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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-09

Physically, Irish women (says q
writer) are probably the finest race in
the world mean taller, better limbed
and chested, larger eyed and with more
luxuriant hair and free action, than any
nation [ have observed. The Phmnician
and Spanish blood which has run hun
dred of years in their veins still kindles
it's dark fire in their eyes, and, with the
vivacity OF the northern mind and the
bright color of the northern skin, these
southern qualities mingle in most ad
mirable and superb harmony. The idea
we form of Italian and Grecian beauty
is never realized in Greece and Italy !;
but we tiud it in Ireland, heightened
and exceeded. Cheeks and lips of the
delicacy and bright TINT Of carnation,
with snowy teeth aud eyebrows of jet,
are what we should look for on the pal
lette of Appelles, could we recall the
painter and reanimate his far-famed
models and these varied charms,
united, fall very commonly to the share
of the fair Milesian. Modest to a PROV
erb, the Irish woman is as unsuspect-
ing of proprlety as if it We're an impos-
sible thing; and she is as fearless and
joyous as Il midshipman, and sometimes
as noisy. In ball room she looks i'll
dressed, not because her dress was ill
put on, but because she dances, not
glides, sits down without care, pulls her
flowers to pieces, and If her head dress
incommodes her, she will give it a pull
or push. If she is offended, she asks
for an explanations If she does
not understand you, she confesses her
Ignorance. If she wishes to see you
next day, she tells you how and when.
She is child of nature, and children
are not "styilsh."
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The Editor as Derrick for POllti.
clans.

1t costs the proprietors of the Ap-
peal $500 day to publish the paper,
and we cannot see how aspirants for
office can expect, at our expense, to use
our columns to aid them in getting an
office worth ten, fifteen or twenty thou
sand dollars per annum. If there be
an honor in the office of Governor, or
seat in the Legislature. :" Many Voters
who would confer this honor should not
seek to do so at the expense of others,
and must pay for the praise they lavish
upon the men they would exalt. The
press has too long been :" hewers OF
wood and drawers of water" for politi-
cal aspirants, seeking high position.
Editors have too long been the ladder,
to be kicked over by men who have
secured offices which enriched them.
Candidates in search of offices of honor
or profit can find access to our columns;
but their ubiquitous friend, " Many
Voters" cannot herald their greatness
or extol their merits and many virtues
at our expense.-Nemphis Appeal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-09

Once it was dangerous for the box to
differ from the bench, Il jury daring to
assert an opiuion of their own being
liable to find themselves thrown upon
the tender mercies OF the Star Chamber.
Instances, indeed, says Il writer in Cham
bers' journal, are not wanting of the
Judge taking upon himself to punish
iurymen for not following directions.
Penn, the Quaker, was instrumental in
freeing them of this terror. When he
and Mead were brought before the Lord
Mayor and the Recorder, in London,
charged with preaching in Grace-church
street, the jury were thrice sent back
to reconsider their verdict. and shape it
to the desired pattern. The last time
they were locked up for the night,
but the morning found them of the
same mind and "Not guilty was still
their award.
81 am sorry" said the irate Recorder
81 am sorry yo,l have followed your
own judgments and opinions rather than
the good advice that was give you. L
pray that my life be kept out of your
hands. But for this the court fines
you forty marks man, and commands
imprisonment till paid.
The four hundred and eighty marks
not being forthcoming, the twelve really
good men and true were consigned to
durance vile in Newgate. A writ OF
habeas corpus soon opened the prison
doors, and the case was referred to a
full bench of twelve Judges, who pro-
nounced the fining and Imprisonment
to be contrary to law. The jurymen
subsequently obtained exemplary dam
! ages for false imprisonment.
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VOLUME Ill.


