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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

| European advices inform us that the
reorganization of the German army is
steadily progressing. King William
having gained his dictatorial position
through the instrumcntahty of a superb
ly disciplined army, seems determined
on perpetuating that asccndancv by
carefully fostering the arm to which he
owes his exceptional elevation. No
greater proof of this determination on
his part has been given than by the pro-
ject now on foot to raise a railway bat
talon.
Napoleon in his great campaigns gave
the signal illustration of the principle
! that the General who could concentrate
the greatest number of men upon
given point i'll the shortest space of time
would prove victorious. In this age of
| railroads the facilities for such sharp
and tremendous concentration arc I'M
mensely increased, and any appliance
or organization looking to the utilizing
of such means of rapid transit would
necessarily commend itself to the study
and development of every true tactician.
A great impcdiment in the way of
bringing this modern military adjunct
into proportionatc use has been the
practical difficulty of cxtemporizing a
corps of adopts in railway machinery
and locomotion. This deficit will be re-
moved by attaching to the army bat
TALON of drilled and experienced men
educated not only in the school of the
soldier, but also in the practice of the
machinist, the fireman and the edglnecr.
Such corps rendered mobile and at
tached as sappers and miners are to
each main division as an invading army,
aud dwouldprovc off the utmostimportancc.
Time would be saved, disorders re-
pressed and casualties avoided.
Science, i'll its military avenues, as i'll
all others, must advance, or else be
come obnoxious to the charge of invent
ing means without employing them to
accomplish proportionate ends.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
4 FORTUNE MISSED.

A RECENT California paper records the
death, in the Shasta Coun y Hospital,
of Col. Michael p. Walsh, one of the
early settlers of Chicago. Walsh was
born in Waterford, Ireland, and was rs
years old at the time of his death. In
1882 he came to Chicago, when the site
where the city now stands was a mast
marsh. He purchased, for $500, eighty
acres of land. This he kept for one year,
when, the new town not coming up to
his sanguine expectations, and thinking
it was not very healthful place, he sold
the lot for the amount he had paid for
it, and emigranted to IL place of more
hattcring prospects. He went to Cali
fornia twenty years ago, and soon took
up his abode at Churntown, where he
became engaged in mining. He was al
most a helpless cripple for the last tif-
teen years, his right arm having been
rendered useless by a fallingtree. When
Walsh came to Chicago it was mere
outpost upon the western border of civ
lization, containing less than 500 irhab-
itants. The eighty-acre tract which he
purchased, and again parted with lies
in the very heart of the city. Had he
held on to it he might have counted his
wealth by tens of millions. While he
was running out the sands of life in
poverty in the Shasta county hospital,
the census of 1870 shows that the tract of
land which he once bought and sold for
5000 represented more wealth than all
the broad acres of California from the
mouth of Feather river to the Oregon
hne.-ChicagO paper.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

Across THE ATLANTIC IN A BALLOON
Professor Donaldson, an adventurous
American aeronaut, intends to attempt
to cross the Atlantic this summer in a
large balloon. The BALLOON, which he
has made for the purpose, will weigh
about 1000 pounds, will contain 26S, 900
feet of gas, with two small reservoirs to
provide against leakage, and an electri-
cal arrangement for light. The Pro-
fessor expects to accomplish the trip in
from seventeen hours to two days and a
half, and, if the experiment proves sue
cessful, intends to establish balloon
mail and passenger line round the world.
Yes, and if Neptune comes near enough
in the approaching perihelion of the
planets, we shall get on that ball and
see how it feels two hundred and seventy
million miles from the sun.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
TIfE WRONG PICTURE.

