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BEiETTFTI $40 ".

They have snow-stOrms III the Lake
Superior country that are worth men
tioning. Nine feet of snow has already
fallen, and has packed down to four feet
on the level. The Green Bay 1drocotc
says that at Negaunec, where the rail
way crosses the street, the snow was
shovcled into cars and drawn off by loco
tivcs Pedestrians walked above the
sidewalks even with the upper sash of
the windows, and in entering II store a
customer would face the door and slide
in. There had been snowfall daily
for four weeks except on one day. This
is the kind of snow-storm to have; but
where fearfully cold weather is thrust
upon a shrinking community, accompa-
MED only by false promises of sleighing,
and where horse with bells on is re-
luctantly accepted as a piece of rare
hrmor, the case is disgustingly different.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-01

The Boston Journal Of Chemistry
says Field experiments as rule are
deceptive, unless many circumstances are
taken into account which are usually
overlooked. What is usually known re-
garding the previous agricultural con-
dition of the fields experimental upon ?
What account is taken of meteorological
conditions, dry seasons and wet seasons?
1t is possible for good artificial ma
nure to do positive harm to crop in a
very dry season, while an indifferent or
valueless compound would do no injury.
1t is therefore apparent that we are liable
to be misled by experiments with fertil-
izers, and that the reports so frequently
made of experimental labors must be
read with an Intelligent understanding
of what is necessary to give such expert
ments positive value.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-01
Against Shooting Horses.

An old farmer writes to the ohio
Farmer: About thirty years ago, /
thought horses ought to be shod, and
continued the practice several years, but
by degrees discovered 1 was mistaken
The facts began to leak out, one by one,
to prove that it is not best to shoe horses
in places that are free from stone or
gravel. In the first place, horses that
are shod are liable to so many diseases
of the feet and next, if they choose to
use their heels, they have destruction
behind them, and if they happen to tread
on fellows foot, it causes some pain,
especially if they are rough shod, and
unless they are rough shod, shoes are of
no advantage ON slippery ground. A
horse slips worse with smooth shoes than
he does barefooted And again, i'll a
soft snow, horses with shoes ball up so
that they can hardly get along, while a
barefooted horse goes right along.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-01
LlNGTtGES.

A recent calculation relative to the
principal European languages shows that
English is spoken by 80, 600, 900 persons,
inhabiting Great Britain and Ireland,
North America, the Bermudas, Jamaica,
Cape of Good Hope, Australia, Van Die
mans Land, Newfoundland, and the
East Indies German by $4,000, 600 in
their own country, Switzerland, Austria,
Hungary, Russia, and the East Indies ;
Spanish by 55,000,0o0 in Spain, Cuba,
Mexico, the Republics of South America,
Manila, etc, and French by 15,000,0 900
in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada,
Cayenne, and North America.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-01
Liscment in this per.-LCom.
TnERE is. probably. no WAY in VIII

THERE is, probably, no way in which
we can benefit our readers more than by recon-
mending to them. for general use. Johnson S
Anody1~ LinimeId, 1t is adapted to almost
all the purposes of Family Medicine; and as
It specific for coughs, colds, whooping cough,
sorcucss of the chest, lame stomach. rheuma-
ti5m, splitting of blood, and all lung difficult
lies, il has no equal that ever we saw or heard
of Com.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-01
To Trap Skunks,

A correspondent of the country Gen
teman writes The method of catching
skunks in this section, where they are a
great nuisance, is by batting them in a
large box-trap. Set the trap near the
line OF their nocturnal wanderings, baited
with piece of meat, and they are al
most sure to follow their inauisitiye
noses inside, and may be found safe and
sound the next morning, and usually with
out having thrown any scent. If they
are then carefully carried to q brook or
barrel of water, and suddenly submerged,
they may be killed without their scent
being let off. In this case, their skins
are worth the trouble of trapping and
skinning. If not scented, and duly
cleansed, the fur is quite valuable, and
makes very pretty durable carriage robes.
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IMPORTANT TO HORSEAIEN. Inf

