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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

higher, up above the clouds, far away
from the wild land.
The little princess, all the family and
people sat and waitcd-they are waiting
still ; and if you do not believe it, just
take journey to the wild land; every
child there talks about the professor
and the flea, and believe that they are
coming back when the cannon is cooled
off; but they will not come, they are at
home with us, they are in their native
country, they travel on the railway, first
class, not fourth they have good sue
cess, great balloon. Nobody asks how
they got their balloon or where it came
from they are rich folks now, quite re-
spectacle folks indeed-thc flea and the
professor
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
RE.i Ul MONEY.

Ready money is an excellent thing to
have on had. No matter if it is only
little sum. If it is only sufficient for the
current expenses, it is Il great convent
ence, to say the least. Any one who has
tried and compared the credit with the
cash system, will readily admit the cor
rectncss of the above remark. When
you buy for cash you generally get things
chcaper-got better weight and measure,
and all the favors the dealer can extend
to his patrons. On the chronic credit
system the matter is usually reserved.
Ii you try to avoid credit by borrowing,
you improve matters very little if any.
Hence We give this advice, turn an
honest penny" whenever you can, and
always have sufficient money on hand to
meet your small engagements.
Farmers usually depend upon their one
crop for the means necessary to meet the
expenses of the whole year, and it is sin
grllar that they should thus depend upon
the one single source, while the oppor-
tunities for Il profit are more varied on
the farm than i'll almost any other
branch of industry. Put yourselves to
thinking, and do not miss single oppor-
tunity for earning dollar, or dime
even. Persevering industry bcgcts econ
omy, and both combined begct compe-
tency and fortune.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
VA IRIETIES.

SEE in another column the advertise
mcnt headed, 81 wiz IIeip Any Man."
"TM going to draw this beau into a
knot" as the lady said when standing at
the hymencal altar.
A VIRGINIA paper describes fence
which is made of such crooked rails that
every time pig crawls through he comes
out on the same side.
The difference between country
and a city grecnhorn is, that the one
would like to know everything, and the
other thinks he can tell him.
A YOUNG man, charged with being
lazy, was asked if he took it from his
father. 81 think not, " was the reply;
"father's got all the lazincss he ever
had"
AN old lady hearing somebody say
that the mails were very irregular, said:
{" 1t was just so in my young days-no
trusting on en-
WONDERFUL impression" You are
wrong, my dear Simpletonius, in sup
posing the Irish to be cannibals from
the mere fact of their having the broth
of boy SO frequently in their mouths.
DIGN1FIED clerk" Are you going to
marry yourself?" Facetious Patlander
-" Arrah, now when did ivcr ye hear
tell of gintleman marrying himself ?
Shrre there's Il lady goin' to be married
along wild me -
The wife of Methodist minister in
Tennessee has been seriously ill for
some time, but, says Southern paper
in announcing the fact, "hopes are en-
tertained that she will recover" And
then it adds "Lct him (the husbandD
have the sympathy and prayers of his
brethren in this hour of aliliction and
discouragement."
AN Irishman once lived with farmer
as hired man. The young folks of the
neighborhod, on one occasion, had
party, to which they did not invite him.
Pat considered himself very much
slighted, but after cogitating the matter
for while, he frightened up, and ex-
claimed, "Faith, I'll be avcn with 'em
yet; I'll have a party mesilf, and l won't
invite nobody"
DURING the war one of the Northern
hotel-keepcrs was on visit to Norfolk.
The eggs came to the table boiled hard.
"Look here said the hotel-keeper
"Sambo, these eggs are boiled too hard.
Now take my watch and boil some three
minutes by it," He gave the negro his
splendid gold watch. In about five
minutes the freedman returned with the
eggs and watch on the same plate. The
watch was wet "What have you been
doing to my watch 2" asked the North
crn visitor "why, it's all wet" eyes,
sab" said the negro; 81 billed dc watch
wild the eggs. All right dis time, sab ?"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
CURIOUS.

