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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06
Personal.

IHE Grand Duke Alexis will visit San
Francisco in September.
Mr.. GILLoTT's pictures, recently sold
in England, brought S945,0O0.
ii. w. BEEcHER's life is insured for
100000.
The widow of ex President Tyler has
become Catholic.
A TEXAN farmer cultivates over 81 900
acres, ard has $4,000 cattle, 10000
horses, 5000 goats, and 1000 sheep.
MRS. BELvA LOCKWOOD, lately admitted
to the District of Columbia bar, hangs
out her shingle as a criminal lawyer.
A GREEN BAY man was mean enough
to elope with the only school teacher
in the town, thus shutting up the school.
lr cost Alexis 100000 to visit this
country, and it cost the country $780,
600 to entertain Alexis. But fair ex-
change is no snobbery.
LUcIEN q. MATTHEWS, having bought
the indianapolis Sentinel, his brother,
Robert j. l.. Matthews, succeeds to the
ownership of the New Albany Ledger.
KooPMANsCHAP attributes his failure
to the loss of 100000, money advanced to
Cinnamon, and 100000 in bonds of the
Chattanooga and Alabama railroad.
The claimant Tichborne was offered
IS 900 to $4,000 month by the lessees
of no less than three London theaters,
to appear for short time each night in
dramatic performance; at least he
says so, but adds that his " dignity :"
would not suffer him to accept the offer.
TRENoR w. PARK, of Bennington, VT,
having sold his interest in the Emma
mine, of Utah, to English capitalists for
81 800, 1000, is reported about to establish
u banking house in London.
SECRETARY Boutwell,, while at his
! home at Groton, Mass, last week, plowed
an acre of land.
A REVEREND gentleman in Minnesota
has Mortified his congregation beyond
expression by the prophecy that the
end of the world cannot possibly be de
layed beyond next autumn. lie has
however, undertaken the cult walton Of
an unusually large: crop of wheat, be
lieving, probably, in small prophets and
quick returns.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06

Forty and five years old to-day,
And alone in the world am l.
All my lovers have gone their way,
But not for them do sigh.
! would sit by my lonely hearth, the same
As all these years | have done.
And answer. No. if Tonight they camo
And questioned me one by one.
Yet ono was brave, and one was wise,
And one was fair to see
And would not have you think dcSplse
Their love. Tor it honored me.
And well for me had answered yea.
But a shadow. Il form unreal
Rose up like Il ghost and said me nay,
And know twas my hearts ideal.
SO have waited these forty years
Forty years and five;
Waited with hopes and waited with fears,
To meet that shade alive.
Oft | have sat in my hcarth'S red CLEANS.
When the eyes were lonely and still,
And striven to comfort my heart with dreams,
As lonely women will
| have cradled my baby upon my breast,
And roc sed with him to and fro
Till his eyelids dropped. and he sank to rest
To my croonings tender and low.
And ever the shadow was at my side,
The noblcst men among men.
And his heart was loving and true and tried,
Till woke from my dream and then
l have wept hot tears, as do tonight,
For love that was never my own;
For Il hearth-stOne that was never alight'
And a man | ave never known.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06
A Florida RecluSe.

st. Vincent, Fla, is an island of 1000
acres, owned and occupied for the past
three years by Mr.. Hatch, a gentleman
of intelligence and fortune, formerly
Mayor of Cincinnati, who chooses to
lead the life of hermit, solitary and
alone, save with servant or two, and
seeing few visitors. Indeed, he is in
censed whenever his privacy is .ntruded
upon except on invitation. His island
swarms with deer and cattle, his library
is full of books, and with these and
hunting and fishing he passes his time
away-the monarch of all he surveys.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06
A French Suicide.

