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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Gold can be beaten to such degree
Of thinness as to become partially trans.
parent.
Nitric acid will entirely dissolve flesh
and bone, both disappearing without
any odor.
Thunder can scarcely ever be heard
more than twenty or thirty miles from
The flash that produced ii.
The process Of termination Of seeds
generally occupies from twelyeto fifteen
days.
A glass globe full of cold water, OF
even lump Of ice, will in the sun
rays act as burning lens.
One of the chronometers supplied
TO the Grinnell Arctic exploration was
so exquisitely adjusted that after being
subjected to the severest test of polar
winter it showed q change during veal
and half of only an 1s,0OOth part of
second.
A very useful system has, it is said,
been inaugurated in Belgium, by which
subscribers to the telephone exchange
can be awakened at any desired hour in
the morning by means of powerful
alarm.
The frescoes of Pompeii represent a
considerable number of plants, and
taking advantage of the discoveries
made during the recent excavations on
the occasion of the centenary of the
eruption, DIR. Comes has identified no
fewer than fifty different plant species
in frescoes. In this manner he has
shown, among other things, that the
ancient Romans possessed or knew
plants foreign to Italy.
The governor of Cyprus has sent to
England one of the oldest pieces oi
ordnance in existence. 1t is of cast.
iron, and Weighs % hundredweight.
Its form is that of a cup or goblet, hav.
ing the mouth wide and deep to receive
large stone shot, while the pedestal
has much narrower chamber for the
powder. This chamber is 7 inches in
diameter, extends 30 inches behind the
mortar, and terminates in q vent at
light angles fully an inch in diameter,
1t is probably of Venetian manufacture.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24
How we Judge or Distance.

The editor of the Louisville Medical
Ne,cs believes that we Judge of distance
and form with both eyes, and that we
Judge of direction with only one eye,
which is the right or left, according as
the observer is right or left-handed.
To prove this he suggests the following
experiment !. "As you sit in your chair
point to any object across the room with
both eyes open and no attempt at sight
ing Close the left eye and you VIII
find you are..still accurately on the OBJ
iect, but close the right eye and You
will. discover with your present vision
you are pointing clean over to the right
provided you are right-handed." Which,
ever hand is used in pointing, the re-
suit is the same.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24
SlEE(isrellanp,
Qo
The Tobacco Habit with Women.


DR.. Hammond, the well-known New
York physician, said in reply to re-
porter's question:
"It is true that American women do
largely use tobacco. In fact, they
always have. American ladies of Afri-
can descent in the South have always
smoked their pipes, and their white
sisters do not altogether disdain the
pipe and dipping. But here at the
North many ladies have, in imitation of
Cuban, Mexican, South American, Span
ish, French and even English women,
take to the use of cigarettes, to their
very great detriment."
"Why more so than to men ?"
at don't think men are often injured
by the moderate use of tobacco in smok-
ing. But the female body is no more
adapted to the use of tobacco than the
female mind is to mathematics. 1t
causes neuralgia, headache, dyspepsia,
palpitation of the heart, and worse of
all, ruins the complexion and disorders
the teeth. 1 say nothing about the
health, but I think, nevertheless, that
all will agree that the stale odor of to-
bacco coming from woman's mouth is
worse than the same smell exhaled by
a man. AS to chewing in men and its
analogous, dipping in women, nothing
can be filthier, and 1 know that both
are productive of diseases of the ner-
vous system"
"But, doctor, does not smoking
cause diseases of the nervous system in
men as we'll as in women?"
Certainly it does, if indulged in to
excess. But then mems nervous system
are not so impressionable as women's,
and hence man can do many things
with impunity, or even benefit, which
would be impossible for woman to do
without great risk. And besides it does
not make much difference to q man if
his complexion is little sallow, his
eyes lusterles: ais body shriveled and
his skin rough, whereas these things
are very important to a woman"
81 see that you are an admirer o
beauty in women, doctor?"
eyes. 1t is the greatest gift woman
ran have, for it not only means esthetic
enjoyment for all that look at her, but
it means healthy mind and healthy
body; and then the means necessary to
preserve beauty are the very ones neces-
sary to keep the mind and body in sound
| health"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

