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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
Varieties.
TWISTED hemp cures felons.

A RARE hower-Thc pink of politeness.
A MAN out West who has been di
vorced from his ninth wife, is recon-
mcnded to try a cast-ron female angel
the next time.
A KENTUcKIAN being asked how much
corn he raised, answered: " About teh
barrels of whisky, besides what we waste
making bread
A PAPER says: " Wehave adopted the
eight hour system in this office. We
commence at eight o'clock in the morn
ing, and close at eight in the evening.
A DOG is counted mad when he won't
take something to drink. and Il man
when he takes too much.
A DRUNKEN man in Lafayette couldn't
light the right lamp, though he used
up all the teeth in his wife's hair comb
for matches. Since that night his own
head has not required either brush or
comb.
HENRY FAxoN and the " Fat Con
tributor' were standing on the street
corner in Cincinnati one day, speculat-
ing As to how they could raise enough
money 20 purchase the next drinks,
when Artemus Ward came long.
Boys" says he, "why in the world
don't you put your money together and
establish paper? Make it real lively,
you know It's no use to let your
money lie in bank doing Aothing-go
to work and give us n real live paper ~
Said FaXon, in his dry inimitable way,
as Artemus walked off, "Gris, that's
carrying the joke most too id far
amt it?'
FELLOW who has actually tried it
says that, although there are three
scruples in dram, the more drains you
take the less scruples you will have.
AT social party, where humorous
definitions was one of the games of the
evening, the question was put g What
is religion ?'' " Religion" replied one
of the party, more famous as a man of
business than wit, sis an insurance
against fire in the next world, for which
honesty is the best policy
AN incorrigible New York loafcr,
being taken to task for his lazness, .e.
piled: " | tell you, gentlemen, you are
mistaken; | have not law bone in
my body but the fact is, 1 ,oas born
hred!"
LEGAL ADVISER speaking technically
- In short, you want to meet your
creditors ?' Innocent Client" Hang
it, no! Why, they're the very people
I'm most anxious to avoid"
AN indianapolis man writes to his
tavorite paper: "Please say to the
party that made an attempt to burgle
No. 36S North Mississippi street, be-
tween the hours > and 3 o'clock this
morning, that if his present intirmity
does not interfere with his doing so, to
make one more trial at his earliest con-
venience, and bring his winding sheet
and coffin-plate with with him. have
his burial certificate ready, and signed
by Smith Il Wesson in six volumes.
Death to sneak thieves"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
Death of Aged Philadelphians.

During the first six months of 1872,
the deaths announced in the obituary
columns of the Public Ledger, of persons
who had lived to or beyond the advanced
age of eighty years, numbered 359, of
whom l2l were men and 23S women.
This is much larger number than dur,
ing the corresponding six months OF
1871, when the deaths were similarly
recorded of ia men and l66 women
total of 2S0 showing an increased
mortality among our old people, for the
first half of this year, of 10. Durip z
the half year just closed, these records
exhibited the customary fact that the
female octogenarians greatly outnum-
bered the males, the females having
a majority of III, and making about
two-thirds of the whole number. A fur
ther analysis also shows that the females
were the longest lived, there being many
more women than men who lived beyond
! ninety.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
The Brooklyn Bridge.

Some idea of the immensty of the
work undertaken in spanning the East
river by a suspension bridge may be
gathered from the financial exhibit of
tie company that has the work in
hand. Although the work is but just
begun, the expenditures have reached
the enormous sum of 5000, ,3S9.49. The
heaviest sums paid out are for material
and labor, $732, ,903; engineering depart
ment, $l26,2 ,209; land, land damages,
and buildings, $332,673 caissons and
material, $2l3,020; and to William C..
Kingsley, for experimenting the work,
$3.50 The committee report that
they have continued with the construc
ton of the bridge as rapidly as circum-
stances permitted. The tower on the
Brooklyn side has been carried up to
an elevation of 100 feet above high
water, and is progressing steadily up
ward. The foundation Of the tower on
the New York side has been sunk to its
final depth of abou; eighty feet, and, if
no accidents intervene, will be finished
to high water mark within month.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27