Paris Uunc) Correspondence New York Times
singular suicide was recorded yes
terday-two of .hem, in tact-and the
present mania seems to be for the most
bizarre modes Of putting an end to
ones existence. A strong. able bodied
man, who wished to shuttle off his NOR
tai coil, took a long rope, reaching
about half way down from the fourth
story. He then secured one end of the
rope firmly, and tied the other end, not
about his neck, but about one ankle.
Fastened in this manner he made u
leap from the window. OF course,
when he reach the end of the rope he
came crashing against the wall of the
house with such force that his brains
were scattered upon the wall and the
people below. The other sought death
by tying his hands and feet, and then
sticking his head down between the bed
stats. He was found upright, but re-
versed, and appears to have made great
efforts to escape from the trap he had
SO carefully prepared.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06

lr is not safe to trifle with the aifec.
tions Of the factory girls of Pro, idence
They are expensive commodities. an | if
damaged have to be paid for ut runous
rates. An imprudent but wealthy bach
elor of 60 was wont to rise at six clock
in the morning to walk to the mill with
Julia Nallot. Julia became sick, and he
gave her a pair of stout shoes and lent
her his book of mortgages to read. AT
forwards he took her to ride, and in an
unguarded moment the ardor of theven
erable swain led him to make proposals
of matrimony. They were accepted, and
when the ancient lover in his cooler mo-
ments desired to retreat and offered "a
dollar 10 settle with Julia, hefound him
self caught in the Sauzy meshes Of Julias
web. A suit for breach of promise fol
lowed, and $4,000 was allowed by the
intelligent jury as the value to Julia OF
her venerable bachelor.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06

A healthy old apo from the Cape OF Good Hope
With fine head Of hair and q tail like a rope,
On hearing that Darwin had ventured to claim
Relationship with him. pronounced it shame
Said he: Twas provoking enough to be called
A quadrumanous mammon; but nothing has
CALLED
My sensitive nature to such an extent
As this mot presumptuous claim of descent.
This man whose audacity made me so spunky
Wrote II volume to prove his grandfather a
monkey,
And that every man has some ancestor dead
With a prchensile tail and elongated head.
readily grant that some men are MS good
As any orang -outang found in the wood
But fellows like Darwin are going too far
In trying to be something more than they ar
So enter my protest against the gre at wrong
And the jacchus puIgaris my wall shall proong,
Else Darwin to Ccylon would cmigrate soon,
To pass himself off for "A sacred baboon."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06

The Turf, Field and Farm says those
keeping horses should twice Il week
throw in handful of salt and ashes.
Mix them by putting in three parts of
salt to one of ashes. Horses relish this,
and it will keep their hair soft and fine.
1t will prevent bots, collie, etc. A little
ground sulphur mixed with salt and
ashes, and given once in two or three
weeks, is also beneficial. All domestic
animals will be thus benefited.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06
Early Thrift.

The Troy Whiy tells the following
story: "Onc of our prominent physi-
clans, making his daily rounds to see
his patients, had occasion to call at u
house where there were no facilities to
fastcn his horse. He left it in the care
of n small boy of the lsraelitish faith,
whom he happened to see in the street.
On coming out of the house he naturally
enough expected to find his trusty ser
want treating himself to a ride; but no
-Mordecai knew the use of time and
value of money little better-hc was
letting the horse to little boys in the
block"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06

