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I" PROBiBILITIES."

A Washington correspondent has been
interviewing "Old Probabilities. His
home is described as an old-fashioned
house, with head put on it of Mansard.
and rough-coated, and the back stairs
lead down into yard where out-houses
are strewn about, full of good-natured
workmen making maps. 1t is a queer
place altogether Wires go over the
neighboring houses, pouring into it (;
weather vanes - some old fashioned,
some made of hollow cups turned side
wisc-swing and vcer upon the roof. 1t
looks like watch-factory. And yet it
is close by the great Office of the Secre-
tary of War, to whom Probabilities"
must report himself three times day !;
and as, III ancient times, commanders
never went to battle without looking for
signs, flying birds, or indications of
some kind, war again consists of watch
ing the weather, and seeing how Ph1bus
sets his cloudy battalions. The name
of "Old Probabilities, with the mys-
terry removed, is Gen. Albert j. Myer.
He is an otficer-like, cleanly-cut man,
young and trim, with light complex
ion and pair OF intelligent eyes, and a
sort of reasoning address. His head is
rather small than otherwise, and the
forehead inclined. He entered the army
as Surgeon, from the region of Buf-
falo, N. Y, in 1854, and was transferred
to the line i'll 1860 as Major and Chief
Signal-Oficer. His present rank is
Colonel in the regular army and Briga-
dier-Gcneral by brcvct. He organized
the Signal-Corps of the army, and after
the war, with rare expansiveness, adapt
ed and extended the theory of signaling
to civil uses, and projected system of
observation and prognostication which
should serve the uses of agriculture,
navigation, and the comfort of society
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

THE average extent and cost of a lady's
rousseau is not to be inferred from that
of the Miss Rothschild of London, who a
few weeks ago, became Mrs. Eliot Yorke,
and not confine herself to handkerchiefs
in dozen dozens. The Bond street mil
liner to whom the order for the trOusseau
was given had instructions to provide
twelve dozen of every article which it
was within the bounds of possibility for
a lady to require. Pen and powers fail
to portray the piles of dresses, mantles.
linen, lace, shoes, etc, which went to
make up that rousseau. The cost hap
PLY concerned only the Rothschilds, but
it must have been considerable, for one
of those evening dresses alone would re-
quire fifty yards of silk.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

CHARACTERISTIC or ENGLISH WOMEN.
English women are very thorough and
practical domestic managers. They
surpass our women in this respect.
They are more ready, regular, and sys-
matte This is due partly to the social
conditions. They are less variable in
energy and feeling, and the fixed cir
cumstances of their life give them fixed
habits. They go on with the work and
in the surroundings to which they were
born. They do what they have always
seen done, and in the way they have
experiments to be made, there arc few
chances for mistakes.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

HYGIENIC VALUE OF LIGHT. The more
light admitted to apartments, the better
for those who occupy them. Light is
as necessary to sound health as it is to
vegetable life Exclude it from plants,
and the consequences are disastrous.
They cannot be perfected without its
vivifying influence. 1t is a fearful mis-
take to curtain and blind windows SO
closely, for fear of iniuring the furni-
turc by exposure to the suns rays
rooms positively gather elements in
darkness which cngender disease. Let
in the hight often, and fresh air, too, or
suffer the penalty of aches and pains,
and long doctors bills, which might
have been avoided.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

THE fox has always been popularity
regarded as one of the most non-com-
bative members of the animal kingdom,
and was never known to attack aught
else than the weak denizens of the poul-
try yard. The Winnsboro IS. O. Ne,os,
however, relates an instance where a
lady walking in the road, near that
place, was recently attacked by a large
member of the tribe of Reynard, and
so badly injured that her life is de-
SPARED of.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

