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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

THERE never was census of Ireland
till this century.
BJoRNsoN, the celebrated Norwegian
novelist, has embraced Methodism.
The Emperor of Austria has a mania
for collecting the skulls of celebrated
criminals.
COUNT Won BEUsT has gone into bank
ruptcy, on account of unfortunate stock
speculations.
THERE are in the German lunatic
asvlums II persons who believe they are
Emperor William.
A RELIC hunter from Maine was caught
plucking the tail of one of Queen Vic
toria's stable dogs.
IN England there are 1000, 900 draft
and pleasure horses, besides 100,0 900
agricultural horses.
The richest university in the world is
that of Leyden, in Holland Its real
estate is worth over 81 900, 900.
hDtHEfORI HIS Dttoille 50 ellidclattt
by his Imprisonment that his most init
mate friends are hardly able to recognize
him.
IT is estimated that three Thousand
infants i'll England are annually smoth-
cred by their mothers laying on them in
bed
A PARTY of Frenchmen, for frolic,
cut off anothers moustache, for which
they had the pleasure of paying him
So, 900.
The horse on which Cardigan rode,
when he led the famous charge of the
Light Brigade, has just died, aged 80
He survived his gallant master four
years.
BHAssEY, the great English railway
contractor, built, during his life, 6,7S0
miles of railway, in England, Ireland
and Scotland, Canada, India and the
Argentine Republic.
The heaviest brain on record was re-
Gently found in the skull of Il London
briclJayer who could neither read nor
write. Its weight was sixty-seven ounces.
This will be gall and bitterness to the
phrenologists.
THE English republicans have achieved
Il flag for their future commonwealth.
1t resembles the French tri-color, and is
a combination of green, white and blue,
tie idea being that the green will repre-
sent fertility, the white is to stand for
purity, and the blue for the sky under
which all men are equal.
A RUMoR comes across the sea that
Louis Napoleon, the ex-Empress
Eugenie, and the former Prince I'M
perial of France intend coming to our
hospitable shores early next spring, and
travelling through the length and
breadth of the continent during the
entire summer.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

KANSAS Penitentiary board is IT. cents
Il day. Go West.
THERE are 22O jewish synagogues in
the United States.
PITTSBURGH steel has been made to
stand n test of 240, 900 pounds to the
square inch.
A PUMPKIN PIE ten feet in diameter
and four feet deep was the chief feature
OF IL California dinner recently.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, the police rely
upon the press to give them the earliest
information of dog fights and gambling
resorts.
A WISCONSIN man has plan for light
ing Chicago by means of a huge lantern,
lighted by 4S calcium lights, mounted
on Il lofty tower.
TREES which sprang up in the ruins of
the Aspinwall Hotel, at Panama, which
was burnt about two years ago, are now
thirty feet high.
SOME time ago it was proposed in
Glasgow to raise II fund by means of
shilling subscriptions for the erection of
monument in memory of Robert Burns.
The amount now received in shillings
is s., ll3.
The President calls the course hitherto
pursued toward the MOrmOns "a shilly-
shally policy" and he declares that if
necessary he will place Phil Sheridan at
Salt Lake with 10000 troops, and will
eaforce the laws without war.
DIR. TALMAGE's Tabernacle, recently
destroyed by fire i'll Brooklyn, was the
largest and, excepting Plymouth Church,
probably the most widely known house
of worship in the country. Its nominal
seating capacity was about 1000, but it
would hold, without crowding, nearly
| 5000 persons.
THF following Texas towns are now
the terminus each of a railroad: Austin,
Waco, Cuero, Longview, Troupe, Nc,
Kinney, Denison and Huntsville; and
railroad work is progressing more rapid,
ly than was ever known i'll the history OF
Texas. Railroads have more than dou,
bled in length in the State within the
past year.
A WAC inspecting a farmers last in,
stallment of pork at the Detroit market
recently, picked up a ten-pound stone
and deposited it in one Of the porkers
and then loudly berated the farmer foi
trying to cheat in weight. The farmer
looked at the stone, at the crowd, fell
the thrust, and growled to himself
"Hang me, but I thought put it IL
the small hog!'
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25
J. CUSTOMS IN GENE.l

