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Burning Soil.

In England land is often renovated by
what is known as "paring and burning. p"
1t is mainly applicable to land contain
ing much vegetable substance, and is
performed by taking up the top surface
to depth of two inches with spade,
so that it may become air dried. This
done, fire is applied and allowed to
shoulder until the whole surface has
been burned over. The superfuous or
ganic matter is thus burned out, and
caused to yield an immediate supply of
potash to the soil some of the mineral
elements of plant food are rendered
more soluble, and if the land be clayey,
the capacity of the soil for absorbing
and retaining ordinary manures is in
creased. At usual prices for labor in
this country, this method of renovation
is not recommended in field practice,
but for small plots designed for special
crops like carrots, or for garden pur-
poses, the plan is well worthy of adop-
ton. Something similar may also be
profitably tried upon retaining swamps,
melon-hole land, etc, by Swimming the
surface with pillow until the tufts of
grass roots and the like can be raked
out. They should be burned in heaps
under as much of the soil as the slow
fire will bear, and the dirt and ashes to-
gether distributed upon the surface.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

The Vermont Record and Farmer
snys: A lousy animal never thrives
One of the conditions of thrift is COM
fort. The animal needs to lie down
after eating, and ruminate with half
closed eyes, every feature and the
posture of every limb indicating perfect
contentment and enjoyment. There
must be entire freedom from pain and
excitement. 1t is not possible to COM
ply with these conditions when the poor
creature is in state of almost constant
torture from the remorseless pangs of n
thousand of these hungry parasites.
The frantic efforts made by cattle to dis
lodge their minute enemies may be re-
garded as an indication of the degree of
suffering they endure. There can be
no doubt that they are often the victims
of agony almost insupportable. 1t is
highly probable that cattle whose coats
are infested by these loathsome vermin
suffer some degree of pain all the time.
1t is very certain that the pain and dis
comfort caused by lice results in very
serious waste of nervous force which
must be restored from the food con-
sumed. The loss of blood which is con-
sumed by the lice on one animal in
single winter must be in some cases
many pounds.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19
THE SINS DISTANCE.

At present the distance from the earth
to the sun is reckoned at ninety-two mil
lions of miles, with margin of error of
about five hundred thousand miles. 1t
is for the main purpose of reducing this
margin by at least one-half that the OBJ
servations of the coming transit of Venus
are to be undertaken. In recent lee
ture on "The Constitution of the Sun, y
Prof. Young made use of the following
curious illustration, in order to aid his
hearers i'll forming an idea of the suns
distance. "You know" he states,
THAT, if you touch part of the body,
one does not feel it instantly. If you
touch the hand of any one with pin, it
will be an appreciable part of second
before he will feel it and draw his hand
back Now, if l had an arm long enough
to reach to the sun, and should put my
fingers into the solar flame and burn
them there, it would be hundred years
before would find it out, and another
hundred years before | could remove my
hand. Such is the distance of the sun,
and yet across that space the earth re-
spends to every impulse of the solar sur
face" An illustration of this character,
while it elected the applause of the au-
dience, failed, we doubt not, to convey
to many any more definite idea of this
immense distance than that obtained
from the simple statement of that dis
lance in English miles. -Appletom's.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19
COLLAPSE OF the Nerves.

There is nothing more disheartening than norv-
Gus debility. In extreme cases Of this class the
sufferers do not care whether they live or die. A
feeling Of hopelessness comes over them, and in
some instan res where the threatening symptoms
not met by prompt and proper treatment, lun-
acy or idiocy ensucs. Yet nervous debility is not
dangerous complaint II wisely dean with.
indicated stimulant il the remedy needed, and in
Hostettcr's Stomach Bittcrs this specific for the
complaint is presented In its purest and most po.
tent form. Nervous disease usually complicat ed
with other ailments 1t frequently involves bill
iousncss, constipation, irregularities C tho bow
els indigestion, nnd great mental depression In
the spring Of the year, owing to the effect Of chill
ing fog, searching wiuds and other unhealthy at
mosphcrlc phenomenal upon the external nerves
persons who subject to nervous affections oftel
suffer acute distress, both OF body and mind from
this cauGe 1t rs, therefore, advisable for all who
liable to these troubles to the other bodl,
Ills above mentioned, which so frequently accom-
pany them, to commence the regular Of Hos
nervous and bilious attacks, with which the!
NIGH, otherwise be visited, can lS thrS means b,
| certainly avoided. AS a ncrviue gentle aperfent
and arti-bihous medicine, the Filters have m
| equal
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19
killing Rats I'm Fields.

