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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-15
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A ring made of the hinge of a coffin,
and rusty old sword hung by the bed
side, are in some districts charms
against the cramp; headache is re-
moved by the halter that has hung
criminal, and also by Il snuff made
from moss that has grown on a human
skull in Il graveyard. A dead mans
hand, and especially the hand of man
who has been cut down while hanging,
dispels tumors. Warts may be removed
by rubbing them with bit of stolen
beef the chips of a gallows, worn IN
little bag round the neck, will cure the
ague stone with a hole in it, sus-
pended at the beds head, will prevent
nightmare. Many verses are known,
which, if repeated aloud, are credited
with curing cramp, burns, and other
bodily troubles. When you have the
whooping cough, apply for a remedy to
the first person you meet with riding
on a piebald horse-a ceremony that
DR.. Lettsom, the physician, was fated
more than once to become acquainted
with. Amulets, hung in a little bag
around the neck, are very widely credit
ed with the power of warding off dis
ease: the list of such substances is an
ample one, but need not be given here.
The anodyne necklace, which was a
profitable affair for one DIR. Turner in
the early part of the present century,
consisted of beads made of bryony root !;
it was believed to assist in cutting the
teeth of the infant around whose neck
it was hung. One peculiar kind of
amulet is the phylactery, bit of parch-
ment on which few sacred words have
been written; if worn on the person, it
is safeguard against disease and ca
lamity. The Jews in the East used to
carry such an amulet written with q
Hebrew verse from the Bible and
some of the Mohammedans with an
Arabic sentence from the Koran. A
horseshoe is a perennial favorite, as a
bringer of success. DIR. James picked
ND horseshoe on Westminster Bridge,
and put it in his pocket; that same
evening he made profitable CONNER
cial arrangement concerning his famous
fever powders, which he ever afterward
attributed to the horseshoe. AL the
Yen. RO,l1d.
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STRANGE SCENE IN CHTRCH

STRANGE SCENE IN CHtRCH
An extraordinary scene occurred in
Calvary Episcopal Church, in Chicago,
on Sunday. Rev. j. +. Walker, the
rector, was noticed by his congregation
to be in apparently ill-health, and to
read service in the morning with an I'M
usual feebleness. When, however, he
came to the sermon he broke down com
pletcly, and in few startling sentences
announced the reason. He had not
dined the day before, he said, as he had
no money wherewith to go marketing,
and all that he had eaten on SATURDAY.
and Sunday was bread and butter and
tea. When he went home on Sunday he
was not sure that he should find even
that. The congregation rose and de-
parted without any further sermon.
Cavalry parish is not very large or
wealthy one, but is ibundantly able to
support its incumbent. Mr.. Walker is
a gentleman of education, ability and
zeal, and his case has caused something
of sensation. 1t is stated that he had
invitations to more dinners on Sunday
than he could have eaten in month
but his parishioners feel sore upon the
subject, and think that the exposure
was not seemly. Their neglect is prob
ably owing TO the fact that the rector
has a small private income of his own,
which, however, is fully taken up inthe
education of his children.
IT is to be hoped that there is no
truth in the statement by a correspond
ent of the San Francisco Chronicle that
the heads of Capt, Jack and Schonchin
were cut off and placed in alcohol for
transmission to the medical museum in
Washington.
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PITTSBURGH.