A great hardship-An iron clad.
Men who are born eQual-Twins.
The coin for perfumers-A cent.
A lumber yard-A three-foot board.
A lawyers trial is when he has none.
Can a boy who runs away with circus
be arrested for larceny?
We suppose clap of thunder may be
called o weather report"
Protested notes-Those emanating
from your neighbor's violin.
The red flag is signal of danger. II
you doubt it, wave one in the face. OF
mad bull.
Why is much-admired young lady
like the hub of wheel? Because she
Is always surrounded by fellows.
No woman ever looks at fine large
newspaper without thinking what
beautiful polonaise pattern it would
make.
The time to dance is just after stirring
up den of yellow-jacks. Partiea
attending picnics will do well to remem.
ber this.
"Why should We celebrate Washing
toms birthday more than mine?" asked
4 teacher. "Because he never told
lie," shouted little boy.
"Scissors and Lightning !" shouted an
irate subscriber who could find nothing
but miscellany and telegraphic news in
his paper.-Keohuh Gate City.
VIM. OFT, one of Napoleon's soldiers
at Leipsic and Waterloo, died at Water
town, Wis, recently, aged ninety-one
years.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Wash for Fruit Treos.

A correspondent of the Rural Mes.
Sc nger has had good results from til
application of lime, wood ashes and old
iron put around the roots of fruit trees
that were not doing we'll, thus restoring
the trees to healthy condition and i'm
proving the quality of the fruit. AS a
wash for mossy trees he gives the fol-
lowing: Heat an ounce of sal soda to
redness in an iron pot and dissolve it in
one gallon of water, and while warm
apply it to the trunk. After one appli-
cation the moss and old bark will drop
off and the trunk will bo quite smooth.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24

For years we have condemned the
practice of deforming in appearance
and injury physically the horse by the
useless and foolish contrivance Of
blinds. The fabulous practice of carry
ing a stone in one end of the bag
to balance the grain in the other is
innocence compared tc the relic of bar
barism still indulged by teamsters. All
the arguments in its favor are mere
pretense to hide such ridiculous prac-
tices. The blinds and the internal
check-rein demand the intercession of
Mr.. Bergh as the most serious and
coolly premeditated wrong and cruelty
to noble animal. The horse is a
noble animal, and enjoys as we'll
as man the sights about him. And
when he is treated rightly and has a
full sight of all about him, is more kind
and tractable. Imaginary evils and
bugaboos are always more frightful to
man and beast than real ones. Besides
the discomfort to the horse, and tho
Disagreement Of his appearance, blinds
are injurious to the eight. 1t causes
a sharp current between the closely
pressed blinds and the eye causing
the lodgment of dust and dirt III that
too tender organ, and it aids in accel-
Grating the too frequent blindness.
Think of his patience, his faithful SER
vice, his intelligent devotion, and leave
off those torturing instruments-the
blinds and oheck-reins.t Humanity de-
mands it the progress of the age de-
mads it j; but more than all, the comfort
and safety of that noblest of all animals
demand h.-Iora State Register.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24
The Electric Railroad.