There mlidens ancient and gaunt aud grim,
And ruaidrns IF fairer face:
There were Angular women, with optics din,
And women with eyes ablaze;
There Wpn with soap-l0cks and amrous lcer,
And men ont at elbows and knees
1.-THE shepherds were those of such goodly cheer,
And the diuiEards reformed were thesel
Besieged the saloon of The Laden Vine
Of wicked old sinner called Jim,
And they ranged themselves up in dolorous
And they sang him doIorous hymn:
=" YOU'RE sinner they sang, you're naughty
Old man,
For your v :ckedness you must atone
You're toI er terrific: you're under ban"
land the shepherds came i'll with groaul
Their faces long as the moral law
And their meter was longer still,
With tireless lungs and treess jaw,
They sang with right good will:
You're brand to be plucked, you're a sheep
astraE,
But there's hope for The sinner yet
Reform and return to a better way.
And d swceter reward You II GET
And the hardened sinner whose name was Jm
The host of 1.-The Laden Niue,'
Was melted TO tears by the warning hymn,
And he empticd the 'sy wine
Aud the yellow rum and the pearly gin,
Rare Bourbon and Old Rye,
From cask and bottle and crowded bin
In the gutter lying by.
He closed the doors of his wicked ken,
He slenccl his jecring laugh,
And donned sober garb and then
Had taken his photograph,
Which he SOLD abroad, aud the " wickedest man
Abundance of money made,
And now he works on the moral plan
And is fully convinced it's paid.
He has upright views and store of pelf,
And sobcr!y walks crack,
hummer more he's shepherd himself
Round belly and spreading back
A shining Light unto those who fall
No better 'twixt here and Rome1-
He tiplles abroad at ALL
But relies jug at homc.
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Dead, But Not Buried.

When friend dies and is buried,
there's an end of him. We miss him
for a space out of our daily existence );
we mourn for him by degrees that be-
come mercifully less we cling to the
blessed hope that we shall be reunited
in some perfect sphere but so far as
this earth is concerned, there's an end
of him. However near and dear he was,
the time arrives when he does not form
part of our daily thought he ceases
to be even an abstraction. We go no
more with flowers and tears into the
quiet cemetery; only the rain and the
snowhakes fall there we leave it for the
fingers of spring to deck the neglected
mound.
But when our friend vanishes unac-
countably in the midst of crowded
city, or goes off on a sea voyage and is
never heard of again, his memory has a
singular tenacity. He may be to all in
tents and purposes Gead to us, but we
have not lost him. The ring of the
door-bell at midnight may be his ring !;
the approaching footstep may be his
footstep; the unexpected letter with
foreign postmark may be from his
hand He haunts us as the dead never
can.
The woman whose husband died last
night may marry again within a lnster
of months. DO you suppose week
passes by when the woman whose hus-
band disappeared mysteriously ten years
ago does not think of him? There are
moments when the opening of a door
must startle her.
There is no real absence but death
r. b .iidyich.
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NUMBER 80.
GRE ED.

| believe if should die
And You should kiss my eyeds when lie
Cold, dead and dumb to all the world contains
The folded orbs would open at thy breath,
And from it's exile i'll the Isles of Death
Life would come gladly back along my veins.
| believe, If were dead,
Aud you upon my lifeless heart should tread,
Not knowing what the poor clod chanced toibe,
1t would find sudden pulse beneath the touch
OF him it ever loved in life much,
And throb again. warm, tender, true to thee.
| believe, if on my grave,
Hidden in woody deeps, or by the wave,
Your eyes should drop some warm tears of regret
From every salty seed of your dear grief
Some fair, sweet blossom would leap into leaf
TO prove death could not make my love forget
believe, il should fade
Into those mystic realms where light is made,
And you should long once more my face to see,
would come forth upon the hills of night
And gather stars like fagots, till thy sight
Led by their beacon blaze, fell full on me.
believe my faith in thee,
Strong my life, so nohly placed to be-
would as soon expect to see the sun
Fall like dead king from his height sublime,
His glory stricken from the throne of time,
As thee uuworth the worship thou hast won.
| believe who has not loved
Hath half the treasure of his life improved;
Like one who, with the grape within his grasp,
Drops it, with all its crimson Juice impressed,
And all its luscious sweetness left unguessed,
Out from his careless and unheeding clasp
believe love, pure and true,
Is to the soul a sweet. immortal dew,
That gems life's petals in its hours of dust;
The waiting angels see and recognize
The rich crown-jewe Love, of Paradise
When life falls from us like withered husk.
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ItIIIllOr.