CHINA spends $4OO,OO0,OOO a year for
religion.
TnE national game OF base ball is
dull this year.
The rush of German immigrants to
America is immense.
THERE are 303 colleges in the United
States.
The Iloosac tunnel has cost ST., 5000,
600 thus far.
CINcINNArl has $4,000 people to the
square mile.
KANSAS editors are about to make an
excursion to Philadelphia.
PETERS pence yields the Pope two
millions of dollars year.
TWENTY. crnnon will be used by
the Boston Jubilee.
ONE hundred anvils have been sent
from England for the Boston Jubilee.
THE eight hour strikes are extending
to all parts of the country.
NUTMEGs of excellent quality grow in
California.
They use dogs to draw about the milk
carts in Brussels.
FoURFlFTH of the widows in Canada
remain widows less than thirty months.
ALLIGATOR fights are a street amuse.
ment at st. Augustine, Fla.
ENGLAND is ahead of the United
States in the consumption of tobacco.
Four hundred new oil wells are drilled
in the oil regions every month.
Two million paper collars are wilted
every day in the United States.
THE Western wool clip is pronounced
finer than for fifteen years past.
MORE women are arrested in Brook
lyn for petty offenses than men.
BOATING is to great extent supcrced-
ing base ball rs an athletic amusement.
IT is said that $75,00O,0O0 worth of
fuel is burned yearly in the United
States.
Mr.. ALEXANDER, of Kentucky, has
sold two short horned heiters to an Eng
lish purchaser for $4,000.
A SPRINGFIELD cat deliberately at
tempted to walk through the big wheel
of a stationary engine. The cat is dead.
A CALIFORNIA sheep raiser owns
10000 sheep, which bring him yearly
income of 100000.
CANADA musters about $4,000 militia,
and has u reserve force of nearly
100000.
The trip to California is by many
deemed superior in attractions to voy
age to Europe.
SAILING ships, notwithstanding the
great increase in steamers, carry three
fourths of all the passengers that cross
the ocean.
NEXT to the Bolshoi Theater. st. Pc
tersburg, which seats 5000 persons, the
New York Academy of Music is the
largest structure of the kind. That
seats 1890.
The Adriatic, new and splendid
ocean steamer, recently made the pass
age from Queenstown to New York in
seven days and sixteen hours-the
quickest westerly voyage ever made
across the Atlantic.
A CONVICT of the Rhode Island Peni-
Tertiary has fallen heir to an immense
fortune, and he is now talking of buy
ing the State and having the prison
moved from the premises.
The numerical addition to the strength
Of the Northern States from immigr,-
ton, since the census of 1900, is csti-
mated at l7,50OO00, and the value in
wealth at $5,OOO,OO0,0OO. The immigra-
ton as between the late slave and free
States is over 100000 in favor Of the
latter.
A BENEFAcToR of his race in Georgia
has invented u pretty piece Of furniture
in the shape of Il parlor still, which, un-
der the superintcndence of the young
ladies of the house, who would other
wise be trvolously occupied in piano
playing or novel reading, will run out
from five to ten gallons Of brandy a
day.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06

who doubts or denies the guilt of the
murderder? Money, watch, mcmoran-
dunn book, wcll-worn pocket Testament
even, of the murdered man found upon
him And Beauty Harmon never de.
strikes and spits at them till he is cx-
hausted, boasting all the time of what
"the boys will do to them for his
death, bewailing only the fact that he
separated himself from the boys - and
9 took to rough gambling" by himself
Very easily could the criminal have
had his C Sc at least postponed, for he
is not twenty years old the most per
fee ly handsome human being / ever
saw" one of the men afterward told the
writer. He had but to acknowledge ALL
beg and pray, and promise for the fu-
ture, and over the very body Of his
victim posaibly-by the women first, the
men atterward-he would have been
held, at least, un1cr advisemcnt. But
he has driven the women into silence
from the first by his obscene curses upon
them 81 1Dply n beautiful wild animal,
II sleek and spotted panther, utterly
untamable, too wicked and dangerous
W ,e' us
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ou' uoNoioss "nu pe'lt"'c'lon. J. ne
"eGPiis p''9'ol "..eiiiplo a pe'eS'i'.iiE II. =
'>iio' ,'t'ioii w tn' 'o':'.ii'' w
The women uncover the face of the
dead for a last look, but are fastened
from it by the brutal language of the
ma u "'io.. nen wy inei' WV pI's'oi pti
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06

EVERY iron rail on the north and
south railroad, SO far as | have been
able to examine, is a perfect magnet,
the north end attracting the south pole
and the south end the north pole of a
magnetic needle. So also in Il rail on
such a railroad the lower flange attracts
the south pole, and the upper fange the
north pole of a needle.-Dr. Richard
O,oen, Of Indiana State University.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06
A Big Farm.

