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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-25

Robin. under my window. just as the morning is
breaking,
Singing an autumn song ere you fit to the sum
mer land
Clear voiced, swest-throated songster. me from
my slumber awaking. -
You. at least, are bird in the bush worth Two
in the hand.
Listening thus to your carol could almost set me
All! if my heart were so light. and my life SO
free of carcl
Gould / but Join thee in rowing. southward our
swift flight winging,
To lands where blossoms tho orange. ana Jas
mine scents the air!
L can but envy thy freedom. truly as L am q
sinner.
You neither SOW nor reap. and yet by the Father
are fed.
But II must toll late and early. if would be
sure of my dinner
Am l. then, better than you because l must
work for my bread?
Your songs are never rejected. you chater not
over their payment.
Hopping about as you please. through the long.
bright. summer day:
You take no thought for the morrow, no care lor
shelter End raiment
For ere the chill winds of the winter you has
ten unhurdcned away
With no relentless conductor who pants for your
life or your ticket,
No implacablo landlord to put in his dreadful
BILL
You'll travel by private conveyance. will stop in
some first class thicket,
And, dropping down in some corn field. break
fast and dine at your will.
Well. then. go if you must. for the leaves of the
Seek for pleasure and health. but do not tarry
too long:
With the first buds of the spring time. back to
my window returning,
Waken me early some morning from dreaming,
again with your song.
--ScriJner's Monthlv.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-25
Edible Insects.

1t is probable that famine and star
walton, caused by the terrible ravages of
armies of locusts, first caused the insect
invaders themselves to be eaten. AS
they were found to be nutritious and
not unpalatable, they came in this way
to be considered staple article of diet.
The earliest Asiatic and African history
informs us of their use as food, and
they are thus occasionally mentioned
in Grecian annals. The Arabs and AT
ricans now consume them in the great
est quantities. They are gathered from
the trees where they alight, or brought
down when flying low by making a
dense smoke. They are then roasted
with salt in an underground oven,
bruised, and put away for use. For the
table they are pulverized and made into
a pudding, or, divested of their heads,
wings, and legs, are boiled in water or
in oil. They resemble in consistence
and flavor the yolks of hard-boiled eggs,
and various English travellers agree that
they are very good eating.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-25
Australian Salt lakes.

An interesting description of the salt
lakes OF Australia is given by a writer
in the Sydney Empire who, spsSking OF
the salt lakes and mineral springs 0
the Paroo, says: "These wells are q
real curiosity. Mounds of earth rise
about ten or fifteen feet over the sur
face, no doubt thrown up by the force
of the water they form kind of oasis
in the wilderness, and have saved the
lives of many a weary wanderer. These
mounds can be seen for miles. The
water is very clear and soft. 1t is i'm.
pregnated with magnesia, soda, and
alum. 1t is very palatable to drink,
and | think very wholesome. The
water does not flow after touching the
surface; but, as soon as it overflows the
fort-like basin, sinks into the earth.
The alum and soda crack under your
feet, as you walk around these wells,
like frozen snow. Sand-storms occa-
sionally set in with great violence,
sweeping along and drifting like snow
but in this it differs-that nothing is
proof againstits penetrating propensity.
1t enters your eyes, your nose, your
mouth, your ears; even your very skin
seems gritty from it, and everything is
covered with it. 1t enters all culinary
matters, so that while it lasts you are
continually eating, drinking, and wear
ing sand. AS an instance, the first
evening entered the Paroo, one of the
sand.storms set in, and, after viewing
one of those beautiful clear lakes, in
which we thought we could quench our
thirst, having had nothing to drink
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-25
DOubIe AntidOte for Love.

The White Pine Ne,os, of the 18th
ult., says: Yesterday morning young
man named John G. r, living near
Treasure City, in fit of dependency
threw himself headforemost into
thirty-foot shaft. AT noon two men
happened along and discovered a coat
and hat on the edge Of the shalt. On
looking into the shaft they discovered
the sore-headed young man trying to
come to the surface, and scratching
gravel like the mischief. They pro-
cured rope and hauled him up.
Strange to say the only injuries he re-
ceived were spraned ankle and a few
scratches Oil the side of the head. Tho
Young mans reason for the rash act was
the receipt of letter from Harrisburg,
Pa, announcing the marriage OF his
first love to another felIer. He forth,
with flew to saloon and commenced
throwing in the gin-slings. For two
days he practiced before the bar trying
| to forget his first-love. Yesterday morn
ing he awoke and found himself in his
| own cabin, with nothing to cheer up his
\ spirits-not even cocktail IN sight,
and-he did as above stated.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-25
Women Taking Part In a Peace Con-
greSS.

