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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23
FROSTBURG, AIEGANY COUNTY, MARYLAND SATURDAY,

any fear lest his pieces should not at.
tract attention enough. Politics being
hushed, the starting of any emotional
social problem was like the firing of n
shell amid perfect stiffness; and as
each new piece of Scribe'a successor at
the Gymnase was brought out, the au.
thor had the inexpressible satisfaction
of seeing society wrangle fiercely as to
whether he was an earnest censor of
social abuses, or a corruptor of public
merals. This is always pleasant; in
deed, fortune can do nothing more for
one.
But, yes it can make of one an homme
serieur, rs NJ. Alexandra Dumas aspires
to be thought at this hour. Having
played under the empire something of
the part which Alcibiades' tailless dog
is popularly supposed to have filled at
Athens, he now seeks to be one of the
oracles of the day; to rank, in fact,
among the "Men of the Third Repub-
lic." Since M. Thiers has guided
France, NJ. Dumas has launched two
new psychological" comedies, and
three pamphlets-all of which tends, as
he asserts, to the regeneration of
France and the last of which (the
pamph ets) has been in most Parisians'
hands for the last month, and is likely
to linger in Partisan women's memories
for yet some weeks to come. But it
may be doubted whether anything that
M. Dumas writes in his present frame
of mind can evoke results deeper than
success de curiosite or will survive him {;
and this for the reason that, falling into
an error very common with professional
censors, he has got to paint his coun-
trymen much blacker than they really
are. NJ. Dumas fancies himself still
under the Empire. He forgets what
bereavement and distress have passed
through most French homes. Taking
cases of crime and depravity that were
monstrous and exceptional even at the
worst of times, he holds them up to his
countrymen, and bids them see them
selves as in a mirror; SO that if one
we're to collect M. Dumas verdicts on
his countrymen from the plays and
pamphlets recently published, one
would learn that the French were
politically and socially, morally and in
tellectually, the most tlippant, de-
b.uched, and ignorant people under
heaven. Against this judgment one
may be allowed to protest. There are
really few countries where honesty is
more common, practical morality more
deep-rooted, and respect for the law
more general, than in France. TO ig-
more this, argues either a very cursory
study of the national character, or a
cynicism grown chronic, and incapaci-
tating its owner from seeing things as
they are. But perhaps NJ. Dumas is
aware that the French love to see their
foibles scoffed at by one of themselves :;
and, possibly. the object of his numer-
Gus bits of psychology" is merely to
crafty their passion. If so, some friend
should warn NJ. Dumas that a doctor
who would prescribe a reckless course
of astringents, even when pressed by
his patient to do it, would conduce
neither to that patients nor to his own
good fame as physician.-London Daily
Ne,cs
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23
NUMBER 9.
An Incident.

lone IS. W. F." in the San Francisco Eram-
iner, detects the false pathos of what may be
termed the rufian rhymes of the day. and scorns
it thus grimly. If exception be taken to the
tastes" of trifling with such CHASTITY matter.
the obvious defense is that the real violation of
decorous form exists in the style Of literature
here parodied:
"A man dropped dead in the street. they say:
His body is there. just over the way.
Where the crowd is pressing about
He passing along when he staggered and fell Z.
Tho last you'd suppose. he looked so well.
And seemed so hale and stout.
Twas heart disease that killed him. they say,
His name2 don't know. and yet, by the way.
heard as they carried him by.
Twas rather uncommon. l think it was Vale.
But your (My God the woman's as palc
As the corpsc) But you. madam. Why
The answer a moan. and the woman was gone.
Tearing her wsy through the crowd. pressing on,
Half crazed with her binding fear.
The crowd tell back that thronged the place
As. with frightened eye and death like face.
She stood by the covered bier.
A trembling hand. and the cloth was raised;
But moments space she stood and gazed-
Then turned and dropped the pail.
md anger shOne in her beautiful eye.
Dang itl' she hissed rs she glided by
1T amt him. after ALL"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23
"POOr Old HOrSe.o
From the Prairie Farmer.

