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National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-02-24
Lands in Southwest Missouri
The Atlantic and Pacific r. r. 60

The Atlantic and Pacific r. X. Go
Have for sale 800 acres OF best quality on long credit,
cheap.
reserved since 1883 till the ompetion of this Road
None Of these lands have gone into spectators hands
Actual settlers coming and them only are sales
made. The beet climate, with short mild winters and
long summer relieved by geological elevation from great
heat and heathfuness superior all consumptve ten
denotes, invite settlers to this region.
For particulars, in pamphlets, apply tn
AMOS TUCK. Land Commissioner
Cor. Sixth and Walnut SITS
ST I1Trfs
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-02-24

A law suit has Just been decided at
Troy involving $4,000 which has cost
the County and State s50,0oo-an ex-
pensive piece of litigation.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-02-24

let Grand Jury at Albany, y. 7, in.
dicted John J. Filkins for entering and
robbing the car of the express company.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-02-24
The Hnxards of Winter.

The feeble and delicate dread the winter, and with
good reason The weather this season has depress
ing effect upon the vital organs and the animal spirits
and they have vitality mental animation to spare
The aged and indrm in whom the flame of life waxing
dim always unplensantly affected by the nperature
OF winter and should fortfy their systems against
The ygor and resistant power which the enfeebed
system requires enable it with safety the
-auts of cold and damp may soon be acquired by the
regular Of Hostetters Stomach Biters The tonic
effect Of this wonderful medicine apparent in an
increased appetite active digestion and bright
err happier frame OF mind Food the fuel OF the body
and if iii not properly digested the fires Of life burn
low. When this Is the the disability always be
remeded within short space OF time by taking full
dose OF the Bitters twice day. The stomach will
begin perion its allotted task regularly and steadily
the food, being thoroughly assmilated will yield the
amount Of vital heat and nourshment which the body
requires under the external pressure OF cold and the
winter ailments which apt to asss the weak and
toned physique will be avoided.
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The Population of tho United States.

Tho complete returns Of the snumora.
ton OF the inhabitants OF the United
States, under the census Of 1870, foot up
as follows.
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-21
A Queer Story from Switzerland.

The following paragraph appeared in
the editorial columns of the London
Daily News:
People who go to Switzerland should
be careful about bathing in the Lake of
Wallenstadt. We are informed that
90 number of persons" excursionists,
probably, who venture to swim in the
water in the course of the season, never
came out of it, either dead Or alive, and
the matter has at last been made the
subject of serious investigation. AS
tending toward solution of the mys-
terry, we are told that several fishes of
an enormous size have recently been
observed gamboling in the loch, but
"no one can at present give any accu-
rate description of these monsters of the
deep" 1t is to be hoped that the rela-
tives of the unfortunate individuals who
have disappeared in the Lake of Wal
lenstadt will insist on a careful and
deliberate inquiry into the habits of the
new kind of shark that has evidently
developed the most uncomfortable pro.
pensities of Switzerland. Our coasts
and rivers are at any rate free from
fishes addicted to drowning bathers but
from a scientific point of view it would
be interesting to learn more of the ter
rible creatures
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-21
Chinese Visiting Cards.

Visiting is made a most serious busi-
ness in China and every individual of
responsibility must have servant to
carry and present his cards. A Chinese
card is not white, glazed, little bit of
pasteboard, but a huge sheet of scarlet
paper, with the name inscribed in large
characters the more mammoth-like the
character, the more grand and respect
able it is. Cards are OF several kinds.
There is the plain card II single sheet
of scarlet paper, with the name written
or stamped nearest the right hand or
topmost sides. This is employed on
common occasions. Then there is the
official card, mostly used by mandarins
on visits of ceremony. This is also a
single sheet, and it contains the name,
preceded by the entire title, written
down the center from top to bottom.
Then. again, there is the full card,
which is only produced on very grand
occasions, such as New Year visits, visits
of congratulation or coincidence. The
full card is folded and must contain
ten folds. 1t does not give titles, but
simply contains the name of the in
dividual written in the right hand and
bottom corner of the first fold, pretixed
by the words, Your stupid younger
BROTHER" ana followed by the words,
g Bows his head and pays his respects" )"
Where the person visited belongs to a
younger generation, the visitor takes to
himself the name OF "uncle' instead Of
nephew" retaining, however, the de,
predatory appellative of stupid. p"
There are still further varieties of self
designation, according to the particular
gradations of relationship; but these
V we have quoted will suffice to give an
idea of the punctilious rules peculiar to
Chinese visiting We may add that the
card last described is, as a matter OF
etiquette, always understood to be re-
turned to the visitor it being presumed
expensive to leave such voluminous
proofs of regard with number OF
| frian1S
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-21
The Mackerel Fishery.