The Lockport N. Y. Journal says;
Dion, in his perambulations about
Lockport, very naturally dropped into
one of the billiard halls of the city.
While watching a pocket game and
quietly smoking his cigar. he was ac-
costed by pompous individual with
the invitation, "Take Il hand ? bet you
five to one on carom game of five hun
dred points, "Don't care if | do
says Dion, blandly, whose name and
station were entirely unknown to the
protterer of the invitation. The money
was staked, coats pulled off, and the
game commenced. Certain persons who
had been let into the secret by the
knowing ones had spread the news
abroad on the streets, and quite crowd
had got together around the table,
stretching their necks to see the finale
of the game. Dion took the cue like u
prince, and, with a smile Of mingled
disdain and satisfaction on his lip, ran
up, without saying word, 542 points
Had his cue not proved defective, his
friends say he could have made 1000
easily. 1t is needless to say his oppo-
nent "wilted," and has not been seen
in those parts since.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
Foreign (I0SSip,

An epidemic has attacked three
towns in Brazil, and carried off 5000 o!
the $4,000 inhabitants they contained.
By the terms Of the new French
Army bill every. ..Frcnchman is bound to
serve personally in the army or navy.
WHEN Rochefort was brought on
board the man -of-war that was to take
him to New Caledonia, he distributed
1000 francs among the sailors of the
ship.
TEE young King of Siam, who lately
returned to his own dominions from n
visit to British India. has turned stump
! speaker, and is going about among his
people making eloquent speeches in
praise of European civilization and
modes of life.
AN agitation has been started in En- :
land against the extensive tea drinking
in which all classes indulge. A distin
guished medical authority says the
habit is productive of various disorders,
and in general of deterioration of
health amorc the working classes, and
a lower vitality in the rising genera
ton.
THIS is the way in which Professor
Fawcett, the famous blind Liberal mem.
Der of the British Parliament, became
acquainted with his wife: He was at
social gathering on the evening OF the
day when the telegram announced the
death of President Lincoln, and heard
from u girl OF Is the exclamation, 1t
would have been less loss to the world
if every crowned head of Europe had
tallen!" He asked to be introduced
to this girl, who has been his wife for
five years, and is the most popular
speaker and woman in England.
HlNDoSrAN is agitated over another
attempt by a Mussulman fanatic to
murder an English official. The assas.
sin had been discharged from the po-
lice force. He revengcd himself by
killing one policeman, wounding four
more, putting a crowd Of bystanders to
utter rout, and trying to cut off the
head of the Judge who had dismissed
him. When his victim had founl
safety in flight, the Hindoo slashed his
own throat, and died. His fellows be
lieve that he has become saint. This
attempt, coming close upon the mur
ders of Chief Justice Norman and the
Niceroy, Earl Mayo, Is an indication
of deep'seated discomfort in Great Brit
aims richest colony.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
Two Mares nj Enmity.

Mr.. Thomas Fitzpatrick put his two
road mares to the pole early in the
spring. As both are good steppers they
promise to mske rapid team. Both
are little high strung, and each seems
to have a good opinion of himself. The
two were cour urteously polite to each
other, but there was no strong display
Of affection. While gently driving in
Central Park one day, the sorrel mare
made an awkward step, and cut the bay
mare on the ankle. The accident ap-
peared to stir up bad blood. Maddened
with pain, the bay mare bit the sorrel
and this act of hostility was quickly re.
sented. The mares now forgot their
politeness, and each struggled to intlict
as much injury upon the other as pos
sible. On arriving at the stables and
being detached from the wagon, instead
of walking quietly to their stalls, they
TUNED upon each other with great fury
and engaged in a savage fight. They
were separated with some difficulty.
But now it is out of the question to
drive them together. When they come
within sight of each other, the eyes
flash and the nostrils snort defiance If
left to themselves, they would surely
engage in conflict bitter and remorse-
less in the extreme.-Iurf, Field, and
Farm.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
The NeWSbOy Cadet.