Having noticed in the Farmer of the 18th inst
extracts from the Missouri Repubhcon. of what
M to be the words Gf an Gd gd entitled
they differ somewhat from the one committed
to memory. more than forty years ago. l have
concluded to furnish you with a copy for pubica-
tion: thinking. by so doing. it might possibly be
just the thing the anxious friend of the Missouri
ReDubhc,n desires. In any event. a perusal Of
soften the heart of some abusive and tyrannical
." " % ~ " Wv '' " D. G. NxErvs.
My clothing was once of the "Linsey Woolssy"
fne,
My mane a hanging down. and my coat it did
shine;
But now am growing old my nature 10th decay.
My master he doth trown on me. and ono day l
Poor old horsel Let him t.ie.
He is old. he is cold he is lazy, dull and slow,
He eats up all my hay, and he breaks up ali my
straw,
lie is neither fit to ride nor in the cart to draw,
So whip him. hang him, skin him. TO the hunts
Poor old horse! Let him die
Ny keeping was once in n stable tight and warm,
10 keep my nimble limbs free from all harm,
But now am turned on the street, to roam to
and fro.
To endure the cold winters storm of hail. frost
Poor old horse Let him die.
My master once fed me upon the best OF corn
and hay.
Grown in the fields and meadows green and gay,
But now there is no such feed afforded me at all
For | am obliged to nip the short grass that
grows along the wall.
Poor old horse! Let him die.
When nature does ner best and her worst.
Sho can do no more than return US to dust.
Then do not think it hard, nor deem it disgrace.
When l compare my feelings unto the human
race.
Poor old horsel Let him die.
Thus mankind ungrateful for our service past
Expose our poor limbs to the cold, wintiy blast.
l used to draw heavy loads before the cart and
sled.
But now am growing old. must be knocked on
the head.
Poor old horse! Let him die.
My skin to the huntsman 1 freely now do give,
Dly body to the hounds which they so gladly will
receive.
They will gnaw those noble limbs of mine. which
have travelled many miles,
Over hedges, bitches. through gates and over
stiles.
Poor old horse! Let hi IN die.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23
Personal.

BIsxARcK's cigars cost him 81 25 a
day, and his beer and wine $4-all for
his own use.
YATES will get $1,000 for his course of
lectures; Tyndall $4,000, and Froudes
fees are not published.
The oldest living Odd-Fellow in the
United States is John G. Potts, of Ga.
lena, ILL.,, having been initiated in 1925.
MEssRs. A. & w. SpRAGUE, of Provi.
dence, II. l., have recently purchased
450, 900 acres of timber land in Maine,
paying therefor $l,350,000.
GEORGE LAW, whom the Herald once
galvanized into q temporary notoriety
by christening him "Live Oak George"
and nominating him for the Presidency,
is probably worth S6,0OO,00O.
Col. ALvAH CRocKER, NJ. c., of Fitch
burg, Mass, is 10 years old, and worth
s., 100000. lie is President of two
banks. and is one of the greatest manu-
facturers of paper in the country.
BEEcuERs first meeting house accom-
modated but $50 people. He says he
made the fires, lighted the lamps, swept
the meeting house, begge money for
hymn books, and made himself all
things to all men.
THERE is difficulty in finding jury
when an Indian comes before an
Omaha Court. One of the panel, being
asked if he had any prejudice, replied {:
"No only I've bin chased by 'em, bin
in several battles with 'em, and would
hang every devil of 'cm at sight
THE toadies and ,Jenkirses of Wash
ington society are on the q,i vivc about
Nellie Grants debut. Her parents,"
says a correspondent at the capital,
''have always been very particular with
her, and will not allow her to dance the
German"
SOME of Beecher's admirers, who fear
that the good man is starving on his pit
tance of $50 600 year, with house-rent,
clothes and silver service thrown in.
propose to get him up a 100000 me-
mortal. If Henry keeps on, he will
make preaching ray before long.
JOHN Howard PAyNE's body lies un.
honored in the soil of Tunis. The au-
thor of the immortal song, " Home,
Sweet Home," had but little in life OF
the home of which he sung, and, being
dead, it has not occurred until very re-
Gently to any of the admirers of his
song to remove his body to his nstive
land. 1t is now intended by the Faust
| Club, of Brooklyn, to endeavor to bring
his remains home, or should it fail in
| this to at least erect a memorial of him
at his homestead on Long Island.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23
Varieties.

