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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-16

Gold may be hammered so that it is
only l, 800, 900 of an inch thick. A grain
of iron may be divided into 1000, 900
parts. Still chemistry tells us that
there are ultimate parts called atoms CT
molecules, which are absolutely invisi-
bic. These atoms are attracted to each
other by the attraction of cohesion, and
repelled by the force of repulsion. BY
the action of both these forces the atoms
are kept in state of pact. The solid
ity of solid depends upon the fact that
each pair of atoms is in this state of
posed to be of an oblate spheroidal
form. An iron bar would support its
own weight if stretched out to Il length
of three and a quarter miles. A bar of
steel was once made which would sus-
tain its own weight if extended to a
length of thirteen and quarter miles.
Our IDEAS of great and small are no
guide to be used in Judging of what is
truly great and small i'll nature. The
Bunker Hill Monument might be built
over Il mile in height without crushing
the stones at its base When bars OF
iron are stretched until they break, those
which are the strongest increase in
length less than the weaker ones. A
piece of wood, having Il breadth and
thickness of three inches and length
of four feet, if supported at it's ends,
would be bent one millionth of an inch
by ii weight OF three pounds placed at
its center, and a weight of one tenth OF
an ounce would bend it one-seven-mjl
lionth of an inch. Professor Norton
described machine for testing the
variations of sticks of wood. The ma
chine consists of levers and screws so
contlived that the amount of weight
brought to bear upon the stick can be
accurately measured, and the variation
of the stick from straight line can be
measured, even though it does not ex-
ceed one.seyen-millionth of an inch.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-16
4 CITY of Glass.

Consumption has found an earnest
opponent, perhaps Il conqueror. Mr..
Gearge A. Shove, in book Osgood a.
Co. are about to publish, suggests a
city of refuge for consumptives. 1t is
not to be in the Sunny South. There
are such cities there now for those who
can afford to go to them. The new one is
to be in bleak New England, but per-
petual summer is to reign within its
walls 1t is to consist of q monstrous
forty acres of ground. Graceful iron
towers are to strengthen the walls, and
to contain the steam-engines which will
maintain a summer temperature
throughout the long Northern winters.
A great dome will rise in the center
"a dome of the Invalides, says the au-
thentic author, " of even more magniti-
cent proportions than the famous land
mark of strangers in the French capi-
tai" Within the building the iron col
umns will be covered with luxuriant
vines. The whole interior will be a
park, with lawn and ponds and GRO
quet- grounds, with trees, and shrubs
and flowers. Bands will play. Birds
will sing The January sunshine will
pour into this Garden of Eden like that
of June. Moreover, the Adams and
Ewes of the nineteenth C entury will es-
cape the intense heat of New England s
brief but scorching summers. Artih
cially-cooled air Will be forced into the
building. Around this central struct-
ure Il glass covered avenue will run,
lined on the outer side with hotels and
theatcrs and stores. The cost of the
gigantic conservatory with the attached
hotels is estimated ut So, 600, 600
The interest on this, at s per cent =,
would be $500, 900. Add to this sum
the cost of boarding 10000 visitors
from November 10 June 60, 500, ,000),
and we have -, 460, 600.
If the 1O,0O0paid only 50 day apiece,
the enterprise would net S940, 600 over
expenses and interest on capital. The
question is, would the 10000 come ?
Mr.. Shove shows, by thu census NOR
tality charts, that pulmonary consump-
tion causes over one-tifth of all the
deaths in New England, in Northwestern
New York, in Eastern New Jersey, and
in other localities. 1t is far more
deadly than smallpox or cholera, but
we adopt the greatest precautions against
these diseases, and apparently regard
the other as a decree Of fate. This
res ignation is partially explained by
the fact that in its treatment drugs have
proved a failure. SO, indeed, have
doctors. The disease is practically in
curable, unless the victim can spend the
winters in some sunny cline. Since
the city of glass will be the only refuge
for the great majority of the tens OF
thousands who are dying of this dread
disease. Mr.. Shove considers it but fail
to calculate that one of those tens viii
be constantly living in the oasis h,
wishes to construct III the midst of the
bleak desert of snow that covers New
England with shroud for so many
months and sets so many fingers sewing
on other shrouds. chicago Tribune.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-16

