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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-11-20
Yet He Went to Jail.

Judge-"I shall send you up for
three months"
Prisoner--"What's that for, Judge p"
Judge (sternly)-"You're tramp
and are without visible means of sup
port.
Prisoner (earnestly)-"I admit it,
Judge, but faint my fault I've axed
three girls to have me in the last month,
End if you'll give me show I'll get
married before August. "-Phiiadel-
Mia Call.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-11-20
An Act of Friendship.

Brown-'I thought you hated Jones. !"
Smith $50 l do. Why do you ask. :"
Brown-"I hearl you gave HIM $500
piano the other day. That doesn't look
as though you hated him much."
Sm 'th-"That shows what you know
aho t, Ills wife thinks she can sing"
g. G raAhG.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-11-20
Johnny Was Correct,

The teacher had been explaining that
that the word "hcbdomadar' means
weekly" and on being asked to give a
sentence containing the word little
Johnny Jenkins said: IA dude is 4 very
hebdomadal creature"
Johnny's idea of the case was correct
anyhow. -Helchaqt Traaelcr.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-11-20

YouNG Farmer Cat the cattle show
Are you fonG of beasts, Miss Gusher-
ton? Miss Gusherton-Oh, really, Mr..
Pawker, ii you mean that as declare.
lion, you must speak to mamma.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-11-20

UNDER the head of linen plush n new
style of plush material has been intro
duced into the market, which. on &C.
count of its numerous advantages de-
serves to be universally known. This
bright, glossy plush is made of fax
yarn and therefore proof against moths,
1t was originally intended for decora-
tive purposes, upholstering, furniture,
t~blecloths, ETC., but it's softness zen.
lers it also suitable for warm clothing,
such as dressing gowns and the like
Ii is made in all the fashionable colors.
dark green, olive, Bordeaux red,
bronze, dark blue, and as the texture
is one that does not fade, linen plush
will also form an excellent and useful
material for cushions and decorative
embroidery.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-11-20

Ten years ago q paper-box maker
died in New Orleans, leaving his widow
with nothing but an knowledge of his
trade. She went to work in her attic
room making boxes, and was so success.
ful in getting orders that she soon had
more than she could do. She hired
help, added room after room, and now
employs thirty-fve hands. She travels
for her own house, taking long drum
ming tours through Texas and Louisi-
ana, and is getting rich fast.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-11-20

In Boston, according to the CORE
spondent Of the New York Fuening
Post, the pronunciation of the words
coat, road, and coach is unspellable.
But they are probably less provincial
in manners and tastes than the people
of any American city except New York.
And SO they have their complement of
hotels that are entirely first class in
structure and management; they have
to have splendid theaters, for Boston
is the best SHOW town" in the United
States outside of the metropolis; such
luxur.es as English chop-houses, where
enticing specialties on the order of
"broiled live lobster, beef, and York
shire pudding, with caddy of musty
ale," are served in ideal fashion, are
tucked away in dimly lighted by-ways
that seem almost redolent of % genuine
London fog.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-11-20

ONE of the curiosities of the animal
kingdom is the eulachon, or candle
fish (Thaleichtys Pacificus) of the
northeastern Pacific. 1t is about four.
teen inches long, resembles the smeIt
in appearance, and is caught in large
quantities in the early spring. 1t is
the latest of all known fishes, for
which reason its dried and smoked
flesh is highly esteemed as a warming
food for winter by the Indians, by
whom the oil is also drunk. SO fat is
the fish that when dried it burns with
bright flame until entirely consumed,
forming candle much used among the
Indians, either with or without wood
en- wick passed through the body.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-11-20