A CIRCUIT court-The longest way
home from singing school,
Why do we speak of the silence of
sleep, when most of us sleep sound =?
The Rochester Erpress ascertains
that Nebuchadnezzar was the first
Granger.
WHEN is scolding woman most Of
fencive? When she's as deaf as post,
and rails.
"BoILED EGGs" is the name adopted
by the new Danbury baseball club to
signify how impossible it is to beat
them.
AN English wag asserts that ma
chinery is the most modest of all
things, since it almost always travels
in cog.
IF success in an undertaking was
proportional to the earnestness brought
to bear upon it, a hen could run about
1,SO0 miles day.
THIS is the season of the year when
the young girl who is just budding into
promising womanhood should squeeze
her nose for animalcules.
A SOUTH WINDSOR boy had two
cent piece lodged in his throat six
months ago, and the family physician
has been till now trying to change it.
The incident illustrates how meager
is the income of country physician.
SOMEBODY boasts in q Western news
paper Of being the happy possessor of
a new, tirst-class oreide watch which
runs an hour in forty minutes, and with
the assistance of two hands has gained
enough to pay for itself in three week.
A Boston paper wonders why a men,
Der of Congress who recently spoke
with so much feeling about the ebay
seed in his hair" and coats in his
throat" forgot to complete the dag
nosis of the case by alluding to the rye
in his stomach.
A TOMBSTONE in the Yazoo, Miss,
cemetery bears the following inscrlp-
ton ::
Here lies inferred Priscilla Bird,
Who sang earth till sixty-two;
Now up on high above the sky,
No lOubt SIe sing like sixty, too,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-09
Useful Hints for the Home Circle.

Catarrh, it is asserted, can be helped
if not cured, by snufling up CASTLE soap
scraped very fine.
When you receive a bouquet, sprln-
kle it lightly with cold water, then put
it in vessel containing some soap-suds
which nourish the roots, and keep the
flowers as good as new. Take the bou-
quet out of the suds every morning,
and lay it sideways in fresh water, the
stock entering first into the water; keep
it there minute or two, then take it
out. and sprinkle the flowers lightly by
the hand with pure water. Replace the
flowers in the soap-suds, and they will
bloom freshly.
In Belgium and Holland linen is pre-
pared beautifully. because the washer
women use refined borax instead of soda,
as washing powder. One large hant-
full of Dorax is used to every ten gallons
of water, and the saving of soap is said
to be one half For laces and cambrics
an extra quantity is used. Borax does
not iniure the linen, and softens the
hardest water. A teaspoonful of boraX
added to an ordinary sized kettle of hard
water, in which it is allowed to boil, will
effectually soften the water
The following is one of the best APP
plications we know of in cases of burns
or scalds, more especially where large
surface is denuded of the skin. Take
one dram of finely powdered alum. and
mix thoroughly with the whites of two
eggs and one teacup of fresh lard !;
spread on cloth and apply to the parts
burnt. 1t gives almost instant relief
from pain, and, by excluding the air,
prevents intlammatory action. The ap.
plication should be changed at least
once day.
The best permanent shade for glass
plant houses is linseed oil and sugar Of
lead, in the proportion of about tea
spoonful of lead to a quart of oil but
the exact trial must be governed by the
amount of shade required, which can
easily be proved by trying it upon pieces
of waste glass. First, wash the glass
thoroughly clean, and then on dry,
clear morning, take the oil mixture, and
paint rs thinly as possible over the glass
with an ordinary paint brush. By dab
bing it gently with dry brush it will
impart to it the appearance of ground
glass. The shading will stand tor a
season, and can be removed by washing
it with strong pearlash water.
The correct management of the nails
is to cut them of an oval shape, cor
responding with the shape of the fin
gers. Never allow them to grow too
long as it makes it difficult to keep them
clean nor foo short as if rauSeS the
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-09

The CALIFoRNIA ACORN CRoP.-The
acorn crop of California is remarkable
for it's irregularity. In majority of
years the harvest is light, or fails utter
ly, and the Digger Indians, who subsist
principally on them, have learned we'll
the necessity of storing them away in
their rude wicker granaries when there
is a good crop. Indeed, some tribes
observe an annual dance, accompanied
with religious ceremonies, to propitiate
the spirits and insure an abundant yield
of acorns. When the crop is good, it is
very good, for the oak forests of Cali
fornia are so thin and parl-like that
every tree produces to its utmost capa-
city, almost as it would in cultivated
orchard. For several years the yield
had been very meager, but last fall it
was simply enormous. The whole earth
underneath each tree was literally cov-
cred. The Indians selected only those
trees having the largest nuts, and
climbing up, whipped them off in
myriads with poles, until the trees
looked as if they had been scourged in
a mighty hail-storm. Even white men
gathered them and sacked them up by
scores of bushels for winter provender
for stock. Ali kinds of stock devourcl
them greedily, Notwithstanding which
the supply lasted all winter.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-09

