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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

The partition walls TO some Of the
new houses in some OF our great Amer
icen cities are often so thin that one
would not dare assume the privilege of
leaning back against them in his chair,
lest he should find himself, along with
heap Of brick and mortar, in the prem
ises OF his neighb)r. Indeed, if We are
rightly informed, an accident of this kind
happened to a fat citizen not long since.
He had recently moved into new
house, when, leaning back as usual to
take his afternoon nap, he walked up all
of sudden in his neighbor's parlor.
But there is an evil of greater magni-
tude and more enduring consequences.
1t is the facility with which sound
passes through these thin partitions.
Though ones person should be safe,
there is no security for family secrets;
and o curtain lecture delivered with
ever so much caution in ones own dor
mitory NAV next day be proclaimed on
the housetop of some babbling neigh
Dor. AMI what is worse still, you can
not sleep; and though you may not
care fig for the exposure of your fam
ily secrets, You will hardly persuade
yourself that the pleasure of listening
to those of your neighbor is any toler.
able offset for the loss of sleep. The
effect of thin partitions is thus DIES cribel
by London poet:
If you sigh, sneezc sno-e
We can hear you next door;
Therefore, pray be SO kind
TO take care Of your wind.
| If you re dole'u or dry
! Pray, dear ntighbtr, don't sigh,
Nor your nose-itch to case,
Don't furiously snce,e,
Nor sonorously suo q,
| Nor do any hing mo
! That will wake us next do 7.
! --AmeTicdl; CuitirdtOr
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15
BECAUSE I LOVE you,


cannot bring you wealth." she said;
] cannot bring you fame or place
Among the noted of the raceI
Eut can love you.
when trials come to test yol, sweet,
can be sunlight at your feet;
My kiss your precious lips shall greet,
Pecauso ! love you.
when daylight dies alon the west,
You Will come home to me for rest,
And ] shall sleep upon your breast,
Because / love you.
q ~ sickness Coines, beside Your bed
W ill bend low, with quiet tread,
Ana pray GCd blessings ON your head,
Because | love you.
-As dew clings to the violet
Making the fragrant pbalics wet,
30 my life into tcufS is set
Because l love you.
Only myself, my all, bring,
But count it, sweet precious thing
To give my life an Offering,
Because l love you,
Il bow before no o,hef shrine;
II ] 20 frat across deaths line
will return to claim you mine,
Because | love you"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15
What Tie Ynnng Man Meant.

"Amanthy," said the ssold lady from
the head of the stairs: "What does that
young fcller mean by stsyin' so later.
ring" said Amanthy, and she closed tho
parlor door softly and whispered hoarsely
up the stairs:
81 think he means business, ma; you
get 20 bed. "-Epoch.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

The New York San has had made
the largest thermometer in existence,
and has erected it at its uptown Office
in public view. 1t is m etall.c, with
dial forty inches in diameter.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

CAPTAIN HoLsTEIN, a Danish officer,
has invented portable bullet-proof
shield for two soldiers, which may be
carried and fixed and the mon then
coolly blaze away from behind either
with rifles or machine guns, without
being picked off by anything less than
Q cannon ball.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

ELIGIBLE women are at a premium
in Dutch India. They are so scarce in
that country that young lnen who wish
to get married write to their friends in
Holland to find them wives. The
friend selects q willing lady and for
wards her photograph. If all is salts
factory the would-be husband sends
back a soiled left-hand glove with
power of attorney. The friend then
marries the young lady as sort of
legal proxy, and the marriage is as
binding as though the groom himself
were present.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15
THE BABY's CREED.

] believe in my papa,
Who loves mech, SO dearlyl
! believe in Santa Claus,
Who comes to see me yearly.
! believe the brides talk
On the boughs together;
i believe the fairies dance
Der the fields of heather;
believe my dolly knows
Every word that's spoken;
believe it hurts her, too,
When her nose is broken.
OH l believe in lots Of things
/ can't tell all the rest
But l believe in you, mamma,
First, and last and best ..
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

MISS JULIA BECK, of Kansas City,
had large mole on her cheek which
she regarded as Disagreement. She
didn't like her teeth, and had them
all extracted. Brooding over her imagi-
nary personal plainness she became
morbid, and leaving written directions
to ak me up to look as nice as you
can" she inhaled half pound of chic
reform and died.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

THE new French income-tax bill pro-
poses tax of l per cent. to be levied
on all professional, industrial and com
mercial incomes, thos, derived from
all other sources to be taxed II per
cent. The old taxes on incomes also
remain in force. so that the new tax is
in reality an additional impost.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

AMOS ROBBINS, of Brooklyn, is dead.
His claim to fame rests on the fact
that he made an immense fortune in
the poultry business, and that during
the war he sent the Union soldiers
$1,000 in money and $4,000 turkeys to
celebrate one Thanksgiving Day with.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