The seasons mackerel fishery (says
the Gloucester Telegraph, of Wednes-
day is rapidly drawing to a close, the
shore feet are doing but little, and
may soon he expected in our waters for
Il week or two, preparatory to winding
up the business for the year. The news
from the Bay indicates a scarcity of
mackerel. The number of arrivals from
the Bay reported at Glouce ter this sea-
son, has been fifty two. The fares have
been comparatively small, and the qua
lity poor, while prices have ruled much
lower than the past few years. The
fares of thirty-one Gloucester vessels
have been reported, ranging from l6O
to 46O barrels, and averaging PAT bar
rels, which will probably be about the
average of the fleet. Sixteen of the
Portland feet show an average of 21l
barrels. and eleven of the Newburyport
fleet show an average catch of 1872 bar
rels. The average catch of the fleet
from other fishing towns, so far as re-
ported, is equally small: Boothbay, 227
barrels; Northhaven, 100; Wellheet
l4O; Belfast, 10; and New London
235. A Salem vessel has landed 307
barrels, and one Frankfort vessel is re
ported with a catch of 3l2 barrels, and
another with 620. Nineteen vessels re
ported at Port Mulgrave show an aver
age catch of 200 barrels.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-21
Waste PaDer.

But few housekeepers are aware of
the many uses to which waste paper
may be put. After stove has been
blackened, it can be kept looking very
well by rubbing it with paper every
morning. Rubbing it with paper is a
much nicer way of keeping the outside
of a tea-kettle, coffee.pot and tea pot
bright and clean, than the old way of
washing them in suds. Rubbing with
paper is also the best way of polishing
knives and tinware after securing. This
saves wetting the knife handles. If a
little -four be held on the paper in rub
bing tinware and spoons, they shine
like new silver. For polishing mirrors,
windows, lamp chimneys, &c, paper is
better than dry cloth. Preserves and
pickles keep much better if brown
paper, instead of cloth, is tied over the
jar. Canned fruit is not so apt to mould
If piece of writing paper, cut to fit
the can, is laid directly on the fruit.
Paper is much better to put under a
carpet than straw. II is warmer
thinner and makes less noise when one
walks over it. Two thicknesses of paper
placed between other coverings on a
bed are as warm as Il quilt. If it is
necessary to step upon chair, always
lay a paper on it and thus save the
paint or wood work from damage.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-21
A Little Ont of Place,

The National Baptist gives the follow
ing. on the authority of the Rev. F. C.
Morris: A parrot, belonging to some
friends of mine, was generally taken
out of the room when the family assem-
bled for prayers, for fear he might take
it into his head to join irreverently in
the response. One evening, however,
his presence happened to be unnoticed,
and he was entirely forgotten. For
some time he maintained decorous
silence, but at length, instead OF
"Amen," out he came with "Cheer,
Boys, Cheer" On this, the butler was
directed to remove him, and had got as
far as the door with him, when the bird,
perhaps thinking that he had com,
mitted himself, and had better apollo
gize, called out, Sorry | spoke" The
overpowering effect on the company
may be more easily imagined than
described.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-21
CrOD Prospects,.

1t is now pretty certain that the crop
of wheat in England will be short. The
yield, estimated carefully, will amount
to 76 100000 bushels against l04 100000
in 1870, 96,0OO,OOO in 1869, and l32,-
100000 in 1868. This falling off. added
to the greatly reduced yield in France
consequent upon the war, will make the
importation Of considerable supply an
absolute necessity. Spain, Hungary,
Russia, and parts of Germany. are
sources whence England has usually
drawn large portion of her foreign
supplies. In these counties, with the
exception of Russia, where the crop is
short, an average crop only has been
gathered. 1t is probable, therefore, that
increased supplies must be drawn from
America. Our crops have been good
with the single exception of spring
wheat, which in some sections has par
TALLY failed. Corn promises abundant
ly, and we hear of excessive crops in
some Western districts. The probabili-
ties are that no great fluctuations will
occur in prices. The demand from
England and France can be abundantly
met without causing any pressure on
our markets, and it is to be hoped that
the demand will be sufficient to enable
us to hold our own in the item of val
ues.-Hearth and Home
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-21
A Beautiful Scene in Norway.

The following paragraph is from the
description of u scene witnessed in the
north of Norway. from cliff one thou
sand feet above the sea
"The ocean stretched away in silent
vastness at our feet; the sound OF the
waves scarcely reached our airy lookout
away in the north, the huge old sun
swung low along the horizon. We stood
silent, looking at our watches. When
both hands came together at twelve,
midnight, the full round orb hung tri-
umphantly above the wave, bridge of
gold running due north spanned the
water between us and him. There he
shone in silent majesty that knew no
setting. Combine. if you can, the most
brilliant sunrise and sunset you ever
saw, and its beauties will pale before
the gorgeous colors which lit up the
ocean, heaven and mountain. In hall
an hour the sun had swung by percepti
bly,, the colors changed to those OF
morning, fresh breeze rippled over the
food, one songster after another piped
up in the grove behind us-we had slid
into another day."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-21
A Sealing Company.