An American gentleman who has rid
den on the new electric railroad in Ger
many, says: BY an arrangement of
steel belts the power is stransfefred from
the engine to the car wheels. The
starting and stopping of the Car and
engine are arranged by the movement
Of crank on either platform of the
car, which breaks or connects tho cleo
tric current. There are also car brake
and bell signal, all within easy reach Of
the conductor, who can run the car
as we'll as receive fares and tickets.
The car itself was similar to one
horse car on an American horse rail-
road. 1t is handsomely fitted up, and
can be run either way without turn
nag. The rate OF speed is limited to
fifteen hilometers an hour, but ON
the trip, with twenty persons on the
car, we ran at least thirty miles an hour,
at a steady, continuous rate. The points
of advantage were the entire absence
of smoke, cinders and other discomforts
incident to the use of steam locomo-
tives; great saving in the force re-
quired to move the train, as there is no
boiler, water and coal required to be
carried with it. The cars con be built
much lighter, as no dead weight is
transported, and are much more easily
controlled by the brakes in stopping.
The electricengine occupies little space
underneath the car, is of small weight
and free from danger. Water power
can be utilized to produce the required
electric current, thus doing away with
coal and steam engines.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24
Selrtt 2uetrp.
A Summer Day.

A Summer Day.
Turquoise breasted birds have sung the spring
away;
Pink arbutus leaves have blushed farewell TO
May;
There'sa soft, sweet presence lowering ON high
There's the whole of summer in the summer
sky.
When the daylight fluttors from their swinging
nests,
Rise enraptured welcomes from enraptured
breasts;
When the clouds Of sunset stream like burning
lights,
There's the faint, low warbling of their soft
good-nights..
There are rivers murmuring as they onward go,
That the pale spring loosened into fuller How /;
Now wider glory in their sparkling hides
There's summers passion in their throbbing
tides;
Thin wings sunshine-dusted, through the noon
tides go
Butterflies in silence futtering to and fro;
There's the whole ripe sweetness OF the spring
gone by
There's the whole Of summer in the summer
sky
Mrs. J.. G. Wilton. in Wide Atcdke.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24
A DimcuIty with Strawberries.

Shrubs, when set in the grass of a
lawn, are often dwarfed by tho turf
which surrounds them. Spading about
them only partly removes the difficulty,
rs the spaded ground never extends to
tho length of the roots, which always
run at least as far each wayas the height
of the shrubs. Besides, the ground is
necessarily more or less defaced by the
operation. The true remedy is top
dressing. Superphosphate, on such
soils as are benefited by it, will answer
good purpose and not present an un-
slightly appearance like coarse manure.
Finely-pulverized old manure will not
be Objectionable. In many cases liquid
manure for small plants will answer
well. The top-dressing should be done
in autumn or very early in spring, and
special care must be taken to extend it
as far from the stems as above indi-
Gated.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Praise undeselvl1 is satire in disguise.
A joyful eveling may follow sor-
rowful morning.
We put up with folly more patiently
than we do with justice.
There is mode of presenting that
gives value to everything.
The most delicate, the most sensible
OF all pleasures, consists in promoting
the pleasure of others.
Nature has written letter of credit
on some mems faces which is honored
wherever it is presented.
True glory strikes root and even ex.
tends itself; but false pretensions fall as
do flowers, nor can anything feigned be
lasting.
Political hatred is like pair of spec
tacles. One sees everybody, every opin.
ion or every sentiment only through
ones own glasses.
Let us learn that everything in nature
even notes and feathers, go by law, and
not by luck, and what We SOW we are
invariably sure to reap.
Whoever is an imitator by nature,
choice or necessity, has nothing stable;
the fexibility which affords this apti.
tude is inconsistent with strength.
Brotherhood is the term in common
use to imply the spirit We should cher
ish and tho conduct we should practice
toward our fellow men, showing how
strong is the sense of what the relation
ought to involve.
There is boy in town who will bay
no more New Testaments. He says,
with an air of Disappointment that
"there's not an Ingun story in it,"
Philadelphia man has bought 4, ,O0O,-
900 acres of Florida land, and yet all
this vast tract isn't near as big as boy
feels in his first pair of high boots.
"There are lots of men in this coun-
Try who ought to be in the same condi.
ton that this gate is in," said the
farmer, as he shut it behind lightning
rod peddler. Chow is that ?" "Well-
hung" said the farmer, as he resumed
agricultural pursuits.
A Rochester photographer has got
matters down fine. For point for the
subject to look at while the picture is
being taken, instead of the usual faded
envelope or old photograph on the wall,
he has the ominious words neatly
framed, "Terms Cash."
A school teacher, discharged for using
the rod too freely, applied for employ
ment in dressmaker's establishment.
"Have you had any experience in sew
ingP asked the dressmaker. "No,"
was the reply, "but I have thorough
knowledge of basting."
Son, never get excited. If it's some
thing you can prevent, go in and stop
it; if it's something you can't help,
what good will it do to lose your head
and rage around and act ridiculousf
This rule, however, may be and is here
by suspended during presidential cleo.
tions, at the horse race, and when one
legged man sets his spike-pointed crutch
on your favorite bunion.
Girls are advised by Chicago ply
sician to always sleep on their backs il
they wish to keep crows-feet from the
corners OF their eyes. "These biem-
ishes," he says, "are the result of sleep
ing on the side, the pressure upon the
temple and cheeks leaving wrinkles at
the corners and underneath the eyes. !"
Girls should remember this, and get
awake every half hour during the night
to see if they are sleeping on their
| backs.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24