" A pretty facc-a very pretty face,
indeed =
turned the little photograph upside
down, held it at arms length, and
scrutinizcd it closely with my eye
glasses.
Henry Wallis looked pleased man
naturally likes to have his affianccd duly
admired and appreciated.
$50 this is the Bessie Armitagc |
have heard so much of really, Wallis,
she does credit to your taste. \ blonde,
| suppose ?'
Fair as lily, with blue eyes and
the sunniest golden hair ~
"Ah we'll, / must say prefer the
brunette style SO far as my taste goes
but then, fancies differ, you know
1t was all very well for Henry Wallis
to go into ecstacies about this pallid,
fair haired little Bessie Armitagc: he
had never met the glance of Cecilia
Vernons magnificent dark eyes. What
did he know about the true type of fem
mime beauty?
CAS- you say, fancics differ" Wallis
returned lightly. But l wish you
would select handsome frame for il
when you go to town neXt-blue velvet,
with a gold rim ON the margin, OF some
such tasteful arrangement.
"Tll see to it,, [ said, depositing the
picture i'll the envelope, and returning it
to my inside breast-pockct.
You'll be very careful of it ~
Careful? OF course ] shall 2"
l smiled little loftily at Wallis So
icitude, and we parted.
After all, Henry Wallis was better of
than l was, for he was securely engaged
to the dimpled, yellow-tresscd little OBJ.
ject of his affections while ] was yet
as it were, i'll outer darkness, uncertain
whether my peerless Cecilia returned
my devotion, or whether she secretly in
clined toward that fellow, F'itzhugh Tre
foil. A score of times l had resolved tt
settle the question:; a score of times
had gone to the Vernons' house witt
the very formula of declaration on m,
lips, and as often had the words di,
away uuspoken.
If fate had only gifted me with one
thousaudth part of Fitzhugh Trefoil''
off-hand audacity! [ don't think any
thing short of the deluge could chocl
that fellows cool self-possession al
earthquake would no..
However, love inspires the feebles
heart with a sort of courage, and | wa'
new man since MissVernon had smiled
upon me. What was the use of doubt
ing? Why not decide my fate at once
Henry Wallis serene content exer
cised stimulating influence upon me
l would fain have been even rs he was.
"There is no sense in procrastinat
ing matters any further" | said hal
aloud, as / walked up and down til,
limited domains of my law office. g"
have been a doubling fool quite lon,
enough"
I'm afraid 1 wasn't very amiabl
member of the domestic circle that al
ternoon.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
l'OTNG'S RESIG VA TION.

BRIGHAM IOTNG'S RESIGNATION
The Salt Lake Tribune, referring to
President Young's resignation, says
The recent moves of Mr.. Young in re-
signing the Presidency of the various
gigantic mercantile operations of the
Territory, which have heretofore had
his entire ecclesiastical influence and
the consequent support of the whole
Mormon population, are really of greater
Significance than they first appear to the
causual observer, and certainly have
another Interpretation besides the one
assigned by Mr.. Youngin his recent dis
patch to the New York Herald. Hither-
to all these various speculations have
been maintained and sustained chiefly
through Mr.. Youngs personal financial
standing abroad, which is well known to
be A | everywhere, fact we think no
one will dispute. and the fact that he
has been known as the President of Il.
C. M. ]. and other great enterprises has
been sufficient to establish credit
abroad to almost an unlimited amount.
Business relations with Mormon mcr-
chants will be governed hereafter by the
same rules as are applied to the I" Gen
tiles" In other words, Coop and other
church monopolies will stand on an en-
tirely different basis, and be simply
recognized as the speculations of few
Mormon capitalists, such as Hooper,
Jennings, Eldridgc, Sharp, Little, and
a few others.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
4 STRANGE COMPLAINT.

A correspondent of the Greeley (Col.)
T'ibn,c, who signs himself Justice,
complains that the railroads between
that place and Salt Lake City are bring
ing in wheat at too low rates. He ar
CUES that the farmers in that Territory
have wheat enough to supply the people
in the Territory till spring, and taking
advantage of high freights, they have put
their own prices on it, having no fear
that the Mormons could send in their
wheat. But now the railroads have put
down the price of carrying wheat from
1900 to S73 per car, and Mormon grown
wheat is pouring into Puritanical Gree
ley. The Colorado people had better
employ their Chinese in building wall
around their country. They are the
only farmers who complain that railroads
carry produce too cheap.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

CAPAcrTY.-A common councilman S
wife, paying her daughter a visit at
school, and inquiring what progress she
had made in her education, the teacher
answered
"Pretty good, madam; miss is very
attentive. If she wants anything, it is
capacity for that deficiency, you know.
we must not blame her."
"No, madam, =" replied the mother
"but blame you for not having men
toned it before. Her father, thank
heaven, can afford his daughter capaci
ty, and I beg she may have one imme
diately, cost what it may"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
VOLUME III.
THE WRECE or THE ITLINTIt

