Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-03-13
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ciety connected with St Peters church
in Oshkosh, have publicly promised not
to dance round dances any more.
Fines amounting to $500 were col.
lected in Boston day OR two ago from
fisherman who violated the law by
catching Holsters less than 1Ol inches in
length.
Franz List his completed a new COM
position in honor of Richard Wagner,
to which he is said to have given the
strange title, "Die I-eichen- oder Toden-
gondel."
Mrs. Relief Burt Roiman, of Jeffe rson
county, N. Y, celebrated her 1O;th
birthday recently. Although blind she
retains her mental faculties to remark
able degree.
Witch-hazel has become an extensive
article of export from the southern part
of Vermont for medicinal extracts. A
man can easily cut a ton of brush in a
day, and he gets three dollars a ton for
it.
Judging from the number of hunting
permits" issued in Prussia last year, it
would seem that the russ ans are great
hunters. There were issued no less than
IS, 205 or 3,2S2 more than in 1884.
Mrs. Hancock has been confined to
her bed with nervous prostration s nee
The funeral of her husband. and it will
be some weeks before she will thoroughly
regain her strength.
Miss Marian Foster, the crippled ar
list, has visited the White House at the
invitation of Miss Clvelnnd and had an
interview with the President, of whom
she is painting q portrait.
Miss Theresa johnson, of London,
Eng, las issued challenge to "any
lady in Great Britain, on the Continent
or in America to a one mile swimming
match for from 600 to 500 lidc.
A young man who saved u young
woman's life from drowning in New
Jersey, recently, made propo sition of
marriage TO her and was accepted. In
less than year this same young man
will be regretting that he ever learned to
swim.
Science is said to have made the dis
covery that the molecules of which the
most solid substance is formed never
actually touched each othe,, but YOU
couldn't make the man believe it who
unexpectedly bites on shirt button in
his pie crust.
King Theebaw has been greatly slam
dered, according to an East India paper,
which denies that the habitually gets
"jolIy," and asserts that he rcsolutcy
refused every kind of intoxicant offered
him, "fr' m gin to champagne on the
way to his place of exile.
When General Gourkho was summoned
from Warsaw to st. | ctersburg he did
not desire to leave any unnecessary
trouble for his successor. Consequently
he ordered n number of Nihilists to be
hanged some time before the date fixed
in their sentence. 81 want to see all
such Jobs cleared up before l leave"
said the conscientious General!
The Salvation army has been working
i'll Paris for over two years, and now
claims martyr to the cause. This was
q young Frenchman, Jeanmcnod by
name He was guarding the door at the
Sale Valmy during the progress Of a
meeting, and rough, passing by,
stopped and, lowering his head, buttei
the young Sa!vationist violently in the
stomach. .Ieanmonod died in conse-
Gucnce, and at his simple funeral the
other day Miss Booth spoke encouraging
words to his Comrades
A writer in a Maine paper says 81
have herd of finding all kinds of ca
rious things in rags, but Of the oldest
discovery | was told few days ago by
Mr.. Grant, the foreman of the rag room
at the Ecnnison compsny's works at
Mechanic Falls. lounever won guess
what it was. 1t was a baby. Yes II
baby They found it in blc of rags,
iammed and squeezed till it WAS fat, yet
recognizable as human icing.
For thirty years DR.. G.. Fawoett has
heen nhvSicinn of the 'ninn prntnstnnt