Little Johnny O'Keefe, the success
ful competitor at New York for Con
gresham Roberts naval cadetship, re-
ceived quite an ovation on Friday. He
was newsboy and the son of a long
shore man, and has already been dub
bed "the newsboy admiral His sue,
cess, so creditable to his genius and in
dustry, and SO illustrative of the genius
of democracy, has created no little ex-
element in New York. In single
day, the unknown news-vender, receiv
ing the pence and kicks of his patrons
as did the others of his ilk, became a
hero, the praises of the embryo admir-
al being sounded by every tongue. He
is poor, and it is gratifying that sub
scriptions for his benefit are coming in
at a rate that will give him start not
whit behind the proudcst and most
aristocratic of his future associates.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
A Bullet In Il Mans Head Eleven Years,

AT the first battle of Manassas, Mr..
Crockett Grayson, of this county, was
shot in the head. the bullet entering
the temple, passing through the inner ear
and lodging in the bone back Of the ear,
where it remained until last week, when
DR. Fauntleroy, of Staunton, by direc-
tion of DR.. Stribling, extracted it. Upon
boring into the bone with tretine, the
ball was found so firmly imbedded that
it had to be clipped out with chisel.
The lead removed weighed half an
ounce. Mr.. Grayson went through the
operation without taking chIoroform,
exhibiting great GOODNESS and fortitude
Once during the operation, he called a
halt, and after ejecting a mouthful of
tobacco juice, coolIy laid his head on
the table and informed the doctor that
he could now "go ahead" He was
doing well at last accounts.-.Nomgomery
Va.) Messenger.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
A Fatal Mistake

A man and wife living at Long Lake,
in the Adirondack region, were nearly
two weeks since fishing there at nearly
dark. They were sitting on rock in
the lake-the woman with a handker-
chief over her head. One Palmer. a
guide, with companion was rowing
across the lake, and, noticing the white
handkerchief, inquired what it was. The
opinion was given that it was a gull.
when Palmer, replying that he would
soon decide, drew up his rifle and fired.
The distance was somewhat greater than
he had thought, and the ball, falling,
struck the woman in the breast, killing
her almost instantly. Palmer is said tc
have become almost insane because OF
the result of his shot.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
A Political Romance.

This is the way in which Prof. Faw
cett, the famous blind liberal member
of the British Parliament, becamr ac-
1uainted with his wife. He was at a
social gathering on the evening of the
day when the telegram announced the
death of President Lincoln, and heard
from.a girl of eighteen the exclamation,
alt would have been less loss to the
world if every crowned head of Europe
had fallen " He asked to be intro
duced to this girl, who has been his
wife for five years, and is the most
popular speaker and woman in Eng
land.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
A Poets Song in May.
BY r. II. STODDARD.

III n. II. oi'bbhhb'
| wonder if 'ts common.
When heads lik c mine arc gray.
To lose the love of simple things,
The song the early bluehird sings,
The frail sweet buds of May?
i know the heavens above me
Are beautiful | know
The apple orchards are in bloom,
/ catch in passing their perfume,
lheir drifts of rosy snow.
Time was. at this bright season.
loved to walk the wood;
j loved to pace the sandy shore.
And harken TO the oceans roar.
And | pronounced it good.
A blossom by the hedge-row,
shadowy tuft of fern,
The swallows skimming home at night
l took delight in all-deiight
That never will return
All! why-why have | lost it?
Because my hopes are flown?
Because my wishes have been crossed.
And | have loved how much land lost
Because l am alone?
But other men before me.
And other men to be,
Have borne and yet will bear the same.
Nor cast on sovereign Nature blame.
Nor lost her love-like me.
| will go back to Nature;
will arise and go
Will find her in her shy retreat,
Will kncel and kiss her sacred feet,
And weep and worship so.
Dear mother Nature see me.
And give me eyes to see;
Reveal thyself to me again.
For can bear all earthly pain
If only | have thee"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
Def0rming Children.

The police of London have discovered
in secluded alley Of the metropolis, an
establishment in which children are
manned to order. Begging is one ofthe
most profitable of the occupations which
do not require money capital, and beg
gar with a distorted face or twisted leg
can easily surpass his fellows in the
gains of this disgraceful trade. Hence,
parents deliberately consign their
children to torture, for the sake of reap
ing the profits of their Disagreement.
The firm that mangled the innooents
had a curiously- graduated scale of
charges. A child under a year old
could have its leg satisfactorily twisted
for seven dollars. For one six months
older, the operation cost ten. Other
injuries were inflicted at reasonable
rates. For thirty dollars, any child
could be transformed into mass of de-
formities. These revolving details show
the results of the wasteful and wicked
benevolence which makes begging more
profitable than honest industry,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
Another Ship Canal.