A noticeable feature of the Peace
Congress at Lausanne, Switzerland, was
the participation of women in its pro-
ceedings. Among the female delegates
were Madame Paule Minck and Ma
dame Andre Leo, who organized during
their visit a female apostolate, the mis-.
sion of which is to preach communal
doctrines and equal rights. 1t is re-
cruited chiefly from the French ladies
taking refuge in Switzerland from the
police of NJ. Dufaure. The founders of
this propaganda are club oratresses,
who made mark at the public meet
ings of the Folies Bergeres in the En-
peror's time, and at political meetings
at La Chapelle and Pipcus during the
siege. Andre Leo was then an editor
of the Steele. She was afterward the
editor of the Sociale, and in that capaci-
ty gave every morning to credulous
public bulletin of Communal victories
never gained. Her baptismal name is
not Andre, nor her surname Leo. They
are the names of her two sons-still
children of a tender ago-which she
adopts as nom de plume, and not un-
frequently nom de guerrc. 1t was this
oratress who first started the project
of forming corps of Amazons of the
Seine.
Madame Minck is described as
dried-up yellow-looking little woman-a
very vixen in petticoats. Concerning
the Commune, she said that 10000 men
were shut up by the Versailles troops in
Paris. At this astonishing statement,
citizen near the platform in the Con-
gress said "Ah" in low tone of voice.
Madame Minck was down upon the un-
fortunate man in an instant. "The
citizen interrupted me-" "No, l did
not, really" said the unhappy man,
trying hard to look as if it wasn't him.
"Oh, yes, you did though. am ready
to answer what you said" eff you
please, NJ. lie President" exclaimed the
wretched man, driven to desperation,
" | said, 'Ah.' How can the orator an
swer that?' The audience roared with
laughter, and Madame Minck had de-
cidedly the worst of it. She waxed
angry at this, and warned the audience
of the wrath to come, if socialists were
laughed at, instead of being listened to.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-25
Where Bristles Come From.

The sources of the vast majority O.
the brstles OF commerce are the inter
minable forests of Nortt ern Russia
Here, for thousands of miles in extent
the land is covered with wood-pine
trees, larches, oaks, beeches, rowans
and other cone, mast, acorn, and berry
bearing trees, the fruits of which form
delicious diet for swine, which in q
sort of half-wild state, and more or less
under the surveillance of swineherds
swarm in prodigious numbers. 1t need
not be supposed that all these swarms
surrender their bristles to the bristle.
merchant. The pigs under culture for
the bristle-crop are mostly q privileged
race that pasture near the great tallow
factories of Russia, where the animals
reared too far from the habitations OF
men to be consumed for human food
are boiled down for the sake of their
fat. The swine are fed on the refuse of
the tallow- houses at certain seasons,
and become in prime condition after a
few months feeding. The bristle har-
vest is reaped, or rather is uprooted, in
the summer, by a process which re-
minds one of the quill plucking of Lin
colnshire geese, but which is really not
so cruel as it appears at first view.
When the animals are we'll fattened,
after months of unlimited feasting, and
their bristles are in the finest order,
they have to compensate their host for
their entertainment. They are then
driven in multitudes into kind of
kraal, or fenced inclosure, where they
are crowded as thickly together as they
can stand, or perhaps rather more so.
Here, by dint of kicking, striving,
struggling, and scrambling together,
they are sure to get considerably heat
ed, in which feverish condition they are
seized by the pluckers. who have then
but little difficulty in pulling up the
bristles by the roots. This is no sooner
accomplished than piggy is allowed to
regain his liberty, and scampers off
again to his pasture. The spectacle is
not a very delightful one, as may be
imagined, nor is the extemporaneous
concert improvised on the occasion very
agreeable to the ear. That the bristle
harvest is really reaped in this way any
one may satisfy himself by inspecting q
consignment of undressed bristles be-
fore they have been passed through any
cleansing or purifying process. lie will
see that the stiff hairs have been forc-
bly, dragged up by the roots, and he will
see further, in the case of Siberian bris-
ties, that together with the roots of the
stiff hair there has been torn away no
inconsiderable portion of the softer
wo which by kind of provision of
nature underlies the bristles in the
severe North.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-25

THERE is a story Of selfwilled dea,
con, who was always on the wrong side
and ludicrously stubborn. When the
temperance reform was in full feather,
and the question was discussed in the
church of which he was an officer, he,
of course, opposed it. He would not
sign the pledge; he would not consent
to its presentation in the Sunday
school he objected vehemently to the
distribution of tracts. One day, in the
presence of full house, one of the
members of the church made the case
of the deacon a subject of prayer. He
said 80 Lord! if thy servant, our
brother, continues his opposition to us,
wilt Thou, in Thy tender mercies, re-
move him from the church militant
below to the church Triumphant above ~
81 won't go" thundered the indignant
and obstinate deacon.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-25
NUMBER 8.