The Celtic language prevailed in
England A. d. l; the Latin was intro
duced about the same time; the Saxon
prevailed from A. d. $50 to 1866; Latin
rcintroduced by missionaries, 500; the
Norman-Frcnch combining with Eng
lish, 1866 to 1920; early English, 1850
10 1909.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

DIR. YoUNGER's plan of implanting
natural teeth in plac, of those lost
has proven less lccessful than was
hoped, as the roots gradually undergo
absorption, causing the teeth to loosen
and fall ont after year or two.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

Miss HATTIE PULLMAN, the youngest
daughter of the great car-builder, who
is going abroad with Mrs. Logan to
perfect her education, is s;i to BE- a
very charming girl, who talks well,
rides we'll, dances, is an expert lawn
tennis player, and rose Sc many other
accomplishments.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15
tence.

JUDGE D. A. NEwsoME, of Atlanta,
who wrote "The Lone Rock by the
Sea-" popular ballad twenty-five years
ago, has promised to sing the song and
give its history at an entertainment to
be given at an early day for the bene-
fit of the yellow fever sufferers. Pos
sibly in this instance the end justifes
the means.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

THE statue of Chinese Gordon,
which was unveiled in London a few
days ago, is fine piece of sculpture
It represents the General in a medita-
tive attitude, his chin resting in the
palm of his right hand. The statue
occupies a prominent place in the
square, and surmounts pedestal about
ten feet high.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany al
ways travels in private railway car
riage, which is his personal property.
1t was feared that his carriage could
not go through the tunnels between
Florence and Bologna, and &C aordinglv
the Italian Government had a new car
male for his use while in Italy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

JOHN BRIGHT never commits speech
10 memory. He merely makes notes
and leaves the words to come when
speaking. Occasionally he writes short
passages, and almost invariably his
concluding words or sentence Mr..
Gladstone seldom refers even to
note, and never prepares single sem
tanca
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

TIE late Prince Schwarzenburg left
fortune of $50, 100000 OF this amount
he bequeathed the magnificent sum of
$400 to the poor of Vienna.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15
RED. WHITE, AND RED.
BY ILIlA.

MONG the various los
calitios affected by This
strife between tn e
North and the South.
perhaps none was more
fertile in romantic in
cident than were the
western counties oi
Missouri. The tiIssen-
sj0hs which had given
rise to bitter animosi-
ties between bleeding
Kansas" as it was de-
riSivpIy called on tho
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

About forty boys. members Of Board
School for Jews" at Whitechapel, London,
have joined local Bands of Hope-quite an
unusual occurance among Jews
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

Z is human, of course,
but all the same he
moves in o queer little
world of his own.
Grown-up folks in gen.
eral he It CARDS as a dis
ciple and not friendly on
the whole 10 his per-
sonal interests. His
parents arc necessary;
50 much is obvious to
him. But they have ex-
traordinary ideas about
right and wrong, pre-
posterously theorize on
wet feet and holes in
trOusprs and hold I'M.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15

Miss BRADDoN Mrs. MaxwelD, says
che London Star, is just 80, and has
written fifty novels.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-15
Railroad Schedules, cto.
Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad.

All trains on the schedule stop at Hay stsSS
stAlen, CuMkssland- p. L. AURWELL
esnskA snpestntenda4
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03
Secret of the Lifter's Power.

Topham lifted a weight of nearly 5000
pounds by the use of the strength of his whole
body. He stood within well balanced
framework heavily loaded, and to be raised
by broad straps, two passing over his shoul-
ders and two attached to strong waistband.
The lifting power was obtained by straight
ening his lower limbs almost straight just be-
fore lifting and at the same time slightly
raising his shoulders. The heavily loaded
framework was thus raised an inch or two,
very slight swaying movement showing the
spectators that it was really free from all
contact with the ground. So powerful was
Tophams frame for this sort of work that he
was backed to pull against two strong dray
horses-his body being in horizontal posi-
ton, and the pull of the horses being resisted
by the pressure of his legs against fixed
horizontal bar close to the ground, so that the
action was precisely the same as that en-
ployed in the lifting experiment.
The secret of the great lifting power of the
legs in such work lies in the fact that the
action has that exceedingly effective leverage
which is employed in the Stanhope press,
Familiarity known, in fact, for this very rea-
son, as 'knee leverage" When the legs are
nearly upright the knees may be perhaps half
foot from the position they take when the legs
are Strengthened. While they move through
this half foot the body is not raised more than
perhaps half an inch; consequently the power
used in strengthening the legs is multiplied
into twelve fold greater lifting power. It
is because of this powerful knee straighten-
ing action that lifting exercises are apt to
develop abnormally the muscles of the lower
and inner end OF the front thigh.-Richard
Proctor
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03
The Equipages of the Pc