Commerce is growing more and more
aggressive toward peninsulas, isthmuses,
mountains. and such like hindrances.
Its latest conspiracy against nature in
wolves a ship canal bsecting the long
drawn out State of Florida. A route has
been selected through st. Johns river
for l27 miles and then through the
Ocklawaha river for 60 miles. Thence
it will be necessary to construct ship
canal through the swamps for 40 miles
to the Amaxara river, 35 miles from the
point where it empties into the Gulf of
Mexico. The consummation of this
plan would effect a saving of ESQ miles
on the voyage from New Orleans to
New York. And like all projects of
this character, it is safe TO say of it that
it is only matter of time.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
The Hall of the Nations.

The hall in which the Geneva court
of arbitration holds its sessions is an Or
dinary drawing-room, the windows look
ing out upon neat little garden in the
very center of the city. The ante-room
through which the commissioners and
secretaries enter the hall Of congress is
called the marriage chamber, and is re-
garded by sentmentalists as significant
of the approach of happy union be-
tween the two great nations.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
Sanitary SuniiOWers.

Sanitists say that the sunfiower has
the remarkable property of purifying
air laden with marsh miasm, absorbing
a great quantity of moist and noxlous
gases, and exhaling the oxidized oxygen.
Many instances are cited where its cul-
tivation has rendered whole quarters
healthy and fever free, which were
previously uninhabited by the preva-
lence of fever
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27

CLAIM attorneys are offering to collect
for one legged and one-Mmed soldiers
the increase of pensions due them by
act of the late Congress. Our mutilatcd
heroes should observe that, by waiting
patiently, they will receive the increase
just as early through the proper chan
nels, free of expense. The Commits
sioner OF Pensions will soon announce
the steps necessary to establish claim
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
The Death of Charles Lever.

The following is an extract from Il
private letter dated Trieste, June 4
" You will of course have known by
this time that Charles Lever is now a
name of the past. lie died quietly and
without a struggle, in his sleep, on Sat,
urday last, between - and , p. r..
When saw his remains, a little before
5, he was lying with his coat and waist
coat Oft, on his right side, with his head
resting on his right hand. But for the
perfect stiffness and the gray look upon
the face, he might have been sleeping
only. The hearts action simply died
out. Poor fellow il was the death he
wished for, rs he greatly dreaded a long
and painful struggle. We laid his re
mains beside those of his wife, last even
ing, at little after 6. Her death broke
his heart. From the time she died his
recent illness dated, and he has not re.
manned ong behind her | never saw
a man who attached TO himself those
who were at all intimate with him as
he did. knew him but for a short
period, and really loved him. He had
an immense funeral. He left his affairs
thoroughly arranged; the very money
for the expenses of the interment was
found in an envelope, with these ords {:
The modest sum | wish expended on
my funeral"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-07-27
What the Great Artists of Europe Re-
ceiye for Pay.

The Paris Revue ct Gazette MuSicalc
supplies the following list of salaries to
be paid to singers and dancers "Mad-
anne Patti, at st. Petersburgh, will re.
ceive fl, 900 per month Mile. Nilsson,
fl 400; Madame Nolpine, e90O; Signor
GRAHAM, fS0O: Mile. Fioretti, the dan
seuse, wife Of NJ. Verger, the baritone,
will receive, at the Milan Scala, for "a
short season, 81 900; Madame Pauline
Lucca, at the New York Academy Of
Music, next winter, 81, 400 per month
and benefit. Who will gay, after their
return. that there has been question
of reducing these enormous terms.
The AthenGum says: ave can add to
the figures given by our Partisan con-
temporary by stating that Mile. Nilsson,
for twelve nights, at Drury Lane Thea
ter, will receive f2,40O, or f200 per
night; and that Adelna Patti is paid at
Covent Garden El25 every time she
sings. Can there be any surprise that
opera get into chancery, or into
the Rasinghall Street Court, when such
outrageous and ruinous sums are paid
to prime dOnDe2
The Placer herald., 1872-08-10
.ABUUG NUMEN.