II IUI-INNI To IIUKSIMEN. II HIIttIIIIIItl-
ton cannot exist where Prof. 'ANDERSoN' S
DERMADoE is applied. Fresh wounds, Calls,
Cauks, Bruises, are dried down and healed
without Inflammation. Scratches, Sand Cracks,
Swellings and Sprains cured by few appica-
tons. A thorough use will also cure Sweeney,
Poll Evil Wndgalls and Lamcness. from what
ever cause.
See advertisement in this paper Com
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If Heaven helps those who help them
selves, how well thieves must get along

LocKE's NATIONAL MONTHLY for Feb
ruary will contain splendid story, 1.-Two
Criminals" two sketches by Nasty. and vast
amount of other matter. Ask your newsdealer
for it, or send 10 cents to Locke a. Jones.
Toledo. Ohio. 500 per year. 1t is the best
magazine for the money published Send for
circular to Agents. Com.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-01

For an hritated Throat, Cough or
Cold, "Bro~m'S Bronchial IrocheS" are offered
it'll the fullest confidence i'll their efficacy.
They maintain the good reputation they have
illstlY a"nnircl.-LCOm
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-01

The propriety of giving condition
medicine to horses, cattle and sheep, was dis
cussed and admitted by many of the Agricul-
tural Societies throughout the State last fail,
and we believe that in every case but one they
M0M p0lrnll&. Good iudemcnt.- Dom.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-01

Some one has given the following rea-
sons why people should dress plainly on
Sunday. These reasons are as valid any
other day in the week:
l. 1t would lessen the burden of many
who now find it hard to maintain their
place in society.
3 1t would lessen the force of tempta-
tions which often lead men to barter
honesty and honor for display.
3. If there was less strife i'll dress at
church, people i'll moderate circum-
stances would be more inclined to at
tend.
4. Universal moderation in dress at
church would improve the worship by
theremoval of many wandering thoughts.
5. 1t would enable all classes of peo-
pie to attend church in rnfavorable
weather.
6. 1t would lessen on the part of the
rich the temptation to vanity.
7. 1t would lessen on the part of the
poor the temptation to be envious and
malicious.
8. 1t would save valuable time on the
Sabbath.
8. 1t would relieve our means from
a serious pressure, and thus enable us to.
do more for good enterprises.
THE PRESENT GROHTH or LONDON.
London, according to all accounts,
Notwithstanding the popular idea that
the climax of her growth has been
reached, seems to be increasing with all
the rapidity of Western township.
While we are discussing the subject of
rapid transit, the English metropolis
has railroads over it and under it in
every possible direction, and there is no
city in the world where ingress and
egress are so easy. Then the postal
system, which we shall not get under
two or three months, has there almost
reached perfection, and nearly every
month the authorities invent some new
way of adding to the public convenience.
A recent innovation is plan by which
the sender of telegram, who is in no
great hurry, can put the requisite num-
Der of stamps upon it and drop it into
one of the Postoffice boxes, when it is
sent as soon rs the box is opened, which
is generally every hour. The latest
novelty in London is a plan to convey
sea water for bathing from Brighton
into the heart of the city.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-01

WAGES in all branches of trade and
business have nearly doubled in the last
fifty years,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-01
Remedy for Cold Feet.

Soak the feet in warm water, with a
little cayenne pepper in it, two OF three
times week. Try this for a month, or
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-01
NEVER roo ON TO LEARN

Sir Henry Spelman neglected the sci
ences in his youth, but commenced the
study of them when he was between 80
and 60 years of age. After this time he
became Il most learned antiquarian and
lawyer.
Boccacio was 50 years of age when he
commenced his studies in polite htera-
ture. Yet he became one of the greatest
masters of Tuscan dialects-Dantc and
Petrarch being the other two.
OSolby, the translator of Homer and
Virgil, WAS unacquainted with Latin and
Greek till he was past 80.
Dryden in his 3Sth year commenced
the translation of the Had, his most
pleasing production.
Fudovico Monaldesco, at the great age
of rs, wrote the memoirs of his own
time
Franklin did not fully commence his
philosophical pursuits till he had reached
his 50th year.
Plutarch, when between 20 and So,
commenced the study of Latin.
Socrates, mt an extreme old age, learned
to play on musical Instruments.
Cato, at so years of age, commenced
to study the Greek language.
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\ CHALLENGE

ES extended TO the WORLD to place before the
public better COUGH or LUNG remedy thar
LUNG BALSAM.
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PERSONlL.

