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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-10-19

The French Government have been
sorely perplexed for some time past to
find a scapegoat upon which to fasten
the principal blame for their overwh elm.
ing defeats during the late war. They
are evidently unwilling to admit that
| they were outgeneraled, that the organ
ization of the German army was supe-
rlor to their own, that the Germans were
better otficered, better fed, better drilled
and better handled than their own. 1t
would seem to be canon of French
faith that they cannot be fairly beaten.
Whenever they have been defeated, if
we would believe their historians, it has
been through treachery. They would
always be victors but for traitors. 1t
was treachery that drove them out of
India, out OF Canada, from the PENN.
sula, and beat them at Waterloo; and
now it is treachery that has robbed
them of their laurels in the German
war. Marshal Basaine is tho culprit
who has worked so much misery. At
first it was Mcmahon, but he managed
to clear his skirts of the charge almost
as soon as made. Bazaine is not so for
tunate. His trial before court martial
has brought forth some very ugly facts
against him and it would really appear
that his hands are not as clean as they
should have been, especially in regard
to the surrender Of Metz. There is a
great possibility that he may lose his
life upon the fatal plain of Satory. If
he have really been treacherous he will
deserve no less but, in the eagerness Of
the French TO lay their woes at the door
of leader instead of follower, and in
the full knowledge of the dislike Theirs
bears toward Bazaine personally, it Is
by no means certain that a verdict OF
guilty will necessarily be just one.
The Government has glutted to its full
upon Communists, and it now hungars
for dessert of something better. Fran
co.'s Achille Bszaine was born in 1911,
and received his education at the famous
Polytechnic School, graduating in 1881,
and Immediately entering the army.
He served II Africa in 1882, and was
made a Lieutenant in 1886, and for dis.
tinguished bravery received the cross Of
the Legion of Honor on the field Of
battle. In 1887 he took an active part
Carlists, returning to Algeria in 1889
Will tne TdHh vi CdptdiH. Ilo Wtts
prominent in the Milianah, Kabylia and
Morocco expeditions; and when the
Russian war began, in 1858, was placed
in command of brigade of infantry,
and during the siege of Se5astopol OBJ
tanned frequent and honorable mention
in the official dispatches of Marshals
Canrobert and Pelissier. He was sub
sequently raised to the grade of General
of Division, and led the French portion
of the army y which attacked and cap
tured Kinburn. In 1858 he was sp-
pointed Inspector of Infantry; in 1862
he was sent to Mexico, where, in 1868,
he succeeded Marshal Forey in supreme
command. He was made the Com
mander of the Legion of Honor August
Is, 1856; Grand Cross, July 2, 1868, and
Marshal of France September S, 1864.
His exploits in connection with the
Franco German war are too recent to
require recapitulation.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-10-19

In view of the perishable nature of
iron, scientific authority gravely pro
poses straw paper as a more durable
material for the manufacture of Car
wheels.
A MICROSCOPIC lens was recently made
in London, at cost of f250, from a
diamond. The magnifying power of
the lens is an increase over that of glass
in the proportion of eight to three.
WHEN two or more colors are mixed
together, the hue produced does not
result from the loss of the particles of
either of the colors by absorption or
chemical changes of any kind. The
microscope reveals the fact that minute
particles of each color remain entirely
separate.
THE Grand Trunk Railway of Canada
loses a very large number of iron rails
every W nter through fracture, attrib-
uted to the severity of the cold to which
the line is exposed. A portion of the
road has been laid with steel, and on
this the proportionate loss due to the
same cause is much smaller than on the
iron track.
The New York Legislature of 1901
offered prize of one hundred thousand
dollars for some motive power to take
the place of horses on canals. 1t is
doubtful whether any of the models or
| schemes thus far submitted to the COM
missioners will be accepted, as the
| problem to be solved in devising suit
able mechanism for the purpose is one
of great difficulty.
PRoF. AGAssIz brings home from his
nine months voyage 242 barrels and
boxes of specimens, all carefully packed
and in state of perfect preservation.
When arranged in the already rich mu.
scum at Cambridge, they will complete
be found in this country or Europe.
The collection of fishes alone amounts
to over 30,0OO-over 5000 gallons oi
alcohol having been used in preserving
them.
As RULE, the plumage of female
birds is less brilliant than that of their
mates. There are well-known excep.
tions, as in the case of the toucan and
paroquet, which are nearly as gayly
colored as the male birds. The theory
of naturalists in regard to this differ.
ence is, that it is accompanied by an
equally striking contrast in the methods
of nest building. When both sexes are
of ostentatious coloring, the nest is so
secreted as to conceal the female when
upon it; while the nest of those species
in which the females attire is sober and
dull, as compared with that of her com
panion, is built in an open situation
exposing the sitting bird.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-10-19
Memory.