. No BALD-HEADED man is taken into
the United States army as recruit.
This rule has been adopted to concili-
ate the friendly Indian. Nothing ex-
asperates an Indian so much as to
kill United States soldier and then
be deprived of the satisfaction of scalp
ing him. Such an outrage on the
friendly Indians is calculated to goad
them on to war. 1t is at the request of
the Indians that the Secretary of War
issued the order that none but scalpa-
bio recruits should be received into
the army.
ST. PAUL Globe: "Did you so to the
cemetery?" asked Mrs. Dutiful to Mrs.
Funeralgoer, referring to recent
funeral in the neiohboruood "Yes,"
replied the person addressed. How
natural he looked" exclaimed the first
speaker. Gust as if he was asleep"
Il hardly noticed anything. l never
enjoyed myself less in my life" "Why,
what was the matter?' We'll, it looked
very much as though we would have
wind storm, and l left the windows
open at home, and l was so afraid it
would rain and spoil my new carpet
that I did not enjoy the funeral as I
should have done"
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-20
A MYSTERIOUS TREE,
A Discovery Which Has Agitated Obi
People for Nearly Ten Years,

A Discovery Which Has Agitated Ohio
People for Nearly Ten Years.
In the year 1877 some workmen who
were engaged in building a bridge
across Chappelle creek-a small stream
rising near the town of Ashland, O.,
and running through Erie County and
into Lake Erie-found it necessary to
excavate to the depth of some eighteen
feet for n of the abutments, and
when they had reached nearly the re-
CURED depth struck a perfectly pre-
served red cedar tree, which had lain
there perhaps for ages, waiting the
time when its little story should be told.
The bark and a portion of the sap
were deoayed, but the colored portion
tnearly the whole of the woody was as
sound as when it ceased growing. 1t
was about two feet thick for something
like forty feet from the root-the length
of the section removed. The "ind'
caused a good deal OF interest among
the inhabitants of that neighborhood,
and a number of baseball bats were
made from the log, on account of the
curious manner in which it had been
preserved no less than of the kind of
the wood, red cedar being entirely un-
known in that country. The point at
which the bridge was being built is
about eight miles from the shore of
Lake Erie, near the village of Florence,
and, OF course. much higher than the
present level Of the water in the lake.
The question "Where did il come from,
and how, and when, and in what man
ner was it buried to this great depthp'
IS n which might engage the atten-
ion of some professor of geology.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-20
SAINT VALENTINES DAY.

Saint Valentines Day! And midst old rccol.
iecti0ns
Ihat rush to my heart in an echo!ng Joy,
| remember once more the old hopes and
objections,
When you were a girl, dear, and / was a
boy:
When | sent you a rose on that February
morning,
And with II a passionate, rhyme.halting Law.
And met you reproaches and well.acted
scorning
By whispering: Sweet, it's Saint valen.
tines Day.
And the sky was so blue, and the sunshine so
yellow,
And the soft southern wind blew so sbriltv
and sweet,
And each tiny bird sang so loud to its fellow.
while the snowdrops and erocuseS doomed
at your feet,
Small wonder our hearts broke so tremulous
beating,
AS we learned in the wonderful, old. fash.
toned way,
What the earth, and the sky, and the air were
repeating
In mystical cadence of Valentines Day.
And now that the crazy.sweet babble and
laughter
VI golden haired children have rung In our
ears,
And brought US the hope of tender hereaft.
er
To link TO the thought Of those far.away
years.
Once more i'll the words Of the happy boy.
lover.
vail deeper meaning in whimsical way
A meaning your heart will be quick to dis.
cover
By whispering; Sweet. It's Saint valen.
tines Day."
Chambers Journal.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-20
OVERWORkED WOMEN.
Trnly Deplorable Failure Of q Wife's and
Mothers Mission.

