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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-28
HunlOr.
HEAD-LIaHT-Bright eyes.

HEAD-LIGHT-Bright eyes.
THE nick of time-A wrinkle.
A BEGGARLY shame-Robbing a pau
per.
AIR of Importance - Ones first
breath.
NMRop was mighty hunter, but he
never saw an aunt elope.
You may know an old bachelor by the
fact that he always speaks of baby as
cit"
WHEN is hotel bell boy like broken
merchant? When he refuses to take up
note.
AN article you can always borrow
Trouble, and are never obliged to re-
| turn it.
WHY is beefsteak like locomotive
It's not of much account without its
| tender.
WHY is person who never lays wa
ger as bad as regular gambler? Be-
cause he is no better.
WHY is hen sitting on gate like a
penny? Because it's heads on one side
and it's tails on another.
SINCE the hard times struck Nevada
they have raised the price of killing
| Cinnamon to seven dollars.
"MoTHER, you mustn't whip me for
running away from school any more. y
"Why not ~ Coos my schoolbook
says that ants are the most industrious
beings in the world, and amt a tru-
ant ?"
AN Irish editor, who speaks with the
air of man who has discovered new
fact by experience, says that the way
to prevent bleeding at the nose is to
keep your nose out of other peoples
business.
TEACHER "Who was the first man?"
Head Scholar: Washington he WAS
the first in war, first in" Teacher !:
"No, no; Adam was the first man. )"
"Oh, if you're talking of foreigners,
s'pose he was"
HUSBAND: "Why don't you wear
hair and things, and dresses, and look
like other women ?" Wife: "What !!
and have everybody say, What pity
that handsome woman married that ugly
little man. Oh, no!
You are from the country, are you
not, sir ?" asked city clerk of Quaker
who had just arrived. eyes" "Well,
here is an essay on the rearing of
calves" "That, said Aminadab, as he
turned to go, "thee had best present to
thy mother"
A CERTAIN lawyer had his portrait
taken in his favorite misunderstanding
with one hand in his pocket. His
friends and clients all went to see it,
and everybody exclaimed, "Oh, how
like It's the very picture of him." An
old farmer only dissented. liant
like!" Exclaimed everybody, "Just
show us where 'tan't like" "'Ta'n't-
no, 'ta'n't!" responded the farmer.
Don't you see he has got his hand in
his own pocket 'tweuld be as like again
if he had it in somebody's else."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-28
Scientific Notes,

A SOLUTION of pearl ash in water
thrown upon fire extinguishes it in
stantly the proportion is four ounces,
dissolved i'll hot water, and then poured
into bucket Of common water
A OoAL-FIELD, with seams varying
from five to thirty five feet in thickness,
and extending over a region of 25O,O00
miles, has been discovered i'll the new
territories on the line of the Northern
Pacific railroad.
RUBBER bands may be made from a
solution of rubber in mixture compos-
ed of benzine, five parts, and fine tur-
pentine, seven parts. The benzine and
turpentine must be free from oil and
fatty matters.
IT is now the practice of some silk
manufacturers to weight their silks
with solution of lead acetate, by which
means poisonous properties are lmpart-
ed to the silks, as well as an increase of
weight.
The Agricultuuist states that very
fine white vinegar may be made from
the juice of the white part of water
melons. At a certain stage the fluid is
bitter, but when perfected acquires a
true vinegar flavor.
METALS may be made to adhere to
glass by a cement composed of powder
ed litharge, two parts, dry white lead,
one part, boiled linseed oil, three parts,
mixed with one part of copal varnish to
a thick paste.
M. MULLER states that, in series of
experiments recently made, frogs that
were frozen in blocks of ice for eight
hours were alive and breathed nor
mally as soon as the ice was thawed
OF two of these creatures of equal
weight, the most voracious consumed
the most oxygen.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-28
knowledge is Power.