IHE SKEPTICAL CONVINCED. -IIyery
advance in Medicine, every new remedy
has encountered an opposition, which is
the test of truth. Galen and Jenner
only were believed when they had proved
their discoveries against opposition.
But men are observing, and benefits
always make believers. No incredulity
can stand the silent argument of good
results. When DR.. Walker proclaimed
that he had produced from the medicinal
herbs Of California an Elixir that would
regenerate the sinking system and cure
diseases not organic, the incrcdulous
shock their heads. Yet his VINEGAR
BTrrERs is now the Standard Restora-
tive of the Western World. The truth
could not be resisted. Under the opera
ton of the new remedy, Dyspeptics
regaiued their health, appetite and
strength, the Bilious and Constipated
were relieved Of every distressing symp-
tom; the Consumptive and Rheumatic
rapidly recovered intermittent and Re
mittcnt Fevers were broken up; the
faint of Scrofula was eraticated! Who
could gainsay facts like these? Not
even the Faculty. Skepticism was
routed. All doubts us to the claims of
the Bitters to the first place in the first
rank of modern medicines were silenced,
and this wonderful preparation is to-day
the most popular Tonic, Alternative and
Blood Depurcnt ever advertised in
America. IN common with other jour
nalists, we are free to add our testimony
to this remedy. 1t is a domestic medi-
cine, and no household should be with
out it Com.
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LIGIT'.

According to the theory generally re-
ceivcd at present, the whole universe is
an unreasonable sea of highly atten-
uated matter, imperceptible to the senses,
in which the heavenly bodies move
with scarcely any impediment. This
fluid, which is called ether, fills the
whole space--fills the intervals between
the heavenly bodies, as well as the pores
or interstices between the atoms of a
substance. The smallest particles of
this subtle matter are III constant vibra-
tory motion when this motion is COM
municated to the retina of the eye it
produces, if the impression upon the
nerves be sufficiently strong, sensation
which we call light. Every substance,
therefore, which sets the ether in pow
erflll vibrations is perceived as intense
light, and weak vibrations as faint light,
but both of them proceed from the lu-
minous object at the extraordinary speed
of 1S6, 900 miles in Il second, and they
necessarily diminish in strength and
proportion as they spread tn emselve
over greater space. Light is not,
therefore, separate substance, but
only the vibration of substance, which,
according to its various forms of motion,
generates light, heat or electricity.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

The English Parliament has agitated
the Coolie business. 1t is carried on
very extensively by the Portuguese !;
and 10000 Cinnamon are caught and
transported, in the old slave fashion,
every year. The Portuguese Govern
ment protests that its hands are white
as snow, and that her ship-owners are
saints and her sailors angels. The Chi
nese Government does not dare to inter
fcre and the English talk on both sides
of the question, as though their money
and their morals were at loggerheads, as
they are very apt to be.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

A MAN who will take newspaper four
or five years, and then refuse to pay for
it, should begin his name with an h and
end it with 8, and put an in the mid
dlc.-lW. Gitcad (Ohio) Register. The
editor who will send his paper to man
four or five years without getting his
pay for it, should begin his name with
an + and end it with an l. and put two
o's in the middle. -Lima Democrat.
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"Oh, for a thousand tongues T.

If the Figaro is to be believed, San
Francisco possesses the most precocious
youth to be found between thesAtlantic
and Pacific oceans. That jourralrelates
that there is boy in one of the schools
of the Golden City who wears a green
velvet suit, which is broken out with
bcll-buttons. There is a great change
i'll the boy, says the Figaro, since he
he commenced to go to school several
months ago. He was then but trihc
better than an untutoredsayage, although
we frankly confess that we don't know
what an untutored savage is. His first
experience in school was spelling
lesson While the class was going
through the exercise, he sat on the plat
form near the teacher, and locked his
hands across his knees, and watched the
class very intently. The first was Ran
som. "By gracious!' said he, drawing
his teetsh. hard. Hhho teacher gave him
reproving look, and went on: Multi
ply. "Thunder and Lightning what Il
world - he cried in storm of delight.
Again the teacher nailed him with it
for over half an hour, endeavoring to
look, and proceeded Oscillation. At
this he just raised himself up to his
feet and shrieked ont in n perfect frenzy
of ecstacy, "By godeys, gentlemen, Just
shove your teeth into that y This
broke up the lesson.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05
Printable Sheen.

