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New-York tribune., 1871-11-22
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
Foreign Items.

PRESIDENT Thiers has but an imper-
feet knowledge of the English language.
He EMPLOYS two clerks who translate,
every morning, to him the most impor
tant articles from the English, German
and Italian press.
INroxIcArIoN is punished in Russia in
an original manner. The guilty parties
have to do one days streetsweeping to
expiate the offense. Frequently no
blemen are thus seen, broom in hand,
in the streets of st. Petersburg and
Moscow
A MOVEMENT is now on foot among the
leading theatrical managers of Ger
many to induce Charlotte Cushman,
Edwin Boota and other theatrical stars
of the United States to visit Germany
and give performances at the promi-
nent theaters of that country.
The Column of the Place Vendome,
in Paris, pulled down by the commun-
lists, is to be restored, and the expense,
it is said, will not be more than sixty
thousand dollars. The destruction of
the monument was not so complete as
was supposed. 1t seems that of two
hundred and seventy-four bronze plates
ten at the most require slight repairs.
poleon held in his hand, few bars of
the balustrade and some pieces of the
capital have disappeared. But this is
all, and even the old stone work at least
third can be used over again. M. Gar
ner pleads strongly for the replacing of
the statue of Napoleon on the top of
the column. Without this, he says, the
whole monument is ridiculous, and could
only be compared to the column of Ira
Jan, at Rome. with the statue of St. Peter
on its summit.
A FAIRY land on the roof of royal
palace is the last creation of the young
and en.er prising King of Bavaria, who,
besides peIng an enthusiastic musician,
seems to have a rare taste for the beau
tiful in nature. He has recently graft
fed this desire by the creation of a
garden. which is described as a miracle
of beauty, on the roof of his palace.
In the cold north one wanders among
splendid palms. Luxurious vines send
their tendrils of rich green trailing
around the framework that supports
the immense glass roof and ingeniously
conceals it from the eye. Through the
rich, green foliage is seen the brilliant
surface of lake, on which float swans
and various aquatic birds among the
broad-leaved and rankly- growing water
plants. There lies little boat, into
which you may step and rock on the
clear, limpid surface of the flood, and
see fishes in the depths, and put your
hand into it and convince yourself that
it is cool, sparkling ~ater, and not
mere illusion. In astonishment you
wander farther, and perceive in the
distance broad, blue sea, and beyond
it mountains whose snowy peaks, OF
greater nights than the German Alps,
rise into the deep blue sky from the
base of the waters. All near you is so
real that you would not be surprised to
see steamer plowing the waves. This
time, however, you are fairly cheated;
for the view owes its existence to the
ingenuity of the machinist and the
magic art of the painter.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
RG ALEGANY COUNTY, MARYLAND SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 49, 1871

"The proposition has not come.
then p he said.
Estella's head dropped lower.
~ iancied you were engaged to this
young Ernest"
Estella sobbed again.
| care nothing for Ernest, nor he for
me. We are mere acquaintance"
Harry caught her hand.
''Is this girlish evasion p he asked
almost sternly, " or the truth p
Harry Bolton looked into the tear
flushed face, and took the other little
hand.
Estella," he said "do you guess
why | was leaving America ?'
She shook her head.
- Because | could not see the girl |
love married to another. Am too old
to love, Estella?'
80, no"
"Too old to be loved2'
"Why, you are not old, at all.
Estella, can you love me p
She made no reply. Harry drew her
closer to him and repeated the ques-
ton then the answer came in the low
est, faintest whisper,
81 love you better than MY life; it
would kill me to part with you"
Harry Bolton won his treasure.
A week after he sailed to Europe, but
not alone. 1t was his wedding trip,
and Estella, his young and lovely bride,
was with him.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
High Heeled Boots.

