Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-05-29
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deep has been dug at Noratur, Kan.
California boasts the most prosperous
season that has been known there for
twenty years.
Wallace Chapman has on his farm at
Neco, Kan, massive pctrfied log 10
feet in length and IA inches thick
Melons were first called cantalopes
from being cultivated at Canteluppi, a
villa near kome, where they had been
introduced from Armenia by missiona.
rics,
The other day black and auriferous
quartz of the estimated value of $3.50,
OuO, was broken out in the galleries OF
the Oscar gold mine, Bonnet Island, on
the west coast of Norway.
Mullea, German chemist, has fed
an mails 10 weeks with dry and with
stee ed unground Indian corn. The
former showed an average increase in
weight of nearly seven pounds more
than the latter.
Drs. Buchner and Emmcrich have
found evidence during their studies in
sicily as to origin of cholera that the
disease makes its way into the system
through the lungs rather than through
the alimentary canal.
A plant which is said to be specific
against cholera and typhus has been dis.
covered in Turkestan by Fodtschenko,
the Russian Traveller 1t is the Ferula
aud is used by the natives as q remedy
for nearly all ma!adies.
The last word is thus characteristic
ally had by woman who had been
''Eosted" by her husband in an English
newspaper and followed with this:
Notice., Mary Sanders, never con-
tracted any debts in the name of Will
lam Sanders, as the name of Sanders is
not good enough to get credit on.
Signed MARY SANDERS.
A priest in Boston tod his people last
Sunday not to read newspapers that
published scandals instead of news even
if they had to buy the. higher priced pa
pers.
The Chinese oath, which consists in
the witness cutting off the head off a
chicken az he repeats foamula promis-
ing to tell the truth, is to be introduced
in San Francisco police courts in hope
of reducing Monaghan mendacity.
By the use of gold coated selenium
plates, Scientist Fritts expects to accom-
pish the important object of converting
the greater part of the energy of light
into electric energy, which may again be
transformed into light as required.
A few days ago a number of Italians
went into the Rondout, N. Y, post
office and asked for letters. One was
handed an epistle, on which was due 10
cents ostage, Yesterday morning the
same man handed one of the clerks 10
cents, and said: "Tenna centa. Wanta
another lettee."
The interesting discovery has been
made in Switzerland of bright green
moss growing on calcareous rocks 200
feet below the surface of Lake Leman.
No other moss has been known so far
under water and how chlorophy-the
green coloring matter--could have been
SO richly developed in place SO remote
from the light is problem.
Twelve year old Charles Wilmot, OF
Southviile, Conn, went fishing for suck.
ers in the Housatonic river day or two
ago. He had an unusually promising
bite, and pulled out Stances twin fish.
1t was equipped with a single body,
two heads and two tails. Boyslike,
Wilmot cut the curious captive open, and
spoiled a rare curiosity.
Last Thursday afternoon q small
white dog ran through the streets of
S!eight urg, N. Y, frothing at the
mouth. Pedestrians who saw the canine
coming. kept out of its way. AS the
dog ran down a steep hill toward Ron~
dont creek it snapped its teeth viciously
while flakes of froth dropped from its
mouth to the ground. When it reached
the edge of the dock it dove head first
into the water and was drowned. The
mongrel Cur, no doubt, was suffering
with the rabies.
In the cooking school in Boston be-
81 les the systematic training in cooking,
the pupils get visible knowledge of
the materials they cook; they learn what
proportion of albumen, water, ash, fat,
are found in bread, beef, eggs, milk and
all the common edibles, and also what
the constituents of the human body are,
and in what proportion they are COM
pounded. In cupboard in the end of
the room, in lately Tabled bottles, may
be seen, first, not exactly yourself, as
Others see you, but your precise equiva.
Tents in albumen, water, etc. Then you
may see just how much OF each goes in
to the preparation of one or another
meal you may desire.
A French explorer in &c trial Amer
lea, who sailed for France lately, said
81 have found the first Maya cemetery
that was ever discovered by explorers .
From my excavations have taken, and
hive already sent home to France, many
curious and most interesting things that
go far TO sustain my theory as to the
newness of the civilization there. The
most ancient cities probably date from
the eleventh or twelfth century, and the
last ones were still being builded at the
! time of the arrival of the Spaniards.
Among the things found in that Gem
etery were pottery, axes and utensils OF
copper and bronze, and other objects of
use and adornment in stone There
were also beautifully made toys, repre-
senting small animals, that were doubt
less put in the graves of children.
IT IS USELESS TO ATTEIPT to cleanse a