One of the Gueerest of Gencvese Gus
toms is their manner of conducting
their auctions When Il man bids, a
wax taper is lit, and his bid holds good
as long as the taper lasts. A taper is lit
for every bidder OF course the last
and highest bidder has the best chance.
Alongside of the auction should be
placed the other queer custom the Gen
eyese have, of making the world, as far
as in them lies, to stand still for Il cou-
pie of hours in the middle of the day
Nothing can keep your ordinary citizen
Of Geneva from throwing everything
aside at noon and going to dinner The
banker locks up between twelve and two
going on with business in the afternoon.
Even the coachman, that you have taken
by the hour, will want to leave you be-
tween u and o'clock. The fact is,
there has been nothing on the Genevese
stomach but bread and coffee since the
night before 1t is lnquestionably the
meacerness of their breakfasts which
makes them SO prompt to disappear be-
tween II and 2.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25
LNCREllSE OE UEILTH.

Business, as IL whole, was never more
prosperous than it is at present;
there never was time when the un-
skilled workmen received such high
wages; and it is the fault of the laborer
himself if he is not securing home and
independence. The one great drawback
is that our people will not be as economi-
cal as they ought to be. There is too
much spent upon dress; there is not that
frugality i'll housekeeping which would
conducc alike to health and comfort.
We have not yet learned to live well and
chcaply, and this remark applies to al
most every household in the land. Our
girls are not brought up to understand
and to do housework; there are too
many servants in the house, and there
are servants where it would be much bet
ter that there We're none. The dauGh-
ters of wcll-to-do people think it beneath
them to go into the kitchen and get din
ncr; III fact, very few of them could do
it. This is all wrong. There is nothing
which gives higher degree of health,
there is no exercise which is so invigorat-
ing, none which gives IL brighter glow to
the cheek, none which makes purer
blood than that of housework. Think
of it, mothers, and give your daughters
ii thorough insight into this department
of woman's labor
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25
WALKER & ODER,
VOLUME III.
now HAPPY I'll BE.

little one played among the flowers,
in the blush and bloom of summer hours;
She twined the buds in a garland fair,
And bound them up in her shining hair.
"Ah me :" said she, "how happy III be,
When ten years more have gone over me,
And am maiden, with youths bright glow
Flushing my cheek and Lighting my brow"
A maiden mused in pleasant room,
Where the air filed with soft perfume:
Va cs were near of antique mold,
BEAUTIFUL pictures, rare and old,
Ard she, Of all the loneliness there,
Was by far the loyclicst and most fair
''Ah me :" sighed she, chow happy I'll be
When my hearts true love comes home to me;
Light of my life, my spirits pride,
I count the days till thou reach my side
mother bent over cradle nest,
Where she soothed her babe to his smiling rest,
.'Slcep WE'LL" she murmured soft and low,
And she pressed her kisses on his brow;
so child, sweet child! how happy III be,
If the good God let these stay with me,
Till later ON, in life's evening hour,
Thy strength shall be my strength and tower.'
An aged one sat by the glowing HEARTH
Almost ready to leave the earth;
Feeble and frail, the race she had run
Had borne her along to the setting sun,
.'Ah me :" she sighed in ali undertone,
'IIow happy I'll be when life is DONE
VIXEN the world fades out with its weary strife
And soar away to a better life.'
"ris thus we journey, from youth to age
Longing to turn another page,
Striving to hasten the years away,
Lighting our hearts with the futures ray;
Hoping on earth till its visions fade,
Wishing and waiting through sun and shade;
Turning when earth's last tie is riven,
To the beautiful rest that remains in heaven
-LWheraR,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25

announcement was made, and as the
eyes of the court were turned upon him,
his self possession left him. And when
Lansing asked that he should be taken
into custody, the poor fellow fell over III
II fit, and was taken out by the police.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25
4 First one.

(The letters and figures in italics had
been concealed by putty.)
1 took another copy and went back to
my retreat, leaving orders for no one to
be admitted to the cellar.
Here, now, was another mystery: and
from the revelation which | had Just re-
ceived, | was astonished into the belief
that Albert Firstone had something to
do with the crime But yet the cipher
was still a mystery.
While | was studying these new de-
velopments, Lansing came in. | grasped
his hand with pressure that made him
vince, as | showed him the other letters
l had found. He looked at them mo-
ment, and then, springing from his
chair, fairly shouted:
"Firstone is the murderer, and his
name is the key to the cipher.''
And he showed me that the word Cir
stone in my copy was separated into
two words, and that line read: "a First
one" By this key the figures read, "a b
b e, and the cipher, with the addition
of the part concealed, read:
Stabbed
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25
A BIG THING on ICE.