Pitman' S woodpile has suffered good
deal lately from the ravages of thieves,
so the old gentleman the other day
loaded his gun with coarse salt, and
expressed his determination to bonn
bard the first man who should be OBJ
served to haunt the timber. On We'd
nesday morning he had to attend court,
and as he did not expect to reach home
until late in the evening, Mrs. Pitman
felt It her duty to keep an eye upon the
woodpile. But Pitman returned about
dusk, and as he walked up the yard he
thought he might as well carry in
enough wood to last all night. He had
just placed the fourth stick upon his
arm when an explosion occurred, and
the same instant he felt as if million
red-hot darning needles were dancing up
and down his legs. He had heard from
Mrs. Pitman. He yelled with pain, and
dropping the wood, most of it upon his
toes, he fell to the ground. just rs he
did so, he saw Mrs. Pitman standing in
the kitchen doorway with his firearm at
'parade rest, and contemplating her
victory and her victim with serenity.
Pitman's first thought was that she had
''''t''Nh'N DSNh ny an
but iudicious desire to realize upon his
life insurance policy. But when ne
screamed to her, she dropped her artil-
lery and flew to the scene with express
sions of alarm and grief at the discovery
that she bad perforated Pitman. She
called the servant girl, and as they car
ried him into the house, she explained
that she mistook him for thief, and
then she apologized. Pitman said it was
all very well to apologize, but what
good was that to a man with two quarts
of salt and half pound of gun-wads in
his legs. Mrs. Pitman insisted that he
oughtn't to mind little salt, it would
do him good. She urged that salt was
better than anything else for preserving
meat, and that his legs would probably
be alive and well and prancing around
the universe when the rest of him was
dead and spoiled. That made him mad,
and after splitting up his gun with the
AK, he went to bed, and he hasn't
spoken to Mrs. Pitman since but he
has limited gloomily to the doctor that
if divorce can be had he will obtain
One.-.Nar 1deier
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AILEGANY COUNTY, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, MAY 6 1874

tied. But you and l may as well be
friends all the same. We'd much
rather have your consent than not.
Suppose you give it to us
He was so astonished that before, |
think, he knew quite what he was doing,
he'd taken my hand, with all his friends
standing around and looking on. OF
course he could not go back after that.
And-and so-the think was settled"
/ congratulated him heartily. Pres
emily | said, by change:
How lucky it was that you didn't
send back Miss Warren's letters"
My dear fellow, that was what
wanted to explain to her; l couldn't
send them back. "
"You found them too dear to you?"
At last, then, he had been betrayed
into feeling of romance.
"Not at all, " he exclaimed, 81 could
not send them back, because l hadn't t
kept them. I'd destroyed them"
Destroyed them?'
eyes, what was the good of them
I only keep business letters; they're
regularly docketed at my office. But
for Georgie's letters. they We're no use.
L lidNic tlltiu IHto plpt l'ShVS.
"You didn't tell her that 2"
"No-I hadn't time. | never ar
rived at an explanation about the let
ters."
"Then, my dear Stone, let me en-
treat you, whatever you do, don't give
Miss Warren your explanation about
the matter"
"Why shouldn't I?"
"Dou't you see? She thought you
didn't send back her letters for senti-
mental reason, because they were so
dear to you that you could not possibly
part with them and so, in point of
fact, that little misunderstanding of
hers led to the establishment of your
love affair"
"Do you think so?' he said mus
ingly.
"But if George has made any mis-
take about the matter, | think that
am bound to set her right"
" My dear Stone, take my advice,
for fear of accident set her right after
the wedding ceremony, not before"
Whether or not he took my advice,
| am not aware. He was married in
due course of time to Miss Warren,
and | know that old lady was heard to
declare that she married the best hus-
band in the world.
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NUMBER "a
THE SHORTEST WAY HOME,