Coal is carbon carbon combines with
oxygen to form carbonic acid J.; there is
carbonic acid in the air, and it is an in
tercsting question how much coal i'll
ombination actually exists in the atmos-
phere about us. Savants assert that the
total is not less than eight hundred and
fifty thousand millions of tons. But
this is only fraction of that which
formerly existed in the air when the
world was young. The coal mines OF
the world are estimated as containing
five million millions of tons, all OF which
was primarily taken from the air by the
rank vegetation of primeval times.
OF course in those remote cons the
atmosphere, containing say seven times
its present percentage of carbonlc acid,
was untitled for the animal life now
flourishing on the globe. But as the
carbon was withdrawn the oxygen was
proportionately increased, and resplra-
ton became gradually possible to AMI
mails of higher and more complex organ
ization, and requiring more rapid
oxygenation of the blood. Hence as the,
atmosphere changed by the growth of
the conforming vegetation, the organic
creatures progressed from the earliest
reptiles that crawled in the hot and
wide-reaching everglades to the beng
that, crowning the strange, long series,
was made in the image of his Creator,
by whom into his nostrils was breathed
the breath of life"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
ANOTHER WORD.

San Francisco furnishes us with new
word, exceedingly genteel and refined.
This timeit is beverage manipulation, :"
a delicate little euphemism for bar
tender. 1t will be seen that it has a
great advantage over "drink mixer, ;"
"benzineprovider, y ''lightning singer, :"
and the various other synonyms for the
busy being who serves out drinks to
customers over bar. Beverage
manipulator" is good, but we gricve to
be compelled to make one objection to
it. When the father of a family, OF any
other man, has become obfuscated
through the obliging agency of the
"B. NJ" we fear some difficulty will be
experienced in pronouncing this dis
tinctive title. 1t would probably de-
generate in "beevish mippleair,' out
of which, of course, nobody could pos
sibly make head or tail. Still, this is a
trihe compared to the style and dignity
that will be carried into the bar-room by
this highly graceful coinage, which is
far more practicable than George Au-
eustus Sala's ambidextrous presti-
digitateur.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
ALPHABET or SHORT RULES

ILI III DR. bT sunni IL bbE''
Attend well to your business.
BE punctual in your payments.
Consider well before you promise.
Dare to do right.
Envy no man.
Faithfully perform your duty.
Go not in the path of vice.
Have respect for your character.
Know thyself.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few acquaintances.
Never profess what you do not prac
tice.
Occupy your time in usefulness.
Pos pone nothing that you can do now
Quarrel not with your neighbor.
Rccompense every man for his labor.
Save something against day o
trouble.
Treat everybody with kindness.
Use yourself to moderation.
Vilify no persons reputation.
Watchfully guard against idlcncss.
Xamine your conduct daily.
Yield to superior judgment.
Zealously pursue the right prth.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

A RUSSIAN MARRIAGE CEREMONY.
Marriage observanccs differ in out
ward form with the nations, and per-
haps our own whimsicality is the honey
moon, which intermediate period is not
openly celebrated by the Russians, who
entirely abiure this sentimental custom.
Their weddings generally take place tow
ard evening. During the ceremony
the bride and bridegroom hold a lighted
taper in their hands in front of small
altar placed in the center of the church.
Rings are placed on their fingers, and
their hands being joined, they are led
three times round the altar. Two high
ly-ornamented gilt crowns are placed on
their heads and held over them by the
groomsmen during part of the services.
They drink wine out of the cup three
times, and kissing one another, the cere-
mony is finished. The married couple
then make tour of the church, crossing
themselves at and saluting each sanity
Icon on the way. Immediately after the
ceremony dinner commences at the house
of the brides father. At a marriage
feast lighted candles are placed in every
position and corner possible. No other
wine but champagne should be drunk,
and the quantity consumed of this bever.
age is remarkable. The dinner is fol
lowed by ball, and the feasting is
usually kept up for twenty-four hours.
The married couple spend the first few
days of their welded life with the brides
father. After the marriage the bride
and bridegroom must call upon every
one of their relations, friends, and ac.
quaintances, and after this ceremony is
finished they sink back to their ordinary
life.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
DEFINITIONS or BIBLE TERMS

DEFINITIONS or BIBLE TERMS.
A days journey was thirty-thrce and
one-tifth miles.
A Sabbath days journey was about an
English mile.
Ezekiel's reed was eleven feet nearly.
A cubit is twenty-five inches nearly.
A hands breadth is equal to three and
tive-eighth inches.
A shekel of gold was $500.
A talent of silver was $53S.32.
A talent of gold was $l3, 800.
A piece of silver, or IL penny, was thir-
teen cents.
A farthing was three cents.
A garah was a cent.
A mite was cent.
An epha, or bath, contains seven gal
Ions and five pints.
A bin was one gallon and two pints.
A tirkin was seven pints.
An omer wastsix pints.
A cab was three pints.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
TIE FLEA AND THE Pro-
Fk,SSOR.
by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.