SAN FRANclsco was fired in five places
by incendiaries one night last week.
LONG BRANCH was sold POO years ago
for n barrel of cider.
COLORADO housewives mourn over but
ter at 80 cents n pound.
NILSSON claims that her Paris and
Chicago losses foot up to Sl50000.
MACON, GA, is building one of the
largest cotton factories in the world.
MONTREAL will have typc-settisg
tournament for the Canadian champion.
ship.
THE "Chicago sufferer" is stated 10
have become a numerous nuisance
throughout the east.
The London underground railway
cost four million dollars mile.
ELHU BuRRITT is addressing Fnrli.i
audiences effectively on behalf of Ci4i
cago sufferers.
The Ruth Medlicott murder case,
which has caused so much excitement
in st. Louis and Garnet, Kansas, where
the trial took place, his concluded. The
jury returned verdict of murder in
the first degree against DR.. Medlicott.
A LETTER addressed ITO Eny Promi-
nent Buisaniss Man Handelling Butch
ers Stock Quincy Ill.," and containing
the following marginal direction "Post
master will pleas hand this to some fat
cattle man." was received at the post
office in Quincy, Mass, lately.
AN ENvIoUs Chicago paper says that
Bret Harte is about to publish new
poem, called "The Outlaw of Cholera
Gulch." 1t will relate how the outlaw,
a rude but benevolent man, poisoned
his benefactor, and carried off his two
daughters for wives; how he smote one
of those wives with stick until she
inconsiderately died, and then expend
ed for whisky the money she had left
for coffin how he disposed of the
other one to the Piegans for pumpkin
colored horse; how he extinguished
that horses eyes with hot poker be-
cause it got beaten in race; and how
he was finally caught up by an angel
one Saturday afternoon and translated
to Heaven, where he received crown
of glory
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-25
i" Never Missed It,"

"You will never miss it, it is so
young" These were cold words that
were meant for consolation spoken to a
young mother. "Never miss it ?'
Was not place then vacant by the
side of that feeble parent? "Better
have it die young while it is innocent"
the speaker. continued, but sob was
the only response. Many tender words
were spoken, but that, " You will never
miss it," sank deep, deep into the va
cant heart. So the little form was car
ried out, that had gladdened two fond
hearts but few days. " Never missed
it" The young mother folded up the
garments that her busy fingers had Ia
bored on for many weeks and put them
away. Tears fell like rain on the clothes
her babe had never worn.
"Never missed it II" Weeks and
months moved on, and years one, two,
three, passed, and many admired the
submissiveness that showed no outward
murmurings. Strangers loved the quiet
that reigned in that house, and said in
their hearts, "They have never missed
it," But what would not that mother
have given for one shout of childish
glee in that quiet house.
"Never missed it'll" Time flew away
and middle age found them childless.
Out in the streets the merry voices of
other children made them sad. Low.
ing fathers and mothers were educat.
ing their own, and looking forward to
days beyond that they might have a
younger and stronger arm to lean upon,
and yet the world said, "They have
never missed it," Onward passed the
years, until one score was counted on
the little tablet and they missed it
still. Later in life they heard the
voices of children's children echoing in
other households, and deeper than the
little grave sank the loneliness of being
childless.
"Never missed it! These words
spoken years before made dent in one
heart, at least, that no time and COM
fort could fill. People said, 60 'How
happy they seem; they have not had
the care and anxiety that others have"
Did not their hearts then yearn for the
broken bud transplanted to the immor-
tai gardens so many years ago?
"Never missed it?" They went to
their graves and were buried by the side
of the wee darling, and their free spirits
dwell in that land where separation is
unknown and "you will never miss it''
is not heard.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-25
A Suburban Arcadia.