California now claims the biggest
farm in the United States, and it is To-.
Gated in the San Joaquin valley. The
big Illinois farm is in Ford county, and
comprises $4,000 acres, 10000 of which
have been planted this season to corn,
the balance being under excellent till
age. The California farm contains 49,
600 acres, under one fence, and il is
said that 10000 acres Of it have been
planted to wheat this year. A Sacra,
mento paper says that this isn't any,
thing to brag about, to be sure, for it is
this system of land monopoly that is
playing the very deuce with California.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06
Wool.

Wool is now commanding high
price, and one which, it is believed, can
not long be maintained. The Ohio ar
ticle is held in Boston at from 70 to so
cents very little is offered below IS
cents, and buyers are not inclined to
pay more than 60 or 65 cents. Califor-
MIA has 100000 pounds, and the hold
ers are desirous Of keeping it till fall,
while Eastern buyers who have can.
vassed Western markets will not pur-
chase at present rates. The Toledo
Commercial prophecies slight stagnation
of the market till after shearing time,
and then a probable decline in the
price.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06

The efficacy of religion us an agent
of police was admirably shown during
the recent riots in the town of Kharkon,
in the Province of Ukraine, Russia
The people were having Il holiday
drunken bout i'll the square OF st. Mich
ael, and making a great noise. The po
lice ordered them to dispcrsc and de-
luged them with water, but this only
incensed the people, who Immediately
proceeded to stone the police. Troops
were then called in, but were rcpulsed
with considerable loss of life, and for
over Il day the rioters held possession Of
the town and threatened to do great
damage to Government property. The
Governor finding himself poweriess ap,
piled to the Archbishop to assist him in
restoring order. The latter then ad-
dressed the crowd, ccnsured the police
and the troops, and offered to celebrate
II funeral service for those of the rioters
who had been killed. This quoted the
people for time, and enabled the au-
thoritics to put themselves in n condi-
ton to enforce the preservation of the
peace.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06
Vaccination as a Preventative of SMALL
pOX.

About two years ago a smallpox hos
pital was established at Hampstead,
near London, on account of the in
creasing prevalence Of that disease. The
superintendent lately published an ac-
count Of his observations in that hospl-
tai of the effects of vaccination in miti
eating the severity of the disease. Moth
ing could be more conclusive than the
result. The percentage of deaths among
those admitted without vaccination
marks was 55.43. Among those with one
mark the percentage of fatal cases sank
to 1888; among those with two marks
it was 1929; among those with three
marks only 1888 per cent. died; only
S. SO of those with four marks, and only
6.l3 of those with five or more marks.
or cases of smallpox after successful
re-vaccination there were but three out
Of 6,22l, but there were many cases to
prove the fallaciousness of the doctrine
that persons not susceptible to vacci-
nation are proof against smallpox. But
the conclusion is that successful re
vaccination after the age of fifteen years
is sure protection against the disease.
Cases are rarer than those of second
small pox, and are very mild when they
do occur
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06
A Seductive Rat Trap.

A man in Pennsylvania has invented
a rat trap that is made to operate upon
the selfish passions of the poor rat and
lure him into trouble. The Nechaaic
and Farmer, in description of the trap,
says that mirror is set in the back part
of the device beyond the bait, and as his
ratship is out on Il foraging expedition,
he espies the bait, and at the same time
believes his own image in the mir
ror to be another rat making for it
on the opposite side. This is too much
for rat nature to stand and be cool over,
so he rushes for the bait. But, alas
the noble rat has fallen; for Il sharp,
two-tined fork has come down upon his
luckless head and penetrated through
skin and skull and in the brain, where
one short moment before rankled av,
arice, now rankles two of deaths ar
rows. But that is not all. The gullet
down which was expected a sweet NOR
sci to pass, is now pierced and bleeding
for another spear has entered it from
J below.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06