1t is announced that Montreal and
Newfoundland Sealing Company has
been formed in Montreal. Sir Hugh
Allan, of Ravenscrag, the head of the
great shipping firm of Allan q Co. is
director, and several of the wealthiest
capitalists of Montreal have taken shares
in the new company. They have al
ready ordered two large and powerful
steamers to be built at the Clyde, and
to be ready for next springs seal
fishery. A Montreal steamship COM
pany has commenced running steamer
monthly TO st. John. She is named the
Alhambra, and has made two trips and
obtained full cargoes. A good many
Canadian manufactures are finding their
way into the St. John market, such as
boots and shoes, tweeds, blanketings,
ETC.; and large quantity of -four, pork,
butter, meal, etc, is received there from
Canada.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-21
Effect of Salt on AxleS.

The London papers give accounts of
several accidents on railways o;casioned
by the fracture of the axles of salt cars
1t appears that between the sound por.
ton remaining and the outside of the
fractured axle the surfaces were quite
smooth, presenting the appearance of
having been severed by sharp instru
ment. This peculiar effect is thought
ton of the brine on the metal, the heat
at the boss favoring the evolution of
chlorine from the brine, and its then
combining with the iron to form Il soltl-
BILE chloride of iron From the position
of the defect it was not discovered by
any ordinary inspection; and, whatever
may be the scientific explanation of the
peculiar destructive action which thus
goes on in the axles of salt-ca the fact
must be regarded Ms very serious one,
especially in view of the statement
made that on one railway alone no less
than seven axles of salt-c cars were
broken while running in period of less
than three months, and this out of q
total number of about five hundred
wagons, showing an enormously large
proportion, as compared with the frac-
ture of axles of any other description
OF rolling stock. To diminish this
liability, the plan has been proposed
that, in addition to requiring such cars
to be provided with wellconstructed
axles of good quality, it also be insisted
that the date of their commencing to
run be stamped upon the axles, and
that reasonable number of years be
prescribed as the maximum of their
being used.-Iron Age.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-21
Two Queens in a Mouldy Rhine Castle
The Pail Mall Gazette saws :

The Pail Mall Gazette says:
The picturesque c stle of Stolzenfels,
we'll known to tourists on the Rhine,
seldom tenanted, is now occupied by
twin sisters, both Queens. Stolzenfels
was purchased as a ruin by the town of
Coblenz, and presented to the late King
Frederick William ~. when Crown
Prince, by whom it was restored at great
expense. 1t was bequeathed by the
King to his widow, the Dowager Queen
Of Prussia, who is now occupying this
charming retreat, while her twin sister,
the Queen of Saxony, and the King are
on visit to her. The late King enter
tanned Queen Victoria very sumptuously
here in lS45; and it is narrated that in
consequence of court etiquette assign
ing Prince Albert that precedence only
which belonged to him as a German
Prince, the Queen was induced to raise
him to the rank of Prince Consort. 1t
is probably little known that a parsonage
still survives the Prussian royal family
who connects the present with an inter
esting past epoch. The stepmother of
the Emperor of Germany lives. Four
teen years after the death of his i'll
fated Queen, the beautiful Louise, King
Frederick William Ill. contracted a
morganatic marriage with daughter of
Count Won Harrach, and created her
Princess Won Liegnitz and Countess of
Hohenzollern. This illustrious lady is
now in her seventy first year.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-21
American Regard for Women.

Mr.. Van Arsdel, like many of our
merchant princes, had come from ru-
raj district, and had an early experience
of the hard and frugal life of a farm.
Good sense. acute observation an abili-
tv to take wide and clear views of men
and things, and an incorruptable in
tegrity, had been the means of his rise
to his present elevation. He was a true
American in another respect, and that
was his devotion to women. In Ameri-
ca, where we have clear democracy,
women hold that influence over men
that is excited by the aristocracy in
other countries. They are something
to be looked up to, petted and quieted.
The human mind seems to require
something of this kind. The faith and
fealty that the middle-class Englishmen
has toward his nobility is not at all
snobbery. 1t has something of poetry
in tit is his romance of life. Up in
these airy regions where walk the no
bility he is at liberty to fancy some
higher, finer types of manhood and
womanhood than he sees in the ordi-
nary ways of life, and he adores the un-
seen and unknown. The American life
would become vulgar and common
place did not chivalrous devotion to
woman come in to supply the place OF
recognized orders or nobility. The true
democrat sees no superior in rank
among men, but all women are by cour-
tesy his superiors.-Nrs. .Sowc-'' My
Wife and T."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-21
Street Cars for Workmen.