The Rccoyd md Farmer says Five
years ago b. L. Dana, Esq, of Spring
field, VT, bought of Burdett Loomis, of
Connecticut, five Cotswold ewes, for
which he paid five hundred dollars. From
this flock and its increase he had made
sales OF sheep amounting to fifteen hun
dred dollars, and has fifteen sheep re-
manning. The feeces average eleven
pounds each, and sell for 60 to IS cents
per pound, paying the cost of keeping
and something over. The rams at one
year old and over let for twenty to thirty
dollars each. There is no other flock of
sheep in this section that pay SO large IL
profit ON the capital invested, and but
few tiocks, large or small, that give so,
large sum as net profit. -
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

Tue Germans are reported to have
adopted 15S-poundcr gun in the siege
artillery. This is the largest gun ever
attempted to be used in field opera
tions. They have also been making
some 700-pounder guns, throwing Il
proiectile one hundred pounds heavier
than any Of those now made by the
British.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

"A writer OF some distinction says those
little plump, clean 0.nimals should be
used Tor food. X mistaken notion is
entertained sSenerally that they are a
hiha OF fat, and therefore an unjust
prejudice ought to be overcome, since
Ahey are excellent eating. Guinea pigs
are not pigs. They are harmless, timid,
vegetable feeders. Their flesh is nu-
tntious and delicate. If once received
INTO markets, being easily raised, they
would soon be priced for their many de-
slrable dietctic properties. Being pro-
hfic, too, they might be raised in vas
abundance, their food being an item of
no expense, u few cabbage leaves, roots,
or waste parings being all they would re-
qulre to grow into proportions to fill
vacancies in a gourmand's stomach.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05
POSTAL CARDS.

Did you ever figure up the whole ac-
count of economy that is wrought by the
use of postal cards )? A prudent man,
who is evidently well up in figures, puts
it down rs follows: The cost of good
sheet of paper and respectable cnyel-
ope is at least two cents time expended
in writing, one cent stamp, three cents;
making in all six cents. Now, three
fourths of the letters that are written
may as well be sent in the postal card
shape as in sealed form, and in great
city where ten thousand, OF more, are
mailed every day, there may be saving
on one thousand of twenty dollars or
more, OF 81, 500 per week. To be within
limits, we will say it is saving of
$4,000 year. Then, again, if four
thousand ont of five thousand letters
sent are postal cards, there are four
thousand human tongues exempted from
the vulgar performance of licking the
muciiage on an envelope, and following
that up by taking in the gum of the
stamp. The double process of licking
makes eight thousand laps for four thou
sand tongues, which is an item sure
enough. If one tongue had it all to do
and it would be good way to employ
some tongucs-not over ten letters a
minute could be gummed and got ready
for mailing. That would be six hundred
an hour, and it would take nearly twelve
hours to finish up eight thousand. Under
such circumstances one might exclaim
with the poet
'Oh, for q thousand tongues T.
Now all this labor we have men
toned may be saved, and people can, if
they choose, send just as many letters,
have more time and money, anu, if they
like, take their mucilago in gum-drops
by the quantity, and use their tongues
for other purposes. d.,
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be kept under pressure until the glue is
entirely dry.
Ammonia for yerbens

Srllphate of ammonia is an excellent
manurial liquid to apply to verbenas and
other flowers, giving to the foliage a
dark green, luxuriant and healthy APP
pearance. 1t is economical, clean and
easily applied. Prepare it in the even
ing before using, by dissolving ono ounce
of ammonia in two gallons of water. 1t
may be applied with safety about once
n week
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

A substance known as "leather glue"
is prepared by mixing ten parts of sui
phide Of carbon with one of oil of tur-
pentine, and adding enough gutta percha
to shicken the mass. The leather sur
faces to be united must be freed from oil,
which is accomplished by subjccting
them to pressure by laying the leather
upon blotting paper and applying hot
IRON. After lacking together the edges
to be joined with the cement they are to
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

For Loss Of Appetite, Dyspepsia, In
Debility, in their various forms, FErRo-Pnos-
PHoRATED ELIXIH of CALIsAYA made by Cas-
WELL, HAZARD * Co., New York, and sold by all
druggists, lis the best tonic. As Il stimulant
tonic for patients recovering from fever or other
sickness, it has no equal. If taken during the
season it prevents fever and aguo and other
intermittent fcyers.-lC Com.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

----QHR READERS should be careful to
notice that Proctor Il CANDLES Stamp is
upon the bars OF their NOTED German Soap,
all good articles are initiated and this Soap
being 30 popular, other manufacturers have
copied their stamp.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05
The Influence of Food Oh Milk.