GUILT frames-Prison windows.
Punch has found man too lazy to
labor under an impression.
WHEN draft passes through the
bank does it give the clerks cold?
WHAT is society after all, but mix
ture of histories and miss cries?
ADAMS nativity has at last been dis
covered. He was, according to Darwin,
a germ man.
WHAT would pig of limited means
do, that wanted to build himself a hab-
itation? Tie knot in his tail, and call
it a pigs lie.
"ILLUsTRATING n mans frontispiece"
is Westernism for quitting a head on
anybody" When will the present era
of slang be over?
A DRY goods merchant of Hartford
is credited with the admirable reply to
question, Chow he passed his even
ings," that sat night store my mind,
and during the day | mind my store"
GLOW LIKE its father it isl' exclaimed
the nurse on the occasion OF chrlsten-
ing of babe, whose father, who was
over 70, had married young wife.
Every like" replied satrical lady, sit
hasn't tooth in its head!'
Shall man to vote appoint her?
Well. yes or no; your bottom dime
He'll do as she's minter.
We know she will" or else she "Hon't,"
Twill be the same as now:
And if she does. or II she don't,
God bless her anyhow!
The Titusville Press prints the fol-
lowing receipt: "To find out the num-
ber of children in street, beat drum.
To find out the number of idle men,
start dog fight. TO find out the nu
Der of women, let a woman 80 through
quiet street with the latest style Of
bonnet on.
Ex-ATroRNEY-G GENERAL AKERMAN, in
one of his recent speeches in Georgia,
substances" His colored audience ap-
plauded tremendously at this hit, and
one old negro remarked that "ef dat
was de way Dmecrats done he couldn't
20 wild 'em anyhow"
A BARBER in Titusville, while cutting
the hair of rural customer, ran his
shears against some hard substance,
which proved to be whetstone. The
old farmer sad he chad missed that
milestone ever since haying time last
July, and had looked all over ten acre
lot for it, but row remembered sticking
it up over his ear.''
The young ladies in a Massachusetts,
town who sought to play practical
joke on bachelor physician, by making
up costly "rag" baby, depositing it in
u basket, attaching it to the door-handle,
and causing the bell to ring. were
grieved to see man from the street
come up and walk oft with the entire
package. They are now mourning the
loss OF twenty.six yards of fine linen,
twelve yards of thread lace, four hem
stitch pocket handkcrchiefs, and some
other valuable property.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23
Brush Fence.

On some of the islands off the coast
of Denmark, fence is made IN this
manner: Drive stakes of an inch or an
inch and quarter in diameter and five
feet long firmly into the ground on the
end intended for the fence about one aud
one fourth feet apart. A heavy wooden
mallet can be used for the purpose.
These stakes should stand firm and
about three feet above the ground.
After the stakes are all set take the
thinner branches or tree tops and
weave or place them to the stakes,
commencing at the ground, and press
every layer solid down with the ham
mer, and use the stoutest branches on
the upper part of the fence.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23
Indian Rivers.

Asan illustration of the extent to which
Indian rivers are apt to change their
courses, it is stated that since 1888 the
Brahmaputra has shifted its main chan
mel nearly two hundred miles westward,
running many ancient cities and giving
birth to new centers of trade and popu--
latiop. Thus Sonargaog, the old capital
of Bengal, deserted by the Brahmapu-
ira river, has been reduced to mean
village, while Sera jganj, on the new
channel, has become a vast trading mart.
These changes in river channels, it is
believed, produce the malarias fevers
common in the low-lying districts OF
India
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23
Lie Down and Rest.

DR.. Hall says the best medicines in
the world, more efficient in the cure of
disease than all the potencies of the
materia medica, are warmth, rest, clean
illness and pure air. Some persons
make it virtue to brave disease, to
"keep up" as long as they can move a
foot or crook finger, and it sometime es
succeeds; but in others the power of
life system has lost ability to recuperate,
and slow and typhoid fever sets in and
carries the patient to premature grave.
Whenever walking or working is an
effort, warm bed and cool room ; re
the first indispensable steps to sure
recovery. Instinct leads all beasts and
birds to quietude and rest the very mo-
ment disease or wounds assail the sys.
tenn.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23
How to Manage Runaway Horses.

