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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14

taking off his hat and showing long
seam in his scalp. "That was done with
the skillet"
"You have suffered" )" raid Mapes.
''Suifered!' said Timms; ''you ought
to have sworn her, too. If you only
knew how have thought of you, and
of my oath to you; and how have
borne blows and been quiet; how have
been called a brute and fool, and kept
SILENT how | have endured taunts and
sneers, hunger and discomfort. without
a word of reproach, you wold forgive
me; you wouldn't harbor thoughts of re-
venge."
''Thoughts of revenge!' answered
Mapes. "Let us dismount, for see my
chance has come at last"
''Mapes, would you take the life of an
unarmed man?'
"Timms, you're crazy. Let me ex-
plain. | have no wrongs to avenge. 1t
isn't for vengeance that have waited
to see you. | heard about you often
know all your life and experience, and
! only want to tell you, to offer you a
home and friendship, employment and
opportunities for prosperity, here in
California; ! you owe no debt but one of
gratitude for the inestimable service you
did me by that little job of carpenter
work, and that | mean to pay. Come
with me-
He took Timms' horse by the bride,
turned him about without remonstrance,
and they travelled on in silence.
After awhile, Timms raised his eyes
from the ground and said:
"Mapes, she's q devil
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14

One of our citizens is blessed, or other
wise, with Il very stubborn wife. In his
case, he finds that when a woman will,
she will, you may depend ont, and
when she won't, she won't, and that's
an end ont. This popularity of dis
position in his wife is no secret among
his associates, and one of them meeting
him the other day, asked:
Well, -. do you know why you
are like "a donkey p
Like a donkey? ?" echoed W,
opening his eyes wide. No, | don't"
DO you give it up?"
81 do"
"Because your better half is stub
bornness ITSELF
"That's not bad. Ha! ha! rll give
that to my wife when 60 home"
Mrs. W." he asked, as he sat
down to supper, " do you know why |
am like donkey?'
He wsited u moment, expecting his
wife to give it up, but she didn't; she
looked at him somewhat commiserat-
ingly as she answered:
al suppose it's because you were
born So"
W-has abjured the habit of put
ting conundrums to his wiie.-LaOrcacG
(MaSs.) american.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14
IS Wrestling JOp.0

What has been known for many
years as :" the great Oregon land case :"
has at last been decided by jury in
favor of one Joseph Thomas, otherwise
known as Wrestling joe" a person
now almost one hundred years of age
1t appears from the testimony given on
the trial, that this Joe had married M MIss
Elizabeth Caruthers in 1916, and that u
son was the only issue Of the union. A
separation having occurred, either be
fore or after his birth, Mrs. Thomas
emigrated to Portland, Oregon, where
she resided until her death. The son
grew to be a man, and engaged in land
schemes which enabled him to acquire
a handsome estate. AT his death, being
without heirs, the authorities seized
everything that belonged to him, and
were about to have a sale. when they
were stopped by lawyer named Han
nah, who had succeeded III discovering
several of the kinsmen OF the late Mr.
Thomas. Soon atterward, the old man,
" Wrestling Joe,' was found in CON
ditlon of &bject misery, and his title to
be the heir of his son was so satistacto-
rily proved that he was surrounded 10y
spectators and his claim purchased
Recently, II decision was given in favor
OF these persons, but aS the property is
valued at upwards of million dollars,
the origntl claimants continue the
fight, which will shortly be resumed in
the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, poor
old Joe has been provided with enough
money TO enable him to live in luxury
for the remainder Of his days. During
the progress of the testimony a fact was
developed which tells very well for
Oregon: The estate now valued at n
million was only worth forty thousand
dollars in 1850
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14
How Lrad.PenciIS are Made.