by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.
There was once an ;eronaut with whom
things went badly The balloon burst,
tumbled the man out, and broke iuto
bits. His boy he had two minutes be-
fore sent down with parachute-that
was the boys luck he was unhurt, and
went about with knowledge enough to
make blm an ieronaut too; but he had
no balloon, and no means of acquiring
one.
But live he must, and so he applied
himself to the art of legerdemain and to
talking i'll his stomach in fact he be-
came a ventriloquist, as they say. He
was young, good-looking, and when he
got mustache, and had his best clothes
on, he conld be taken for ii nobleman's S
son. The ladies seemed to think well
OF him; one young lady even was so
taken with his charms and his great
dexterity that she went off with him to
foreign parts. There he called himself
professor-he could scarcely do less.
His constant thought was how to get
himself balloon, and go up into the
air with his little wife, but as yet they
had no means.
They'll come yet" said he.
"lf only they would" said she.
We are young folks, said he, "and
now l am professor. She helped him
faithfully, sat at the door and sold
tickets to the exhibition, and it was Il
chilly sort of pleasure in winter time.
She also helped him in the line of
his art. He put his wife into a
large table-drawer; then she crawlcd
INTO the back part of the drawer, and
so was not in the front part-ouite an
optical illusion to the audience. But
one evening when he drew the drawer
out she was also out of sight to him ;
she was not in the front drawer, nor in
the back one either, not in the house
ltself-nowhere to be seen or heard
that was her feat of legerdemain, her
entertainment. She never came bacl,
again she was tired of it all, and he
grew tired of it, lost all his good hunlor,
could not laugh or make Jokes, and SO
the people stopped coming, his earnings
became scanty, his clothes gave out
and finally he owned great flea, which
his wife had left him, and so he thought
highly of it. And he dressed the flea
and taught it to perform, to present
arms, and to fire cannon but it was O
little cannon.
The professor was proud of the flea
and the flea was proud of himself he
had learned something, and had human
blood, and had been besides to the
largest cities, had been seen by princes
and princesses, had received their higl
praise, and it was printed in newspapers
and on placards. Plainly, it was very
famous flea, and could support profes
sor and his entire family.
The flea was proud and famous, and
yet when he and the professor Travelled
they took fourth-class carriages on the
railway; they went just as quickly as
the first-class. They were betrothed te
each other; it was private engagement
that would never come out they neve,
would marry, the flea would remain
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
NUMBER 81.
RA TIER PRETTY.

It-l fIsft 4 W. L L L
A pretty little maiden
Had pretty little dream,
A pretty little wedding,
Was the pretty little theme,
pretty little bachelo"
70 win her favor tried,
Aud asked her how she'd like to DO
His pretty little bride.
with some pretty little bushes,
And pretty little sigh,
And some pretty little Glanccs
From pretty little eye;
With a pretty little face,
Behind a pretty little fan,
She smiled on the proposals
Of this pretty little man.
Some pretty little Gloves"
And some pretty little "dcars,"
And some pretty little smiles
And some pretty little tears;
Some pretty little presents,
And II pretty little kiss,
We're some pretty little preludcs
To some pretty little bliss.
This pretty little lady
And her pretty little spark
Met the pretty little Parson
And his pretty little clerk.
a pretty little wedding ring
United them for life,
pretty little husband,
And pretty little wife.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
4 SPRING SONG.

BY EMILY +. FORD.
Grass is starting in the sun,
Brooks run gurgling to the sea,
Springs soft office is begun,
Winters captvcs she sets free.
Smiles the sky with deepening blue,
Laughs the meadows larger green;
Tender depths of airy blue
Bends DER snow-patch hardly seen.
Willows yellow day by day,
Mountains green their snow-topped heads,
Blue birds twittcr, robbins say,
Tulip, crocus, leave your BEDS
"Comc aud swell the train of spring;
Deck her smiling face with flowers,
We with song and tluttering wing
Prophets are for her sweet hours"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
VOLUME ii.
BAB Y BUNTING.

