-
sistency is practicei constantly by the
aristocracy, from the Prince of Wales |
down, and it has not been week since
the Queen herself invited Albani to visit |
her at Ra)mOral and Sino boforo tho |