There is considerable rivalry among the
wealthy families of Petersburg in the matter
of riding and driving, and one can see on the
Islands IN the summer and on the Neva or
Nevskl Prospect in winter the finest horse
flesh in the world. The pavements of the
city are dlStreSsingly bad, as bad as those of
Chicago, and of similar style-cobble
stones laid in the toughest manner There is
some excuse for them in Petersburg, how
ever, as the streets are SO wide it would
bankrupt the city to pave them with any
thing that would wear out. A sort of COM
promise with comfort has been effected, how
ever, by laying a strip of wood pavement on
each side of the roadway, next the sidewalk,
wide enough for two carriages to go abreast,
and the drivers usually stick to that.
The streets are kept very clean, under the
direction of DR.. Duncan, a jolly and brilliant
Scotchman, who occupies the Office of direc-
tor general of public health, and squads of
men are kept constantly at work sweeping
them with little brooms and carrying off the
dirt in carts. There is law against throw
ing paper or other refuse in the street, and it
is rigidly enforced. There was formerly a
law prohibiting smoking on the streets, but
that is obsolete The roadwavs are con-
stantly sprinkled during the summer season.
not by sprinkling carts such as we have, but
By gangs of men with hose, which they at
tach to the hydrants One man with line
of hose is given couple of blocks, and keeps
sprinkling from sunrise to sunset. In tho
winter after every snowfall the pavements
are cleared by the soldiers, leaving only a
few inches in the road for sleighing. which
lasts constantly from November to April
William Eleroy Curtis in Chicago News.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03
How the Turks Make Golfer.

A special word for the coffee is needed.
The Turkish coffee is seldom liked at first
by strangers, bat it does not take long for
one 10 learn to like that so well that no
other coffee ever tastes half so good.
There is small brass thing between a
dipper and & kettle with capacity for
two, four or more cups marked upon it.
Into this is put Geld water, a teaspoon
heaping full of sugar for each cup and
small teaspoonful of coffee ground as fine
as flour for each person. These are added
to the cold water, and then the ebrick, or
coffee kettle, is pushed down into the
Goals of the manga, or brazier, and just as
it is on the point of boiling before il does
the coffee is poured into tiny porcelain
cups, which hold as much as half an egg
she'll This cup is then placed into q
beautiful gold or silver f1lagree coffee
holder, and is served with tray of
glasses of water. First you drink the
water TO leave your mouth clean enough
to appreciate 10 the full the delicious
aroma of the coffee. No milk or cream is
added and the coffee is thick with
grounds, and on the top of each cup
should be foam called kaimac, or cream.
AS soon as You enter a hareTn the chief
lady, or bascadine hanum. claps her
hands and the caffeejee, or coffee bearer,
brings coffee.-Olive Harper in Philadel
phia Times
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03

Another fad of our gilded youths is 20 go
about the streets with enormous dogs, pre-
sumably of rare breeds and great value, trot-
ting at their heels. The contrast between the
magnificent caninity of the dogs and the
puny pusillaniInity of their owners is anus
ing. l was in one of our uptown cafes the
other night and saw two Sims enter, each
with a great dog after him, one st. Bernard
and the other mastif The dogs eyed each
other with surly look The masters glared
with naughty rivalry in their eyes. Sud
denly the CANNES tackled each other furi-
ously. Everybody jumped out of the way,
and the poor boys were afraid to separate
the brutes. 1t was an interesting situation,
only broken by a cynical barkeeper, who
came out and dashed some red pepper over
the interlocked heads of the dog duelists 1t
was good sport while it lasted, not the less
on account of the helpless and miserable
appearance of the dudes who owned the dogs.
-"Tattler'' in New York Star
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03
People Who Die Unnecessarily.

Many people die unnecessarily. Few people
take proper care of themselves. Healthy
people are prone TO be careless, and SO de-
stroy their health. Youth and health place
the individual in a sort of intoxication. Tho
healthy young man is full Of life, energy,
ambition, hope, enthusiasm. He thinks he
Can do anything with his vigorous constitu-
ton, and he generally does about everything
with it. He finds that night of sound sleep
recuperates him, and he imagines that this
will always be the case. Instead of husband
ing his forces, he wastes them. He is as eX-
travagant with his health as another man
may be with bis money. He is living on his
capital, and not on the returns from his in
vestmentS.
Men and women ought not to die as Young
as they do. Our science has taught us that
che lower animals attain to a number of years
five times as great as the number OF years
that bring them to maturity, barring, Of
course, accident and disease. Man reaches
maturity at the age of %. Five times 25-
125. The natural life of man ought to be 125
years, according to physiological laws. OF
course, be must live in a climate that does
not offer too great a resistance. Physician
in Boston Herald.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03
What a Columbia Professor Saws.