In Tom Hughes /" Memoir of a Brother"
poem written by George Hughes, prom
the Emperor Nlpolcun's dispatch
Empress about little Louis having pa
ough his baptism of iire, that is very not
at recent eflusion il so charged with fierce
Ter scorn?l
By. baby Bunting,
Daddy's gone a-hunting,
Bath of human blood 10 win,
To float his baby Bunting il.
By, baby Bunting.
What means this hunting?
Listen, baby Bunting
Wounds-that you may sicrp at ease,
Deatll--that you may reign in peace,
Sweet baby Bunting.
Yes, baby Bunting,
Jolly fun is hunting.
Jacques in front shall bleed and toll,
You i'll safety gorge the spoil,
Sweet baby Bunting.
Mount baby Bunting,
Ride to daddy's hunting,
On its quiet cocky horse,
Two miles i'll the rear, of COURSE,
Precious baby Bunting.
All, baby Bunting
Oftentimes a-hunting,
Eager riders get a spill
Let us hope your daddy will.
Poor little Bunting
Ierpend, my small iIlcLd,
After all this hunting.
When the train at las moves on,
Daddy's gingerbread "saioH"
May get shunting.
Poor baby bunting.
Curse on such "A hunting.
Woe to him who bloods CHI d
For ambitions visions wild
Poor baby Bunting!
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
TILE CIRi Z.

Probably many people have spcculated
upon the precise meaning of the word
"carat." 1t is an imaginary weight that
expresses the tinencss of gold in Il mass
of metal thus, an ounce of gold of
twenty two carats fine, is gold of which
twenty-five parts out of the twenty-four
are pure, the other two parts being sill
vcr, copper or other metal. The weight
of four grains, used by jewellers in
weighing precious stones and pearls, is
sometimes called diamond weight, the
carat consisting of four nominal grains,
a little lighter than four grains troy, or
sevcnty-four and one-sixteenth grains
troy. The term of weighing carat de-
rives its name from bean, the fruit of
an Abyssinian tree called kuara. This
bean, from the time of its being gath
cred, varies very little in its weight, and
seems to have been, from very remote
period, used as a weight for gold in
Africa. In India, also, the bean is used
as weight for gems and pearls.
WHAT pity the Bender family didn't
locate their wayside inn near Capt. Jacks
lava bed. The Modoc tribe would now
have been extinct.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

SOME idea of the ruinous depreciation
of values in New Orleans, as the direct
result of the disturbed condition of
political affairs, may be CLEANED from
the statement that the Opera il
that city, built some time ago at Il cost
of 1920, 200, was recently sold under ex-
ecution for $4,000, or less than one
fifth of it's original cost.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

CHASING slulking Indian with n
cannon has always been found an cx-
pensive business, as well as an absurd
one. 1t is said that the present Modoc
campaign has cost over $5, 100000 thus
far. The number of the wretchcs killed
before their escape from the lava beds
did not exceed ten. The cost, therefore,
has been about half million dollars
apiece
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07
4 DlR WINIAN SUGGESTION.

Max Adcler, i'll the Boston Courier,
remarks " We are engaged now in de-
vcloping II scheme for growing kid
gloves upon the original animal. Our
old friend, Darwin, teaches us that you
can do almost anything with breeds by
judicious selection : and we are con-
vinced that, with little care, it will be
possible to produce a beast whose skin,
when stripped off, will make a seamless
kid glove. Our first experiments are
with lizards. A lizared has four legs
and a tail. Now, we believe that event.
ually the off fore leg can be developed
into a thumb, while the other three legs
and the tail can be arranged as fingers.
We are crossing lizards with short tails
with those of long legs and we are now
looking around for variety of lizard
with button or two on his neck, for the
purpose of breeding it in with the others,
whose eyes will answer for button holes.
The ultimate result promises to be
startling. 1t will break up the old glove
trade, and drive Jouvin to suicide. Thus
it is that human ingenuity advances hui
man civilization"
SOME EMARKAB CHESS PLA YING
The chess club at Sheffield, England,
has been excited of late over the mental
feat of Mr.. Blackburne, who fought ten
strong players at the same time, and
without the sight of either board or men.
Mr.. Blackburne, though only 30 years of
age, occupies Il very distinguished posi-
ton among English hess-players, and it
is singular fact that he is most success
full when the board and men are kept
from his view. His opponents, on this
occasion, were seated at tables extend
ing nearly the whole length of the room,
while he sat near the fire, with his back
to the boards, calmly smoking a cigar,
and occasionally converstng with by
stander. Play commenced at half past
S, and continued until midnight, with
an interval of about fifteen minutes rest
when the contest had lasted two hours.
At first the audience seemed afraid to
move or speak lest they should disturb
the memory of Mr.. .Blackburne, but
they were informed by him that he did
not mind noise, and for the remainder
of the evening the room was anything
but quiet. The general result of the
contest was that Mr.. Blackburne won
six games, drew two, and lost two.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