Pittsburgh furnishes forty-six per
cent. of all the glass, ninety-eight per
cent. of all the steel, and thirty-eight
per cent. of all the iron manufactured
in the United States. In 1870 Pitts
burgh contained twenty-one bottle and
phial factories, twenty-three window
glass factories, thirtytive flint and lime
glass factories, nine steel establish
ments, thirty-two iron and two copper
mills. The total capacity of her large
metal working mills is not less than
eighty to one hundred tons per day
nine have nail factories connected with
them. The value of the annual produc
ton of the iron mills alone was ill 1870
over twenty-three millions of dollars it
must be now over twenty-six millions.
The average daily consumption of pig
metal was about / 200 tons. Upward
of $4,000 tons of pig-metal were con-
sumed annually in the mills and found
ries OF Pittsburgh. This was three years
ago, and the figures have been largely
swelled since that time.
The number of coke ovens in 1870
was s56, and their annual product over
20, 900, 600 bushels. Pittsburgh in
cluded also then six cotton factories, six
lead factories, twenty-seven machine
shops, eleven brass foundries, nine
chair and cabinet factories, four mallea-
BILE iron foundries, twenty-three brick
yards, two glass mold factories, eight
potteries, four pillow factories and the
largest cannon foundry i'll the United
States, together with $50 manufacturing
establishments.
The amount of capital invested in the
mines about Pittsburgh is about
thirteen millions of dollars, the amount
of coal annually mined over one humid
red millions of bushels.
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taste for sporting. His favorite seat is
an easy chair, made entirely from gigan-
tic stag horns and upholstered with
stag-skins. His father, the Duke of
Berri, was very corpulent, and the
Count inherits the paternal obesity.
His stature is less than five feet nine
inches, and his age is 50. He speaks a
good deal of Versailles, and thinks that
the bed of Louis XIV. is there ready
for him to sleep in. His wife, three
years his senior, is more cautious and
holder than her husband, and is regard
ed as his superior in intelligence and
force of character.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-15

VERY little comment is needed on the
following statement : Last year New
York had one convict out of every eight
hundred of her inhabitants Illinois
had one ont OF every seventeen hun
dred; Delaware one out of everyninohnn-
bred. The figures are interesting from
the fact that the whipping post is still
an institution in Delaware, and is
claimed to lessen crime much more than
the ordinary modes of punishment.
Delaware has no great cities where
criminals most abound, and yet we find
she has nearly as many convictions, in
proportion to her population, as New
York, with her dozen commercial cities
and her large number of pretentious
towns and villages, while she has twice
as many as Illinois, and proportion
ately larger number than most of the
States.
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1t is not at all likely that the trial of the
Marshal will end for some time to come
The charges preferred against him are
so serious, and the report of the Com
mission appointed by the Government
of NJ Theirs Immediately after the war
to inquire into his case is so bulky, that
the examination must necessarily pro-
coed by slowly. TO state it briefly he
is accused first of incapacity, and then,
which is really the serious charge, of
being in COLLISION with the German
forces, with q view to the overthrowing
of the infant Republic, and the estab-
lishmcnt of the Empire on n grander
and more splendid footing. This accu-
sation naturally refers to a period sub
sequent to the fall of Sedan. There is
also an intimation in the report that
Bazaine sought to entrap the Empress
into collision with him, and for that
purpose intrustel NJ. Regnier with the
delicate task of bringing her over to his
views But she would have nothing to
do with them; and then it is alleged
that the scheme fell through. Whether
the Marshal could or could not have
liberated himself from Metz is, after all,
a minor issue. 1t is enveloped in a
cloud of military theories, and there APP
pears to be no clear way of settling the
mooted point. But for all the misfor
tune that came to France through his
/ failure to cooperate with the other
forces, such cooperation having been
! the chief idea in the plan of the cam
paign, the report holds him entirely re-
! sponsible, but colors its opinion with
the whisper of deliberate treachery, in
timating only too plainly that the in
activity of Bazaine WAS but feature of
his lraitorous designs. The French
honor feels itself also wounded in the
surrender of the battle-tlags and arms
to the enemy, when it was so easy to
have destroyed them, after capituation
was determined upon. However the
trial will terminate, it is morally certain
! that it will be in the disgrace of Bazaine
\ full conviction is not expected, but it
is highly probable that the most damag-
ing testimony will be given on the
most serious items of the report.
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Wa TERED RAIL WAY STOCKS.