The LATE PRESIDENT FILLMoRE Tt
seems, according to Burleigh, of the
Boston Jou1mai, that nobody was more
surprised than the late President Fill
more at his nomination to the second
official position i'll our country Bur
leigh says "In the old Whig times
Mr.. Fillmore was the favorite son of
New York. [ was standing by his side
in the Delevan House, Albany, when he
received news of his nomipotion for the
Office of Vice President. He thought
il was joke. But when satisfied of
the fact, he turned white as sheet and
said, you could knock me down with a
straw The whole thing was so unex-
pected that he sat down like man
fainting."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-09

PNEUMATIC DIspATcH.-The pneu-
matte tube in London extends from
Euston Square to the Postoflice, a dis
tance of 1,73S yards. The machinery
for operating the line is at Holborp,
which is about oue-third of the distance
from the Postofiice to Euston. The
tube is five feet high and four feet six
inches wide. The wagons are ten feet
long, and constructed to fit the tube
closely by means of an india-rubber
tiange, and SO form sort of piston,
upon which the air may act to the great
est advantage. The machinery consists
of an engine having two twenty four
inch cylinders, with twenty inches
stroke. The fan is twenty-five feet six
inches in diameter, and makes two rev.
olutions for each stroke of the engine.
The trains are drawn from the extremi-
ties of the line by exhaustion, and pro-
PEELED thereto by compression.-Scrib-
',er's
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Sturdy Old Men.

There are some pretty old men in the
world who remain full of work and am
bition. Lord John Russell, for in
stance-who looks upon Disraeli, who
is 50 years of age, as a sort of q boy
is 80 years old, and yet seeks to rule
England. The Emperor William, man
of n, and the Duke, still older, are
having a lively contest. Guizot, aged
81, is working away at his literary
labors in France, while Theirs, but
little his junior, is ready to assume the
reigns of the Government whenever he
is wanted. Coming over to America
we find men seventy and over, working
away like men of forty. There are
Commodore Vanderbilt, Daniel Drew,
A. T. Stewart, J. Edgar Thompson and
W. +. Astor, still skillfully handling
their millions, and yearly adding to
them. There is William c. Bryant
producing in his eighth decade a COM
prehensive history Of the United States.
There is Thurlow Weed still dropping
on us from time to time words of wis
dom and old political "reminiscences.
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All Sorts.

CHINA has no merchant tailors, but
| plenty of tailoresses.
AN Oregon paper studiously advises
young men to go West"
In the Kentucky penitentiary there
are 675 convicts, half or whom are col
ored.
MANY Georgia planters will try the
effect of convict labor on their farms this
year.
One or two geranium- leaves, bruised,
bound upon cut or abrasion, will heal
it at once.
THEY are hunting the wild boar in
Kentucky. Tame bores can be found
without hunting
THERE are over 600 Indians in Phila-
delphia. All of them are attached to
tobacco establishments.
SIR GARNET WoLsELEY becomes n
Maj General and is to receive pen
sion of 1900 per annum.
GEORGIA convicts are hired out to
planters at Sl1 per annum for five
years, which is cheaper than slave
labor.
RUSSIA has 1891 cotton factories of
all kinds, employing 175, 900 workmen,
and producing annually goods worth
162, 600, 600 roubles.
The local census of Richmond, Va,
shows its population to be 60, 705, or
about 5000 more than in 1870; 80, 492
being whites. 27.213 colored,
THE NewS, without the fear of hen
pecking, AYERS that the stairway to the
Danbury Lyceum is as dirty as the
children of a female reformer.
A C1Nc1NNATI professor has demon
strated that a man feels just as satisfied
after lunching on a raw turnip alone
as if he had feasted at Il kings table
A NEW Ohio psalm:
Mount Vernon, Xenia. Muskingum,
McConnesviile, and Cadiz,
Each bids long farewell to rum,
And yells out, Go it, ladies'.
WANTED-a national name. The term
American applies alike to Canadian,
Mexican, Brazilian, Chilian, Patagonian,
Indian, Cuban, or citizen of the United
States.
THERE were forty-tive gallons of writ
ing fluid used i'll Congress last session.
This was only writing fluid mind you
there were other kinds that were used,
of course.
THE great clock of the British House
of Parliament has been stopped for
cleaning, on account of having lost n
second in one month. Nothing can
succeed that is done on tick.
The ex-Queen of Spain, says Kate
Field, is a great, stout, ungainly fe-
and washtub to be counterfeit pre-
sentiment of the typical Biddy.
A POPLAR tree 1888 feet high was re-
Gently cut down in Shelby county, Ken
lucky. 1t was twenty feet III crcum-
ference. 1t is estimated that the whole
tree would have made $4,000 shingles.
CHARLES SUMNER, in his youth,
achieved the arduous feat of swimming
across the boiling rapids below Niagara
Falls-a feat which few men have had
either the muscle or the nerve to per-
form.
In Sweden, out of 1885,, 900 children of
school age, only 9,13l, or three per
cent, are uninstructed. OF the 1900,
600 voters in the United States, more
than 100000 cannot read the ballot
they cast.
OF the seventy-two United States
Senators, thrtysevan are accompanied
by their wives. One hundred and twen-
ty-nine of the two hundred and ninety
eight Representatives. have their spouses
with them.
The following table shows the volume
of the currency of the country at the
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-09
NOnplusing n Barber.