An exchange says: The ubiquitous
rat is said to be just now especially
troublesome in Germany. In several of
the provinces whole fields of grain and
clover have been devastated by them
and it isn't safe to try to cut them off
with arsenic or phosphorus, because
these pleasant articles are equally fatal
to the hares and other game. But the
ingenuity of despair has proved equal to
the occasion. The husbandmen now
mix plaster dust, aniseed oil, and dry
wheat, and place it, with plenty of water,
in the fields. The animals devour the
mixture, are soon very thirsty, and
when they have taken n good drink, the
plaster sets-not to put too fine point
upon it-solidifies inside the creatures,
and so they expire. The plaster used is
calclned plaster, such as is employed for
hard finish.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19
AGRICUL TURAL.


There are no animals more omniver-
GUS than fowls fish, herbs and grains
being devoured by them with equal
relish. We say equal, for though they
commonly pounce upon meat with great
er avidity than upon grain, this is gen
orally because it affords q rarity, and a
flock kept for awhile almost entirely on
animal food will show the same greed for
a few handfuls of corn.
Now those animals accustomed to use
a varied diet should not be confined to
an unvarying one. There are, indeed,
some species which are naturally limited
to one or a few kinds of food. Thus
cattle do well enough, although kept
month after month on grass alone, and a
tiger will thrive with nothing but lean
meat upon his bill of fare. But with
other animals, as with the human race,
for instance, the case is different, for no
person can maintain the highest efficiency
when confined to one article of food. No
matter how fond we may be of particular
dish, we lose relish for it when allowed
nothing else for number of consecutive
meals, and the intense craving of variety
indicates as its source something more
than mere appetite. 1t gives evidence
of real necessities of the system which
are varying with the changing circum-
stances of weather, employment and
other conditions.
The fondness for variety shown by
fowls is as significant of real needs as
we have found it to be in ourselves. In
purveying for them, a judicious variety,
selected from the three general divisions
fresh vegetables, grain and animal
foods at all seasons absolutely neces-
sary for young and old, in order to make
them perfectly thrifty. True, they will
starve on hard corn and water; neither
will they pay profit so kept.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

MILK STATISTICS. -Sixteen quarts of
pure milk are required to make one
pound of butter, and 10 quarts to make
one pound of cheese. When butter is
forty cents per pound, and cheese II
cents, one pound of butter equals in
value 16 quarts of milk and returns 2!
cents per quart to the dairyman. But
one pound of cheese from 10 quarts of
milk only gives him 2 Ill cents per
quart for the milk.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

A SURE SIGN OF DEATH.-M Martenot
de Cordoux, of Lyons Military Hospital,
states the following as an infallible
means of deciding on the certainty of
death-a matter Of more importance on
the continent than with ourselves, owing
to the precipitancy of interments there ::
Bring the flame of a candle in contact
with finger or toe for a long enough
time to raise an ampulla or bladder. If
this contain serosity, life is certainly
still present, while if it burst, discharg-
ing nothing but vapor, life is as certain
ly extinct. In one word dry vesicle is
a sign of death, liquid one of life.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