Two years ago, Mr.. Rufus Hatch,
New York gentleman of considerable
prominence, published series of circu-
lars, exposing to the public the gigantic
proportions of the stock watering frauds
of the most of the principal railways Of
the country. 1t was generally thought
at the time, the public mind not then
being aroused to the full enormity of
the practices going on, that Hatch was
led to his attacks upon the roads from
personal spite, and consequently his
statements were taken with much allow
ance. But subsequent developments
have proved that he was more nearly
right than any one could then believe.
In recent issue of the Chicago Trib-
inc we find these circulars re-summa-
rized. They show that the total amount
of stock-watering, in one form Or an
other, of the enumerated roads,
is $l35, 125, 436, or enough, as Mr..
Hatch estimates, to build and equip
tirst-class double track road, with steel
rails and iron bridges, from New York
to Omaha, including line to St. Paul.
Most of these roads pay dividends not
only Oh the cost of their property, but
on the full amount of their watered
stock, which represents no investment.
Some of them, however, overdid the
business so tremendously that they
have never been able to pay dividends
on anything but their preferred stock.
These dividends come out of the peck
cts of the people. There is no other
source from which they could come.
The fictitious capital would, therefore,
il actually invested, supply what many
able men have decided would be the
best relief that could be afforded the
people, viz: A double track, steel rail,
freight railroad from the interior to the
seaboard. The excess of freight
charges which shippers now pay on this
fictitious capital would pay a fair divi-
dend on the cost of such road.
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NEW YORK 1894 WEEKLY, sEMLWEEKLY, AND DAILY

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dollar will the
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sued. For the fiscal year ending June
80, 1874, the department submits the
following estimates Expenditures,
$50, 1863, 900; revenue, 1913, 619, 900 !;
from money orders, 100000 increase
from postal cards, 1888, 900; total reve-
nues, S24, 552, 600 Estimated defcien-
cy, S6,31O, 1000 The increased expendi-
lures for 1873 resulted principally from
the extension of the free delivery sys-
TEN in the large cities and the introduce
ton of the postal card service.
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4 DEVIL-FISH IN A BOTTLE.

A miner from Arizona, whose name
we are unable to ascertain, went fishing
down on Culyerwells wharf between
four and five o'clock last evening. He
had been fishing but a short time when
he drew up on the wharf an ordinary
sized black liquor bottle. He was not
frightened at the bottle, but he was
wonderfully perplexed as to what had
"bitten," and how and by whom the
bottle had been attached to his line
about foot above the hook. The miner
called out, and several other persons
fishing near him ran to see the wonder
ful catch. An examination showed that
that there was devil fish inside the bot
tie, and that one Of its arms extended
out of the neck and was firmly ertwined
around the line. The devil fish had
probably crawled into the bottle when
young, and finding it nice, comfort
able residence, he had committed the
indiscretion of remaining there until he
had grown so large he could not get out.
He had grown to near y the size of his
glass house, and in fact was rather
cramped for room. The miner was very
much elated over his prize, and in spite
of the protes tations of the crowd he
broke the bottle to get better view of
the nonster.-San Diego Unoin.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-15
MILK AND TIPHOID FE YER.

Since the first well-defned suspicion
of milk as the agent of disseminating
typhoid fever, evidence has accumulated
which proves that the subject is one of
importance by no means minor. DR..
Bateson, medical inspector of Leeds,
England, has just added important tes-
timony on the subject. Toward the
close of the year 1882, according to him,
fever appeared in Leeds in isolated
places, and in districts where the SAM
tary condition was unexceptionable.
The cause of this for while completely
batiled discovery but at length it was
found that Il milk dealer living in the
center of the town supplied every house
in which fever was present. But the
milk-dealer got his milk from farm
house some distance away, and all with
III his house We're well. Upon visiting
the farmhouse six persons were found
suffering from the disease, lying in n
room adjoining that in which the milk
cans were kept, and nursed by the same
woman who managed the dairy. OF
the eighty persons attacked fourteen
died. A dairyman in Glasgow, having
fever in his house, supplied seventy
three families, living in five different
streets, and in these families thirty-six
cases of fever occurred.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-15

