Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-04-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Nearly So, 900, 0OO,0"O would be due
were all insured Americans to die at
once. Nearly 81, 900, 900, 900 has already
been paid on death losses in America.
1t is estimated that the late Superin-
tendent of Burials in Salem, Mass, Cap
tain Perkins, in his 81 years of service
officiated in the burial of $4,000 to A.
600 persons.
More than one half of all the arrests
made last year in Bangor, Me-, where
there in an iron-clad prohibitory law in
force, are reported to have been from
drunkenness.
Canvasback ducks have been hard to
secure on Chesapeake Bay this winter
owing to the legal prohibition against
big, long guns and have been steady at
50 pair in market.
The peaches of the future" in some
Delaware orchards are being soc at the
rate of s. per 1000 trees, so certain are
the growers that the shaft of Jack Frost
as struck them dead.
The military telegraph wire from Fort
Sully to Fort Yates, ID T., has just been
taken down and sold to farmers for use
as fence wire, which is merely new form
of beating swords into ploughsharcs.
A plan is suggested for saving lives
at fires by throwing lines into windows
as they are now thrown into vessels by
life saving crews. A small cannon,
which shoots lined proicctie. is to be
used.
Some physicians are prescribing nitro.
glycerine as stimulant in place of
brandy. 1t is said that two drops of one
per cent. solution are the equivalent of
an ounce of brandy, and that this dose
creates no unnatural craving
A lioncss in London mcnagerie
lately had two cubs, and nc Of them was
transferred TO female dog and reared
by her. The cub has lost all its mothers
ferocity, and has developed the atfcc-
tionate disposition of its wet nurse.
The generation of heat by friction has
been applied in England to the produc-
ton of friction still by means of which
survivors of shipwrccks may obtain
steam, and consequently fresh water,
from sea water without the aid of fire.
Low-ceiled rooms are being advocated
in England, not only on account of the
more cosy appearance of the room, but
because it is believed that better venli-
lation is afforded through the prevention
of an upper strata of irremovablc foul
air.
Danbury, Conn, has "sucidc club"
whose avowcd OBJ ,ect is to furnish such
of its members as desire to put an end
TO their earthly existence with any
means for so doing that they may de.
sire.
Cabins built in the Canton of Nalois,
Switzerland, in the fourteenth century,
of larch timber, are said to be sti
sound. The plies of old London bridge,
built in the year 800, are also sound, the
water and blue mud of the Thames hav-
ing preserved them.
Canadians are becoming anxious over
their loss of forests. In the more thick
ly settled portions of Ontario, onl 10
per cent. of the woodland remains, and
wells must now be dug to the depth of
forty or fifty feet, where formerly water
could be reached at six.
One hundred and forty members of
the House of Commons, recently regis
tered vote to the effect that the House
of Lords is of no practical use and ought
to be abolished. and number Of the
hereditary legis'ato have of late Goa
Quoted themselves in a manner to bring
the body into greater disfavor.
In Itlay living scorpion is dropped
into wide nccked glass bottle, which
contains few drops of olive oil of the
finest quality. More oil is poured in in
stantly, until the DO tie is filled and the
scorpion dead. In its struggles to free
itse + it elects all its poison into the oil,
and this poisoned oil forms sovereign
remedy for the sting of a scorpn.
When brood of chickens are Matched
by hen, early in the season, she will be
successful with them in proportion to
the care given her. If allowed to carry
her brood wherever she prefers, and
sudden change in the weather occurs,
such as cold winds AMI ran, the chances
will be that she may lose some of them;
but if SIZE i kept in dry, warm loca.
ton, we'll sheltered, and the chickens
are fed regularly, the loss will be small.
The same rule applies to raising chick
ems in hiooder. The loss of chickens
among those under breeders is appar-
emily greater than with hens; but it is
we'll known that n hen Matching out 10
chicks will be fortunate if she raises
eight of them. The same proportion
among tiho broodcr chicks allows a loss
of 20 out of every 100, which, though
seemingly large, is less than tn usual
loss with hens p. II. Jacobs in "Ru-
-al New orker." New York | oultry
Bulletin.
Hon. VIM. Mutchlcr, member of Con.
gress from the 10th Pennsylvania dis
trict, ccrtities that he hal personal expe
rlence of Red Star Cough Cure. No
morphia or opium. Price. twenty five
cents.
Sheol is the name of man living in
Iowa
The dream of the socialist is to live
without labor. This we cannot do, hut
we can live without pain. st. Jacobs
Oil, which cures rheumatism AMI neu
ralgia, conqucrs it.
At os Angeles, CAL, sweet straw>
berries are plentiful at Is cents
quart.
No opium in PisOs Cure for Consumption
Cures where other remedies fail. PC.
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