" The shortest way by half mile
come so very often by it
Is up the road, across the stilc.
Aud through the meadow. Shall we try 1t p
The days were not without charm
When, talking soft and looking silly,
My love and walked arm in arm.
The lanes We're lone and fields were stilly.
We found so many things TO say,
That always in the shiny weather,
We took the-well, the shorter way,
To be a longer time together
We spoke about (but goodness knows
Our topics of coufabulation)
About the weather. | suppose,
The crops, the harvest, and the nation.
AT all events, although the talk
Was neither wise nor witty,
We ended each successive walk
With " Home already-what PITY"
We might have lost little ground
Through coming by the road selected,
Bnt both agreed that we had found
The journey shorter than expected.
Can life's experiment support
The paradox that love proposes?
Does any path seem very short,
Unless it be path of roses
We seldom find the nearer way,
And if we hit upon and take it,
BY creeping on from to-day
1t seems as long as length can make it.
The road to fame Is never brief,
The way to wealth is dull and dreary;
All earthly routes, in my belief,
Are very long aud very weary.
Nay-one that leads through care and strife
Is.short, when mortals once begin it;
We take the "near cut ont of life,
Although we take the longest in it.
-TinSley,S Magazine.
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IIllfllOr.
IlumOr.
WHAT is pity? Cheap charity.

w HAT is plty Cneap cnarlty.
MAN respires, aspires, conspires, and
expires.
THE wife's secret-Her opinion of her
husband
STEAM is an excellent servant, but it
sometimes blows up its master.
CoTToN sheets and newspaper sheets
are alike in one respect, because great
many lie in them.
WHY is person who never lays
wager as bad as a regular gambler?
Because he is no better.
"SAMBo, why am dc dogs de most
intelligent folks in de world ?" "Be-
cause dey nose eberything."
A FoP, in company. wanting his SER
want, called out, Where's that block
head of mine?' "On your shoulders,
sir, said a lady"
IT there is one time more than anoth-
er when woman should be entirely
alone, it is when a line-full of clothes
come down in the mud.
WHY is a barrel of soft soap, on board
steamboat, like young man marry
ing landlords daughter Because
it's a soft thing on board.
A MISSING man was lately advertised
for and described as having Roman
nose. He won't be found Such nose
as that will never turn up.
"lF naughty girl should hurt you,
you, like a good girl, would forgive her,
wouldn't youw "Yes ma am" sic re-
piled, elf | couldn't catch her."
CoNUNDRUM-Said boy: "That
chap yonder is my brother, and this
girl is lis sister, yet she is no relation
of mine" Answer-The boy lied.
"DoN'T Quaker ever take off his
hat to anyone, mamma?" "No, my
dear" If he don't take off his hat to
a barber, how does he have his hair
cut?'
ITs rather remarkable that, while
several thousand feet are required to
make one rood, single foot, properly
applied, is often sufficient to make one
civil.
A LADY asked pupil of Sunday
school, "What was the sin of the Phari-
see?" Eating camels, ma'am," was
the quick reply. She had read that the
Pharisees "strained at gnats and swal-
lowed camels.
THERE was young man in Chicago,
And he said, "NIay to your pa go
And ask for your hand
And your houses and land?"
This timid young from Chicago.
There was young girl in Chicago,
Who said. ' If you don't let my paw go,
Your eyes will scratch
And your hair will snatch
And swiftly III make every claw go! ~
A YOUNG man WAS carving q goose at
dinner table one day, when by an
awkward move he knocked it into the
lap of lady who was sitting opposite,
in all the glory of green satin dress.
Instead of showing his verdancy by
profuse apologies and confused man
ner, he simply said "I'll trouble you
for that goose, miss p Can the annals
of society furnish an example of self
possession more sublime
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-16
Lazy Beavers.

1t is a curious fact that among the
beavers there are some that are lazy, and
will not work Mt all, either to assist in
building lodges or dams, or to cut
down wood for their winter stock. The
industrious ones beat these idle fellows,
and drive them away; sometime cut
ting off parts of their tails, and other
wise injuring them. The "paresseux'
are more easily caught in traps than the
others, and the trapper rarely misses
one of them. They only dig IL hole from
the water, running obliquely toward the
surface of the ground twenty-five or
thirty feet, from which they emerge,
when hungry, to obtain food, returning
to the same hole with the wood they
procure, to eat the bark. They never
form dams, and are sometimes to the
number of five or seven together ;'all are
males. 1t is not at all improbable that
these unfortunate fellows have, rs is the
case with the males of many species of
animals, been engaged in fighting with
others of their sex, and after being con-
quered and driven from the lodge, have
become idlers from kind of necessity.
The working beavers, on the contrary,
associate, males and females, and
young, together.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-16
Ammonia for WhOOping- Cough.