By WILLIAM e. RICH,rrs.
They built the ship with cunning art,
Instinct with skill iu every Part;
And-perfect as they deemed her form
They named her for the Sea Of Storm.
The stormy Sea, with smiling face,
Folded the bark in fond embrace
And bore her on her breast with pride,
In growing fame, from side to side.
Men said: "Thc sea has found her Queen
Such strength, such speed, was never seen"
And DER th" hnCd they went and came,
Buovcd by the vessels name and fame.
Till moaned the jealous Sea, at length
" Men must not mate with mine her strength ~
Till raved the jealous, angry Sen
There shall not two Atlantics be ~
That hapless rivalry is DER;
The ship lies broken on the shore;
And men will fear again to uarue
A rival to the Seas dread fame.
HAPPY, the ship" with tears We say,
" Was the great oceans lawful prey;
But for six hundred souls then lost
How shall she pay the countless cost -
And more We said: "If but the Sea
Had smote in farer jcalou-y;
Smotc only with ner tempest-hand,
Ahundred leagues or more from land;
''Smotc the great ship with pitilcBs ire
whcr- Is,'gll f,cl Ia = strength with fire;
iier giant strength, her fiery breath,
Perchance had vanquished storm and .,sath'
on greedy, trcacherous, vengeful Sea
That smote her where no help could be.
That hurled her on tho ghast!y rock,
And whelmed her with fatal shock.
From Prospects wild. fcam-crestet coast,
The sea sends back no bitter boast:
Only moan, from woman's lips,
OF love and life in deaths eclipse.
Only the echoes of their
Who persisted in the ships fierce throe
And with their gurgling breath bemoaned
a crime that cannot be atoned
All not the sea the ship betrayed,
They slept on whom the trust was laid
To guide her path where dangers stand,
Near hostile outpos's of the land.
Alas for twice three hundred dead,
Where Meaghcr's icy ramparts spread.
Alas . for many eyes that weep
For loved ones in unwakIng sleep!
That dreadful sacrifice, o Sea,
Our thought shall charge no moro to thee;
Nor jealous grudge of her that bore
Thy name i'll pride from shore to shore.
The wall that from her shattered form,
Drowned the shrill clamor ofthy storm,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
NUMBER "a.
MARY'S CALF.
BY JENNY JUSTICE.


Mary had a little lamb,
1t died long time ago;
And with it's wool she bought a calf,
As I'm about to show,
The calf it was of Jersey breed,
And it was slick and nice;
And Mary thought to feed it well
'Twould bring her good price.
She took 1t of to Washington,
(But that was on a sly,
Aud shew it to the Congressmen,
To see if they would buy.
She told them when it WAS COW
'Twoud be 80 very nice,
The milk would be SO good aud nice
'Twould bring them good price.
Some Of them thought twas very fine,
And bought share or two,
And when they thought they were all right.
The COW began to loo.
1t scared them all no terribly
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
A TTTIFIIL EXPERIMENT.

The following beautiful chemical ex-
pertinent may be easily performed by a
lady to the great astonishment of a cir
Gle at her tea party: Take two or three
leaves of red cabbage, cut them into
small bits, put them into a basin, and
pour pint of boiling water on them
let it stand an hour; then pour it off
into decanter. 1t will be fine blue
color. Then take four wine glasses
into one put six drops of strong vine
gar into another six drops of solution
of soda; into the third a strong solution
of alum, and let the fourth remain
empty. The glasses may be prepared
some time before, and the few drops of
colorless liquid that has been placed in
them will not be noticed. Fill up the
glasses from the decanter, and the liquid
poured into the glass containing the
acid will become a beautiful red; the
glass containing the soda will become IL
fine green that poured into the empty
one will remain unchanged. BY adding
little vinegar to the green it will i'm
mcdiately change to red, and on adding
little solution of soda to the red it
will assume fine green, thus showing
the action of acids and alkalies on vcge-
BILE blues.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

