Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-07-31

| faction with their present stage of sickness.
| The JOURNAL may not amount to much at
putting out fire, but it guarantees some fine
| work at sickening the fremen. There is
one already who wishes he had 'gone dade."
Beanboard furniture trade quite brisk
! "Detunct," did you say, "Reel?" Well,
| you will find out better about that
| Weather getting warm thermometrcal Vi
bratlons at noontidc between so and S5.
| Just one more hand grenade: The BOYS
| seemed to be watching for effects Thursday
| evening. yesterday they were not so vigiant
Publicatipns.-This is not the weather
lor heaVy or very serious reading, but Frank
LcSlles Popular. Monthly adapts itself to all
seasons. The August number gives a most
| attractive sketch by George Makepeace Towle
OF The Nestor Of Europe" the Emperor
| William, of Germany. Ifthat is not light
enough, Daudets sketch of ''Tartarin in the
Alps" and stories like Towner's 'Hermon
brakes Ashes, Boutclles THE Lost Lady,,
An Unknown name "A Scrap of Paper ),
| Will certainly tempt readers I'rotfrtt tho
lively lecturer and newspaper writer, tells of
! the four Fields, not in the country, but of
the country, Cyrus W., David D., Stephen j.
and Henry NJ. Field. Laura c. Holloway
gives very readable account of Lady Burdett
Coutts, the philanthropst; Lucy II. Hooper,
! queen of correspondents, tells of the Water
Supply of Paris - "A Ship Portage from Sea
| to Sea- is an able discussion of the merits of
the proposed ship railway at Tehuantepec.
f. c. Valentine tells of Central American
| Women" and Professor Eaton discusses the
|
| The series OF articles by prominent men
OF the country in the Graphic Necs, of Gin
| clnnah is attracting great attention and the
highest praise. In the issue of the 31st Hon.
Cassius NJ. Clay, of Kentucky cx-U S. Min
| lister to Russia, and one of the ablest states
men of the land will write upon Forests
and RAINFALL The subject is an especially
| interesting one, and is most effectively
| handled. Amongst other interesting features
| Will be full page on the O-Wash-T Ia Nongs,
the far-famed boat club of Grand Rapids.
Mich, and their new club house, and the
Philadelphia public buildings, the largest
structure in the land, and portraits of leading
men, including James Whitcomb Riley the
Hoosicr Poet. In the issue Of August 9th
will be printed photographic supplement of
Mrs. Gov Foraker, Of Ohio the first of a
| series Of portraits of prominent people.
| At the last session of the Legislature q law
was passed providing that the nature of
alcoholic drinks and narcotics with special
Instructions as to their effects upon the
| human system, should be taught in con-
necton with the general snbiect Of physi-
ology in the public schools of this State.
Messrs. w. J. c. Duany Il Co., of Baltimore,
have published two text books with intent to
meet this requirement OF the Legislature.
The first of the two volumes is q STANDARD
Physiology adapted to intermediate classes
and common schools, and containing state
mcnts of the facts relative to the influence
of alcohol, tobacco, opium and other mar.
cotics upon the human system. The matter
OF this volume is largely taken, by per-
mission, from that admirable little text book.
'Hygiene for Young People, 1t contains
all its good points with much additional
matter. The cuts are good and plentiful the
letter press clear and the general make up
excellent The second series is larger, more
complete and is intended as an advanced
course. 1t IS edited by Prof. II. Newell
Martin, of John Hopkins University, which
is a sufficient guarantee OF the tirst-cass char
aCtcr Of its literary form. In this, as in the
previous volume, the relation of alcohol and
narcotics on the general health is discussed
and their evil effects pointed out, not with
hatulent overstatcmcnt, but with clear.
| scientific precision. As an instance of this
careful method we quote as follows at can
not be denied that many persons consume q
good deal of tobacco without being much
ln, l,- I,,I "a. I
unless carefully taken as medicine to soothe
an irritable or diseased nervous system. One
general rule may be laid down without fear
of contradiction Tobacco is always very in
furious to those whose bodies are not vet
! fully developed" Within the last five or six
years there has arisen 4 strong movement to
strike at the use of alcoholic stmulants and
| narcotics through public school teaching, and
! legislative cnactmenis, similar to that recent
| ly passed by our General Assembly have be-
! come laws in other States. 1t is to be hoped
that the experiment may be attended with
! success.
klllma-NlarO the recently discovered
monarch of African mountains, is the subject
of the opening paper in Frank Leslie's Sun
day Magazine for August 1t is finely illus
trated An article on Turner, the great
English painter is accompanied by his por-
trait and reproduction of some of his works,
including the famous "SIave Ship Two
| beautiful pictures of Tobias" and The
Archangel Raphael" from last years PARIS
Saton, accompany the text OF the dramatic
| poem used by Gounod in his Oratorio "Tobie,"
and narrative of the Book of Tobit in the
| ApOcrypha. Thomas Powell begins Leaves
| from my Life, with anecdotes and personal
| conversation about and with Charles Lamb
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Musical read
ers will be interested in the picture of the
new organ in the Cathedral at Riga, Russia,
| largest in the world, and the very full
description accompanying it. "Guilds of
New York City" by f, s, is valuable con-
! tributiOn relating to the benevolent activities
OF the Episcopal Church in that city. "a
! Curious Conversion" is indeed curious
story, the scene being laid at Oxford,
England. The serial story, 1.-The Gems She
| Wore" begins to get exciting "Dilettante
Days carries the reader to Switzerland, and
''The Tapestry Room" tells about the Brown
Bull of NOrrowa. There are portraits of DR..
Dio Lewis, Archbishop Knox, the new