Persons who visit barber shops would
give premium for barber who would
not insist upon them having their 6 hair
cut" or submitting to a shampoo
when they only wish to be shaved. A
man who called to-day at a tonsorlal
establishment on Smithtield street sue
ceeded in nonplusing most persist
ent knight Of the razor. The barber
insisted npon giving the transient Gus
toner shampoo, y and the L. q. per-
emptorily demanded why such a request
was made. Then little colloquy en-
sued something like this:
Barber" Your head is very dirty,
sahn'
L. c." Well, 1 know it is, and L
want it dirty" :,
Barber" Want it dirty Why, what
fab ~
Il. c." Well, I'm Granger, and l
want to have soil on my head
The barber ceased his importunlngs,,
and quietly shaved his man. -IaHsbuT9h
UrOnicic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-09

HANNAFoRD & THOMPSON, Publishers,
Chicago, ILL.,. announce 4th edition of
Periam's Grounds,ceU, or History Of
the Furncr's s NOuement. This sale was
made in less than 3 months. The demand
is extraordinary. Agents make money
rapidly with it, spite of hard times
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-09

ALEXANDER MITCHELL, M. c., from
Wisconsin, is reputed to be worth
$40, 100000, and to be the wealthlest
man in the West. He is native OF
Scotland, and made most of his money
by banking.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-09

The Chicago REvER.-This goahead
city spent some $3 900, coo a few years
ago in turning back the current OF the
Chicago river and making it tributary
of the Mississippi instead of the St Law
renee. The Board of Trade is now con-
,iderng a proposal to fill up the part
going through the city and substitute
therefor huge covered sewer. Bridges
and tunnels are found to be insufficient
for the immense and growing vehicular
and pedestrian trflic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-09

The Herald Of He0Hh says That the
more young ladys waist resembles an
hour-glass, the sooner will her SANDS OF
life run out. Now just see what the
ladies can say of the men. they say
the men are so fond of their hour
glass" that half of 'em don't know
whether or not they have any waists at
all
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-09

CURE FOR HEADACHE oil, one
once tincture of opium, one ounce, and
tincture of capsium, one ounce, These
t;nctures must be made of pure alcohol.
Rub well two or three times on the
head, and take internally from five to
twenty drops, according TO the neces-
sity of the ease.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-09

A REMARKABLE rose bush adorns the
cottage of S. A. Kendall, of Santa Rosa,
Cal. 1t was planted in 1858, and is of
the Lamarque variety, the most beauti-
full of the white roses, Imagine an i'm
mense bouquet of white roses, twenty
five feet high, twenty-five feet across,
beautifully rounded, with blossoming
surface OF 400 square feet, with 4 1000
full-blown roses and 20, 900 buds.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-09

A DREADFUL sentence has been passed
at Yeddo on woman who connived at
the murder of her husband, and married
his brother, the murderer, viz: that of
being torn to pieces by bullocks. The
man is to be crucfed, and then tor
tured with spear wounds.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-09

don't attempt to suppress it. A lady
in Westiield, Mass. lately. awed by the
presence of company, tried to keep one
off, and the result was paralysis OF
one side of her face, 50 iistortlng bei
features that her friends can scarcely
recognize her At the last accounts she
was seeking medical advice.