The fiscal year of the Postoflice De-
partment ends June 30. The figures
for last year have recently been made
public. The receipts from all sources
in round numbers were 500, ZOO, 900, and
the expenditures nearly $40, 900; of
this amount 1925, 900 was for steamship
subsidies. The deficit was about
81, 100000 greater than last year. The
expenditures were something like
81, 100000 more than the estimates of
the Postmaster General, and the re-
ceipts were little above his estimates.
The differences in the business since the
abolition of the ranking privilege do
not appear in this report. The postal
cards were introduced two months be-
fore the close of the year. During that
time over 100000 of them were is
sued. For the quarter of the year clos
ing Sept. 80, over 63,000,0 900 were is
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-15

THERE IS NO DEATH-N it be true
that Nature abhors vacuum, it is
equally true that the Great Creator
abhors dcath and glories in hJc. There
is really no such thing as death-the
term is a misnomer used to designate
the changes which occur III life. Life,
eternal life, is created by the laws of
Almighty wlll-power, which are as I'M
mutable i'll their application as is the
existence of the Creator Himself. When
God made life, He made everything
necessary to sustain it, but left it for
mans progressive intelligence TO dis
cover, convert and utilize. Good medi-
cine is to the ailing l,hV$j1"" what good
fuel is to the expiring flame; the better
the fuel, the quicker the iire-the bet
ter the medicine, the quicker comes
relief from pain. CALIFoRNlA VINEGAR
Buffers is LIES elixir for old or young
Use this medicine properly and you will
live to good old age without those
physical ailments which make seventy
years burden. 10
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-15
A UOI'LD-BE NONARCH'S ABODE.

The Count of Chambord, with an in
come of 100000, is content to inhabit
the ground floor of Frohsdorf Castle,
his residence. His reception-room is
plain. The furniture represents the
style of the latter part of the last CEN
fury, the proprietor having an extreme
dislike of what he calls "gew-gaws.
The prospect from the windows is srlen-
did, embracing range of hills thickly
wooded with fir-trees. His closet con-
tains large variety of heavy walking
sticks, their owner being lame, and an
equally varied assortment of sporting
implements, the Count having inherited
from his grandfather, Charles X, who
was the crack shot of his time, decided
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-15

THE total production Of postal cards,
up to Oct. 3, was GA 80, 300, and at that
time the special agent in charge of their
distribution had all orders filled and
surplus of 6,S13,OO0 cards on hand.
From the demand during the first five
months of their issue, it is estimated
that $50, 900, 900 postal cards will here
after be used annually in the United
States
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WOMEN who are afflicted with drunken

WOMEN who are afflicted with drunken
husbands may bless the day that wit
messed their weddings, Tor, there is q
mine of wealth in their possession if
they will only move to Iowa, says an
Eastern paper, where a man pays ten
cents for drink, and his wife collects
So, 900 from the man who sold it to him.
This is 1000 per cent. better than life
insurance, and the wife keeps her hus-
band and he keeps the liquor.
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4 NAT ION or TENANTS.

Great Britain is the only civilized
nation in the world in which the cult
vators of the soil do not own it, but are
race of tenants. Even i'll Russia, the
emancipated serfs are now landowners,
each family possessing freehold. In
France, the land is owned by 5000, 900
of men, or rather families. The greater
portion of Germany belongs to the
peasantry who cultivate the soil. The
same is true of Scandinavia, and even
OF Spain and Turkey. But, in these
free and happy isles, the son of a
Briton has not where to lay his head
which he can call his own. They are
hewers of wood and drawers of water
for an aristocratic class !; and no En-
glishman can worship God "under his
own vine and fg-trec," because he has
no land on which to plant them. This
is not figure of speech, but literal
truth. There is no public record of
title 10 land in Great Britain. There is
no SUCH Olllttl IttCollti vi l'N'No,
which we have in every county in the
United States, where the title to every
foot of real estate in the whole Union
can be found of record, and traced
through all the changes of ownership,
from the original Government patent OF
Colonial grant down to the present mo-
ment. The real reason why there is no
public record of land titles in Great
Britain is that the land-title commences
in robbery and confscation. The land
lords dare not exhibit their title, as
they know that its origin is force and
fraud, and that might set the descend
ants of the rightful owners to thinking
unpleasant and dangerous thoughts
LOndOn Letter.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-15