Always stick to your horses so long rs
they are fast to the carriage. If a line
breaks, or a bit gives away, step out OF
the fore end of the carrisre, even when
the team may be running, take hold of
the harness and spring ON the back of
one of the animals. Once astride of n
horse, one can reach forward, grasp his
nose, and soon check his speed. When
a horse is running toward you, as he
comes up stand so that he will be with
in reach as he dashes past then make
calculations to seize his reins near the
bits with one hand and to grasp the
name or the top of the names with the
other hand. A man may expect to be
carried twenty rods but if he will hang
on to the reins horse will soon stop.
We saw fine horse running away 'ew
days since, with wagon and a load OF
barrels. After passing hundreds of per-
sons who tried in vain to stop him, a
lad sprang to the r, ar of the wagon as
it passed, climbed up among the barrels,
went to the forward end, and the lines
being on the ground, he stepped along
on the thills, got on his back and stop
ped him before he had run one-eighth
of mile. The numerous accidents In
consequence of horses running away,
suggest the eminent importance OF
teaching them the Specification OF the
monosyllable, Whoa! A horse Is never
half trained or half educated until he
has learned that whoa signifies to halt
But in the first place, teamsters must be
educated to employ that word at nc
other time than when it is desirable to
have team stop. When the word Is
| used let it be spoken with full, open
and sound voice.-Ncw York Times.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23

THE Scientific Press recommends a
sirup of coffee for use on long Journeys.
Put half pound best ground coffee
into three pints of water, and boil it
down to one pint. Cool the liquor, re-
boil it, adding enough white sugar to
give it the consistency of sirup. When
cold, put it in bottle and seal it up.
Two teaspoonfuls in a cup OF boiling
water will make cup of good coffee.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23
Cutting and Curing COru.

A correspondent of an Eastern ex-
change says: | have found that ripe
cornstalks are about as poor feed for
stock as ripe grass; and although it is a
little more troublesome t, cure while in
this condition than it would be little
later, the fodder is enough better to pay
for the extra care required. If the
weather is clear and dry at the time of
cutting up drill corn, there need be no
difficulty in having it well cured with
out destroying its nutritious qualities; :;
cut it down in the morning and spread
out thinly over the ground next morn
ing turn it over, and either tie up into
small bundles in the afternoon or the
following day. The bands on the bun
dies should not be drawn too tightly if
the corn-stalks are small and slender,
but tel so that they will not come
apart. Set the bundles up in small
shocks and put a band around the tops
to hold them together. If the bundles
or shocks are not made too large the
fodder will cure without any further
care, and it will be of green color, not
to cure spread upon the ground. At
the approach of cold weather the fod-
Ter may be drawn unuer cover; but it
is not safe to place very large quantity
together in a NOW, as it ia very likely to
become moldly and unfit for feeding. |
do not know of any other plant that will
yield SO much fodder per acre as corn !;
but to secure the crop in good condition
requires considerable care, as we'll as
suitable weather while the operation is
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23

The barbarous custom of piercing
ladies ears for earrings is rapidly being
abolished. Several very ingenious ar
rangements for fastening in these articles
OF Jewelry without the usual surgical
operation are now sold at the .jewelry
shops, and are very extensively worn.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23
Bees Should be Examined.

TIE reader will ask, why is it necces-
sarv to examine the bees in the fall, or
before entering into winter quarters ?
We answer, first, we can ascertain the
cause of the scarcity of bees, should
there be any if over swarming has been
the cause, or barren queen, perhaps
drone laying queen. And II caused ny
disease, such as foul brood, we certainly
should know their exact condition. The
loss of queens, more than any thing else
give, other bees a chance to rob, and the
moth to destroy the comb.-A. +. Moon,
in Autobiography.
MR RENNrrr- Sr.. Left some $4 ,OO,-
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23

The man who will suit you to hairs 8
breadth-The wig-maker.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23

Mr.. BENNETT, Sr., left some $1,000
600 in available cash.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23

BIsxARCK's cigars cost him 81 25 a
day, and his beer and wine $4-all for
his own use.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-08-29
Fish With Four Hands.