WE read that Mr.. Clement Bates has
rung the town bell in Plymouth, Mass,
four times day for forty-two years.
This is probably the longest time any
man was ever connected with "ring"
and still maintained good character.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

THE President never draws his salary
himself, but receives it through the
First National Bank of Washington, to
which he has given a power of attorney,
and the money is always drawn from
the Treasury by the cashier, and placed
to the credit of the President in the
bank. The warrants for the salaries of
the President and Vice President are
made out in the Treasury every month,
the former, under the new law, receiv-
ing "a, 163. 63 per month, and the latter,
$3.50. .33. Members of the Cabinet are
paid from the rolls of their respective
departments, and receipt for the same
as all other officers and workmen. The
President and Vice President do not
sign any payroll,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

"TnE HAIRS OF Our HEAD. Our
blonde belle has about one hundred and
forty thousand filaments to comb and
brush, while the red-haired damsel has
to be satisfied with eighty-eight thou
sand; the brown-haired damsel may have
one hundred and nine thousand, the
black-haired but one hundred and two
thousand. Few ladies consider that
they carry some forty or fifty miles OF
hair on their heads; the fair-haired may
have to dress seventy miles of threads OF
gold every morning. A German expert
mentalist has proven that a single hair
will suspend four ounces without break
ing, stretching under the process and
contracting again. But the hair thus
heavily weighed must be dark brewn,
for the blonde breaks down under two
and half ounces.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
THE 4" TED TO WEI,

The Patent Office has recently issued
papers to Il California lady, the inven-
ton consisting in rather novel method
of applying medicine externally, for the
benefit of certain class of patients, by
means of specially adapted towel.
This towel is used in drying the person
after bathing, and, it is claimed, is
medicated with such substances and by
such process that it will arrest cutane
Gus diseases, paralysis, and local at1cc-
tions, while it imparts at the same time
a healthful action and glow to the skin,
and frees it from bad humors A towel
prepared in the manner specified in the
patent will, it is said, retain it's medical
virtues effectively during two months
use, when the process of medication has
to be repeated.
GLASS SPINNING After manifold
trials, composition of glass has been
discovered which may be made at any
time into crrled or frizzled yarn. The
frizzlcd threads surpass in tineness not
only the finest cotton but even single
cocoon thread, ana they appear at the
time almost as soft and elastic as silk
lint The woven glass flock wool has
recently been used as II substitute for or
dinary wool wrappings for patients suf-
fering from gout, and its use for this
purpose has been, it is stated, success
full. Chemists and apothecaries have
found it useful for filtering. The
smooth threads are now woven into tex
tile fabrics, which are made into cush-
ions, carpets, table-cloths, shawls, neck
ties, cuffs, collars and garments.
The amounts actually realized by the
United States in civil suits bear small
proportion to the judgmnnts recovered.
Thus in 1871 the judgments amounted
to $3, 775, GA, while the sum actually
going into the treasury was only 81 ,306,
399, showing difference of $2,47O, 243.
In 1872 the balance was less favorable,
as out of judgments for s., 1874, 163 only
1856, 212 were realized; leaving balance
of 81, 607, ,961. The expenses of the De-
partment of Justice for the fiscal yeal
ending June 80, 1872, were $3,076,3 ,334
of which $2,6O7,961 were paid to the
United States Marshals and for court
expenses, including the pay Of jurors
and witnesses. The salaries of the
United States District Attorneys anG
their assistants amounted to 1929, ,465.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17
VARIETIES.