A writer in the Medical journal,
London, states that in case of whoop-
cough in the last stage-that is, after
the third week-he has bad once ounce
of the strongest liquid ammonia put
INTO gallon of water in an open pan,
and the steam kept up by means of half
a brick made red-hot throughout, and
put into the boiling water containing
the ammonia, the pan being placed in
the middle of room, into which the
patients were brought as the ammonia
steam was passing off. The method,
he says, was used in the evening, be-
fore bedtime, and it proved so effica-
cious in abating the spasmodic attack,
and after three OF four days terminating
the malady, as to establish, beyond
doubt, the value of this mode of inhal-
ing ammonia as therapeutic agent in
tranquilizing the nervous system in the
whooping- cough.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-16
A Hasty Yet Satisfactory Marriage.

A young lady of Alabama, visiting in
Memphis, was lately walking along the
streets with young gentleman, when
he jokingl ly proposed to step into a
church hard by and get married; the
young lady assented, and started
toward the church. When the young
man saw that she was disposed to
humor his joke, he backed down and
acknowledged himself beat. Proceed
ing still further they met mutual ac-
quaintance, n bachelor business man,
and the lady's companion told business
how she had backed him out on the
matrimonial proposition, whereupon
business remarked to her, You can't
back me out" She answered, eyes
/ can" The parties laughed and chat
ted little, when they started off to
get the license, each supposing the
other would give it up, but the docu-
ment was duly procured, and the matter
began to look serious. The next thing
was to tic the knot at length a
preacher was found. BY this time both
parties began to draw long breaths, but
They entered the church, and the
preacher pronounced the words that
made them husband and wife, and
there was no flinching from the VOWS !;
neither would take a dare and the
result was n marriage, without any
subsequent desire for divorce. 1t
would be wonderful relief to many a
timid swain, if this daring business
were thing of more common occur
renee.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-16
How Weeds Migrate.

1t is stated that there are no less than
214 weeds which have been introduced
into the United States from foreign
countries. AS n proof of the rapidity
with which useless plants are accident
ally brought over the seas, it is said that
in 1887 there were only 1877 foreign
weeds known in this country. AS far
back as 1882 II curious little volume
called "New England Rarities," gives
a list Of twenty-five plants, which the
author considered had sprung up since
the English had kept cattle in New
England. The author mentions the
plantain, which, he says, the Indians
call the Englishman's foot, " as though
produced by the tread of the white set
Tiers. The common "yellow-toad
flax" it is stated, was originally intro
duced into the province of Pennsylva-
MIA as gardenhower, by Mr.. Ran
stead, Welchman, residing at Phila-
delphia, from whom it has derived the
name Of " Ranstead weed"
In 1868 this weed had overrun the
pastures in the inhabited part of Penn
sylvania, and was the cause of very bit
ter complaints from the agriculturists
of that day. Chicken-weed, oftener
called chick weed, was introduced into
South Carolina as food for canary
birds, and in ten years spread fifty
miles, and now occupies the outposts OF
civilization. The Scotch thistle is said
to have been brought to America by
clergyman, who carried with him pad
stuffed with thistle-down i'll which some
seed remained. Feathers, being cheap
l. hot MT
the down, which was soon emptied out,
and the seeds springing up filled the
country with the thistles. Another ac-
count says some enthusiastic Scotchman
introduced the thistle as an emblem OF
his country, which soon made itself at
home and became nuisance.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-16
VOLUME III.
THE SALOON-KEEPE WHY.