Nothing is more thoroughly mistaken
than the idea that Il woman fultlls hei
duty by doing an amount of work that
is tar beyond her strength. She moi
only does not fulfill her duty, but she
NEST signally fails in it; and the failure
is truly deplorable. There can be no
sadder sight than that of an over
worked wife and mothers woman
who is tired all her life through. II
the work of the household can not be
accomplished by order, system and
moderate work, without the necessity
of wearing, heart-breaking toll, with
out making life a treadmill of labor,
then for the sake of humanity, let the
work go. Better to live in the midst
of disorder than that order should
be purchased at so high a price-the
cost of health, strength, happiness,
and all that makes existence endurable.
The woman who spends her life in
unnecessary labor is by this very labor
untitled for the higher duties of home.
She should be the haven Of rest to
which both children and husband turn
for peace and refreshment. She should
be the careful, intelligent adviser and
guide of the one, and the tender conf
dant and helpmeet of the other. How
is it possible for q woman exhausted in
body, and. as q natural consequence,
in mind also, to perform either of these
o~fficese 1t is not possible. The con-
slant strain is too great. Nature gives
way beneath it. She loses health and
spirit and hopetulness, and more than
all, her youth, the last thing that a
woman should allow to slip from her,
for, no matter how old she is in years;
she should be young in heart and feel
ing. for the youth of age is sometimes
more attractive than youth itself.
To the overworked woman this
green old age is out of the question.
Her disposition is often ruined, her
soured, her very nature
changed by the burden which, too
heavy 10 carry, is only dragged along,
Even her affections are blunted, and she
becomes merely a machine-a woman
without the time to be womanly, a
mother without the time to train and
guide her children, a wife without the
time to sympathize with and cheer her
husband, a woman SO overworked dur
ing the day that when night comes her
sole thought and most intense longing
are for the rest and sleep that will
probably not come, and even if they
should that she is too tired to enjoy,
by far let everything 60 unfin-
and live as best she can, then
entail on herself and family the curse
Of overwork.- Sanitary Magazine.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-20
words2 When | found that little

words? When l found that little
packet on my mantel-piece l thought
it might be from you, but the writing
was so like Miss Bingham's and so M
like yours that l thought it must be
from her. You know, George, |
couldn't have swallowed that pill"
"Whys' asked George.
because" he answered, laying bis
hand on her arm, "this is the one |
prefer"
''Oh!' was all she found to say.
St. Michael saw his opportunity.
Then you won't think any more Of
it,"
Il don't know she said. Laura
Bingham will be well gilded.'
And so is the pill l want, George.
Gilt with everything tender and true,
with every good quality that y man
could wish his wife to possess"
Who gave you leave to call me
Georgiep" she asked.
Why, l took it, he replied, laugh.
ing.
:" 1t seems" she said, "you take a
good many things without leave
Your heart, for instance he said,
frankly.
After a while George asked, gravely:
And the doll-what became Of
thata'
He looked very much ashamed.
"Wcll.' he confessed, II put it in
the fire"
Poor little doll,' said George.
"Miko. We must never have a misun.
Outstanding again"
"No, my love-" was the grave re.
ply. "Once is enough in a lifetime"
N. 7. journal.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-20
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS
MY VALENTINE.

Whom shall l choose for my yalentinef
Somebody, oh. 81 very Ane.
So kind and good. SO sweet and fair.
I'll have to hunt her everywhere.
Her face must be like the glad sunshine
II she is to be my Valentine
oh. where can | lind herr Can you tell
Where such q dainty maid doth dwellr
I'd write her Just n little line,
Or show her by some other sign,
II I could only know the place
Where I could see her pretty face.
And she must have a gentle voice.
Or else she can not be my choice:
/ would not have q Valentine
Who'd loudly talk, or pout aud whine.
I'd travel east, I'd trave, west,
And never take q moments rest:
And now, l think, wee daughter mine,
That you're Just such q Valentine.
Elizabeth a.. Dapis, N Our Little One.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-20

three of you to sneak up behind him
when he could not see you and striko
him, and it would not have hurt him
half so much. Did you think poor Bilv
had SO few troubles you would maka
some for his benefit Isit nothing" she
went on. speaking more warmly, '.that
he is poor and neglected, with a miser.
able father, and often hardly enough
to eate His mother was his onlv
friend, and she died many months ago,
! know you did not realize what a
cruel thing it is to add one more
trouble, when he has so many, and are
sorry already. I do not ask which Of
you did it, but l do ask that every one
of you boys and girls will try and
prove to poor Billy that he is not with
out friends. and make his hard life
easier to bear"
There was a moments pause, then
one hand after another was held up
with the promise Of sympathy and
help; and then Fred said earnestly:
Miss Sloan, it was I who sent hat
valentine"
l helped" "And Il" interrupted
Harry and Charley.
at was I who suggested it first,
but l am heartily ashamed Of myself,
and will tell Billy so tomorrow"
"Right. Fred" answered Miss
Sloan, looking SO pleased he felt re.
paid for the hard confession. II knew
none of you would wilfully do any
thing so unkind, and he does need all
the comfort we al give him, poor lit.
tie felloWn'-Ms JeaUeEs.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-20
TRICHINE.
A Threah-Like Worm Which Has Do.
stroyed Many Human Lives.