A leadpencil has two parts. Within
the wooden cover is the material popu
larly called black lcad-a name without
meaning, since no lead enters into its
composition. Its true name is graphite
and 1t slumbcrs in gnelss, mica, slate
quarts or greensboro, until dislntcrrcd
for use.
Valuable graphite mines were discov.
cred at Borrowdale, county of Cumbcr-
land, England, 1854, but these mines
We're long since exhausted. John Peter
Albert discovered aud opened u mine
in Eastern Siberia, in 1917, and after
seven years of labor, disclosed an un-
broken layer of the best graphite the
world has ever seen.
The wooden cover is made of cedar
wood, the best of which is brought from
Florida.
The year after the Cumberland mines
were opened, lead-pencils were manu-.
tactured differing but little from those
of the present day. The Cumberland
graphite was, however, sawed into thin
slabs. and these into strips, which were
glued into the wood. But after the
yield was exhausted, and only impure
refuse could be obtained, attempts were
made to utilize this waste material.
In France, in the year 1898, the FRO.
cess was invented Of mixing the pow
dered and purified graphite with clay
1t was entirely successful, and was
found adapted to manufacturing ma
terial of different degrees of hardness,
impossible before.
This process is as follows The graph.
lite is sorted, crushed, and, 10y washing
or sluicing, purified. About the same
treatment is applied to the clay after
whlca these two materials are spread
out IN shallow pans, and dried at a low
They are then mixed in
the proper proportions, and the mix.
ture again wetted and ground in iron
mills for number Of hours, the mills
working day and night. This process
of drying and grinding is repeated until
the mass attains the proper degree of
tineness and evenness, when workmen
knead it into q cake. This cake is
placed in q cast-Iron cylinder, and, by
a slow process, squeezed through a
small hole at the bottom, from which it
issues, falling in serpentile coils on u
board below, 1t is Strengthened out,
cut Off the desired lengths, laid close
together in layers, prevented from
warping by slight pressure. After
being dried in a moderate temperature,
it is packed in hermetically- sealed
crucibles, and submitted to high heat,
in peculiarly-constructed ovens. The
lead-tor SO it is called-is now finished
and ready to be tested by the mannfac
Iurers.
Blocks of cedar are cut up into strips
Of the length and little more than
half the thickness of the pencil. These
are grooved the size of the lead, the
lead glued in and a similar strip of
wood glued over it for covering.
80 far as the use of the pencil goes,
is finished; but for the sake of ap
pearance, the exterior must be rounded.
and polished, and then it is
ready for Exchange.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14
Boiling Babies to Repair Telegraph
Wires

An Englishman, named Jencken, has
been eng ged for a year or two past in
prosecuting "A claim against the Spanish
Government for injuries inflicted upon
him by mob OF Spaniards, at Lucca,
in 1869. While Mr.. Jencken was stop
ping at this place, he was violently as
saulted by crowd of citizens, and
nearly murdered. Subsequently, he as
certained that his assailants had re-
ceived the impression that he was pro-
fessionally engaged in kidnapping babies
and small boys for the purpose of sell
ing the innocents to the telegraph COM
panles.
1t appears that an idea prevails in
Spain that the owners of telegraph lines
are unable to find any material which
will properly repair breaks in their wires
but substance procured from the fat
and intestines of young children, and
that the companies are constantly in re-
ceipt of large quantities of babes and
sucklings, who are Immediately boiled
down for this purpose. Mr.. Jencken,
unhappily, did something which direct.
ed against him as the supposed collect.
ing agent Of the telegraph companies
the malignant force Of this prcpostetous
! notion, md he cHrnc very near losing
! ','s !'.. - cprapnpencet
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14

THEIRS is IS.
SPOTTED TAIL is Al.
S.1 Gr, =: -

| THEIRS is IS.
SPOTTED TAIL is AZ.
| SIMON CAMERON is 73.
HORACE GREELEY is a UniversaIist.
B. GRATz Brown is II Presbyterian.
! HENRY WILSON is a aCongregationalist
VANDERBILT's income is $4,000 a day
JOE JEFFERsoN's eyesight is complete
ly restored.
MRs. ABRAHAM LINCOLN is living in
Waukesha, Wis.
NIcE-PREsIDENr CoLFAx's mother was
victim OF cancer.
GEN. GRANT belongs to no church
but leans toward Methodism.
JOAQUIN MILLER has presented Grace
Greenwood with pair of earrings made
of rattlesnake's rattles, mounted with
gold.
The Christian Union says: "Whether
women ought to preach depends upon
whether they can preach. Experiment
should be made, but cautiously, and on
Il small scale.'
The two men now most in demand
by the lecture committees are DR.. Hou-
ard and Herald Stanley. 1t is under
stood that both will mount the rostrum.
ROBERT and Jacob McClean are twin
brothers, seventytwo years of age, both
hale and hearty, and over six feet high
They live with their mother, 90 years
of age, who is growing feeble, at Rob
Roy, Ill.
BRIGHAM YOUNG has Just made the
necessary application to the Comptrol-
ler's Office at Washington to establish Il
bank at Salt Lake City, to be called the
Bank of Deseret. The capital proposed
is 100000.
Col. JOSEPH LEFFLER. offspring gield, o.,
was married the other day to Miss Eva
line Beasley. The Colonel is As inches
high, weighs 55 pounds, and is SO years
old. His wife is five inches taller than
he, weighs IS pounds, and is 20 years
old. Lettler is one of the most success
full bee-keepers in the United States.
JOAQUIN MILLER is thirty five: Senator
Nye is fifty Fenton is tiity-three;
Senator Bayard is tifty-tour; Sumner is
sixty-one years old; Lew. Campbell is
sixty-one; Senator Harlan is titty-two:
Conkling is ortythree; Henry Wilson
is sixty; Senator Thurman is fifty nine;
John A. Logan is fortytour.
MISS MAGGIE HAGGERTY, of Tarrytown,
N. Y, recently horsewhipped man
because he had named his mare after
her, and then entered the beast for a
race with another mare named Josie
Mansfield, and placarded the two names
side by side all over town, which Miss
Maggie considered an insult and an in
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14
Something About Yourself.