That knowledge is power was happily
illustrated by an incident that happened
in Edinburgh some years ago. A crowd
had gathered around two dogs. The
larger one, big and powerful mastiff,
had the smaller one in his relentless
grip. Every effort had been made to
loosen his hold, such asslitting his ears
and pinching his tail, but all in vain.
At length a quiet, scholarly-looking
gentleman came up, and asked to be al
lowed to separate the combatants. AS
sent was given, amid laughter and
jeers, when drawing snuff-box from
his pocket, he applied pinch of the
titillating powder to the mastiff's nose,
which caused him not only to release
his hold, but to make off as fast as his
legs would carry him. The scholar was
greeted with cheers, to which he only
replied
Gentlemen, 1 have but given you
proof that knowledge is power"
ANCIENT Carthage required her Magis
trates to abstain from wine,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-28
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

Pound CAKE.-One pound of flour,
one pound of sugar, one pound of but
ter.
SIXTY degrees is the right tempera-
ture to keep milk in winter or summer,
to produce the most cream and make
the best butter.
KNOX GINGER CAKEs-Five cups of
-four, four eggs, one cup of sugar, one
of butter, one of sour milk, half cup of
molasses, one tablespoonful of soda.
Roll out and bake.
LADY CAKE.-One cup butter, two
cups sugar. one cup milk, whites of six
eggs, one quart -four, one teaspoonful
soda in the milk, two teaspoonfuls
cream tartar in the -four flavor to taste;
makes two cakes.
KEEPING CIDER SWEET. Heat the ci-
der until it boils, pour into the bottles,
which have been previously heated to
prevent cracking. Cork tight and seal
Immediately, as in canning fruit. The
cider will keep unchanged for years.
To POLISH TINs.-Rub your tins with
dry cloth; then take dry -four and rub
it on with your hands afterward then
take an old newspaper and rub the foul
off, and the tins will shine as well rs il
half an hour had been spert rubbing
them with brick dust or powder, which
spoil hands.
APPLE CAKE.-Take two cups driet
apples stew enough to chop fine. Boil
in two cups of sirup till preserved, ther
use the sirup for the cake. Take two
eggs, one cup of butter, one of SOU
milk, two teaspoons of soda, four cups
of -four, and spice of all kinds. Add til,
apples the last thing before putting il
the tins.
AMERICAN RAISED WAFFLEs.
pint of sweet milk, one heaping teacup
full of butter, three eggs, teaspoonfu
of thick brewers yeast, one quart o
-four, and another teacupful of swee
milk, in which is dissolved quarter o
teaspoonful of soda. Let it rise un
til light, then bake as other waffies
Serve with butter and sugar.
| OLD corsets make the best stove
cloths. just one half at time is con
venient size they are ready made, an
much better when unfolded to tax
hold of anything with than a mad
holder, and much easier to wash. Jus
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-28

1t seems pretty certain that not only
the remains of DR.. Livingstone will be
recovered and brought home to an hon
ored resting place, but that there will
be no difficulty in getting the journals
in which the illustrious traveller has
written the story of his discoveries. DIR.
Livingstone, it is ascertained, was on
his return Journey to the coast and En-
gland when he was seized with his last
illness, and had probably completed the
exploration on which he set out, seen
the ancient fountains at the west of the
great water shed he has mapped, visited
the copper mines of Katanga, and the
people who dwell in caves.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-28
An Extraordinary Wager.

The Due de Feltre has just won by a
neck an extraordinary wager. He
backed himself to drive his trotter in a
light carriage to Lyons, before the
Comte Philippe de Nevule would reach
the place on his velocipede. The dis
tance was 356 kilometres, or 1922 miles,
which was run in 60a hours, and was won
by neck, by the Due de Feltre, who
drove into the courtyard of the Grand
Hotel at Lyons just two minutes before
the Comte ratified in on his velocipede
The first days journey was so kilome-
tres, or so miles, the second was 104 (6;
miles), and the last day both competi
tors ran 172 kilometres, or 107 miles
Neither the horse nor the man seemed
much beat by the long race, and thu
Comte is still SO confident that he offer
to back himself for 1000 louis over th'
same course again.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-28
NUMBER 27
MAUDk.