PERSONAL.
FIsK's estate is bankrupt.
OLIVE LOGAN retires rich.
BARNuM is full of pluck, but short of
funds.
NAPOLEON was 65 at the time of his
death.
VANDERBILT has commenced chewing
tobacco.
NINE JASAUscuEK travels with eighteen
large trunks.
MISS ANTHONY is not now, and has not
been, in prison.
REV. DIR. MILDURN, the blind preach
er, is lecturing in Tennessee.
The Prince of Wales is said to be II
good husband and father now.
EpwGN A. STEVENS, aged II, of Hobo
ken, n. j., is worth t00OO,O00.
VICTOR HUGO has a. big fire and the
windows all open when he writes.
Johnson wrote his "Ramblers" just
us they were wanted for the press.
Miss MARTHA SrINNs is the name of IL
Wholesale pork dealer in Hamilton, Q.
Mr.. FRANCIS, our Minister to Greece,
says Byron's Maid of Athens is Il myth.
WASHINGTON IKvING composed his
"Stout Gentleman" while sitting on Il
stile.
BURNS never wrote his songs until he
had completely mastered the tunes for
them
ADDISON walked in the long gallery at
Holland House, with bottle of wine ut
either end. composing as he went.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER went out into the
fields for his inspiration, and Plato pro
duccd CHS glorious visions all in bed -
TwENTY-EIGHr eX-members OF Con
gress died during the year 1872, the
most prominent of whom was Horace
Greeley.
JAMES TYLER was Il bankrupt when he
became President. lie husbanded his
means while III office and married a rich
wife, ard died wealthy in worldly for
tune.
JOHN p. HALE is confirmed paralyt-
ic, and has softening Of the brain. He
cannot leave his room, and will not
probably live Il great while. He is nearly
81 years old.
SENATOR TRIMEULL will resume the
practice of law after the Sd OF March,
the day on which his Senatorial term eX-
pires. He has been in the United
States Senate since 1S55-seventeen
years.
one WAY To RItLE 4 CANNON.
A Paris correspondent writes: A very
pleasant story is told here about the Bey
of Tlmis. He wished to have some
rihcd cannons. and naturally addressed
himself to German, who hit upon some
old ordnance, which had long been stand
ing on the ramparts of Frankfort. The
municipality were delighted to find a p1r-
chaser, and sold the pieces at low
price. The guns, of course, We're not
rihed, but this did not hinder the con-
tractor from buying them, He sent for
Il locksmith and ordered him to rifi9
them, and then to forward them to Tunis.
Three months afterward the guns ar
rived, but what was the establishment of
the Bey and his artillery committee to
find them rifled outside
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-02-01
The WHEAT FIELD OF AMERICA!
Healthful Climate, Free Homes,
Good Markets.

THE NORTHERN Pacific RAILROAD
offers for sale Lands in Central and Western
Minnesota, embracing: l. The best of Wheat
Land q Excellent Timber for the Min. the Farm
and the Fire; 3. Rich Prairie Pasurage and Natural
Meadow. watercd by clear Lakes and running
streams-in heathful Climate. ,rhere Ferer and A0ue
is unkno,ca.
GRAIN may be shipped hence by lake to market ms
cheaply from Eastern Iowa or Central Illinois.
Cars now through tn Sc lands from Lake Superior
per mere further away $3.50 to $500 SEVEN YEARS
CREDIT; WARRANTED Deeds; Northern Pacihc
7-3O Bonds, selling at par received for land at
Sl.l0. No other pied Lands present such ad-
vantages to settlers.
get 100 FREE, the railroad, by one and
two years residence.
TRANSPORTATION AT REDUCED
RATES furnis he'd frem all principle points East tt
purchasers of Railroa Lands. and to settlers OF
Government Homesteads. Purchasers, their wivei
and children carried free over the Northern
Pacific Road Now is the time for Settlers and Colo
MES to get Railroad Lands and Government Home
steads close to the track.
Send for Pamphlet containing full information
map and copy of New Homestead Law. Address
LAND DEPARTMENT., NORTHERN PACIFIC
RAILROAD. ST PAUL, MINI.
Or 5;S FIFTH AN., cor. NINTH ST, NEW YORK.
,Nrtc Dpsr iva lric ri
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GET RID OF A COLD AT ONCE by using DR.. Jayne's
Expectorant, certain cure for all Pulmonary ana
Bronchial Affections.
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Gkn-VALUABLE-S three-cent STAMP
speIO for particulars. DOBSON, HAYNES 4 co.
st, Louis. Mo.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-01-17