Supposing your age to be fifteen
years or thereabouts, can figure you
up to a dot. You have 100 bones and
800 muscles; your blood weighs %
pounds; your heart is five inches in
length and three inches in diameter; it
beats 10 times q minute, 1920 times
per hour, lO0,SO0 times per day, and
26, 725,2OO per year. At each beat y
little over two ounces of blood is thrown
out of it; and each day it receives and
discharges over seven tons of that won
dertul fluid. Your lungs will contain n
gallon on air, and you inhale $4,000
gallons day. The aggregate surface
of the air cells Of your lungs, supposing
them to be spread out, exceed 10000
square inches. The weight Of your
brain is three po nds; when you are n
man it will weigh about eight ounces
more. Your nerves exceed 100000
in number.
Your skin is composed of three lay
ers, and varies from one-fourth to one
eighth of an inch in thickness. The
area of your skin is about 100 square
inches and you are subjected to an at
mOspheric pressure of fifteen pounds to
the square inch. Each square inch of
your skin contains $500 sweating tubes,
or perspiratory pores, each of which
may be likened to a little drain tile
ne-fourth of an inch long, making the
aggregate length or the entire sutace of
your body of POI ,366 feet, or tile ditch
for draining the body almost forty miles
long.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14

LONDON bootblacks wear regular
uniform.
If three miles make league, how
many will make Contcderacy?
| ExEMrREsS ISABELLA of Spain is still
fat and devotional. She resides in
| Paris.
DIAMONDS of the first quality are no y
dearer than ever before, m all parts of
the world.
WAGNER, the composer, has nine libel
suits pending against German newspa-
pers.
THE Marquis of Lornc, Queen Nicto-
ria's son,in-law, is approaching in Eng.
land.
NJ. THEIRS thinks he will be able to
pay all the German indemnity by Seps
tember, 1873.
JUDGE DowLING, of the New York
Tombs Police Court, who is travelling in
Europe, has been presented by Napo.
leon with u portrait of himself, in oil.
The Prussian Cultus Minister has
given a decision that female teachers
may indeed be employed in German
schools, hut only in such instances
where male instruction is not to be Oh
tanned.
THERE is talk in Berlin about the or
ganizatlon OF large stock company for
the publication OF a new daily paper,
destined to be the largest in the world
and to be managed on the plan of the
American journals.
A CLERGYMAN Of England, who has
abundant means. publishes religious ar
tlcles in newspapers as advertisements,
and is so we'll satisfied with the result
that he proposes to purchase space, this
year, in five hundred papers.
THE fish poachers in England have
appealed to SCIENCE for help, and are
too clever for the law. They explode
dynamite under the water, and kill
hundreds of fish at a single explosion.
Then they let them float down the
streams to safe place and net them.
A COLOSSAL statue of Richard Baxter,
the famous semi-nonconformist preach
er, during the years of the Common
wealth and of Charles H., is proposed
for the town of Kerderminster, Eng
land, where he lived for many years,
and where most of his great religious
books We're written
SITGREAvES, the English adventurer,
who personated the Hon. George Ban
croft on various occasions in Germany,
and whose principal occupation was to
sell spurious letters of celebrated men
to collectors of autographs. has been
sentenced at Coblentz to four years
Imprisonment at hard labor.
DURING the past six months an anti
tobacco league has been formed in
France, whose members are taking very
active steps against the use of tobacco,
on the ground of its having greatly con
tributed to the degeneracy of French
men, and their consequent failure in
the last campaign.
OFFICIAL reports show that the ratio of |
lunatics to the whole number of people
in England and Wales is u steadily in
creasing one. In 1859, the ratio per
thousand was l.S6; in 1860, l9l; 1861, |
l.97; in 1862, BOP, and so on, growing
larger each year, until in 1872 it is 254.
Out of every two thousand people, then,
five are of unsound mind We doubt
this ratio is surpassed even in
France. Melancholy is at least as po-
tent cause of madness as excitement,
and melancholy's chief domain is in
what used to be "Merric England"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14