The Paris Patrie is responsible for Il
most xyaoroinary revelation in refer
ence to socialism in the rural districts
of France. According to this account,
the property of a proprietor at Saissac,
in the District of Aude, was, last Janu-
airy, invaded by a large band Of persons,
who proceeded to appropriate it to their
own use. Not the slightest heed was
pad to the remonstrances of the owner
when he ventured to put in word for
his rights, nor did his intercession with
the Magistracy prove of any avail, mas
much as the appropriations set the otfi-
GERS OF the law at defiance. At length
the military authorities were applied to,
but they appear to have done no more
than send squadron of cavalry to the
scene, IN the expectation, no doubt,
that It's mere appearance would inspire
wholesome terror, but this hope
proved delusive. The proprietor is
afraid to 90 near his estate. 1t must be
admitted that these proceedings quite
take the shine out of Tipperary and
Westmeath. The boldest of Mr..
French's heroes, in his work on Irish
life, never went quite SO far as these
socIallstc gentlemen.
SOME idea of the value of land in the
crowded business portions of the city o
London can be cleaned from the fact
that a small plot in Lombard street
containing an area OF |, $50 square fee
about twenty-five feet by sixty feet
was recently sold for 100000 Thi
averages over 939 or about Sl95 pc
! square foot.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-06
Curious and Scientific.

IN. AkLlDGE. ftllNSltldn 10 INC North
Statlordshirc (Enrland) lnlirmary, and
one OF the pottery inspectors under the
Home Office, writing III regard to dis
eases prevalent among potters, says that
where tea is used several times IL day it
produces Il deterioration of health among
the laboring classes and lowered
vitality in the rising generation. Ladies
who love cold tea should take warning
from this, since for certain medical rca-
sons they are peculiarly liable to be in
jured by it.
QUITE n table phenomenon was OBJ
served in Williamsburg, N Y, after the
severe thunderstorm of Friday morn
ing. Within a certain circumscribed
area millions of curious worm-lke
beings, each with an appendagc of tail,
were noticed. They filled the cutters.
and wherever there was hole they fell
into it, and were eaten by the hogs
which rooted among them; and thou
sands of sparrows seemed to have been
collected at the place for the sake of
devouring them.-Neo York World, 10Th
INST
NOVEL but practical idea has been
recently originated and successfully
carried out in Atlanta, Ga, which might
with equal facility and benefit be
adopted in other cities. The city water
works have been successfully applied as
a motive power for the running of light
machinery. The proprietor of print
ing establishment of that city, using
the water from an ordinary street pipe,
is enabled to run all his presses at d
great saving of labor and expense.
A LADY entered Brooklyn drug
store recently, and placed a live mouse
on the counter. The little animal had
q very sore head, and the doctor was
asked whether he knew what the mat
ter was. He was also in formed that it
had been brought from the tenement
house l56 Hudson avenue, near York
street, where there have been sevt raj
cases of smallpox. After examining
the mouse, he found that it was covered
with sores. He sprinkled some disin-
fecting powder over it, and in short
time it died. 1t was then dissected,
and a clear case of smallpox in its worst
form was revealed. The remains were
inclosed III a glass jar, land are to be
sent to the hospital for further exami.
nation, as it is believed to be the first
case of tn e kind ever heard of.
The moon is our nearest celestial ac-
quaintance, but it has the safe distance
of 247 900 miles. Great as is the space
between the earth and the moon, the
sun could not pass through it; but per-
haps q still better idea of the sun can
be obtained from the fact that if it
should be entirely followed out, and
the earth placed in the center, there
would still be room for the moons en-
tire path, and an unoccupled space OF
POI 900 miles in diameter all round
for the diameter of the sun is $4,000
miles