AND now comes Minnesota with her
little hog story, which, if true, stamps
the porker as the most tenacious of life
of all the animal kingdom. 1t is related
that in the storm which swept over that
State on the 18th of January last, five
hogs belonging to Mr.. Nye, of Fillmore
county, were buried in a snow drift. On
the It'll of March, period of fifty eight
days, the drift was opened and the hogs
discovered alive. They were in fair
bodily condition, but were unable to
use their legs freely, having not exer-
cised the muscles of the limbs for so
long a time. just after their rescue
they preferred slop to more solid kind
of food. Mr.. Nye is said to be an hon
est man, and his statement is regarded
rs strictly true. The hog, it would
seem, can be an economical feeder when
circumstances so compel.-E'rchange.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

To CUT OR BORE HOLES IN GLASS
Any hard steel tool will cut or bore glass
with facility, when kept freely wet with
a solution of camphor in spirits of tur-
pentine. A drill bow may be used, or
even the hand alone. A hole bored may
thus be readily enlarged by round file.
The ragged edges of glass vessels may
likewise be thus easily smoothed by a
flat file Flat window glass may readily
be sawed with watch spring saw by aid
of the solution. In short, the most
brittle glass can be wrought almost as
easily as brass, by the use of cutting
tools kept constantly moist with cam
phorized oil in turpentine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19
PasturinU Sheen.

The Ptoughnaan says: "Mr. H. G.
Abbott, of Vassalboro, Me-, plowed q
moving lot of forty acres that was coy
cred with white and yellow weed and
the grass badly killed out. He turned
ten acres of it to pasture for fifty sheep,
and allowed them to feed it for two
years. In the spring of the third year
he moved it, and got the heaviest crop
of hay that he had ever grown with any
amount of dressing. Timothy and red
top came in, and in some places the
clover was SO heavy that it could not be
cut with moving machine. 1t has been
moved for several years, and yielded as
heavy crop as other fields which have
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

AN eminent scientist, writing of the
struggle for life among the plants, makes
this striking statement: Each plant
endeavors, almost consciously, to de-
stroy its neighbor, to occupy his ground,
to feed upon his nutriment, to destroy
his substance. There are armies and IN
vasion of grasses, barbarian inroads and
extirpations. Every inch of ground is
contested by the weeds; the forest is a
struggle for precedence the wars OF the
roses are a perennial feud. The seren-
est landscape, the stillest woodland, is
the mortal arena of vegetable and ami
NAL conflict"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

WHEN BEGINNING TO USE GLASSES. -
Use them as short q time as possible,
only in deficient light, or on minute OBJ
jects, and then change the strain to dis
tant or larger objects. By a judicious
attention to these two points, the age of
the sight will be retarded many years.
And as reading is one of the luxuries of
the age, and one of its most delightful
pastimes and amusements, we cannot be
too careful of the eyesight, and should
study how we may best husband its
bowers.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

WITH reference to the proper treat
ment of drunkards, the Deputy Chief
of Police of Boston recommends that,
instead of a fine in the case of persons
convicted of drunkenness, Imprisonment
for specified term of days be substi-
tuted, that the prisoner be kept at work
during that time, and that the proceeds
of such labor be paid weekly toward the
support of his family. Why not also
provide legally for the inquiry as to who
sold the intoxicating liquor to the con-
victed inebriate, and sentence the ven
der thereof to at least an equal term of
confinement and labor by the side of his
drunken victim, and thus give additional
but still inadquate compensation to the
wronged members of many an innocent,
impoverished family?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

CURE FOR QUINsY.-Simmer hops il
vinegar few minutes, until then
strength is extracted; strain the liquid,
sweeten with sugar, and take frequently
in small quantities until relieved. Steam
with the following: Take of muriate
of ammonia lump as large as hickory
nut, put it in a coffee-pot with one pint
of vinegar, set on the fire to get hot,
then steam. Care should be taken not
to swallow the steam.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19
WHAT NEXT The Anril n

WHAT NEXT p The April number
comes to us full, as always, with sprightly en-
tertaining and instructive reading for the girls
and boys. Its success seems quite remarkable,
for though only fourteen months old the pub
Usher announces circulation already attained
of $4,000 copies, and increasing now at the
rate of 800 to 400 new names every day. 80
cents year. with a 51.00 Chrome to each
subscriber, Specimen copy cents. John B.
Alden, Publisher, Chicago, Ill.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19
a Promising Calf.