Billy Kelly, compositor, who recent
ly left Omaha for Sioux City, returned
yesterday, in company with John Henry,
another compositor, the two boys having
skated most of the distance from Sioux
City down the Missouri river. They
left that place Sunday morning at half
past 6 o'clock, and skated all day, laying
up over night at section house of the
Sioux City and Pacific railroad. Next
morning they resumed their trip at day
light, arriving at Missouri Valley juno
ton about 4 o'clock Monday afternoon,
distance, by the river, of about 200
miles from the starting point. During
their travels Kelly froze both ears, his
cheek,--of which he has plenty,-and
one heel; while Henry escaped with two
frozen ears. This is probably one of
the most remarkable and perilous skat-
ing feats ever undertaken in this country
The boys are to-day sticking type in the
Bee Office, and it will probably be some
time before they undertake another
similar spin ON the ice.-Omaho Bee,
Dee. "a.
CURIOUS FACTS iBOTT NEWSPA
PERS.
Mr.. ID. w. Wilder, in the leading ar
ticle in the Kansas jluya2ino, has some
facts to tell, old and new, concerning
"Newspapers. He has been at the
trouble of measuring a quadruple sheet
of the New York UeraiI, and states,
among other things of which few news
poper readers are aware, that the num-
Der he has measured contains 9G0, 900
ems, while Mark Twain's new book,
an octave of 591 pages, contains only
836, 900 ems, and that this one copy OF
the Herald would make an octave con-
tanning 80 more pages than Twain's
book. Mr.. Wilder adds that "the price
of the book is S3. 50, of the paper four
cents" and for the further enlighten-
ment of people who do not appreciate
big newspapers and who may not be IA
miliar with Twain's books, says, "three
copies of this quadruple sheet daily
Herald would contain a fourth more
matter than the common English Bible,
Apocrypha included"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25

by
A. Firstone
We did not either of us shout ''Eu-
reka!" OF anything else. But looked at
Lansing, who was trembling like leaf,
and said, "You ought to have been II
detective
Having written out the cipher accord
ing to his translation, and being convinc-
ed that l had been outwitted, or some
thing of that sort, by a lawyer, I leaned
back in my chair, and, [ can't tell why,
but / burst out into hearty laugh,
which Lansing soon joined.
After my risible powers were exhaust
ed, I rang the bell for the errand-boy,
and sent a note like this to Denning:
Come up to my den this afternoon,
and bring some handy instrument for
the detection of foreign substances such
as pieces of stone in blood"
After sending this | prevailed upon
lansing to go with me to luncheon. In
an hour we returned, and found Den
ming, with large microscope and several
small Walls. L Immediately went to my
desk, took out Roger Lyons knife, and
handed it to him, asking him to see if
there were any pieces of stone i'll the
blood stains which still showed on the
knife. He knew my meaning in an IN
stant. And taking a vial he carefully
rinsed portion of the stains with its
contents, letting the liquid run upon a
glass slide, which he had placed i'll the
suns rays.
Impatiently we waited and watched
for the evaporation of the liquid. 1t
was soon all gone, when he placed the
slide in the microscope and turned the
powerful s,,n-glass upon it, On looking
in the lens, minute PARTICLES of stone,
some stained with blood. We're plainly
visible, thus proving that the knife had
been used to cut the stone of the cellar
after the blood had stained it.
"That is the result you wanted to
reach, is it not?" asked Denning, looking
me i'll the face.
eyes," I answered.
Then taking piece of paper, | wrote
for moment, and then handed him
what l had written, with IL request that
he would sign it, which he did. 1t was
an affidavit certifying that, according to
the best medical knowledge, the deceased
must have lived some time after the fatal
blow was received; and that, from mi
mute particles of stone which adhered to
the blade, it must have been used by
some one, probably the deceased, to cut
stone with after the blood stains were
on it.
Here, then, was the evidence needed
to prove the innocence of the prisoner,
could not resist the temptation to re-
veal it to Denning, and a happier trio
could hardly be found than We're assem-
bled in that little downtown Office.
The trial was to commence in about Il
week, and of course we were inpatient
for the time to pass.
At last the day came. The court
room was crowded, and many of the de-
tective force were present. After some
other business, our case was called up.
The judge asked
Guilty or not guilty?"
Lansing, in the behalf of the prisoner,
broke the silence with the words
"Not guilty." and added, 81 would
accuse Albert Firstone of the crime
charged upon my client"
I sat next to the criminal when this
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25