Many philosophers regard the faculty
of memory as being peculiar to mind,
but the Maudsley thinks this cannot be
the case, for it must exist in all the
nervecenters of the body. How, were
it otherwise, could these nerve-centers
be educated to produce movements in
answer TO impressions? A nerve-center,
wheth r of sensation or motion, that
was devoid of memory would be an
idi tic center and incapable of educa-
ton. So far from memory being a
faculty peculiar to the mind, it is. as
Mr.. Paget has suggested, property Of
every tissue of the body. The scar Of
a cut is one evidence that the tissue
recollects the injury it has received.
The whole system remembers an attack
of smallpox.
While we may admit that memory is
a function of every tissue, neverthe-
less its highest development is the great
est nerve-center or brain. Impressions
received in times long past may here
remain dormant almost for a lifetime.
Consciousness and the utmost effort of
the will may be powerless to arouse
them, but sooner or later the poison of
fever, the horror of q dream, or the
agony of drowning may in moment
disslpate the cloud, and in an instanta-
neous fash the scenes of a long-forgot-
ten act appear as vividly and as really
as when they were first enacted. 1t
may even be, as De Quincy has sug
gesled, that the opening of the book at
the day of judgment shall be the un-
rolling of the scroll of memory
Scribner's for October.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-10-19
Cows and Dogs.

should like to know from the expe.
rience Of your readers aud correspond.
ents, If there is any foundation for a
curious statement in paper on 'Voice
and Speech" in the curlosities of mcdi.
cal experience, that the attention of
dogs is awakened by our conversation,
as Gall, the celebrated phrenologist,
states that in two, brought from Venice
to Paris, he satisfied himself of the fact
10y repeating whole sentences in French
and German, which the dogs perfectly
understood. The same authority states
that an old ship dog leaped overheard
and swan to the shore, on hearing the
captain exclaim, "Poor old Neptune, |
fear we shall have to drown him." and
such was the horror which the threat
inspired, that he would never after.
wards approach the captain and crew.
An amusing tale is told of an irascible
Irish piper of the name of Molroy, who
declared war implacable against the
feline race as he swore that they inva-
rlably pronounced his name in their
nocturnal concerts. Spurzheim, who
was associated with Gall, already men.
toned above, relates the instance of a
hound, who, unable to obtain a seat
near the fire without the risk of quar-
reling with the doing occupants that
crowded the hearth, was wont to run
out into the courtyard barking IN
alarm, that brought away his rivals in
comfort, when he quietly re.entered che
parlor and selected an eligible stretch
ing place, displaying as much ingenuity
as the traveller, who, according to the
well, known story, ordered oysters for
his horse for the purpose OF clearing
the fireside of the occupants, who
rushed out into the stable to see such a
novel sight. Spurzheim further relates
an instance of a cow, which, among the
whole kindred herd, was the only one
that could open the gate leading to
their pastures and her anxious com.
rades, when arriving at the wished-for
spot, invariably lowed for their con-
ductor. Although brutes pronounce no
articulate sounds, there is no doubt but
they have language perfectly intelli-
glble to one another. Their manner of
their different emotions is in
some instances perfectly distinct, and
birds have most decidedly peculiar
and Water.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-10-19
Current Items.

SIXTY tons of steel pens are made
every year.
The navy annually consumes 200, ,O0O
pounds OF pickles, at Il cost Of $1,000
THE great Natural Park of the Vel.
lowstone embraces about 1000 square
miles.
MnLvILLE, Mo Hot liner from the
bat On the pitchers neck The two
mines attended the funeral in a body.
lT took the army-worm Just two DAYS
to eat every green blade in q twenty
acre field in Ashton, H., last month.
A NEGRO woman living near Battle
boro, N. c., has had seven pairs of
twins, and is not over thirty-fve years
of age.
UTAH sends the horrible report that
a person in that Territory has Il l,riat,
or rope for lettering horses made from
the hair of the women slaughtered at
the Mountain Meadow massacre the
great crime of the Mormons.
TooTHPICKs have become an important
article of trade. One toothpick factory
in Canton, Me-, furnishes more work
than all other business in town. Over
one hundred cords of poplar have been
hauled for its use this season, and con-
verted into toothpicks.
AN iron submarine torpedo boat, des-
tined, if found worthy OF approval by
the Navy Department., for harbor de.
Tense and able to proceed under water
and, atfixing a torpedo to an enemy's
ship unseen, explode it at safe dis
tance by means of electricity, was
launched and examined at the Navy
Yard the other day.
NEAR Crisfeld, Md, recently, Cordelia
King, a colored girl, went with her lit.
tie brother to feed a pig, having several
needles and pins in her dress front.
While in the act of leaning over the
pen, she fell, and one of the needles
entering her breast, killed her instant
ly. She did, in short, her guietus take
with a bare bodkin.
THE Acting postmaster General has
decided that chromo.lithographs, en-
cravings, etc, should be treated as
merchandise, and not as printed mat
ter, and to be sent through the mails
must be put up in packages limited to
twelve ounces in weight, and so that the
contents of the package can be exam
med without destroying the wrapper.
AUCTIONS are very ancient, and some
Of them curious. The auction by inch
of candle was an old fashion of accept
ing the bids while Il candle burned.
The man who named the most before
it went out got the goods In Dutch
auction the goods are given to the first
bidder, and not the last that is, the
auctioneer begins at a hign price and
drops down, and the first man who says
" will take it at that carries off the
goods.
REGARDING the impaired condition of
the manuscript of the Declaration of
Independence, to which allusion has
been made in the papers, it appears that
this precious document, with the sign
manuals of its immortal promulgators,
has for years been lying in an ordinary
glass Case in the Patent Office This
case IS OF course not Theoretically sealed,
and the atmosphere has heretofore been
able to affect the ink.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-10-19