In the report of the dairy of the Sturte-
want Bros, of Massachusetts,, the COWS
being Ayrshires, it is stated that six
COWS of an average age of seven years
give an average yield of milk for three
months as follows June, 81 lbs; July,
1872 lbs; August, 776 lbs. The largest
yield OF any one COW was produced by
cowelevenyears old, in the month of July,
viz: l,O39. On account of limited pas
turage, corn meal was fc d in July at the
rate of twenty quarts per day to fourteen
animals, and the effect of an omission of
provender for a limited time is shown by
the following statement : July Sd to Sth,
INCLUSIVE, meal fed to eleven COWS, milk
l,6l9 lbs; 9th to 14th, inclusive, no meal
led, eleven COWS, milk 1,613 lbs.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

Mental Depression.

Mental depression is disease of the nervous
system, and of all the ills flesh is heir to- it is the
one that cxcites the least sympathy. 1t is sub
ject of frequent jests, and is called by various de-
risivc terms; but although it is often laughed at
1t is not easy to laugh the patient out of the belief
that his Ills all reaI-for it is real disorder
the general features of which constant fear,
anxiety and gloom. The external senses, as well
as the mental faculties, often MAI ifest symptoms
sof arrangement Noisc, as of falling water, and
ringing in the ears complained of, while black
specks and fiery sparks frequently fit before the
vision. Admonitions like these should not be dis
regarded as they may, if neglected, terminate in
insanity. The seat Of the disease is in the brain
and nervous system. and to control the malady it
is necessary to use powerful tonic and altera-
tive which will correct and tone those organs
Without nfaming the brain, This is the secret of
the success Of Hostetters Stomach Btters in cases
Of this kind, flr which it is the safest as well as
the best Of restoratives. In fact, 1t is the only
pure and reliable tonic stinulant known. Many
nostrums, purporting to be tenics are puffcd up
from time to time in the newspapers, but the suf
ferer had better let them alone. Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters has proven itself by many years
trial, to be in every respect what it is represented
to be-
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

"They say often tells that which is
not true. He is about the worst au-
thority you can produce to support the
credibility of your statement. Scarcely
ever is suspicious report put in circu-
lation, but this Mr.. " They Say" is the
author of it; and he always escapes re-
sponiibility and detection, because liv-
ing nowhere, he cannot be found. Who
said that Mr.. -, the merchant, was
in Il failing condition? Why, "They
Say" so. On what authority do you af-
firm that neighbor J. has been in bad
company? Why, "Thcy Say SO. Is
it a fact that Miss V. is not so circum-
spect rs she should be? Why, "They
Say" so. Have nothing to do with that
Mr.. "They Say" he is half-brother
to Mr.. Nobody, who always does all the
mischief, and lives nowhere but in the
inventive brain of those who, undeserv-
ing respect themselves, are dssirous to
pull down to their own level. We al
ways suspect the truth of a report which
comes from the authority of "They
Saw"
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They are telling-the Eastern papers
"a neat little story of a book canvasser
who talked with dazzling volubility to
pretty little woman sewing at window
sell her a book. Finally handing her
the book for subscription, she wrote:
" line defe and dum." We suppose it
doesn't hurt the story at all that it isn't
true, but then it is as well to point out
to its originator that the errors in spell
ing of deaf and dumb people are never
phonetic in their character. Sham deaf
and dumb people have often been dis
covered from that fact.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