A Thread-Like Worm Which Has De.
stroyed Many Human Lives.
The trichina is a species of thread.
like worm and was first discovered by
Prof. Iiedmann in 1922. When ma
ture, the male is one-eighth of an inch
long, the female at least twice that
length. The eggs are about one
twelve-hundredth Of an inch in diam
eter. After fertilization and six or
eight days of CESSATION, they are devel-
oped into embryos, which, when ex-
tended within the intcstines of an ami
mai, commence at once their migra-
tons The hog is especially liable to
trichina, but it has been found in
horses. dogs, sheep, birds, cattle and
eelS. After uncooked fish has been
eaten. containing the undeveloped
~tr1chine, the worms remain in the in
testlnes, and by the second day become
fully developed and freed from their
capsules. By the tenth day they find
their way through the connective It's
sues and by the blood into the volun-
airy muscles, and the fourteenth day
finds them encapsuled throughout the
muscles. As many as ten or fifteen
thousand have been found in a cubic
inch of hog flesh. Prof. Dalton esti-
mates the number of trichine in a hui
man body to be eighty-five thousand,
and that from one million to two mil
lion may exist in a single human body,
according to examinations made in
several cases.
The most startling case was at Hett
stadt, Prussia, in 1868. Out of one
hundred and three persons who We're
dining at q nobleman's house and had
eaten sausages. smoked and warmed,
but not cooked, twenty died almost i'm
mediately and eighty were ill for many
weeks. The sausages that were left
were swarming with trichina, and the
muscles Of the victims were found to
be alive with them. The first case re-
corded in America was discovered by
DR.. Schuetter, of this city, in 1864. In
lS65-66, a committee of physicians was
appointed in Chicago to examine the
hogs. The result of the examination
showed that out of one thousand hogs,
one in fifty contained trichina. A year
at Brunswick, Germany, a SIM
liar examination showed that about
one in ten thousand hogs had the dis
ease. In 1878 from ten to twenty per
cent. of American hams contained
trichina, and in the same year out of
two thousand five hundred Westphalia
hams only one contained the worm
~ Y. Star.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-20

The young gentleman who has
"come of age generally feels the dig
nifty of his manhood. In a railway
car the other day a man of forty
stopped at a seat whose sole occupant
was an understood twenty-onester.
boy, is this other seat engaged?" he
inquired, You ought TO have seen the
lire flashing from the eyes Of that in
suited young gentleman when, straight
cning himself up and looking at his
1uestioner. he asked: 'Are YOU adj
dressing me, sirp" The man of forty
skunk away and took a back seat, Of
course. - Chicago Journal.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-20
"A twelve-year-old daughter of John

A twelve-Year-old daughter Of John
spitger, of Pocahontas County, W. Va.
complained of n of her teeth aching,
and requested her father to pull it.
He found it loose, and pulled it out
with his fingers. A flow of blood fol-
lowed, and before it could be stopped
tie little girl had bled to death - Wash
Mgton Republican.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-20

"A New York farmer sold his vito
to his hired man for two dollars and
fifty cents. The way SONS tArnors
swindle their hired men Ia scAndalous.
-Newmon INDEPENDENT
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-20