Mr.. F0ord, member or the Australian
Eclipse Expedition, recently described
before the Royal Society a most extra
ordinary creature, which was dredged
from the bottom OF The sea near the
northern shores of Australia. Mr..
Foord says s'rhe body was that of a
fish, bat, wonderful 10 relate: IL had in
the place bffns four legs ltefmined bv
what you might call. hands, bg means
OF which it made its way rapidly over
the coral reef. When placed on the sky-
light OF the Steamer, the fish stood up
on Its. fonr legs,j n, sight to behoIdl II
was small RAei eis0aething like lizard.
but with the bodyof a.fish!'1 The land
animals OF Australia are notorious for
their peculiar forms and structure. ut
according to the above they are even
less nondescript than those fnhabitjng
heAustralian seas. Mr.. White. mem.
per of thesame expedition. tells strange
tales about rats. 1.-The little. island
upon which We. pitched our tents.D he
says, "was overfuf with them. and
what was most extraordinary: they
were OF every color from black to vel
low, andome r, tortoise shelly
scientific MiscelLasly," in Gakarg for
September. r. '-asTi-'.f ti''' 5s's''l3S
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|na The advantage NV this plan is obvius.
sober Theroomed marked is for pro-
teeti0nists, 2 for freetraders,3 3 for the re-
ligious element, 4 for the boys nv a
conviviai turn, for extreme South
erners, and 6 for old time Abolitionists,
z is hall running across the house
from which any one OF the rooms kin
be entered, and 8 is where we shel keep
Mr., Greeley hiyed,l when the weather
won't admit of chopin. II We hey the
rooms furnished in accordance with the
tastes up the people who WiIl see the
inside Nv emu In the religious room
there will be a tract or tHo and a Bible
left eareIessly on the table; in1the- room
for the boys there will he Stumps Nv
cigars and bottle or two THE corners;
In the tariff room, there will be 'speci-
mems of ores and coal, and IN the free
trade rooms there will be the cards NV
all the importin houses. 1sfel reseve
all the callers, and after ascertainin who
they are shel take EN- to the appropri-
ate room, and going out through the
hall shell conduct the great and good
Horris In to EN-, and he kin talk to EN-
in a 'satisfyin manner. Ez we may hevs.
ez in this case, more than one party, 7
hev he'd the walls lined, soithat wat is
sed In one room cant be heard in anoth2a
er. From this time outfit will be easy
salin. Slch Is the powBfaIv mind over
matter. .6ffiG .iisG6e a2un1ni
.s4nH r. fga PETROLEUM ". NAsBY.
(Wieh wuz Postmaster, and wich hopes
to be agiH.) ss--sss----- Dii.;
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that the flag was all very well-the tur-
pips WIZ all very well, and. the spring
was very like the Pool of Bethesda, for
all the halt and blind, and them with
sores he'd eongregated there, but wat he
wantid to know about wuz the tariff on
cotton goods. gS .9ss3 1s Is. lt-sa
Here thought there is trouble but
there wuzn't. AT this criticize moment
the great and good Greeley wuz so over
come with the heat. that he tainted and
fen from his chair; jwich I, With ekal
PRESENCE Of mind, seized him and toted
him to his room. = Ez laid him on his
bed his child Like face wuz Illuminated
with the segestion nv q smile az he re-
marked, s'Git em out, d-n EN-, az quick
as yoo KIM -. q
I hav Low d Horris Greeley from that
mint. ..sl.g
To avoid the constant danger NV two
somewhat different views comm to
wnnst, I immeiitly had the house at
Ghappaqua altered according to this
Piod. t,fsfrl.ifa-f.s X tssi..r -f.- --..tft-
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Novel Rat Trau. a.

There is no "patent', on, the follow
ing ''rat trap" which anyone can use
that wishes;5W ri $50 5..la.ls
, A gentleman whose barn was troub-
led with rats, greatly to the detriment
of the cereals stored therein, loaded a
double -barreled shot gun with fine shot;
he then procured long fsfasFow plank,
madea train of coarse eorn-meal along
the centre, then showed the plank un-
der the barn, slightly. eIevating the
outer end 10 give the better range. He
then seated himself, laying the muzzIe
of the gun on the plank, and quietly
awaited the. e.arrixal Of the game, which
soon appeared in quantities to suit"
covering the plank on both Sides when
the gentleman, with fnors resolution
than discretion, took deliberate ann and
fred The fine engine did not arrive in
time to subdue the flames. Loss, 8, 900.
No insurance. .,.-r...,,,s- -