Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-03-27
WHOLE NO. 755.

land and Pennsylvania railroad, work
in the company's shops at Mt. Savage
has been for the present suspended.
The JOURNAL was in error last week
in stating that the Water, Bowery and
Mechanic street people interested in
laying new pavements, chad until
Sept. to complete the work" 1t
should have been written June s.
Look at Mr.. Buffers advertisement
on fourth page. He has bargains and
bargains to offer in the way of al de-
scriptions of furniture. In fact, he
proposes to sell his very large stock
without reserving a cent of profit.
Through strong presentation made
by H. w. Schaidt, editor of the Iona
coming Reriep, the Baltimore Fedora
tion of Labor has endorsed the new
mining and ventilation bill
The baseball season is coming rapid
ly. 1t has already opened in the
South, and Cumberland is talking of
putting a nine in the field which it will
be Frostburg's duty to wallop.
A good many sore eyes about town,
each owing, doubtless to peck of
March dust, a bushel of which brings
four tons of hay in July.
P"bltcatton.--The prolonged winte
made ice-yachting possible even into
what is generally regarded as spring,
so that the attractions and perils of
this peculiar amusement are still fresh
in the mind. Mr.. Stephens, in the
April number of Frank Lesle's Popular
Monthly gives the history of these ves-
sells, their present popular forms, and
describes viyidly the exhilarating sem
sations of spin over the CLASSY ice in
one of these fleet vehicles. Mr.. F. b.
Mayer takes us from the ice and its
pleasures to the balmier Chesapeake
and introduces us to the old towns and
manors of the western shore of Mary
land giving illustrations from his own
artistic pencil. Lily Higgin, under
the title of Romance Of Court"
gives most interesting account of the
late King Alfonso of Spain. F. c.
Valentine initiates us into the mys-
teries of "Indian Sign Language in
Central Africa" Lawrence Hutton
revives recollections of "Infant Phe-
nomena" who have pleased with their
precocious talent our forefathers or
ourselves, from the days of young
Betty, brilliant in boyhood, and dull
in maturity. The story of the artist,
Gustave Dore, is graphically told by
H. Tyrrell. "Meals and Mealtime" isa
subject certain to attract, while ''The
Frenchwoman in the East tells of
two recent French travellers of the fair
sex. A very curious article by IL nat
uralist on what are popularity called
Inca's Eyes solves all the mystery
about these curious objects, concern
ing which so many absurd stories have
been running the rounds. The stories
are all good. Besides the Daughters
of CAIN" by Eta w. Pierce, there are
short stories by Walter Edgar McCann,
C. L. Hildreth, George Kirby, Elmer
Brooke and Clarence M. Boutelle.
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