Queen Margaret, Of Italy, has
chosen for her private physician the
first Italian woman who took up the
study Of medicine.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-28
lore, and her daughter, Mrs. Pauline Pier

more, and her daughter, Mrs. Pauline Pier-
poiut, Of Richie county, are here.
DR.. Reeves, of Wheeling, former resi-
dent of this place, was called here TINS
week to render professional services to
Mrs. Hamilton.
Circuit Court meets here on next Tues
day. There will be some interesting Stories
told in the Jury room. Hons. John W;
Mason. OF Grafton, and B. 3. Dovener, OF
Wheeling, will assist in the prosecution Of
the Cartwrights.
boil in this county.
Can't. Frank Bart and John Bsckshere,
of Warrington, were IN town yesterday on
business
Dan R. Tenant, of FsirvieW, and Jas.
Steele, of Nuzem's Mills, two jolly mlllers
and good Democrats, were in town this
week.
las O. Watson, who has been confined
n HIS room for some weeks, has somewhat
improved of late and is able to get into
town on nice days. :,
William A. Walklate is still laid up with
rheumatism.
The country schools are closing and al
ready the Normal school is filing up with
students. There is no doubt that this will
he a wear of unusual prosperity in this ex,
celIent institution. The excellent corps OF
instructors, the growing library, the eie'
can't equipment of the laboratory and the
General improvement in every direction In
dicates growth, and we look tor most sue
cessful term this spring.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-28
SUNDAY NEMsPAPERs.

Since the Rev. JOSEPH CooE, Of Boston,
has spoken out against the Sunday news
paper, q New Yor journal has taken the
pains to solicit the opinions of some Of the
most eminent di7ines. Fifty four repre-.
sentative clergymen were included in the
canvass, among them being such famous
lights Of the pulpit as Cardinal GIBBONS,
Bishop DOAN, PHILLIPS BROoEs, HEBER
NEWTON, a. P. PEAsoDY, GEoReE F. Pm
TEcosr, WILLIAM Il. FURNEss, THEODoRE
d. Woo1sEY, LYMAN ABBovT, JAMES FREE
NAN CLAREE, Minor J. SAVAGE, DAVID
Swine and benny NJ. ScUDDER, THOMAS
Z BEEcEER, FRAScIs G. PEABODY, o. B.
FRoTHMeHAN WASHINGTON GLADDEN.,
MARX HoPxINs and S. HYATT SMITH.
OF the 6fty-four consulted, only twenty
one say they are opposed to the Sunday
paper. Nearly all the others welcome the
publication of the respectable, wide-swske
and wslleonductsd Sunday papers, and be,
Kevs they are great agencies in eo-opsrst-
ing in making communities better and
happier.
DR.. MAYNARD, Of Brooklyn, ssys: Abe
Eevs that such publications can afford i'm
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-28
WELLSBURG.
Times WIZ Brighten General Local News
Personal.
Special 10 me Sunday RsOistsr.

Specie! 10 The Sunday RsgiStsr.
WEILsBURG, WA, February 27.-Next
week will see all Of the industries of Wells
burg aud Brilliant in full operation, sHd
times will then be ss good as in the days Of
our brightest prosperity. :
Mr. Hugh BArth, one of our principal
merchants, who went to S;eubenville few
weeks AGO to have the sight Of his eye
operated upon, net With the misfortune to
lose the eye entirely. This ssd result is
sincerely regretted by his many friends.
DIR. C. Shriver, Of Bethany. returned
home on Friday from Esyette county, Pa,
where be was called on account of the se-
rious illness OF his mother. She is report
ed as being better, put stiil suite III,
The Opera band gave private DANCE at
the Gas City rink on Friday evening. 7.
I. Cockayne, of Wheeling, handled the
violin bow and q pleasant evening was
spent.
J. Z. AdaIs o. Wheeling, representing
the Franklin Insurance Gopp snT, game
up to-day and satisfactorily adjusted the
loss By fire TO the Abrams building.
Captain Wintringer, of the steamer G.
W. Batchelor, was 10 town yesterday.
John Pstteu, OF tie Riverside ferry,
stsubenvills, is shaking hands with Wells
burg friends to-day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Gist and Wm.
Chippy were il town to-day.
A three-nils -sce between Morrison, Of
Piteburg, and Nelson, Of this place, is the
event OF the evening at the Gas City rink.
Circuit Court eonVeGe5 on Monday, With
Hon J. J. Jacobs on the bench. Euper.
ous sumonses to appear before the grand
Jury have been served and an interesting
tine is expected. There Is already full
docket snd the term will be 2 busy enc.