You ask why surrendered,
My boon companions why
let band of women
Throw sawdust in my eye.
Well, I heard that they were coming
Aud | meant to be prepared
With stole smile of welcome,
Asif neither feared nor cared.
I hal placed my shcI in order,
And tidicd up rysclf;
Every bright dccaner
Was shining from its shelf.
NV best cigar was lighted;
had well maturcd my plan
To show these cantiug women
How much l was man
meant to treat them kindly,
Yet firmly, all the while,
And answer their upbraiding
With predetermined smile.
They camC-that band of women
Calmly. screuciy came,
With no deep voice of anger,
No seCthug words of blame;
band Of wives and mothers,
With faces worn with care.
A faith above all passion,
hope beyond despair.
There were women from all stations
The high, the low, the poor;
Some to lift the burden
OF the cross their sisters bore.
saw one pale-faced woman,
Who once in mercy came
To sOothe my stricken mother
Ere the husband rum had slain.
That woman then was shielded
From every sorrowing wave
BY the arm that now was molderipg
Within druukard's grave.
Her only son, who should have been
Her comfort. staff and stay,
knew in wild dclirium
Had left Ray shop that day.
So, comrades, latent manhood
Was wakened i'll my breast,
Till with smitten conscience
was praying with the rest.
But not with chastcned sadness,
As those pitying women prayed,
That God would spare III mercy
The wrecks that rum had made;
But as prayed in boyhood,
When in days of long ago
stood beside my mother
In drunkard's home of woe,
And prayed that every drinking shop,
From garret, hail or cell,
Was swept from OFF God 3 footstool
And emptied into hell
Twas thus prayed, till sweet and low
Arose a pleading prayer
That God i'll mercy still would save
The loved ones everywhere.
So wait till you have heard them,
Heard that prayer of tears,
OF concentrated anguish
Bottled up foryears-
Heard them wisely, calmly:
And when you've heard them, then
Then history may tell the world
That all of you were men,
cinataG Times.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-16

FIsH.-The fish of the United States
are unsurpassed in flavor in the world
Sportsmen who, with rod and line, have
whipped European waters, say there is
nothing like them there from the Nor
way fords to the Guadalquiver. Africa
and Asia are both poor i'll this respect.
Even in China, where fish is an abun-
dant article of food, and is found in
great variety, the flesh is coarse. The
salmon OF the Scotch lochs afford the
nearest approach to the succulence and
tender delicacy Of our mountain trout
and the tiaky tenderness OF Our salmon
trout. Then there are the whitefsh,
the bass, the shad, and an innnmerable
multitude of others. We have but one
rival, aud that prolific but small one.
1t is the French sardine when fresh.
This delicious fish in a few years will
cease it's rivalry, however, if reports are
true from the coast of France. Atpres-
ent the sarlinc fisheries employ twenty
thousand men, women aud children on
land to prepare the fish for market.
Each year shows an advance i'll the
price and n diminution in the catch,
and in no great time everlasting will
have produced its usual consequence
failure of the fish.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-16

THERE IS in Switzerland, on an av-
erage, one journal for G,479 inhabit-
ants,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-16
The Vienna Panic.

From the statistics of an Austrian
journal of finance, it appears that the
Vienna panic was much more wide
spread and disastrous than was general
ly supposed at the time. In Austria
eight banking houses, representing an
aggregate capital of Is, 200, 900 fiorins !;
two insurance companies, representing
$500, O00 horins; one railway company,
representing 600,O 900; and seven indus
trial establishments, representing
5000, 1000 forms, have failed outright.
Forty banking establishments, with
139, 400,0 coo forins capital; insurance
companies, with 5,200,000 tlorins one
traffic establishment, with 1,000,0 900
florins eighteen building societies,
with 81 900, 600 forms, and thirty-tour
industrial establishments, with 46, 60O,-
| 600 forms, have resorted to liquidation.
In Hungary as many as ten banks, with
3,300, 900 iorins capital, and two indus
trial establishments, with S00O00
tlorins, have declared their failure
while thirteen banks, with 1900, 600
tlorins; two insurance companies, with
500, 900 forms; one traffic establish
ment, with 4 800, 900; one building So
cicty, with 200, 200 forins, and forty
industrial establishments, with collect
lively $500 600 folins, have been driven
to liquidation The number OF fusions
or amalgamations effected is not stated.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-16
A KENTUCKY paper reports what it

NENTUCKY paper repOTts WIHt lt
denominates IL living wonder. 1t says
Dora Chambers, born on Skeggs creek,
Warren county, Ky, on the 1lth of
August, 1871, is thirty inches high,
eighteen inches around the calf of the
leg, twenty-eight and three -fourths
inches around the thigh, forty-eght
inches around the hips, forty-two inches
around the waist, and weighs 118 pounds
and a half. The parents of this child
are said to be delicate, small persons,
the father weighing 127 pounds and the
mother ia. There was nothing extra
ordinary about the ohild at its birth,
but when about three months old she
began to grow fat, and at the age OF two
and half years had gained the pro-
portions above stated.