The following is from the Pacific Med
ical and Surgical Journal: sit is worthy
of note that, while a malignant hatred
of Chinese, individually, is fomented
under cover of hostility to their immi-
grafton, our females have fallen in love
with Chinese costumes and customs, in
some respects, and accepted them as
models. The pictures of Chinese la
dies, to which one has been accustomed
for many years, bear a close resemb-
lance to the American belle of the
present day. The repulsive hump, the
crippled feet and the mincing gait OF
our women, if they do not fortify the
Darwinian theory of the origin OF the
species from monkeys, at least give the
appearance of retrograding monkey
ward. The dress, uncouth and deform
ing as it is, would not of itself deserve
notice; but the high heels, crippling
the feet and distorting the limbs, are
an outrage on grace, on anatomy, en-
ttling the authors, could they be de-
tected, to criminal responsibility. A
convention of corn DOCTORS in the in
terest of their trade, could not devise
better scheme for good times. Women
whose pedals are solidified may escape
with corns, of which we hope and pray
they may have full and tender crop.
But that a whole generation of little
girls should have their toes jammed
into the points of their boots. to do the
work of heels, and that their legs
should be thrown out Of the natural
balance and the plant bones bent into
semi i-circles, is sacrifice to fashion
which would disgrace nation OF Hot
tentots. Should the wicked custom
hold a few years. there will not be
decent foot or an aesthetic leg in our fe-
male population, except among washer
women and the like. And all this is a
trihe compared with the mischief done
to the pelvis, spine and chest by the
constrained attitude which the abnor-
NAL elevation of the heel must OF ne
cessity induce. Fashion is, at best, a
cruel tyrant; but the whole history OF
her capricious rule does not exhibit
grosser violation of natural laws and
more objectionable assault on the
| beauty and health of woman than the
invention of high-heelsd boots"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
NATIONAL THANKSGIVING.
Proclamation by the President of the United
states.

EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, d. c., October 2s, 1871.
PROCLAMATION.
A bounteous season has again enabled the
husbandmen to garner the fruit of success
full toll. Industry has been generally well
rewarded. We are at peace with all nations;
tranquility with few exceptions prevails at
home. Within the past year we have in the
main been free from ills which elsewhere
have affected our kind. If some of us have
had calamities, there should be occasion for
sympathy with the sufferers, resignation on
their part to the will of the Most High, and
rejoicing by the many who have been more
favored. Therefore recommend that Thurs
day, the 3Oth day of November next, the
people meet in their respective places of
worship, there to make the usual acknowl
edgements to Almighty God for the blessings
He has conferred upon them, in their merci-
full exemption from evils, and invoke His
protection and kindness for their less fortu-
nate brethren whom, in His wisdom, he has
deemed it best to chastse. In witness
whereof, l have hereunto set my hand ard
caused the seal of State to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this TWEEN
ty-eighth day of October, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sew
enty-one, and of the Independence Of the
United States the ninety sixth.
q. S. GRANT.
By the President;
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
Ancient Relies.

In deserted shop in Pittsfeld, Mas
sarhusetts, there rests on its block an
anvil that has done duty for more than
three hundred years. 1t is as sound to-
day as it was in 1888, when Eltweed
Pomeroy, after welding for the Stuarts
the ponderous horseshoes of the same
style and pattern that his ancestors had
made during many generations for the
Tudors and Plantagents, grew weary of
taxes without law and work without
wages, and taking his anvil, sailed for
the new world. A deft workman, he
throve in the settlements, and left his
anvil as an heirloom to his descendants.
They show you in the Tower of London
the anvil on which the sword was forged
that Richard CBur de Lion used in his
famous contest with Saladin; and at
the collection of Pompeian antiquities
in Naples there is an anvil, made cer-
tainly before the Christian Era, which.
had evidently done service for stalwart
workmen of many generations before
the city was buried. But, better still, in
the Egyption room of The British Mu
scum, there is veritable anvil of the
Pharaohs. 1t is said to be older than
Rome, older than Greece, older than
Jerusalem as old as the days of Abra-
ham, and probably in existence when
the patriach "was come into Egypt,
and the Egyptians beheld Sarai that she
was very fair" 1t is just like modern
anvil, made apparently in the same
way. weighing about seventy-fve
pounds, and sound as it was when first
struck by the hammer thirty centuries
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
The Past.
BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.

BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.
Who. locking backward from his manhood
prime,
Sees not the spectre of misspent time?
And through the shade
Of funeral cypress. planted thick behind,
Hears no reproacnfu whisper on the wind
From his loved deadi
Who bears no trace of passions evil force?
Who shuns thy sting, q terrible remorse?
Who does not cast
On the thronged pages of his memory's book.
At times sad and half reluctant look.
Regretful of the past?
Alas the evil which we fain would shun
We do, and leave the wished for good undone:
Our strength to day
Is but to-morrow's weakness, prone to fall:
Poor. blind, improbable servants all
Are we always.
Yet who, thus looking ckward DER his years.
Feels not his eyelids wet with grateful tears,
If he hath been
Permitted. weak and sinful as he was
To cheer and aid in some cnnobling cause
His fellow -maa?
If he hath hidden the outcast or let in
A ray of sunshine to the cell of sin
If he hath lent
Strength to the weak and. in an hour of need.
Over the suffering, mindless of his creed
Or home, hath bent
He has not lived in vain. And while he gives
The praise to Him. in whom he moves and lives
With thankful heart
He gazes backward, and with hope before.
Knowing that from his works he ncvermore
Can henppi6nth mart
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18