Above the sunset hills now the van qushcd cloud
The. light trails its Jewels along the dusty
And bird at my window the old song awaking,
Adown the meadow path the well-known way
And dream and dream am but child
again.
/ know when the blossoms of the golden bell arc
know where the fern sips the brookIets fall
ing spray
1 know of bank where daisies bloom the
whitcst.
And nook in the becches where shadows fall
the Ightest.
And cooling breczes flicker on a .utry summer
day.
1t was there by the brooksido we built a bower
of rushes,
In the shade of the beeches in that old happy
We wrought the rustic roof where the purple
And Ben trimmed it DER with the fir-trees
somber brushes,
while our merry voices blended with the
waters ripping chime.
How sweet on the air came the breath of new
How soft was the whisper of the wind in the
tree!
There were Maude's golden curIs, with the sun
There was merry little Carl. and brave Ben. the
rover
Ah. mel Ben is sleeping now beneath the
Southern sea!
And fair little Maudc in stately ship sailing,
Is sailing and sailing to a far foreign shore:
And Carl is at rest where the Northern winds are
wailing.
Where the Northern sea is meaning, and the
Northern lights are palng.
And the wild waves thunder round his bed for
evermore!
But the song of the bird in the sunlight's quiet
beaming,
The sound in the tree-top of the winds low re-
frain.
And the voice of the river with its white waves
silver cleaning.
Draw me back through the years to our youth
times happy dreaming.
10 the dear Olden time that can mover come
again!
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-10-19
A Peach. .Stone Spring.

The Amherst (va.) Enterprise tells
this story "On the land of Thomas
Hughes is bold spring of cold water,
which continually throws out peach
stones in perfect state of preservation.
Bushels of stones have been cleared
away, and still they come. We have no
doubt that many years ago before the
memory of our people, there was dis
tillery at this spring, and that it now
bursts through the mass of stones be-
low the surface and throws them out.
We know first-rate large peach orch
ard in this county which grew in the
following singular manner: Mr.. Stem
nett cleared the land, put in tobacco,
and the third year in wheat, and an
orchard of peaches came up on the
land, and are now growing and bearing.
1t was ascertained that some forty or
more years ago the land was cultivated,
and had an orchard on the place, and it
had grown up, and when cleared by Mr..
Stennett, the land was in second-growth
timber"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-10-19
A Novel Procession.

The Portland Press gives the following
account of the unique manner in which
a camp meeting was recently closed at
Richmond, Maine: "After singing a
stirring song, the President announced
that the hour had arrived for he last
act of this religious drama. The Presi-
dent, Vice-President, and other clergy
men then, arm in arm, four abreast,
took up the line of march around the
stand. About thousand joined in the
procession. AS they maj ched they sang
some of those wild, pathetic songs this
sect is SO famous for. Twice around the
inclosure the great procession slowly
tramped to the music Of the song. After
the second tramp around, halt was
made, the men forming line facing
the circle. The sisters, now in single
| file, slowly passed along the waiting line
of men, shaking each by the hand as
they passed. many of the more excited
sisters throwing their arms aroupd some
favorite brothers neck, and giving him
kiss of holy love. After the women
had passed, the last brother in the line
followed in behind, the line of men
thus doubling on itself. Here some Of
the men followed the example of the
sisters, brother kissing brother as they
passed. The shouts and amens and
hallelujahs were hearty and frequent
Perhaps thousand persons witnessed
this extraordinary scene"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-10-19
How 20 Keep Grapes.