To those who will look for it, there is
good deal of light under the present
financial cloud. Looking merely at the
instant and obvious facts, it is clear
that we are prepared to supply Europe
with many articles she needs in great
er amount than usual. The cotton crop
is generally placed at about 100000
bales, equivalent to 1,S40, 100000
pounds. OF this, nearly or quite
100000 bales will be exported,
after 100000 are taken by our own
spinners at our last years rates. If
this brings only fifteen cents, gold, it
would amount to 5000, 000,0 but it is
quite as likely to exceed $3.50, DOC, 900.
And the tobacco crop should give $2O,-
OOO,OOO more for 220,000,0OO pounds
exported. Reckoning from last years
exports of pork, lard, cheese, bacon,
hams and butter, we are probably with
in limits in assuming SOC, 100000 from
the export of these articles, to which
800, 900, 900 should be added for 49,,
10000 bushels of wheat. 1t is calcu-
lated that, owing to short supply,
Western Europe will need all of this
and $50, 000 900 more in corn, with bar
ley, rye and other cereals that cannot
be estimated. These things alone give
us over $400, 900, 900, gold value, to ex
pect from our crops and European fail
ures. Still further, our product of gold
and silver is $50, 900, 600 year, and we
receive half as much perhaps from
abroad, and have $3.50, 900. 600 in the
Treasury and banks. The export Of
alcohol is about 10, 600 barrels amonth,
and Europe needs more rather than
less. And it may be added as an inter-
esting item in this connection that Cal
ifornia will have 1000 bales of cotton
for sale this year.
The Philadelphia North Amcrican,
clear-headed and never deceptive, dis
GUESSING the above good figures of cheer,
says that these statistics concur with
the fact that very recently $4,000 i'll
silver were offered at par on Wall street,
and declined because currency is more
readily counted and easily held. Thus
values have shrunk the gold premium
has fallen, and that of silver disap,
peared the great crops have been sat
isfactory and face prompt demand.
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transportation for the railroads, and
good freights for shipping. They also
promise abundant work for the mills
that is extended by the demand for iron
at a time when European prices have
induced talk about expectation. Sucl
facts will raise again the confidence an(
restore the activity whose temporary
diminution caused an alarm not who'll,
cured perhaps to this day. All of these
indications are of permanent charac
ter, and their existence should add ma
terially to the confidence that has re
vived, without touching the high waite
mark we hope for. They agree Will
the immigration, whose first function is
to create more. They harmonize will
manufactures that are steadily expand
ing, and the general contentment tina
creates good from things evil and util
ICES the profitable for grander benefits
There are so many willing to displa,
possible evils that proper emphasis
needs to be maintained for the oppo
site
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SAN FRANcIsco's exports by sea dur
ing the nine months ending Sept, 30,
1878, amounted to So, 9S5, 096. Her
treasure shipments during the same
time, by land and sea, amounted to SIT,
$50, $40, of which $40, 269, 0G3 went to
New York.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-15

COuGHs and colds are often over
looked. \ continuance for amy length of time
causes irritation of the Lungs or some chronic
Throat Disease. "Bro,rn'S Br0Hchidi TrochoS'
are an etrectual CoUGH REMEDY Com.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-15

We SEE by the Chicago papers that
their long established and popular brand
hotled German Soap, its present price and
superior quality makes it the cheapest as well
as tho best sOaD for con sumerS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-15

CHAPPED HANDS, face, rough skin,
pimples, ringworm, salt-rheum, and other cuta-
neous affections cured and the skin made soft
and smooth by using the JUNIPER TAR Soar,
made by CAswELI., HAZARD & Co, New York.
Be- certain to get the Juniper Tar Soap, made
by IA, as there are many limitations made with
common tar which are worthless.-[Com.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-15

The silk industry of Switzerland is
enormous, and rapidly on the increase,
the exports of manufactured silks an
nually amounting to two hundred and
fifteen million francs, or forty-three
million dollars.