Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-01-13

aged at ordinary obstacles. Most of the
miners are Wclshmen some are Scotch I;
the minority Irish. The Welsh are the
best; intelligent, careful, sober men in
most part, and very industrious. A arge
portion of them are Methodists. They
lave preaching in their own tongue
They have singular and beautiful man
As the funeral wcnds it way to the Gene
terry, all the congregation accompany it,
singing n mournfully sweet song in their
own language, SO full of liquid sounds
They have good schools and beneficial So
cicties, and building loan associations
Strikes are unknown among them, and rs n
proof of the upward tendency of the
Welsh character, it is noticed that most of
the merchants and some Of the profession
al men of this section are Welshmen, who
were at one time miners. Though some
what clannish-thinking in crowds-they
are extremely kind to their fellow miners,
of Scotch and Irish nationality. There is
scarcely any popularity of countenance at
tending Wclshman to distinguish him
from an American. He is frank, open, and
manly in his bearing. The distinguishing
feature is their peculiar language of VOW
els, by which nearly all business Is con.
Quoted
In reaching Frostburg, the railroad
makes many steep ascents, similar to what
is known as the switch Back" near
Scranton, and when the visitor reaches the
summit and stands on the McCulloh
House porch, he is rewarded with one of
the grandest sights known in the way of
extended mountain scenery. The road
that forms the principal street of Frost
burg, is what is known rs the National
road" running from Baltimore the whole
length of Maryland, through portion of
Pennsylvania and West Virginia to
Wheeling thence on west through Ohio
and Indiana The old gentleman who
keeps the hotel here informs me that i'll
"ye oflen time. forty large six-horsc stage
coaches would stop to dine with him every
lay, twenty each way; TINT numerous
teams with large covered wagons, loaded
with merchandise for the far West were
continually passing; that droves of horses,
cattle, sheep, and hogs were nearly always
in sight, and that those were lively times
indeed" Six months from this date, or
sooner, n railroad, now in course of con-
struction, will be finished to this Georges
Creek coal region, connecting these mines
directly with New York City, thereby Civ
ing YOU this coal Mt much lower rate than
can now be afforded, owing to the suicidal
and narrow policy of that mean monopoly.
which charges such enormous toll for carry
ing to the seaboard.
In addition to the coal production. there
is mountain Of fire clay, which is here
prepared into fire brick, for blast furnaces,
stoves, SC, and is known in the market as
Mount Savage Fire Clay.
A visit to this place at this season Of the
year, might not be agreeable to your read
ers, but when the heat of summer comes
again, run down here-or, perhaps l
should say up hcre-among these interests,
and these agreeable people, would be en-
joyable. RIG. w.
SEEING Is DEcEIvING-lIcrei is a row
of ordinary capital letters and figures
SSSS XXXX ZZZZ 1888 sSSS.
They are such as are made up of two parts
of equal shapes Look carefully at these
and you will perceive that the upper halves
Of the characters are rery little smaller
than the lower halves-so little that an or
size Now turn the page upside down,
and without any careful looking, you will
see that this difference in size very much
exaggeratcd-tha the real top half Of the
letter is very much smaller than the bot
tom half 1t will be seen from this that
there is tendency in the eye to enlarge
the upper part of any object upon which
it looks. We might draw two circles of
unequal size, and so place them that they
hould appear cqual.-Onre Week.
In his Washington correspondence,
''Gatn lOWSO over inc rim III tnlS style {:
Did you hear of that chap who attended
the sale of hotel recently at town in
Ohio? He hadn't cent in his pocket,
but he stood up and bid boldly, Twenty
eight thousand dollars 1t WAS knocked
down to him, and when the question was
asked, Who is the purchaser? this auda-
cious scamp replied, The Pennsylvania
Railroad Ofcourse he was not required
in person to put up the money from an
imperial buyer like that, whereby he was
able, in the course Of a couple of days, to
sell the whole to another party for thirty
five Thousand dollars, and clear the differ
cnce. The country is now full of scamps
buying hotels for the Pennsylvania Rail
road"
There seems to be a lull in the steamboat
business at La Crosse just now. The
Democrat says: ANY person wishing to
trade pair of Arctic overshoes or pair
of buckskin mittens for steamboat can be
accommodated by calling upon any of our
steamboat men Lots of men have got
more steamboats, than they know what to