A correspondent of the Central Union
Agriculturist gives the following rules
for grapes:
Place the grape where it will be nei-
ther too dry nor too moist, too warm
nor too cold
AS to temperature, the nearer freez-
ing the better, SO long as it is above
freezing.
Too much moisture will freed mold
and spoil the flavor of those that do not
rot. Contact with Gecayed or broken
grapes will spoil the berries they touch
Too much warmth, if air is not ex.
cluded, will dry the fruit and make
raisins, if the fruit is good enough. If
the air is excluded the fruit will spoil
if too warm. Hence we infer that
grapes to keep should not be packed.
Put up the fresh clusters in boxes,
two or three layers deep, upon cotton,
with paper or grape leaves between lay
ers. Light wood boxes are best. Let the
size be governed by your own taste. If
from two to four pounds.
In handling the clusters, touch the
stem only. Contact with hand takes
off the bloom; besides there is danger
of bruising. Handle carefully. The
boxes ought to be covered.
People have been taught to wax the
end of the stem. There is little use in
this. If grapes are of a variety hat will
keep we'll, the peduncle lays fast hold
on the pulp, and is kept fresh by the
grape. A little drying of the fruit
causes the peduncle to wither and
break from the berry. Grapes serarat
ed from the cluster soon decay.
The Hartford often "drols from the
stem" in gathering. With the best
care it can be kept fresh but very
short time after gathering.
The Concord is very little better.
Observe, if when you draw berry
from the cluster it brings out the pud-
uncle from the center, it promises to
keep we'll. Tenacity to the stem is
your criterion. The stronger the hold
of the berry the better it will keep.
Then, for keeping, a tough skin is
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-10-19
Without Newspapers.

How newspapers are missed at sea.
correspondent of the Woodstock
Patriot, writing of his voyage across the
Atlantic, says: (: "One of the features of
sea voyage which is very difficult for
landsman to accustom himself to, is the
entire absence of all news from the out
side world. Accustomed as we are to
have our daily paper on our table every
morning, and to glance over the news
that untiring correspondents have
cleaned from every part of the world,
1t seems strange deprivation to pass
day after day in entire ignorance of
whatever is transpiring among the busy
haunts of men. There is no postoffice
to go to two or three times day; no
letters to be received from friends and
kindred. The ships company is, for
the time being, community apart by
itself, and it has to live as it were in
world of it's own. Yet even here there
are advantages to offset these incon.
venienccs. The favored speculator can
rest for while, with no gold specula-
tions to perplex and annoy him. We
are for a season out of the reach of the
telegraph, where no gloomy, worrying
dispatches can ferret us out. The letters
that await us at our journeys end are
read with hungering delight and en-.
.joyment such as we dc not feel at other
times. With an appetite sharpened by
abstinence, we eagerly glance over the
files of newspapers, and we learn to APP
preciate how much we are indebted to
the press for large share of our enjoy.
ment and instruction. | have spoken
of the social spirit which manifests it.
self among the passengers. But toward
the end of the voyage one finds that
there is also another aspect of the sub.
ject under the workings of the same
social law-we cluster into atfinities on
shipboard as we'll as elsewhere. Many
persons who were quite intimate at first
have very plainly become tired of each
other, and were it not for the fact that
they are cooped up and walled in on
shipboard, would get as far away from
them as possible. can imagine that
persons who are not specially congenial
to each other,i if thrown together in this
way for two or three months, would
come to hate and loathe each other. So
true is it that many people are best
friends at distance, and that it does
not do to see too much of one another"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-10-19
What are Wolf Teeth.

In reply to numerous inquiries as to
whether "wolf teeth" in horses cause
blindness, we explain this question
somewhat fully, that our correspond
ents may see the matter in its true
light. At the age of five every horse
has or has had what are called wolf
teeth. They are pointed teeth, situated
at the sides of the jaws towards the
front. These teeth are naturally shed
soon after their appearance in most
cases, but sometimes remain during Il
heightened period, and as they are fol.
lowed by other teeth, it sometimes oc-
ours that an interference is occasioned
when they do not fall out, and they are
crowded in the gums and cause irrita-
ton. in cases when from cold or neg
lect the eyes of the horse are injurious.
ly affected and at the same time there
is trouble with these teeth, it is very
probable that the irritation may sym.
pathetically increase the trouble with
the eye. But it is altogether an indi
rect effect, and if the eyes are properly
cared for, the teeth would never affect
them. When the interference is no
ticed the wolf teeth should be drawn
not knocked out; when there is no in
terferance they may stay in their places
without inconvenience until they droI
out.-An,srican Agriculturist.