AT the sale, in Selma, Ala, few days
ago, of the Great Eastern Circus, the
elephant was bought by Mr.. DeHavne
for $4,000. Six bay horses brought
So, 400. The den containing the ioness
and cubs, $6,0S5. The Bengal tiger and
leopards, $4,000. The buffaloes, $400
each. The ring horses sold at from $500
to 81, 900 each.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25
NUMBER Is.
:" I AN 4 HOM.i N"

am a womau-thercfore may not
Call to him, cry to him,
Fly to him,
Pray him delay not.
And when he comes to me, must sit quiet
Still as n stone II,
Harder and colder.
II my heart riot
Crush and defy it
Should grow holdcr--
Say one dear thing to him,
All my lie ding to him,
Cling to him
What to- atone is
Enough for my SHINING!
This were the cost to me,
This were my winning
That he were lost to me.
Not as a lover at last if he parted from me,
Tearing my heart from me
Hurt beyond cure
Calm and dcmurc
Then my behavior;
Showing no sign to him
BY look of mine to him,
What he has been to me,
Pity mclean to me
Christ-O my Savior!
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25

A CORRESPONDENT of the Richmond
NeVs proposes to pay off the debt of the
State by establishing grand lottery,
the highest prize to be 100000.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25

THERE is man in Kentucky who,
during the late war, had an arm shot of,
and who has since then had his leg
broken by fall from horse, his re-
naming hand "chawed up" by thrash
ing machine, one of his eyes put out by
running against fel c. rail, and half his
ribs caved in by the kick of il mule. He
has not as yet made any lecturing en-
caoementS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25
CHAPTER III.

In this way nearly three weeks had
passed since the murder, when I received
a telegram from Lansing informing me
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25

A FELLOW has been blowing out the
gas again at Auburn, N. Y. His room
was broken into i'll time to save his life
In the morning he came down and re-
marked: "That gas must have leaked
considerably last night. Upon being
assured that it had, he innocently,
inquired: "Did it run over and spoil
the carpet anywhere?"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25
~ LOVE TO .STEIL.'

A well-known Connecticut Clergyman
had a deacon who insisted upon leading
the siging at the prayer-meetings He
was great blunderer, and he sang all
the sad and melancholy tunes he could
think of. The hymn was given out:
al love to steal awhile away"
The deacon began: 81 love to steal'-
to Near, where he broke down. He
started with Dundee-"I love to steal. )"
The third time he commenced and broke
down, when the pastor arose and gravely
said: 81 am sorry for our brothers pro-
pensity-will some brother pray?"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25

"YoU see that Thurlow Weed has
given up smoking, my son, remarked a
gentleman to his son. "Well, L mean
to do the same" replied hopeful, "when
I reach his age" The boy had read the
newspapers.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25
GEi{ ARABIC.


The most familiar objects about us are
often least understood, and probably few
can pause to ask the question, what IS
gum arabic, and from whence it comes ?
In Morocco, about the middle of No
vember (that is, after the rainy season.,
gummy juice exudcs spontaneously
from the trunk and branches of the
acacia. It gradually thickcns in the
furrow down which it runs, and assumes
the form of oval and round drops about
the size of IL pigeons egg, of different
cOlors, as it comes from the red or white
gum tree. About the middle of Decem-
ber the Moors encamp on the borders OF
the forest, and the harvest lasts a full
month. The gum is packed i'll large
feather sacks, and transported on the
backs of camcls and bullocks to sea-
ports for shipment. The harvest occa-
sion is made one of great rejoicing, and
the people for the time being almost live
on gum, which is nutritious and fatten,
ing. Such is the commercial story of
this simple but very useful article.
THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD.
This cnviahle person is probably the
Khedive of Egypt. His yearly income
is $50, 900, 900, and he has twenty-five
richly furnished palaces within the walls
of Cairo. He is vastly more progressive
than the Sultan, his Turkish master; is
rapidly extending his dominions, build
ing railroads, and making commercial i'm
provements, and will ultimately become
independent of Turkish dominion. He
is at present making arrangements for
the connection of ii railroad up the Nile
to Dongola, and thence across the desert
to London, which country he will make
one of his own provinces. 1t has been
remarked of him that ''the Viceroy,
upon any throne in Europe, would be
the greatest monarch Of the age" He is
not only prince but merchant a cap
italist, statesman and cultivator He
sleeps only four hours out of twenty,
four, and at his desk center his railroads,
steamship lines, telegraphs, postal ser
vice, private estates, sugar mills, cotton
culture, army, naval and civil service.
"YoU see that Thurlow Weed has
/ l., - 4
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25