A HIGH Observation-Disclosures
Angelo, Prima Donna of the French
and italian Opera, says:
MendelsSohn Piano Co., NeD York:
GENTLEMEN:-From the experience L
have had in playing upon your Upright
Pianos, | cannot help expressing my ad-
miration of their tone and action. One
respect in which they particularly excel Is
their singing quality Of tone. Wishing
you good success in the manufacture OF
these fine instruments, am,
Yours truly, ANaELEl
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24

As soon as the first cut Of grass Is
made an application of well-rotteA,
fnely-divided manure may be made with
very profitable returns The manure
protects the exposed surfaces of the
base of the grass plants from the heat of
the sun, and furnishes the necessary
nourishment to the roots of the plants.
A new growth is soon produced, making
the land profitable either as a pasture
or for second moving. gricultwist.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24
Notice to stockholders.

THE stockholders of the Thomas
l. Mining Company (ate With:
ers Mining Company are hereby notified
to return their certificates of stock 10 the
Secretary without delay, and receive new
certificates in accordance with the change
OF name of said company as made by the
Act of 1880, chapter 37S of the General
Assembly of Maryland.
JOSEPH b. THOMAS,
President.
WIN. II. EVANS, Secretary.
Nav 21-tf
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24

Eastern furniture manufacturers are
seriously troubled at the scarcity of wal
nut lumber. Before the value of this
wood as an article OF commerce was un-
derstood, great quantities of it were
peedlessiy destroyed or used by farmers
for the commonest purposes. Whole
acres were burned for the purpose Of
clearing land, and it was turned into
fence rails and hog troughs. They
know better now, but there are few places
whoro much of the wood is to DO found.
Indiana and Canada West, that were
formerly the principal sources of sup
ply, are almost denuded. There are,
however, some promising tracts in the
Southwestern States.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24

A fair gauge Of the progress Turkey
Is making in the art of government is
found in two DEGREES lately promulgated
in Constantinople. One orders Turkish
women, OF all ranks, to wear thicker
yashmaks or veils. The other abolishes
the local post, an institution which had
existed for many years, but its organ
ization was SO abominable that no one
ever dreamed Of intrusting letter OF
importance to it. Under the admins.
tration Of Mr.. Scudamore, however, it
rapidly improved and was becoming a
popular and profitable institution, when
he retired; then it fell back into the
old ruts. The Porte has now sup
pressed it. fearing that it would become
a means of communication between con-
spirators against the government.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24

You can get bottle or barrel of oil
of of any carpet or woolen stuff by APP
plying dry buckwheat plentifully and
faithfully. Never put water or liquid of
any kind to such grease spot.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24
ZJNSOLV'ENT NOTICE.