The poor mans story-The garret.
COUNTER Ready made clothing.
To protect the chest-Put lock
on it,
NEVER reveals secrets to relation, for
blood will tell.
WHEN is a baby like March When it
brings squalls.
WHEN is it right to take any one in?
When it rains.
81 DIE game" as the partridge said
when he was shot.
New reading of an old proverb-
Man proposes, and woman seldom re-
fuses.
Iryou let the cat out of the bag never
try to cram it back again it only makes
matters worse.
MANuFAcruRING is said to be the poor
est business, because it takes ten mills
to make one cent.
LITTLE fish have good notion as to
the commencing of life-they always be-
gin on small scale.
TALK about the modern falling off of
home affections Our wives are becom-
ing dcarer every day.
The boy who took a seat in our paste
pot has been engaged in the postoffice to
sit down on unsealed letters.
A scHooLBoY remarks that when his
teacher undertakes to " show him what
is what" he only finds out which is
s,Oitch.
Boxes, it is said, govern the world
the cartridge-box, the ballot-box, the
iury-box, and last, though not least, the
bonnet box.
Or A misery man who died of soften
ing of the brain, local paper said
ellis head gave way, but his hand
never did his brain softened, but his
heart couldn't"
"ExCUsE this bit of sarcasm" said
Smith but l must say that you are an
INFAMOUS SCOunOTcl dTuoIl WILD wv
of IRONY" was replied, as poker de-
scended on Smiths head.
NEXT to the boyish delight of surrep-
titiously sucking the mouth of molas-
ses jug, says philosophic correspond
ent, is the pleasure of breaking an en-
gagement with the dentist.
A GEORGIA woman IS credited with
having raised a large family, although
not out of her teens. 1t was her mother
in-law's family, and she did it with a
keg of powder planted in the cellar.
A CoNNECTIcUT doctor deludes people
to the belief that he has an immense
practice by practicing on cornet, the
sounds from which cause passers-by to
think they are the groans of a victim I'M
der the surgeons knife.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

BoYHOoD IN SPRING TINE. Rafting
is the prevailing popular amusement
with the juveniles this month. The
boy whose parents own the pond is
generally chosen captain of the raft.
The raft quite frequently consists of a
couple of boards the captains father
has laid away to season. The captain
stands Mt the bow and hollers, and the
other officers, hose claim to the berth
principally rests on the fact that they
nave dry pants at home, stand at the
stern and spatter water on the outsiders
who are on the shore with their hands
in their breeches pockets and guile in
their hearts. They thus navigate for
hours at time, and then fight over the
distance they have made, and finally go
home to see their parents alb out it, and
are dried with bed-cord, and are put
to bed, where they can feel of their in
juries without molestation. -Danbu1y
NcaCS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

N. P. BANKS, George P. Hoar, Gov.
Washburne, E. M. Chamberlin Labor
Reform) and the three-cent man are
now the leading candidates for the Mas
sachusetts gubernatorial nomination.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-05-17

Il iSbS.
A story has gone the rounds of litera-
ry gossip about, an attached pair of
names not unknown to fame, who went
to board where people also went, who
were literary and of good taste. The
lady, thinking that as she and her hus-
band were all in all to each other, it was
as well they should remain so, desired of
the hostess that there might be no intro
ductions to other bonrdcrs, which was
observed. Various tender passages be-
tween the amiable pair on their way to
and from the dining room edited the
family during the season. In time
Boston man came to board, and on his
way to the basement at dinner, going
down late, he heard light laugh behind
him, and a figure not so light rs the
laugh sprang on his shoulders and
claimed ride down stairs. The Boston
man took things coolly, carried his bur
den down stairs into the dining-room,
and shot her into vacant seat at the
table. The lady looked up to find her
husband already there before her, and
every eye was turned to watch these ex-
traordinary proceedings. There was
nothing to be done but to burst into
tears, which she did.-New York
Tribune.
THE AFRICAN WAY or RA ATIFYING
A TREATY.
A shocking story comes from Africa.
a treaty having recently been concluded
between the King of Bonny and the
King of Opobo it was. in accordance
with the ancient custom, ratified by
sacrificing a slave in u very peculiar
manner From the crown of the head
down over the trunk an mission, as if
for halving, was made; then several
stout men seized hold of the victim,
while some others hacked the body into
two parts along the line indicated
through the incision. One half of the
body the representative of King Bonny,
and the other half the ambassador of
King Opobo flung into the sea, by which
the contract was considered irrevocably
sealed. King Bonny tried very earn-
estlv to void this useless and cruel part
of the ceremony, but the Africans were
not to be dissuaded from abandoning IL
time-honored usage. The victim him
self did not appear much disturbed by
| the fate in store for him. His consola-
ton was that his butchers would be re-
paid with the same coin in the next
world