TWELVE years ago there were forty
two steamers running between the
United States and Europe. The in
crease since 1861 has been ninety seven
steamers. The oldest company plying
On the Atlantic is the Cunard. 1t has
carried nearly 100000 of passengers
since it began operations in 1910, and lost
none. The next is the Inman line,
which has carried $1,000 passengers,
and lost 1T in the City of Boston. The
Anchor line has carried 150,77O, since
1866, and lost $50 in the Hibernia,
United Kingdom and Cambria. The
Bremen line, since 1858, has conveyed
4S2, 900 persons and lost no lives the
National line, 217,0O0, and lost none !;
the Williams e Guion, 250,000, with
but two lost, jumping overheard at the
sinking of the Colorado the French
line carries no Storage passengers,
though owning the largest vessels afoat.
Finally, the White Star line has, since
organized, carried $1,000 passengers,
losing 5l6 by the wreck of the Atlantic.
Total number of lives lost, 975.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

THE system frequently gets ont of or
der and should be at once regulated, else other
troubles will ensue. When pliysic is needed
take Parsons Pu'gatire PUS; they arc safe,
wholesome and natural medicine [Com.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

BINKs tumbled down stairs, the other
day, and that wretch Bovins said that it
was better proof of the descent of man
than any Darwin had given.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

Best and Oldest Family DieJiciNe.-San-
tord's Lirer Inv'gorator purely Vegetable ca
thariic and 7onic-for Dyspepsia, Constipation, De-
bility, Sick Headache, Bilious Attacks aud all de-
rangements o Liver, Stomach and Bowels. Ask
your Druggist for it. Beioare If limitations.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

ToornAcHE proceeds from aguc in the
face, operating upon tie exposed nerve of IL
decayed tooth. Rub the gum thoroughly with
tho finger wet with JolsnSon's Ahcdyuc LINZ
ment, heat the face we'll, and lap flannel wet
with the linment on the face also put Il little
of the liniment into the cavity of the tooth on
COTTON Com.
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MALARIA, or bad air. is tho ct every form
of Feyerand Ague. Shlllenberger's Pills are an
antidote 10 this poison aud cure instantly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

n IMPERIAL GlN.-Thc only Gin distilled in
America by the Holland process: Medicinal
ly and Chemically pure Equal to the I'm
ii. IL SHUFELDT & Co, Chicago.
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4 DpRESS n DODGE, No. fTsts $. al-tcd ST.,
"A Chicago Speciality The TREATaSNT ilKAKr psKAsEs-
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Good Walks Around Farm Buildings:

Nothing adds more, not merely to COM
fort and convenience, but the health of
the family, than good walks about the
house and premises. We know these in
many instances to be utterly neglected.
They are regarded as good enough when
the weather is dry; and when the wealth
er is wet they cannot be made better.
And thus year after year the members
of the family are left to wade through
mud to the cow-stables, hog-p pens, wood
or coal shed, to the pump or spring
house, to the place of drying the wash,
and so on.
The labor it will cost to make hard,
dry paths is not worth mentioning.
About every place there are stones, old
mortar and brick, which could be laid
down in an excavation of six inches and
covered with coal ashes. This would
last for dozen years, and would always
be dry in five minutes after the rain. Or,
in lieu of this, lay down board walks,
which, if taken up in the spring after
the weather is settled, and carefully
piled up, will last eight or ten years.
Try it (; it will save in shoe leather and
doctors bills four times as much us the
cost, leaving out of the question the
great convenience and comfort enjoyed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

For BIscTcHEs, PIMpLrs, TEIIIR. Salt Rlleun
ana all Skin Diseases, JaSne's Alternative is sure
remedy. It pnrifes the blood and remoyesaH OBJ
structions in the pores Of the skin,
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The hornet is beautifully defined to
be the red-hot child of nature.
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TO PHOTOGRAPHERS.

FOR SALE, at HALF COST, FINE CAR, in good
running condition, for which have no further use.
5. NJ. IIARTWELI DcKalb, ILL.,
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For InfiammatOry and ChrOni,

rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Remit
tent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of
the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder,
these Bitters have no equal. Such Diseases
are caused by Initiated Blood.