Dear me she can't wear II at all
Just to think how she grows!
Look, papa you'd hardly suppose
made that dress late in the fall
Outgrowing her baby-clothos 80 i
If she only would stay
Our dear little darling Away,
And never away from us grow!
Pretty pet in the misty "to be-
Could we look in her eyes
Az pure as the tint of the skies,
And say, Little Maude il just three"
Could cradle-glee gladden. our ears
And her prattle Of words,
More charmful than singing Of birds,
Ripple sweetly along the years
But no ; in pitiless whirl
How the seasons go past
Our baby is growing 80 fast
She'll soon be our "dear little girl ~
Afar in the future II seems
When thought of another
Far dearer than father or mother,
With love-light will halo her dreams.
when some one will win her away
With the old tale of love,
when trusting his vows, she will prove
Her faith at the altar some day.
All, well she's our little one yet
Though she's growing so fast
Her habyhood cannot long last;
Cume--we'll take 1T off now-sweet pet
There-run and tell papa" This dress
VIII not answer at all
For baby 10 plump and so tall"
And he'll buy you new one-I guess.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-28
Disraeli's Triumph.

Mr.. Gladstone's Liberal Party has lost
the British elections, and Mr.. Disraell's
Conservative party has won. Mr. Disraeli
is now Premier OF England. The arls-
tocracy have won a decided triumph,
and Mr.. Bradlaugh's followers are
placed at political disadvantage. The
change is great because it is change
of a Government of many years stand
ing. Mr.. Gladstone was an innOvator,
and behind him was q crowd of radicals
disposed to change land laws and Gus
toms of government and habits of trade.
The sluggish English mind is active in
one direction its power of gravitation
is great and in the elections it was
earnest in saying by vote that it would
not bulge an inch further. So it voted
against Mr. Gladstone's possibilities.
The American radical wants to divide
up personal property; the English radi-
cal wishes to divide up real estate and
the English voting population decided
not to divide anything at all. When
the crowd threatened excesses, and
when Mr.. Gladstone promised to COM
promise with men who made the
threats, the middle class of Englishmen
|1determined that they were safer under
the aristocracy. Mr.. Gladstones seat
in the House of Commons is secured to
him, and he may achieve more as an
Opposition advocate than he could have
done as Premier. Agitation, too, may
be as greatly encouraged when it is
compelled to fight an intrenched aris-
tocracy, as it was when petted by a
friendly Government that really had no
policy. Mr. Disraeli has formed his
British Ministry. Liberals prognosticate
that it will not last longer than three
sessions. Frank Leslie's Newspaper.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-28
THE OLD-FOGY MAN.

He was queer aId-fogy man,
And loved old-fogy ways;
And rallied against the reckless speed
OF these fast modern days.
He once could travel eisurely,
And stop his friends to hail;
But now they rushed him through by steam,
And rode him on rail.
That good old coach was fast enough
For prudent folk to go;
Impatient men now laugh at II,
And say twas rather slow;
And so they rush upon the train,
And speed like thought away,
Until u smash-up breaks their bones;
He thinks it doesn't pay.
He loved old housewives spinning wheels;
The music of their hum
was far more dear to his old ear rHssH
Than grand-piano thrum.
But ah he signs. those wheels are gone
Since Whitney made his gin;
No more We hear their thrifty hum
No more the sisters spin
The rosy girls of olden time,
SuntArnt, were firmer made
Than these, the late tender shoots
That grow up in the shade
They did their mothers heavy work,
Aud eased her weary hands;
And sometimes, too, If brothers failed
Could help to do mans.
Their dresses, made with easy Mt,
Gave not a pain beneath;
Their hearts had ample room to beat,
Their lungs had room to breathe
Unlike our present girls, with waists
Too much compressed and slight,
Who, if they do not dissipate,
Are very often tigh.
They let not Fashion dwarf their forms,
But grew to comey size,
And health shone ever on their brows
And sparkled from their eyes;
They thanked kind Heaven for all it's gifts
And thought, with secret pride,
That they were beautiful enough,
And they were satisfied.
But now, our modern girls, alas
Think Providence unkind
For putting too much in the laidst,
And not enough behind;
And so they hustle round, and lace,
To mend such clumsy ways,
And think they far outshine the girls
OF good old-fogy days
He wished, he said, for their sweet sakes, zee
That Fashions torturing wise
Would ease them up a little, and
Less pinching would suffice;
That they might feel the bounding health
Around the heart that plays,
When all unfettered as it was
In good old-fogy days.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-28

A CLERGYMAN with an eye to business
proposes :he abolition of golden, silver,
tin, wooden and all other weddings, and
the substitution therefor of an anniver-
sary renewal of the marriage fee to the
minister who officieted at the original
ceremony.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-28