The Ashtabula (Ohio) Times says :
Mr. Robert Washburn, of Greenwich,
Huron county, has calf which for size
we think wears the belt. Having heard
of the wonderfully large infant, when
Mr. Washburn was in our office few
days SINCE we asked him for the precise
invoice, which is as follows: At four
months old it weighed $40 pounds, at
seven months, $50 pounds, and at nine
months, 1905 pounds.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19
A CASE of attempted murder of

A CASE of attempted murder of un.
usual atrocity has just been tried in
France. A young man named SEWN was
accused of having, last Christmas day,
shot and then attempted to beat out the
brains of his father, until the poor man
was supposed to be dead. The wretched
man confessed the crime at his trial, and
acknowledged that his motive was to
make himself the only son of widow,
so as to be, under the CONSUMPTION law,
exempt from military duty. The jury
pronounced him guilty, without extenu-
ating circumstances, and he was con-
demned to death. His father was the
principal witness against him, and could
only say, in apology for the deed, that
the young man was ga little weak
headed"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

SCREWS INSERTED IN PLASTER WALLS.
When we try to fasten brackets, strips
of wood, ETC., to plaster walls by means
of screws, it is often found impossible
to make screws hold firmly. When we
turn them in, the plaster breaks out and
our labor is in vain. And yet, screw
well set into plaster wall will hold very
firmly. The best plan is to enlarge the
hole to about twice the diameter of the
screw, fill it with plaster of Paris, such
as is used to fasten the tops of lamps,
ETC., and bed the screw in the soft plas-
ter. When the plaster has set, the
screw will hold very strongly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

To REMOVE FREcKLEs.-A French
journal recommends the following !:
lake na1'thaline, ten parts !; loiphenate
Of soda, one part tincture of benzoin,
cologne, each one thousand parts. Mix.
A tablespoonful of this is to be added to
a glass of cold water, four to eight fluid
ounces, and the face then bathed with
it every night and morning. -Idena.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

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 JUMPER TAR Soar,
made by CAswELL, HAZARD q Co.. New York
Be certain to get the Juniper Tar Soap, made
by u.s. as there are many limitations made with
common tar which are worthless.-[ Com.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

PUEBLO. Few besides Western trav-
elers and geographers, we presume, have
ever heard of the old Spanish town of
Pueblo, in Colorado If present APP
pearances indicate anything, however, it
is destined at no late day to take promi-
nent place among the growing cities of
the West. 1t is now the second city in
the Territory, contains a population of
$780, and has a trade valued at 81, 0O0,-
600 year, as it is the center of wool
growing district that contains 100000
sheep, and produces an annual wool
clip of 1,385,000 pounds. 1t is the
present terminus of the Denver and Rio
Grande narrowgauge railroad, is at the
crossing of the old trade routes from the
Santa Fe to the Black Hills and the
Oregon trail, and is the Quitting point
of the new San Juan gold and silver
mining region. Globe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

A VERY OLD MAN.-Harvey Thacker,
who died recently in California, was one
hundred and twenty-eight years old at
the date of death. He was the son-in-
law of the famous Daniel Boone, the
first settler in Kentucky.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

EARAcHE.-In some cases of earache
the expressed juice of the garlic dropped
in the car will give speedy relief 1t has
also been used with reported advantage
in nervous deafness.
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been cultivated by the usual method of
blowing and manuring. He thinks that
farmers who do not pasture sheep suffer
n great loss. The sheep he pastured on
the lot received no grain, but fed on the
lot from spring to fall, and were in the
best of condition"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

NICE CAKE.-Take seven ounces flour,
five ounces sugar, three ounces butter,
two eggs, one pound raisins, one and a
half cups milk, one teaspoonful soda.
Spice to the taste.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19
VETERINARY SURGEONS all ovt