The street railway companies of Lon
don run what are called workmen's
cars which differ from the ordinary ones
only in the fact that the workmen who
ride in them pay one penny for ride
which costs one of the higher classes
three pence. Economic wearers of
broadcloth. however, have not the
privilege of using this cheaper means of
conv eyance, but, although riding in the
cheap cars, must pay full rates. This
ground was recently taken by magis-
trate who decided that the system was
not intended for the benefit of gentle
men, and that clergyman who rode on
one of these cars had to pay full fare.
The question naturally arises if compa-
MES can profitably run their cars at the
reduced rates, how is it they are allow
ed to demand higher fare from any
body? Probably because English cor.
porations find money as available in
carrying their points as American ones
do. That the English companies
find these workingmens cars" profit
able is shown from the fact that com
pany which is only required by law t.
run two such cars actually runs sixteen
Judging from dividends they pay, ther'
are good many street railway compa
nies in our large cities who might no
only run "workmen's cars with profit
utreduce all their fares, and still max
"a very handsome profit.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-21

A DISEASE, the symptoms OF which
are similar to those of fever and ague in
humans, has attacked horses in Sioux
City.
WISCONSIN girls are making good
wages picking APPLES. They climb the
trees as well as a man and much more
gracefully.
A NEGRO boy was convicted at the
Granville IN. c. Superior Court of hav-
ing roasted another negro boy alive,
whereupon the Judge, as a punishment
for this crime, ordered him to be bound
out to learn a trade.
A scHooLBoY, having very good ma
turedly helped another in difficult
lesson, was angrly questioned by the
teacher: Why did you work his les
son p "To lessen his work." replied
the youngster.
IT is stated that Massachusetts, made
more whisky last year than any other
State in the Union, with only five ex-
ceptions. She made 1877, 200 gallons,
or within $4,000 gallons of the amount
manufactured by Kentucky, the land of
Bourbon.
LYDIA THOMPSON, on the evening of
her benefit at Wallack's, was presented
with pair of clt.ster diamong earrings,
breast pin, and pair of gold bracelets
studded with diamonds. The presents
were accompanied by a letter compli-
mentary to the blonde recipient.
NEVER, perhaps, since the settlement
of Illinois, has the mast been so ahund-
ant as this year. The oaks are all bend
ing beneath the acorns the black wal
nuts are everywhere loaded down, and
hickory nuts are superabundant.
DROVE of eighty-four steers passed
over the Toledo, Wabash and Western
railroad recently, which averaged two
thousand and eighteen pounds each.
The largest of them turned the scale at
twenty four hundred. They were fat
tened and shipped by a gentleman
from Sangamon county, ILL.,, who has
fed them two years. Without doubt
they are the largest and fattest cattle
ever raised in the West.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-21
Odd Case of Mistaken Identity.

As well-dressed gentleman was GO
ing down Clinton avenue, Albany, Mon
day, an elegantly attired lady, appa,
rently about forty years of age, rushed
up to him and fell fainting in his arms.
She was taken to neighboring drug
store, and when she revived she said
that years ago her husband departed on
trading expedition to the East, and,
having never returned, she imagined
him dead, and the gentleman into
whose arms she had flung herself bore
such strong resemblance to the lost
one that she would fain believe it was
he. After listening to the lady's story
the gentleman entered into a long state
ment of his antecedents, which proved
to the satisfaction of the lady that he
was not her long-lost husband.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-21
Italian Voices.

The British Consul at Rome attributes
the good voices possessed by so many
Italians to the fact that the Roman
mothers swaddle their babies. When
the mother is employed out of doors,
her child, mere animate bundle, is
hung up by cord to nail in the wall,
where it is often allowed to cry for
hours. Such continued crying, accord
ing to this investigator, exercises and
forms the vocal organs in an extraor
dinary way. If wailing while infants
be harbinger of future vocal excel
ience, there are, to our certain knowl
edge, several young Americans who
ought, if they live, to be able to vie
with the most gifted Italians. They
certainly exercise their infant lungs
sufficiently to satisfy any reasonable
being. If there is any virtue in swad-
ding, the Indian tribes ought to supply
us with more melodious singers instead
of "whoopers," for swaddling is quite
as common with squaws rs with Roman
mothers. We suppose the trouble is
that Indian pappooses do not, as a gen.
eral thing, cry much. There are few
old bachelors hard hearted enough to
wish that some of the infants in their
neighborhood had Just enough of the
Indian about them to make them less
vocally demonstrative in the days of
their babyhood.-Er.