LOT o0I< IIOt L u ~ IL Il NSSs
Henry L. Grouse
His Creditors.
ORDERED, This Goth day of July
~ 1881, that the I'd Monday of October
next at 10 O'Clock q. m. is hereby fixed as
the time at which Henry l.. Grouse, insol-
vent petitioner, shall appear in the Circuit
Court for Allegsny county, to answer such
interrogatorics or allegations as his eredi-
tors, endorsers ore sureties may propos Sc
or allege against him, and that John s.
Grove, permanent trustee for the benefit
of the creditors of said petitioner, shall
prior to the said I'd Monday Of October
next, give at least forty days notice of the
day so fixed and of the purport of this
order by publication in some newspaper
printed in the city of Frostburg.
THEO. LUMAN, Clerk.
JNo. 8. GROVE, Permanent Trustee.
Aug 90
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Flies are said soon to disappear from
room containing plate ofthe follow
ing mixture: Half u tcaspoonful of black
pepper in powder, one of brown sugar.
and one of cream mixed together.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24
J. RUHL, M. D.,

FROSTBURG, MD,
HAS confined his practice entirely to
IL the treatment and cure of CON
SUMPTION and all diseases of the Respi-
ratory system, and will positively attend
to no other cases.
Office hours, daily from 0 to II a. m.
Sundays excepted)
No books kept and cash required for
medicine. Cases treated by correspon-
dence.
Office at McNeill's Drug Store.
Aug 6-tf
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24

A curious story is told in Berlin.
a horse while crossing the electric
railway, having set his hoof upon the
rail, was instantly thrown down, so
strong was the current, and another
horse, having also touched the rail, with
his iron shod hoof, received shock
which sent him galloping off in wild
terror.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24

VIM. OFT, one of Napoleon's soldiers
at Leipsic and Waterloo, died at Water
town, Wis, recently, aged ninety-one
years.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-24

The Methodist Episcopal church,
South, has 3,673 travelling preachers,
gain of 113 in the past year, and s37,-
s3l members, gain Of 1896. OF these
members 1,081 are negroes and 1881
are Indians. The Virginia conference
is the largest, having 57O6S members,
and 1aa travelling, 10 superannuated
and 173 local preachers.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-03
POLICE NOTES.

A number of arrests were made on Sun.
day last by several of our officers, the chief
oifense being violation of chapter five,
section fifteen of the revised ordinances.
For the last two or three weeks Sunday
mas, from some cause or other, been one of
the busiest days of the week for the police
force Why this is so it is difficult to say,
unless laborers spend their weeks wages
Tor liquor on Saturday evening and drink
the liquor after church on Sunday morning.
The folio wing cases were tried in the
court OF Magistrate A. Comings
John Johnson was arrested by John
Tyler, charged with drunkenness. He
plead guilty and was fined one dollar and
costs.
Henry Cunningham was arrested by
Officer Warren Wins under chapter Ave,
section fifteen of the revised ordinance,
and taken before his honor for
trial. His case was continued until Nav
9th upon application of defendant.
Officer Warren Wins arrested John Cain
for being drunk and he was yesterday
brought into court for trial, and found
guilty OF the charge preferred against him.
He was accordingly fined one dollar and
costs, which he paid.
VIM. L. Smith was arrested by Officer P.
Mahanny for being disorderly. Being
brought into court yesterday, he plead
guilty to the charge and was fined one dol
lar and costs. He was given stay of
six days which he probably availed him.
self and left town.
Officer Henry Bunker arrested James
Malloy for being drunken and disorderly
in violation of chapter five, section fifteen
of the revised ordinances of the city of
Cairo. He plead guilty to the charge in
court yesterday and was fined one dollar
and costs. He was also given stay of
six days in which to depart from this the
scene of his lawlessness.
One Williams was brought into Esquire
Osborn's court yesterday upon the charge OF
gross disorderly conduct. He was find five
dollars and costs and jailed for nine