Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-12-12


to give one away on New Years days
Some customer, especially if he or sic
is just beginning housekeeping, will
look back to Jan. l, 1886, as their
lucky day. Advertisement on second
page.
A brief dispatch dated Staunton,
Va, announces the partial burning
Thursday night of Beall & Paul's foun-
dry ct that place. The loss is $4,000.
principally patterns. Insurance $4,000,
Howorth's show Tuesday night was
good.
Pubiicdtions.-Frank Leslie's Pop
ular Monthly for December opens with
very timely article called "Another
Bit of Turkey" 1t has no reference
to Thanksgiving but to the annexation
of Roumelia by the Prince Of Bulgaria.
This unexpected seizure Of another
bit Of Turkey, and the events that have
followed, required explanations. In
this article Mr.. Oscanyan, formerly
Turkish Consul-general, thoroughly
versed in the system of Oriental rule,
gives clear view of the province and
its people, as we'll as of Bulgaria.
THE Shakers in Niskayuna' is a
sketch by q lady of that curious COM
munity accompanied by fine series
Of illustrations. 1.-THE story of Ma
poleon Bonaparte's Divorce from the
Empress Josephine" is told by Noel
Ruthven in a way to excite the read
er's warmest sympathy with the
amiable lady whom a husbands am
bition compelled to descend from her
throne. Walter S. Baltic describes
and illustrates little known part of
our hemisphere in his attractive
"Glimpses of South BRAZIL while
Lieutenant Winder, Of the Navy, car
ries us back to the days of Robinson
Crusoe in his ''Rescue of the 7rmitys
Crew." the story of the crew of all
American vessel lost on rarely visit
ed island in the Antarctic Ocean.
Ackroyd's scientific article on "Whirl
pools and Whirlwinds'' explains the
origin of these deadly forces in nature
whicl. so frequently compel US to re-
cord their destructive ravages. The
lighter elements in the magazine, the
fine Illustrations, the stories by Mrs.
E. B. Duffey, C. M. Bouteile r. C.
Meyers, Laurence Germaine, with the
poetic and other miscellany, make the
number from every point Of view ex
tremely attractive. Published by Mrs.
Frank Leslie, SO, SO and 81 Park
Place, New York city, at % cents a
number, or So a year, postpaid,
The success of Science, the scientific
weekly for general readers, and the
increasing quantity of scientific news
published by the metropolitan dailies,
are indications of the increasing
interest of scientific matter to the
country at large. When the interest
Of newspaper readers has once been
fairly fixed, we shall no doubt have a
scientific, perhaps q Daily Science.
Ba6yAood for December, which is the
first number Of its second year, con-
tains a number of timely Christmas
suggestions as to what to buy for
Baby, ETC., and reverts to the subject
Of compulsory Kissing" this time in
its medical aspect. ''Rocking Baby
to Sleep is the title of one of many
interesting letters in the "Mothers'
Parliament" DR.. Cyrus Edison. of the
New York Board Of Health, writes on
preserved Milk exposing certain
processes employed by INSCRIPTIONS
dealers, and giving directions for test
ing milk to ascertain ii 1t has been
chemically tempered with. 1.-THE
Spelling of Children" is sensible
article by Charlotte Ellis; Eleanor
Kirk writes upon ''Grandmothers,"
and DR.. F. II. Bosworth upon "Tak-
ing Cold" The queries and answers
in the department Of Nursery
Problems are unusually numerous.
BabyAoOd offers liberal terms to can
vassers, many of whom have met with
marked success il procuring sub
scriptions. is Spruce Street, New
York. h cents u copy $50 year.
Any reader desiring to try Scicace,
the new scientific weekly, will be en-
titled to the four issues of December
on receipt Of twenty-five cents by the
publishers, 713 Broadway, New York.
An early number of Science will CON
tain three composite portraits of Wash
ington. These will really be three new
portraits of the Father OF his Country,
and will give q more correct idea of
his face than any picture yet publish
ed.
The special valuo of u composite is
due to its method Of manufacture by
photography. In this ease one Of the