A GOOD FARMER should never 60 to
sleep at night until he knows all his
stock are well fed, and provided with
comfortable quarters.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-03-28

ANCIENT Carthage required her Magis
trates to abstain from wine,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-04-24

appearance with his double-barreled gun.
Susan's knees shook fast and faster, Will
liam's also shook, tits said, till they tum-
bled down the plaster from the ceiling over
head.
susan screamed, her dark hair flying like
a meteor streaming far, springing to har
feet and crying, "Please don't shoot, oh
cruel pa But that pa, so cold and cruel,
swore he'd send Bill to that CLINE where
there's too much fire and fuel for to have
pleasant time. Then he raised his shooting
iron, raving much and swearing more, TIL
the air was blue-but why run on thus tell
ing how he swore? What, on, what was
William doing, While thus raved the old
galoot. seeing plainly what was brewing
he was likewise on the shoot.
"Hold. rash pa" cried the daughter; all
unheeded were her cries, as also the sweet
saltwater streaming from her lovely eyes.
Standing there in all his rigor old man
Brown now aimed his gun, pausing ere he
pulled the trigger, thinking maybe Bill
would run. Bill, though, was not of the
cattle which will neither dare nor do; but,
once shovel into battle he was sure to see
it through. Never since the siege OF lllium
was suspense felt more profound; Tor mo
ment more and William had been made to
bite the grodnd.
Quickly drawing his repeater, which he
carried two or three, cooking 1t at shortest
meter drew bead on o. NJ. b. Few
things swift as lightning, are there? swift
thus came the pistols roar, and poor Sn-
sans hopeless father lay there welterlng IN
his gore Williams sure unerring bullet
an internal slug, no doubt-tOok o. NJ. b.
in the outlet. and he Waited right up the
spout.
And the coroner, living nigh him, came
but William didn't run, feeling sure they d
Justify him in the deed that he had done.
Which they did for papa's fury, Susan,
weeping, told it DER and TO William sand
the jury; 60, my son, and shoot ne
more.
Here my muse must stop and larry all
she knows is in this lay; whether Bill and
Sue will marry. she Is not prepared to say,
But as Bill-who is Joker with stocked
cards. yoa UNDERSTANDING that game OF
lcaden poker played square and honest
| hand.
Should he. when there are no traces leil
of his unerring shot, meet Sues hand with
hut four aces. he will no doubt take the pot
for Sue knows her pa was able. and had
done it with Il rush. with his full to SWEEP
| the table had not William held a flush.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-04-24

\ Tux ARcuNENT.-Whe pious knavc-
or fools. North and South, used To make i'm
pious use of the Bible 10 defend human
Slavery. their argument was quickly dis
posed of hy the reply that the Bible argu-
ment for slavery was Just a good Tor poly
pamy. In the discussions which have
arisen On the temperance question, It Is
amusing TO notice that some OF those VINO
do not wish to make total abstinence the
test Of fellowship for temperance work make
this rood cause seem weak by quoting
Scripture verses in their behalf such a Il
have given him oil to make his face to
shine. and wine to cheer his Leart. and
another from Paul 10 Timothy. saying 4;
Drink no more water only, hut little
wine for thy Stomach's sake.
There i alsoa good deal of nonsense Of
fered about the wedding wine OF Galilcc,
and the consequence Is Just what It always
Is when people iorsake common-senSe and
run 10 Scripture texts TO determine what
they shall eat or what they shall drink
or wherewithal they shall be clothed. The
domestic habits or political customs Of the
Hebrews are no more a proper guide Tor
this civilization than the domestic habits or
political customs of contemporary Greeks,
Romans or Perslans. and the Rev. Mr..
Ganse OF New York city, very blunuy told
his church so the other day in the following
language: 1t has been argued, he
said. that Christ's example J. a
warrant for INDUCING moderately IN
pure wine. but | insist that His example
contains no such warrant. An example i
authority only in circumstances Identical
with those in which the example was set >
and His example in making wine at the feast
j. no authority for, at the present time, IN
dulging moderately IN distilled liquors, or
in wine All the circumstances surround
ing the practice Of drinking in this age are
very different from those attending that
practice in the time of Christ and to say
that men may drink now because He made
wine centuries ago, l. about a sensible asst
would be TO say that we should cat fish
during 4 cholera epidemic. because He once
fed a multitude with fsh.--N. Adams
Adrortiser.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-04-24
NV Love Can Hold His own.
BY CHARLOTTE p. BATES.