VETERINARY SURGEONS all over the
country are recommending Sheridan's Carolg
Condition Po,oders for the following troubles
in horses Loss of appetite, roughness of the
hair, stoppage of bowels or water, thick
water, coughs and colds, swelling OF the
glands, worms, horse all, thick wind, and
heaves.-[ Com.
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Conc IN CHILDREN.-Give pulverized
anise in their meat, or small doses of
magnesia, or anisated tincture of rhu-
barb, one drachm, every three or four
hours.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-19

TESTED BY TIME.-For Throat Dis
eases, Colds and Coughs. " Bro,ons Bronchial
T,-oches" have p,ored their efficacy by test of
many years.-[Com.
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DooLEY's Yeast Powder cannot be ex-
celled for making light sweet Rolls, Biscuits,
Waffles, Corn Bread, &c. 1t is always ready
and reliable Com.
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FOREIGN GOSSIP.


ENGLAND's roast beef for last year was
rs pounds per head.
The Church of England establishment
in India costs the Government G165, 900
a year.
JAPANESE letter carriers trot over
mountain and plain at the rate of sixty
miles day.
ANOTHER monument to Robert Burns
is to be erected at Glasgow by shilling
subscriptions, which already amount to
six thousand dollars.
THE Cuban shareholders estimate their
slaves as worth 50, 500, 900, and are OPP
posed to the republic, which they feel
cannot, in the long run, tolerate slavery
GEORGE SAND thinks that Louis Ma
poleon was neither monster nor an
idiot, but that, with many shortcomings,
his character comprised the attributes of
sincerity and generosity.
MARIE ALExANDRovINA, a fine young
woman of 20, only daughter of the Gar,
is the wife picked out for Alfred, Duke
of Edinburgh, aged 2S, who has sailed
around the world, and is now ready to
settle down.
MARSHAL BAzAINE is still not brought
to trial. The preliminarics touching
it have been concluded, but that is all.
How much longer the 500 witnesses will
be kept to tell what they have long since
forgotten is not known.
The Duke of Edinburgh played the
fiddle again recently, at a public concert
in the Albert Hall. AS he only played
with the other tiddles in n concerted
piece, nobody heard his particular fiddle,
but he was much applauded.
THE peace strength of the imperial
German army, at the present time, is
4O1 $50 men, being little less than the
one per cent. of the total population al
lowed by the constitution. Prussia,
when alone, kept up peace army at the
rate of 1.065 per cent. of the then popu-
lation. In France, the estimate for the
current year is for 1.157 per cont.
JUDICIAL separation has been pro-
nounced in England, recently, in case
of marriage by advertisement. The par
ties met for the first time few days
before they were welded, and on the
day after the marriage the husband be-
gan to abuse his marital authority. The
learnedcounselfor the respondent kindly
hoped that other advertising ventures in
the matrimonial market might prove
more fortunate.
ABOUT dozen buffaloes were recently
brought to Paris from Turkey-in Asia,
and after being slaughtered, were sold in
the meat-market, realizing an average of
seventeen sous pound. This animal,
remarks Galigaani's Messenger, less
tractable than the OK, which it resembles,
is found wild in Asia, but is brought up
in domestic state in Italy, and led
about with rope attached to ring
passed through the nostrils. The milk
of the female serves for making the Par
mesan cheese. The flesh is hard and OF
dark color, and has n musky flavor.
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DIR, S. VAN METER g. CO.,

Chm rIe~tOn, H., New publications just issued
n work dedicated to young men and LECTURE ON
MARRIAGE, also treatise on the DISEASES OF MALES
AND FEMALES. Also on Piles and Fistula, all finely
illustrated All of the above sent receipt of l0cs
Infrmary establishe in IS45 All chronic diseases
treated Over $500 cases under treatment,
Cases treated by mail if desired. Address above
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PRUssING's WHITE WINE VINEGAR
keeps pickles. Ask for it.-[Com.
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DISTINGUISHED LoyERs.-Send 25 cts to Il. n. Full
ler o. Box g. Chicago for Mont varieties year