of disease in this country is annually
not less than twenty million dollars; in
some counties where distilleres are nu
merous, five thousand have died of dis
ease in one season.
Some farmers give their fattening
hogs salt, which will make them gain
in weight much faster; but it produces
morbidly increased appetite and occa-
sions constipation. The result is, the
animal fills up with etfete matters which
are accumulated in the cellular tissue
in the form of fat. The animal grows
more bulky, and as its commercial
value is reckoned by weight, this pro.
cess of fattening is profitable to those
who sell the swine, but not those who
eat it; for the adipose accumulation is
itself morbid condition, and the more
any animal is fattencd the more un-
wholesome it becomes.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
Americans and American Fashions in
London.

Americans are at a premium every
where abroad just now (says magazine
critic), in London more than any1 mere
else. American soda-water, American
tramways, hotels "on the American
principle" American wares, and wares
recommend to American purchasers, are
advertised on all sides on the Fourth of
July grand American fete'' was held
at Cremorne Gardens, with a special
illumination, and the announcement
that "all the Americans in London will
present; in society, American girls are
decidedly " the fashion" There is ma
terial in this for very serious article to
be addressed to my country-folk, but
this is not my present intention. What
ever there is to be said on the subject,
their beauty and charms are securing
them triumph which they are not
called upon to forego. Yet, like all tri-
umphs, it is over enemies. The univer-
sal sentiment in London society regard
ing stranger is the memorable one
recorded by Punch during some agrarian
or mining troubles in the Midland
counties: "There's a stranger; 'eave
arf brick at him." People who lack
the charity which begins at home, whose
whole social existence is a struggle to
maintain his or her own place against all
comers, be they nephews, cousins, nieces,
brothers, or sisters, cannot abound in
any larger charity. The brder of the
day is selfshness, not in its most refined,
but in its cOarSeSt forms.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
An ImpOrtant Project,

1t is twentyone years since the pro
ject of shortening the travel between
New York and Liverpool, by connect
ing the former with Halifax by rail, was
first considered The late John A.
Poor, Of Portland Me-, Edward Everett,
Charles Sumner, and Sir Alexander g.
Calf, of Canada, were leading men in
pushing the interests of the European
and American railway from Portland to
Halifax. From Bangor to Mattawam
keag, in Maine, fifty miles, and from
the Maine State line to st. John, N. B.,
ninety miles, have been in operation
two years, and the connection between
Mattawamkeag and the State line, fifty
five miles, has just been completed; it
is thought that this month will see ira
vel open from Bangor to st. John.
From the latter it is ninety-six miles to
the junction with the International of
Canada, by which Truro, N. s., is
reached, one hundred and sixteen
miles. This route is all complete, ex-
cept seventy-five miles of the Inter
colonial, and by July next the whole
line will be in operation. 1t is said this
will reduce the ocean voyage from land
to land five days.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
Not at Home.

Farewell to paper. pen and ink;
| drop the weary quill,
To pass a week without drink
At Aganippe's ril.
My Muse-if Robinson should call.
Or Jones or Smith or Brown
Be kind enough to tell them all.
The bard is out oftown.
My Muse. I leave my second floor.
In confidence to Vou.
And paste paper on the door
With just word or two.
So people trotting up the stairs.
And people trotting down,
May read notice which declares
The bard is out of town.
Then let my printers devil knock.
And ring the rusty bell:
And let my tailor try the lock.
That guards my lonely cell.
Go. printer. let some other play
The cynic or the clown.
Go. Snip, return some other day
The bard is out of town.
1t pains me to desert my Muse.
And leave her here alone.
Twill vex her very much to lose
A genius like my own.
She rarely lets me have my way;
But let her smile or frown.
For just a week. l beg to say.
The bard is out of town.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
A Valuable Invention.