AT Madras match was made by an
officer of horse artillery and some Off
GERS of the Fifteenth Hussars the for
mer was to ride his Arab horse 400
miles in five days. The Arab won the
match with ease.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

SEE in another column the advertise
ment headed 81 WaU Help Any Nan. "
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-06-07

Poor baby bunting.
Curse on such hunting.
Woe to him who bloods CHI d
For ambitious visions wild,
Poor baby Bunting
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-03-13
Public Sale OfPersonal Property

The subscriber having rented his farm, n
will sell OH the premises situated on the TS-7A
Limestone Road, One-fourth OF mile south An
OF Southwood Station an the Wilmington and Wes-
tern Railroad, IN Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle
County, Del, on Thursday, March goth, 1873, one
O'Clock, p. m his entire STOCK aud rming uten,il
as follows two horses No. is good sound horsc,
will WORK anywhere and is good traveller No. Is
good farm horse. Two good nilch cows will bs IN
Profit by day OF sale, the other will come In by st
May one heifer year old shoats, 70 pair Of chick
eusl
Farming Implements..-O good Germantown
carriage, farm wagon with tongue and shafts, hay
bed, one SO Wiley pluw, spike harrow two dukes;
double and single trees, grain FAM cutting box, grain
cradle mywing scythes forks, rakes shovels spades,
grubbing hoe post SPADE maui and wedges post Z,
lot of chains, post machine and auger, sets OF
gon harness. set carriage harness, collars; bridles
lines, matters, saddle and Birdie horse blanket, &c
Carpenters TUols.-Such as bench planes, cornce
planes tagging planes, saws, chisels squRr s.,
gers. brace and bits crosscut saw, &C. Also grain
in the ground, early rose potatoes by the bushe
elder ami vinegar by tue gslon lot of cider barrels
half bushel and half peck measures.
Houselo Go0ds.-One large ease OF drawers, ta-
blea, chairs clock, stove, with all the nxtnres
churn and horse, butter tub; lot of milk pans and
many other articles. Terms at sale.
ALNAN DAVIS.
j. Bramberry, .Auctivnuer. mar Ii
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-03-13
Public Sale
OF Personal Property.

n, Viii be sold at public sale, at the resi-
0EA delce of WIN. Wllmot, ST., in Christiana
A-h HID, on Tuesday March the 18th rs, on the
farm belonging to Ar. Henry Dupont, the following
personal property, to wit One Stanev Iusre eight
years old, good worker.
One bay horse 10 years Old.
One bay mare u years old good In all kinds Of har-
One yoke ofoxen years Old, will pillow without a
driver; u cows, fresh and II springers; Devon
year old bull, full bloodedi yearling heifers, two
hetfers two years old with calf. VERY fine Chester
County white sows.
RARMING UTENSILS One good four horse
wagon, good hoI Sc cart two horse wagon, hay
beds 2oXcarts, heavy land rollers, large market
dearborn. cultivators, plows, twin hArrows, 3
fallow harrow grain cradles, large lot single
and double trees. good grain fans, 1 corn shelter
nearly new, yet strong and heavy harness, sets of
pillow harness, Is hoes, lot Of spades shoyels and
raKes, &C.; Germantown wagon, open wagon.
sets Of carriage harness, good sleigh, large white
oak meat tubs etc.
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.--C9nasting OF two
large ables, paror stoves, large -four chest
settee, chairs several pairs Of bedsteads, cup
boards. -
DAIRY FIXTuREs-such as milk churm, hulk
brckets milk pans, ETC.
Conditions at sale.
HENRY DUPONT,
WIN. WILM0T.
Thos Bsacein, Auotieaesr. marchs