A new process of extinguishing fires
has been tested lately in Paris, at the
Champ de Mars, with most satisfactory
results. A wooden building, erected
for the purpose, and filled with shaw
ings and other highly combustible ma
terial, was fired. When the flames
were at their height they were almost
instantly extnguishcd. The apparatus,
which threw jets of water in which
certain resinous materials had been dis
solved, is very simple. BY means of
these materials the water is said to
penetrate instantly such bodies as it
meets with. Moreover the resinous
matter produces an intense smoke,
which extinguishes everything that is
blrniur
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14
A RufIalO Story.

Buffalo Bill will weep when he reads
in Western paper of Daniel Otto, Of
Osborne City, Kan, who, while chasing
a buffalo recently, wounded the ami
NAL with his pistol, when the infuriated
brute turned upon him. Fight was i'm
possible, so Mr.. Otto seized the long
hair on the shoulder of the buffalo and
mounted him. While seated on the
animals back he reloaded his pistol and
put the load right in the back part of
the right shoulder. This brought the
buffalo to his knees, and sent Otto
whirlIng about ten feet over his head
Gathering himself up, he looked around,
and there sat the bufirlo on his knees
garins nj him with 80 frirhdly look,
s". r>ne ,nrre looJ snished him.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14
Trust One Another.

Lock into your brothers eye. man,
And bid Rim read your own;
One half the strife of human life
Is born of guile alone!
Deceit creates full half our hates,
And half our love it Stays.
Lock into each others eyes, men.
And meet each Others gaze.
Pardon your brothers faults, man,
tnd ask that he forgive:
Could human sin no pardon win.
No mortal soul might live.
No need of Heaven were non forgiven
For none would reach its doors;
Pardon your brothers faults. man.
And bid him pardon yours.
Feel for your brothers grief. man.
No heart is safe from woe.
Though lips and eyes full oft deny.
The sorr0wing weight below,
A gentle vile. Il pitying smile.
May sweetest balm impart.
Feel for your brothers grief. man.
And you may win his heart.
Stand by your brothers side, man,
And bid him clasp your hand;
TO him be Just, and yield the trust
That you from him demand.
How simply wise with soul and eyes.
To trust and still be true
Do to those we love. man.
What We would have them do.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14
Miraculous Escape.

A milkman living up above Totowa
was feeding two calves yesterday during
the thunder shower One of the calves
was standins on each side of the man.
A fearful flash of lightning. accompanied
by deafening thunder, struck dead both
the calves, but, singularly enough, did,
not iniure hair on the head Of tbs
n,ilISmau, 49, Paterson ~, J, 6uara,anl
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14

Ihe London Mark Lane krpress says
"An open-air meeting of Dorsetshirc
kinds was held on Fordington green,
Dorchester, on Tuesday evening, July
9th. About five hundred were present.
The leading speakers were two dele.
gates from the Laborer's Union, George
Arlington and Thomas Harris, of War
wick hire. They have been travelling
through Dorset, the agitation resulting
in about a thousand laborers being
al led by the union. Last week, forty
six men left the county, to seek higher
wages in the north. This week, forty
more are to leave. Harris contended
that the lahorers ought to be paid in
hard cash, and referring to the per
quisitcs which, as alleged, they re-
ceived, he mentioned that at meeting
recently held at Whitechurch, a box of
these was examined. They consisted
of 10. ! oz of hints which had been
mixed with two bushels of barley AS
for the cider it created appetite which
the men had not the means of appeas-
ing. The laborers of Dorset were half
starved, and the union meant to come
to their aid. They had been 'don-
keyed long enough. Several laborers
of the neighborhood spoke, one of
whom had received 9s. week, and an
another Is. Sd. per day to keep wife
and five children. At the close, the
rules of the union were read, and the
names of new me mbers received
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14