The Iron Age has an account of new
instrument for indicating the velocity
of flowing liquids and for measuring
the speed of ships, called the rhysime
ter, which has been invented in Eng
land. The capacity to measure the
speed of ships is highly important APP
plication of the instrument. The
apparatus heretofore used lin connec-
purpose, the well. known clog" attached
to the log-line and dropped over the
stern of the vessel, is very inaccurate
method of measurement, as a heavy sea
sometimes throws it after the ship,
while a head sea may carry it in the OPP
posite direction. The glass also meas
ures the half-minute with difficulty in
dry and damp weather and the line is
liable to change its length. Even the
best substitutes for the log are said to
be not always reliable. By the new in
vention the indicator may be in the
captains cabin. 1t is said to resemble
in size and appearance barometer. In
it column of mercury indicates con-
tinually the speed of the ship. The
full effect of the velocity is impaired to
the mercury without any applicable
loss by friction or otherwise, so that the
indicators must always be absolutely
correct. The instrument may be made
self-regis tering, showing on dial the
total number of knots the ship has run,
precise speed attained at all periods of
the voyage The practical value of
such an invention is obvious.
THE STRAsBURG CLoCK-This ingeni-
Gus piece of neurological mechanism is in
excellent condition, and attracts as
much attention as ever. At mid day a
molly crowd of some two hundred peo-
pie fills that transept of the cathedral
which contains this curious work, the
assemblage including peasants in quaint
costumes; priests, school-boys and a
great proportion of English and Ameri-
can tourists. At II o'clock the usual
performance begins by procession of
the twelve Apostles marching before
Christ, who raises his hands, bestowing
blessing on each Apostle as he passes
by. At the same time a skeleton in the
lower compartment strikes the hour
with human bone on metallic disc.
The cock on the summit of the clock
ruffies his feathers, stretches out his
neck and gives good, sonorous CROW,
repeating his efforts three separate
times. The noon display is thus ter
minated, but many of the spectators
leave with an evident expression of dis
appointment, as if they had expected
to see the whole front of the clock in
motion, and display of fireworks for "a
finale.
ONE thousand ladies recently attend
ed a political meeting in Stockton Cali
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18

ARTIFICIAL RAIN.-In England, where
experimental agriculture is carried to
an extreme almost unknown with us,
the invention of methods of irrigation
has been very ingenious. At Stoke Park
tract of twenty acres is irrigated by
artificial rain, the system being quite
successful. The water was applied everv
night last summer in showers, except
ing when natural rain made it unnces-
sary. The apparatus consists of pipes
laid in the ground, supplied from an
elevated reservoir, into which water was
pumped by machinery. The financial
exhibit made by the results of the ex-
pertinent is said to be good one. The
interest on the money invested in the
necessary machinery, and the cost of
operating it, aggregated $95 per acre
for the entire tract of twenty acres.
Likewise the income per acre aggrega-
ted 5000, being made up of the proceeds
of one crop of grass and grazing in the
autumn of 1870, and two crops of hay
in 1871. The net profit was thus $l05
per acre. On land of the same tract
and same character, used for the same
purpose, but where the irrigation was
omitted, the net profit per acre was but
S45,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18

The largest salary which any French
journalist receives at the present time
is paid to Edmond About, of the Paris
Soir. He gets forty thousand francs
year. Emile de Girardin receives
twenty-five thousand francs for writing,
daily, one column of editorial matter
in the Ldberte.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18

ONE thousand ladies recently attend
ed political meeting in Stockton, Cali
fornia, and applauded with the loudest.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18
A Pocket Edition of a Town.

A correspondent of the San Francisco
Bulletin, who has travelled sup country"
in California, writes thus: Fifteen
miles from the summit of Klamath
Mountains, down the Salmon River, is
the small mining town of Sawyer's Bar.
1t is the littlest mite of a place, pro-
jected on the smallest scale, and has
things arranged in the snuggest fash
ion | have seen in an American village
for great while. 1t is as tight and as
trim and diminutive as any Swiss or
German hamlet. There is scarcely two
rods width of bottom land, bordered by
steep hill, and the town is only few
rods in length; yet in that extremely
small place are enough people packed
together to furnish a school of over
forty scholars, church, stores, hotels,
etc, besides countless little patches of
cabbages, terraces of flowers or fruits,
and wee bits of gardens. All the mer
chandise sold in Sawyer's Bar is brought
over from Arcata, on the coast, a dis
tance of one hundred miles, on pack
mules, at cost of about five cents per
pound freightage.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-18

TRYING TO Blow UP A HOTEL. - The
New York Standard says that on Monoay
the engineer of French's Hotel gave
notice to his fireman that on account of
his drunken and lazy habits they must
part company. The fireman heard his
dismissal with stolidity, and received an
order on the cashier for his wages. 1t
was understood he was to complete his
days work. During the course of the
day, the engineer had occasion to leave
the engine in charge of the drunken
fireman. As he returned, seeing a
wrench in his hand, he instantly sus
pected something wrong. On asking
him what he had been doing he de-
clincd to answer. The engineer then
examined the engine and saw that the
water which supplies the boiler had
been turned off. A fierce fire was burn
ing in the furnaces, and except for the
engineers presence of mind in suspect
ing his villainous assistant, a second
Westfield disaster must have inevitably
ensued The engineer, when matters
were righted, gave the fireman good
thrashing and delivered him into Gus
tOdy