Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-10-28
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

stroy 100000 insects every year.
Among birds the swan lives to be the
oldest. in extreme cases reaching 800
years.
More than 5000 persons are buried
annually in the paupers' cemetery Of
Berlin.
In the south within the last five
months $17.OOO.O0O of new capital has
been invested in cotton mills.
1t is calculated that the shareholders
of the United Kingdom Outnumber the
railway employees by about 10000.
There are IS silk plants in Pennsyl-
vania. and the output of silk ribbon in
the state has been doubled in three
years.
1t is estimated that at the beginning
of the new century England will have
81 600. 900. 900 tons of coal still unused
and available.
The most costly parliament in Eu-
rope is that of France. The senate
and chamber Of deputies eat up an
nually $1.5OO.OO0.
The average number of horses killed
in Spanish bulltights every year ex-
cceds 5000. while from 1000 to 1,2OO
bulls are sacrificed.
During the fiscal year of 1918 the
United States sold $4,000 worth of
typewriters in Mexico and $4,000
worth in Argentina.
OF late there has been n noticeable
increase of tourists travel to Ireland.
People are discovering it is fine place
to spend a vacation.
Kamchatka may soon become as
popular Il resort as the londike, as
gold has been discovered there in
promising quantities.
The average weekly wages of the
men employed in the cotton mills of
Maine are $1.SS, of the women $500
and of the children $2.73.
There are Ito paper and pulp mills
in the United States, producing annual
ly 100000 tons Of paper and more
than 100000 tons Of pulp.
Paymasters and commlssariat Off
Gals of the German army receive spe-
cial training in examining the quality
of food supplied to the army.
A German army officer estimates
that in the century just closing no few
er than 30OOO,OO0 men have been kill
ed in war in civilized countries.
The results of recent drillings in Bor-
neo have caused many persons to think
that Bornco will prove to be the rich
est petroleum field in the world.
The latest thing in company promOt-
ing comes from Paris, where a dogs
cemetery has been tlOated with CAPT
tai of $4,000. The promoters are la
dies.
There are in Boston 44,207 persons
born in British America, including On
tario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
Prince Edward Island and Newfound-
land.
The largest mass of pure rock salt
in the world lies under the province OF
Galicia. Hungary. 1t is known to be
$50 miles long, 90 broad and 80 feet in
thickness.
The giraffe was thought to be near
explorer. has found great herds of
them along the Sobat river, tributary
of the White Nile.
Napoleon IITs last dwelling place
and the scene of his death, Camden
House. Chisclhurst, has been destroyed
and, with its beautiful grounds, is to
serve as a golf links.
New York city annually pays $50 in
gold. in one payment, to every blind
person who has been year resident in
the metropolis and who has not been
an occupant of a city institution during
that time.
The best price ever paid in Berlin
for property was for a corner measur-
ing two yards long and two wide, for
which a cigar dealer a few years ago
paid $1,000 and which he sold the 9TH
er day for $4,000.
Gambling in France is said to have
reached such proportions that the gov
eminent has begun to study the Ques-
ton seriously. 1t is estimated that
half of the suicides in Paris are due to
losses at the races.
One of Uncle Sans Alaskan islands
can boast of the largest stamp mill in
the world. 1t has $40 stamps and
brushes quartz enough daily to give
$S,640 in gold, which the other mills
in the plant increase to $4,000.
An English QndD clergyman refuses
to pay poll tax on the ground that he is
church property, the property of the
congregation as much as is the pas
tOral residence, and that as such he is
exempt from taxation, the same as the
parsonage.
Statistics which have been collated in
Wisconsin show the average cost of
raising wheat to be "a cents bushel
and the cost of corn ~ cents. In both
cases there is included interest on the
value of the land, with the cost of i'm
plements and horses added in.
In Renccnerte, w. Va, the Beehive
store presents in red letters this rather
unique advertisement: Dealers In gen
eral merchandise and country produce
of every kind. Specialties-cOttins,
baskets and burial supplies; salt, bacon
and lard; hides, furs and live foxes"
A process has been invented and pat
entcd in Brazil for preparing coffee in
tabloids by system of compression.
1t is argued that not only will there be
less expense in exporting coffee in this
form. but that the customer will be
more certain of thus receiving for his
use the pure, unauthorized article.
French coal mines employ about 81