Here Is a sad worn letter, ten years old. -,
With threatened gaps along each wel-pressed ioi"
Yet thnn IA il tells of illness and Of death,
read il o,er, now, with tranquil breath
when FIRST it came. with strength Of my despall
t.l,., an s7uaned and turned from even ~ -
D-spised what looked like comfort yet was hun''
And hade tho friends that brought II me pe-V"'
II seemed better could hsve spared theh al
Tnan lust the one on whom 'twere VAIN 20 a. "a
lie WAS NV world and So the word seelneE '
Why Should all these be living n ms s'eAN
thank my God ;ha, have learned 70 Wv
But fain would have submission on. Ino"i
Z ar sonnet r-s " hen o. that once uNeIi,
That Time in healin- uo1s LIS "ofN wv ~
hay. a f,ai y feel NJ 'or the dead,
I,.st some one Sc restore what death lAS s4e'
! wonder AT nv laugh and careless jest =, 50 -,
Nd.n he i dust who could have snare" 'He-i w.
ppt in sirne III that can scarcely bear
i re,d ms letter with redoubled care
And when Pam comes with voceless prophecy
Ite-e d.fh the sweetest comfort wall ior me-
viii not fear; nv love can hold h.s own;
-, sonethin. tells me when my souts alohei
In r,rd. ioys though now find content,
" ..frr hun the homeward look is sent
-LiYPinoofts Maga-iHe.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-04-24
HE Abandonment of The rurnpc.

The arrival in New York Of the steamer
Greece. with the passengers and crew of the
| French steamer Europe, abandoned at sea
April >. has enabled a detailed account OF the
disaster 10 be obtained. The Europe, it seems,
sprung a leak, through which the sea began
coming in alarmingly on the lst of April,
while the ship was laboring in a heavy sea.
| The captain says that when leaving IIavre
on the 26th OF March. the vessel scraped
something along her whole length, but the
pumps easily kept her free of superilu0us
water until the lst of April. At O'Clock
in the afternoon of that day water gained
rapidly on the pumps, at II o'clock it
had reached the floor of the fire-room. and
finally the fires were put out by it. The
next day the steamer Greece was sighted
and signals Of distress made. At four clock
in the afternoon the Greece came with
in hailing distance, and all the passengers
and the crew fthe Europe were transferred
to her. The Greece lay by until the next day,
when her first officer with volunteer crew
went on board the Europe, taking possess
ion of her as prize, and attempting to take
her into n European port. 1t will be re-
membered that the loss of the Europe
was first reported last week, this salvage
crew having in turn abandoned her on the
Ith of April, the day after they took possess
sion, and gone on board the Egypt, which
took them to England.
The circumstances of the abandonment of
the vessel are in dispute between the
captains of the Europe and the Greece.
Captain LeNlarie of the Europe says that
after the passengers had been removed. an
officer from the Greece came on board
saying that Captain Thomas wished him to
come on board the Greece to confer with
l.. i IN
Europe) would be watched until morn
ing, and promising formally before my
officers to put me back on board my vessel
if nothing happened during the night to
prevent my returning" On the strength
of this agreement he did abandon his
ship, and he says that upon reaching
the Greece verbal convention" was
had in the presence of his officers, by
which it was stipulated that he should be
put aboard his own ship in the morning if
she was ahoat, and it should then be de-
termined whether or not to abandon her.
But the next morning, when he proposed
to enter the boat going to his vessel he was
rudely thrust back from the gangway, and,
in spite of protests and appeals and earnest
efforts to visit his vessel, he was prevented
from doing SOL while a crew was transferred
to her from the Greece to attempt to
bring her into port.
On the Other hand. the captain of the
Greece stoutly denies this whole story, and
declares that the officers of the Europe |
voluntarily abandoned her, not leaving so
much as a light to indicate her place in the
night and warn off other vessels. and fur
thermore that they indicated no wish to go |
back to her in the morning. They appeared |
to be thoroughly frightened, and glad |
enough to be safe The Europe was valued |
possession Of her as prize ifthere remained |