Flog is a verb,
And SO is whack;
Cane is noun,
And SO is back;
And lazy boys go to sleep,
And through their lessons crawl and Creep
And sutter and stammer,
Must see the noun aud feel the verb
TO help them in their grammar.
A FORGErFuL young woman out west,
the other night, aroused the imates of a
hotel to which her bridal trip had led,
ON account of finding Il man i'll her
room. The hitiing circumstance of her
marriage that morning had quite escaped
her memory, and it was not until sum-
mary justice was about to be visited on
the offender, that she happened to recol-
lect it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25
VARIETIES.


JOINT ducatiOn-Gymnastic
In tents excitement in Il circus.
A GRANT for the West-The cmi-grant.
THEcondimentf for late dinners s-Ketch-
up
PIES that suit the Cclestials- Pup
pies.
WHICH is the oldest tree? The elder,
of course.
CoSGREssMEN, like corns, are often
paired off.
The height of advcrsity-Pledging
your word.
PEOPLE who sell hay do business on a
Large scale
Coon places for match making-Sul-
phur springs.
WHEN a mans necktie is united, how
,mtidy he looks!
Ir is not considered civil to ask milk
man for piece of chalk.
A MAN who was never troubled with
his mother-in- law-Adam.
PUGET SOUND is to be the great lumber
region of the future.
CASUALTIES s-Those placed upon rail-
road tracks by wreckers to throw trains
off
Ir is strange that somu huch coal sold
be found when it is constantly sought
''in Vein
The Rock River Methodist Conference,
of Illinois, has voted to forbid any more
Masonic ceremonies in laying church cor
ner-stones.
A VERMONT school-teachor insisted
that ''yellow' was ''yaller,' and he flog-
ged pupil almost to death TO convince
| him of it.
TIE New York CONlntcrciai ldrcHiscr
answers correspondent "Engishmnn"
thus: "No; the inhabitants of Buffalo
are not at all quadrupeds. Many of
them have but two legs, and frequently
find even that number more than they
can conveniently manage.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-25

of his return to the city. All this time |
had been shut up in my Office, working,
it must be confessed, with little hopes OF
success.
The day that expected LansinS's re-
turn I went to the place where the body
had been found and examined carefully
the marks ON the wall, but | could find
none other than the ones | had seen be
fore, so | concluded that those were the
only ones. As | stood looking at them,
however, | saw what seemed to be II
piece of stone lying on the floor of the
cellar. As II detective sees clew in
everything, | picked it up, and found, to
my surprise, that it was piece of putty.
AS soon as | discovered this [ searched
the whole wall to find where the piece
came from, and mt last / discovered that
some marks near the others were filled
with putty. | scraped it away, and the
whole cryptogram appeared as follows:
S T-1225-D
Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1873-10-18

2u rem Mrtifeln Der 11euen BuneeS>
3evilon eeb5rt Die Wufbebuna Der
pdpfli9sn Nuntiatur UNI @erbut psr
HlDfer.
SIM Canton Bern ilno So fatbolij9e
pfarrer pot, ibren Stellen obberufen
tuorcen, neil lie eem Yaplte trea fine.
Ser @uneesratt rparrt Ypr Ter Mus,
tpanceruns na@ Brafl;en. Die 6ei>
r,atbmIoen louen lieber mad Minne<
1ota fou,men.
Sn Giniiebeln faneen fi6 bel Ter
biesjdbri9en Gnselweibe Siele tauieno
pil9er Elm. barunter berlbmte Yrdlaten,
tpte Der bo9w'fe Bil@of Dupanluup
BON Srleans, Grsbiibof @osban aus
Mu5fralien, Der Nkt pom Martaftein u.
|. II.
Nursausr &atboliten w%aufabrten ;u
5uncerten gum 0rabe ceS lsl. Sruoer
&laus in Sareln.
Sn 3lri9 beabfdtisen Gle 8atboli<
ten cine 1eue STRIDE su bauen, ta bic
frlbere ibnen ent,oeen unc BEN Neuz
proteftantsn einserdumt uurce.
Sn @enf 1T Der ssueiene pater 9ya<
ols paffor anse(eQt tpprcen.