The writer of the following exquisite
bit of word painting is Mr.. }. c. Gold
smith, managing editor of the New
York Leader:
"The pleasures of a country cottage
to people who are not decciving them
selves, are not few. If the ambition is
not mere June sentiment, one may &C
into the country and find his Arcadia
If he will study time tables, and seek
to know the places whereat chills and
fever do not shake one, and have the
sagacity to avoid agents and drive into
some byway alone, he may find an acre
or two that will make his heart glad for
many a year. Just such a place we
know. The agents have not reached it,
and it lies in all the innocence of rural
beauty. No water-view graces tit is
purely rural. The two acres cost to day
five hundred dollars each to get them.
The owner paid hundred and fifty
more than they were worth. The little
peaked cottage, with its disproportionate
but comfortable verandah, covered with
vines all purple and white with bloom,
cost but q thousand dollars. 1t is
painted quiet, pearly brown, with
darker tints under the caves. AS you
approach it through the cedar gates,
you may bow your head lest the weep
ing willow make you bare it in sym
pathy. A tall Norway spruce stands
before the docs, and under its dark
green a bitter-sweet vine is creeping,
and in the white winter days will burn
brighter than street lamp. The black
tartarian cherry is not tall, and the fruit
is not plentiful. but what little there is
attracts the birds, who give sweet music
for what they are welcome to steal. But
next year the ox-hearts will be white
beside the verandah, and you may
watch the birds from your bed. Beside
the stone wall grow gssat currants, just
turning red, and the gooseberries have
been making stout English pies for a
month. What need of ice when the
we'll is so cool? The cellar has kept the
currant wine pleasant all the summer
long.
"When the snow begins to fall and
the icicles to hang on the trees, you will
find inside a cosy room, all dark stained,
with soft, quiet carpet in purple and
brown, over which the fire tlic<ers from
low down crate Of blazing Goals The
bright brass and irons and shovel and
tongs flash brighter in the red blaze.
Over the Goals hangs little black ket-
tie, whose nose makes music as merry
as an Eolian harp, and sighs to mingle
itself with the warm-lemonade! 1t is
a homely room, and comfortable; for
the chairs are unpainted hickory; the
oiled oak mantle is ornamented with
only a pair of brass candlesticks but
the freight illumines busts of Dickens
and Irving that stand on black-walnut
brackets against the wall. The homli-
ness is so quiet that turbulent Carlyle is
content to watch Hawthorne across the
room. The sun that set behind the
hill left a memory of landscape, so that
none is needed within the house. In
country places one delights in pictures
of men and plenty of books, SO that if
Thackeray be out of his place on the
shelves, and Tom Brown cannot be
found, it is because their accustomed
place is beside the blazing fire.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-25
English and American Railways.

Rev. Thomas X. Beecher, in one of
his letters from England, says:
The railways here are not better than
our own. Either the English roads
have deteriorated, or else our own have
appreciated. ] assume that the fastest
train on the direct line between Liver
pool and London may be taken as a
fair sample, and compared with similar
trains on the Erie Railway at home
with which | am most familiar. From
Liverpool to London, two hundred and
ten miles, through first, class fare is
thirty-fve shillings-say nine dollars.
On the Erie, from New York to Elmira,
in drawingroom coach, is eight dollars
for two hundred and seventy miles, a
"locar' rate. We ride in by far the
more elegant coaches at home, and at
perceptibly cheaper rates than here.
We ride as fast, too, on the Erie as
here about thirty-fve miles in either
case.
In smoothness there is no compari-
son. Motion on the Erie is like rolling
on oil but here we rattle in our seats
like tin pals in wheelbarrow. Here
there are four wheels under coach ;
on the Erie twelve! Here one wheel
failing necessitates disaster; there we
we can spin off from one to six, and, if
judiciously selected, the coach is still
mobile and not q wreck. Here it is
difficult to talk, and impossible to
write there | do both quite intelli-
gibly.
am proudly surprised, after an alb.
sence of eighteen years, to find an
English railway no longer superior to
our own in any particular that affects a
traveler-no, not even in the matter of
dust and ashes.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-25
Flour Without MilIstOnes.

Al recent meeting of the British
Association for the Advancement of
Science, a paper descriptive of new
mill for grinding wheat without mill
stones was read. According to the de-
scription this mill reduces the wheat by
percussion, while it is unsupported and
falling freely, or being projected through
the air. The wheat, in passing through
the machine, is struck by series of
bars moving at an immense speed in
opposite directions; it is thus instanta-
neously reduced to state ready for
boiling, no injurious heat being caused,
and the flour produced is of much SUI
perior quality to that obtained by ordi-
nary grinding, while the cost of its pro-
duction is considerably less. One of
these machines, in it's perfected state, is
in full operation in Edinburgh, and
realizes all the advantages claimed for
it. These advantages are, the very light
and rarely needed repairs it requires
compared with millstones the fewer
men required and consequent saving in
wages the exemption from loss by
scorching; the small ground and space
occupied and the much less driving
power needed.
The following epitaph is from a ceme-
terry in Cape May county, New Jersey:
MARY JANE.
Aged II yrs. s mos.
She was not smart, she was not fair
But hearts with grief for her are swell'n';
AL empty stands her little chair
ShaA tal nf fsY,tx lin
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-25

THE Dutch Gap Canal, once national
jest, is now navigated by steamers, saw
ing distance of seven miles every
trip.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-25

A BOY in Cynthiana, KY, made eleven
partridges quail in one shot.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-11-25

Aged ii yrs. mos.
She was not smart, she was not fair.
But hearts with grief for her are swellin';
AL empty stands her little chair
She died of eatin' watermelon.