The edress of Western journal apollo
gizes for the detention of her 'per, 'heeause
Of The arrival Of an extra male.
a lady in Connection county, Ind, lately
rode into town the wife of one man, and rode
back home the wife Of another. She was
divorced, received license and married wLilo
in town
A constable in Chic, lately testified in
court as follows: 81 know nothing of her
but what hear the neighbors say; and in
my opinion, what woman says Of another
is no. worthy of belief
Investigation by the pension bureau at
Washington has developed the fact that There
are two widows of Revolutionary soldiers
under 40 years of age, while the Oldest sur
vving widow is 115.
Several young women in Philadelphia have
organized boat club called the 'Dolly Var
den," and will practice regularly on the
Schuylkill after few weeks. A close fitting
white flannel blouse trimmed with blue rib
bon and jlupty white sailors hats, trimmed
with the same, is said to be the costume de-
cided upon.
The Spaniards have saying that wife
should resemble three things, and yet differ
from the same things. First, she should be
like snail, which always guards its house,
put she should not carry the honse with her
whenever she goes out. Second, she should
be like an echo, which speaks only after ''.,o
other is finished, but she should not u,woys
have he last word. Third, she should be
like the town clock, which always sou,6s
the hour with regularity. but she ahou d not
sound so loud that the whole town shall
hear it.
The Placer herald., 1872-08-10

LOOK AT HoME.-We have received a
small pamphlet, printed in London, and pre-
paid with an English penny postage stamp,
and made up of what purports to be extracts
from English papers on the Cuban question.
From these extracts it would seem that the
English press are almost if not quite a unit
in favor Of Cuban independence, and insist
ing that Spain should give Cuba mdepend-
ence and self-government. John Bull is a
great lover of liberty and liberality in mat
fers that don't touch bis own pocket or affect
his own power to tyrannize. England has
its Ireland, Russia her Poland, Austria her
Hungary and Grant and his thieves and ty-
rants her South, and why shall not Spain
have its Cuba? When Alexander, Queen
Vic, Francis Joseph and Grant each cease
their tyranny and robbery of their Poland,
Ireland, Hungary and the South, it will
then be time for their lck-spittle organs to
censure the policy of King Amadeus.
Shameless and brutal as Crane is, he has
not yet had courage to censure in the king
of Spain what he is practising on his own
people in the South Pluck the beam from
your own eyes and then you will see more
clearly how to extract the mote from ANA
deus eyes. Misery loves company, and
what would poor Poland, Hungary, Ireland
and the South do if robbed of their suffering,
bleeding companion, Cuba :?
The Placer herald., 1872-08-10
The Washington Capital says facetiously:

The Washington Capital says facetiously
"oenator Henry Wilson, since his nomlna-
ton at Philadelphia, goes incoming about in
the haziest, happiest condition. 1t is said
that he is taking lessons in the art OF pre-
siding, and carries with him Cushings "Jef-
ferson's Manual and little gavel, and at
intervals he reads and raps in the most lively
manner. He created quite d sturbance at
;he quiet country house of IA friend not long
since. After retiring for the night, he opened
his manual and began as usual to read and
rap. The alarmed family heard this myste-
rious knocking, and thinking spirits were
about, actually had family prayer. As
Henry innocenily let ont the facts next day
the indignant family went over to Greeley
and Brown.
The Placer herald., 1872-08-10

Coon WoRDs.-A single word may dis
quiet an entire family for ii whole day. One
surly glance casts gloom over the house
hold; while a smile, like gleam Of sunshine,
may light up the darkest, weariest hours.
Ike unexpected flowers which spring up
along our path, full of freshpess, fragrance
and beauty, so the kind words. and gentle
acts, and sweet dispositions, make glad the
homes where peace and blessings dwell No
matter how humqle the abode, if it be thus
garnished with grace and sweetness, with
Kindness and smiles, the heart will turn
laughingly toward it from all the tumults OF
of The world and home, if it be ever so
homely, will be the dearest spot beneath the
circuit of the sun.