Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1904-01-30
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The latest cure for nervous diseases.
according to Swiss doctor, is tea
made with melted snow.
\ project is on foot in Geneva for the
establishment of aerial excursions to
view the summit of Mont Blanc.
1t has Just been discovered that En-
crson found his greatest inspiration in
the warm glow of IL cranberry pie.
A large part of the tropical fruit used
in the United States is raised by the
transportation companies which bring
it.
Milk I, now reduced to Il powder by
new Swedish invention. Five quarts of
skinned milk yield one pound of pow
der.
An anonymous donor has given ST.
100000 to st. Bartholomew hospital,
London. to buy the land required for
extension.
The new British blue book gives the
average weekly wages of fifteen skilled
trades at $l0.J0 in London and $3.50
in New York.
Eleven sovcregnS and five half SOW
crci%ns rendered to Dublin cabmcn in
mistake for silver coins last year were
given up to the police.
Thc sinking of the shaft 40 feet from
the river bottom by the Toronto and
Niagara Falls company occupied but
little more than Il month.
London is supposed to have 110.00O
inhabitants to the square mile, but on
the east side. New York. there are 3i5,-
eco people to the square mile.
\ memorial has been erected at a
cost of tl3O in Toowoomba cemetery,
near brisbane, Queensland, over the
grave of Hctcr Jackson, the pugilist.
American archpologists have secured
a concession from the Turkish govern
mCnt to make excavations on site to
the northeast of the old city of Baby
Ion.
Kerosene inebricty is becoming com
mon in many cities. The boys climb
upon the tank car, place their noses
over the manhole and thus inhale the
fumes.
There was a decrease of over 80 pc"
cent in the exports of cheese from til"
United States in the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1903 as compared with tie
year preceding.
There are 107,SlS drcssmakers en-
ploycd by firms in London. The high
est wages obtainablc, except in the
case of about Il dozen heads of depart
ments, is Is shilings a week.
NJ Thopiteau, French deputy, pre-
poses to tax all games of hazard to the
extent of s per cent of the sums 1T
stake. NJ. Thopitcau estimates that the
tax would bring in an annual revenue
of $2G0O.OO0.
Chinese fire fighters beat gongs and
tOmtOmS and wave banners to drive
the flames away. Old Kerosene tins
filed with water ar.. also used, and at
Pcking there are also Il few old hand
power engines.
In the interest Of making Australia
"a white mans country" Il government
bounty is paid for sugar grown by
white labor. Of the last years sugar
crop of lUG,0G0 tons s"Vcn-tcnths was
produced by kanak;! black labor.
The average annual importations of
foreign corn into France for the past
three years were l4,OGO.0@O bushels. of
which the Argentine Republic fur
niShcd an average of 100000 bushels,
Roumania 100000 and the United
States 2.SOU. .0OO bushels.
1t is estimated that during the last
five tnl h1 in
to nearly half Il million rural homes.
The farmer finds that with the tcle-
phone Ec can keep in touch with the
market, selling his produce or live stock
when quotations are the most favora-
bic.
Damascus now contains about the
same number OF Jews that 1t had in the
time of st. Paul. In the middle of the
first century of our era some 10000
Jews lived in Damascus and were gov
crncd by an cthnarch. The present
Jewish community is computed at
about 1000
Master Halle ElcO of North Star.
Mich. eleven years old, is perhaps the
largest boy of his age in the state. lie
lS larger llln clthtf OF his parents
since he weighs 2i6la pounds. while his
father weighs 2l7 pounds and his moth
cr 100. Master Elco stands , feet 3
inches high. has Il breast measure of
iJ inches and Il belt measure of II.
1t is not generally known that large
sections of Alaska are suited for farm
ing and gardening. Such crops as oats
wheat rye, barley and flax have been
raised, and neutrality-suspicious.. tur-
nips, bcets. peas celery, etc.-grow in
abundance. The tillahle and pasture
land of the territory at conservative
estimate amounts to 100000 square
miles and will support 100000 per-
sons.
The last literary work upon which
the late Richard Henry Stoddard was
engaged was in connection with his
"Rccolcctions, Personal and Literary"
Il volume of memoirs covering period
of more than fifty years and aifOrdiGg
glimpse of many of the foremost
writer's of the last half century, in
Guiding Hawthorne and Thackeray.
Mr.. Stoddar,l was author of the nuch
quoted advice, Write if you want to,
but earn your bread some other way"
A few years ago when Car AlcXan-
der Ill was alive and his family i'll
c!udcd three sons il almost seemed be-
yond doubt that the succession 10 the