before the Investigating Committee on the
Sth. He had no personal knowledge as to
who was the original owner Of the one hun
dred shares standing in the name of Nelson,
son-in-law Of James Brooks; he presumed
Nelson paid for them. He did not know
that any shares we're sold after January /,
1868; he did not know that the success OF
failure of the road would depend on friendly
or unfriendly legislation. When asked
whether $l00 900 had not been put in his
hands to influence Congress TO annul Sec
retary Boutwell's ruling concerning the in
terest on Pacific Railway bonds, Alley
asserted that he had never had dollar for
such use, direct or indirect. He believed
that Ames had no intention of corrupting
Congress by his distribution of stock, and
thought that II there had been the fullest
Investigation from the first much public
misapprehension would have been avoided.
Mr.. McComb made a statement, on the 9th
before the Committee, re-afirming his testi.
mony abont the conversation he overheard
between Messrs. Brooks and Alley, and Civ.
ing the dates and amounts OF the check and
draft Brooks drew in payment of the 100
shares he purchased. McComb says that on
the day Brooks gave the check, he received
or had gwen to his son in-law 200 shares OF
the Union Pacific Railroad stock, and $4,000
worth of its nrst mortgage bonds; later he
got 80, 600 more Of each, making, in addition
TO the Credit -Mobilier stock, $25, 700 in
Union Pacific Railroad securities, for SlO,o0C
paid. These transactions, McComb says
took place about three months after Mr.
Brooks was made Government Director ot
the Union Pacific Railway. The Com
mittee adjourned to the 18th.
A letter is published from I. B, Kingsland
Mr.. Brooks business manager in New York
saying that Mr.. Brooks check-book shows
no check for $4,000 to Durant, or s., ,23S, 3;
--alleged by H. G. Crane, in a letter tC
McComb, to ihave been received by him
(Crane)-and that he (Kingsland) never
acting for Brooks with Crane, paid for any
one hundred or fifty shares of CreditMo-
bilier for Charles H. Nelson, and he is Ger
tain that Brook could not have made on.
such large operations in money without his
check book or bank account showing it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-01-17
THE OLD WORLD.

The London Times of the Sd, in an article
upon the death of King Kamehameha, says
it must confess that the Americans will
eventually people the Sandwich Islands,
which will become a valuable colony be-
tween San Francisco and China and Aus
tralia, .-. .....
Recent advices state that an understand
ing has been arrived at between England
and Russia with regard to the war against
the KhiVas. Prince Gortschakoff has given
assurance to the British Minister at st
Petersburgh that Russia has no hostile de
sign against Afghanistan, and that the Rus
sian expedition, commanded by General
Kaufman, was sent 10 punish the Khon Of
Khiva, who still refused to surrender Rus
sian prisoners. The British Government
expressed itself satisfied with this explana-
tion.
Randolph Stewart, the ninth Earl Of Gal
way, died recently, aged ~.
A London dispatch OF the 4th announces
the failure of the extensive wholesale mer-
camille house OF John II. Pawson & Co., OF
that city. Liabilities stated at $4,000. 600.
The late King OF the Sandwich Islands
weighed 800 pounds, and his coffin weighed
900 pounds. His rightful successor, William
Lunalilo, is said to be an inveterate drunk.
ard and worthless character generally.
The new census Of France shows the pop
uiation to be S6,l09,92l, decrease OF 800, 1856
since 1866. ,s..l Fr.lr rs -
The Emancipation, radical newspaper Of
Toulouse, France, has been suppressed.
Sir Charles Dixie spoke at Derby on the
evening OF the 7th, on the land question.
Amob attacked the audience, and a fight
followed which lasted for AN hour. MANY
persons were badly hurt, and an armed
escort was necessary to bring Sir Charles
Dixie and his wife to their hotel In safety.
Tho ex-Emperor Napoleon died at his
residence In Chiselhurst, England, at 1O:45
q. IN. on the 9th. He had recently submit
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-01-17