Squire johnson was model lawyer,
as the following anecdote will show:
Jones once rushed into the 'Squire's
office in q great passion and said ::
That internal scoundrel of cobbler,
Smith, has sued me for five dollars
owe him for pair of boots"
"Then you owe him five dollars ?'
"To be sure | do, but he's gone and
sued me-sued me!'
"Then why don't you pay him, if you
owe him ?'
Because he's sued me, and when Il
man does that III never pay him till it
costs him more than he gets. want
yor to make it cost him all you can"
But it will cost you something,
too"
al don't care for that. What do you
charge to begin with?"
"Ten dollars, and more if there's
much extra trouble"
"All right! There's the X. Now 90
ahead"
No sooner was his client gone than
Squire johnson stepped across To his
neighbor Smith, and offered to pay the
bill on condition that the suit should
be withdrawn. The shoemaker gladly
acceded-all he wanted was his pay.
The lawyer retained the other five for
his fee, and as the case was not trouble
some he made no demand upon his
client.
Ten days after, Jones came to see how
his case was getting on.
"All right" said the lawyer; "you
won't have any trouble about that.
put 1t to Smith so strongly that he was
glad to withdraw the suit altogether"
Capital ~ cried the exulting Jones.
You've done it up brown You shall
have all my business hereafter"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14
NUMBER 81.
Creation of Woman.

While Adam slept. God from him took
bone: and. as an omen.
He made it like Il seraph look.
And thus created woman.
lie took this bone not from his pate.
10 show her power ample;
Nor from his feet, to designate
That he on her might trample:
But meath his arm, to clearly show
He always should protect her:
nd near his heart. To let him know
How much he should respect her.
took this bone. crooked enough.
Most crooked of the human.
To show how much crooked stuff
He'd always find in woman.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14

I" How much did he leave ?" inquired
n gentleman of wag, on learning of
the death of a wealthy citizen, Every
thing" replied the wag "ha admit
,,Le a dollar with him.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14
Current Items.


LEAvENwoRTn, Kansas, has 10000
people.
ONE dollar plate for ice cream at
Niagara,
PHENIXvILLE, Pa, exports pottery to
England.
A pETRlrlED buffalo is the latest Iowa
sensation.
OBERLIN COLLEGE has more students
than Yale.
SARATOGA bellies keep the ball rolling
in the tenpin alleys.
TWENTY-FIVE counties of Iowa are
worth $4,000, 900 each.
The New York Weekly has reached ~
circulation of 100000.
THEY gather caterpilers by the b. sket-
full in Barbour county, Ala.
THE Jews of New York city are said
to be seriously considering the ex.
pediency of transferring their weekly
religious services from Saturday to Sun
day. Several of their synagogues
throughout the country are now opened
on both days.
ARKANSAS is written in early French
documents Arkansas, so that the French
word are certainly did not enter it, and
such compounds are not in the style of
the French. Arkansas or Arkansas was
the name given by the Algonquin tribe
to the nation calling themselves
Quappas.
A WONDERFUL cave has Just been dis
covered in Kansas, which has lake of
pure, clear water extending almost from
the entrance, in a northeast direction,
as far as the vision of the discovercr
could reach. He threw stones as far as
possible, and could hear nothing but
the splashing sound that water gives
echoed back to him. The height of the
roof above water is seven or eight feet.
A NUMBER of the leading business
men Of New York are said to exhibit
vagaries which can only be explained
by the theory OF insanity. One man of
wealth and rare business capacity has
been building flying machine. An
other business man of wealth and
character has spent $4,000 in vain at
tempts to extract iodine from sea water.
The financial failure of the Boston
Jubilee was the result of downright
swindling. 1t is estimated on reliable
data that enough persons, with not the
slightest claim for free admission, got
into the Coliseum on chorus tickets,
season passes, press admissions, etc, to
ha e made the deficit good, leaving q
handsome sum in the Jubilee cash box,
had they paid the regular price of ad,
mission.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14

" will preach from dat portion of de
Scripture dis evening"" said q colored
dominic, "whar de 'Postle pa"l pint.
his 'ris,ls ut de 'phesisns,