Kingdom would be regardedby the United
States as cause Of war. OF late years
Great Britain has regarded IL as definite
ly settled that we are to control the COM
merce of the Pacific in the future.
Her citizens are largely interested in
our Pacific railroads, and her statesmen
are believed TO look with favor upon the
growth of trade between Liverpool and
Japan and China by way of San Fran
cisco and New York. 1t is not thought
that she could object to the islands being
brought under an American protectorate,
or even to their immediate annexation.
France is not in condition to object,t
she would. Germany, which is exhibit
ing remarkable vigor in the development
of her foreign commerce and in increas-
ing her naval armament, is said to fully
understand the value of the islands, and
to desire TO possess them, but the rela'
tions of the United States with this
power are at present Of such friend.
ly nature that she could scarcely
be expected to stand in the
way of their acquisition by us, although
she would unquestionably object to any
rival European nation gaining foothold
there. AS to the views of the natives on
the question of annexation to the United
States, it is asserted that two thirds OF
them have favored for the past ten years
any arrangement that would bring them
in closer relations with us. in 1866
treaty of commercial reciprocity was
negotiated with the Hawaiian Govern
ment by Minister McCook, and WIS
warmly supported by Senator Sumner,
who made an able speech in its favor in
an executive session of the Senate. The
treaty failed by only two or three votes
to get the two thirds of the Senate neces-
sary for its ratification. If it had been
ratified there is little doubt that the islands
would before this have belonged to the
United States. - Washington Cor. Netc York
Tribune. -.,
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A Dog that is Worth Something.

A. B. NEWMAN, assistant light t-keeper
at Mount Desert, is the owner of fine
Newfoundland dog, of which we are told
the following anecdote Dir. Newman's
little boy, nine years old, strayed away,
and was missing for about two hOurs.
The mother went out of doors and called
to him, when the dog. in response, ran
up from the shore with the boys wet cap
in his mouth, and signified by his action
that he desired her to follow him. The
mother, alarmed, called the father, who
was sleeping in the house, and they fol-
lowed the dog as quickly as possible.
Down by the shore, on rock, the little
boy was lying insensible, his clothes wet,
as Il he had been dragged from the water.
After long efforts, in which the dog rem
dered all the assistance he could in his
mute way, the boy was resuscitated, and
afterward told his story. He was on the
beach, gathering shells, when a large
wave came in and carried him off in the
undertow. The dog jumped in after him,
but the wave prevented him from reach
ing the boy for some minutes. He seized
him by the leg of his trousers, and.tried
TO drag him ashore, but the cloth tore in
his teeth, and the boy said that he had an
indistinct recollection of the dog coming
coming down below the surface for him
again, and that wss the last thing he was
conscious of. 1t seems that the dog had
dragged the child upon the rock out of
reach of the waves, and had tried to re-
store him. When he heard the mothers
call he took the cap to inform her, as
we'll as he could, of the affair, and hasten
assistance. - Portland Press,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-01-17

A PENNSYLVANIA woman who has for
two years been afflicted by the cancer,
and has been treated by eminent physi.
clans without obtaining relief, dreamed
that a stranger came TO her house and
gave her some medicines saying that they
going to the door and looking out, she saw
the identical man of her dream approach
ing the house. He offered her a bottle of
medicine to cure her cancer. She took
it, followed his directions, and is now
as bad as ever. .1r.f f.s
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-01-17

A FIRE originated in the kitchen of 7O5
Pine street last evening about o'clock.
1t caught from the stove, and rapidly
making its way through the dining-room
and hallway issued from the front door,
where II was first discovered. II was on
the end of cigar. Damage ten CENTS
50. Louis Repu6licdn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-01-17
National Debts.

THE New York Bulletin gives the follow
ing tabular statement of the national debts
Of twenty-seven Governments, in 1852
and 1872 respectively, showing the inter
est during the last decade;