These firms of manufacturers of proprie-
tary medicines, nine out of ten. live solely
by the newspapers, and sometimes are admi-
rably managed | know some establish
ments in which there is a regular staff EN-
ployed: know something about them, be-
cause they try to bride me to certify to the
value of their connections. As | say, there
is q regular staff. There is the literary man
who writes the letters, giving marvellous &C
counts of marvellous cures: there is the artist
who shows the patient before and after tax
ing twenty-five bottles of the medicine:
there is the poet who composes poems upon
the subject; there is the liar who swears to
what be knows isn't true, and the forgAr
who produces testimonials from his own i'm
agiDation. Without exaggeration / should
say that nine out of ten of these proprietary
medicines are fraud, pure and simple; the
real business is advertising for dupes. The
medical part of il is but side issue I am
pretty sure if l were to pound up brickbats
and spend 500, 900 in offering it at 81 an
ounce as a sure cure for some disease which
cannot be cured, l should get back at least
Sll0,0Oo, thus giving me $4,000 for NY
trouble. Nine-tenths Of the medicines sent
out in this fashion have no more curative
properties than brickbat dust-ProieSsor
Chandler in New York Post
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03
Two Sets of Banks.

Go into any regular savings bank, and on
days when crowds of depositors are there you
will see the best representatives of the ranks
of labor Go into one of the down town COM
mercial banks, and you viii see, not the day
laborer or mechanic, but the manufacturer
End the merchant, or their clerks The first
set of banks is patronized by those who save
little by little, and don't have big piles of
money. The second set is used by those who,
whether they actually own large fortunes or
not, do, for the time, have big sums passing
through their hands These two kinds OF
banks have distinct species Of patrons, and
seldom does any one bank have many custo-
mers of more than its own particular kind
New York Sun.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03
An Effective Police system.

The police authorities Of Russia boast that
they know the whereabouts and disposition
of every citizen of the empire every night,
and it is through the dvorniks that they get
the most of their information. No more
effective spy system could be organized.
People must live in houses, and the law re-
quires every house to have a dvornik No
one can be SO employed who does not belong
to the artel, and the police control the artel.
The tenant is therefore completely at the
mercy of his servant, who, if so disposed,
can send him to Siberia on a charge of trea-
son any time he likes, and it requires little
more than a dvornik's testimony to obtain a
''wolf's passport" as a sentence TO exile is
called-William Eleroy Curtis in Chicago
Nauys
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03
A TIGER HUNTERS TALE.



formances-An Amazed Sportsman.
An English officer l heard of, who had
served in India, was distinguished sports
man, having bagged scores of tigers and
other large game, besides being capital bird
shot. His reputation in this class of field
sports was SO well established that on his re-
turn home he was in great requisition at the
London club, where he was often called upon
to relate some OF his hunting achievements,
many of which were of SO marvellous char
acter that he was suspected by some Of draw
ing bow of unusual length.
Upon one occasion, after entertaining his
friends with an. elaborate account of one of
his most astonishing performances, a member
Of the party very delicately insinuated a
slight suspicion of incredulity as to the YER
ity of the occurrence, whereupon the cap
tain, with an exceedingly consequential air,
remarked: 'Why, my dear sir, that is a
mere bagatelle when contrasted with one of
my encounters with tigers.n
81 by no means, for an instant, question
the accuracy of your statement said the
other. Indeed, l have been greatly in
terested in them, and l assure you nothing
would afford me more pleasure than to hear
further Of your astonishing success in the
rare sport of tiger hunting"
eyes" he replied, 1T is good sport enough
unless the tiger takes it into his head to hunt
the hunter, when the excitement becomes
rather too intense to be agreeable. l re-
member" he added Eat one time while serv-
ing in India, l went out for mornings
shooting, taking my largest calibered Wesley
Richards, the right barrel charged with an
elongated steel pointed ball and the left with
snipe shot, and after hunting some time
without seeing game, l entered thickset
jungle, and had only gone few yards when
an enormous man eating tiger dashed at me
from one side, and at the same instant /
flushed an English snipe upon the opposite
side.
"Whereupon I fired hasty snap shots to
the right and left, and to my supreme graft
fication for ] am free to admit | was little
agitated) the tiger fell dead within three feet
of me, and the snipe dropped upon the other
side. But you can imagine my a,nazement,
gentlemen, when l approached the rapacious
monster and discovered that had killed him
with the snipe shot, while the three ounce
bullet had torn the poor bird into 10000
atoms, leaving nothing tangible save slight
suspicion Of few feathers Gen Marcy in
Outing.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03
The Liquor They Sold.

lt Is reported that two men were some time
ago arrested III New York state on the charge
OF violating the revenue law in selling wine
without license They testified that they
sold to saloons about 100 gallons of drink
made by this recipe: Put sixteen gallons OF
water into a common washboiler, add forty
eight pounds of sugar. one pound of tartaric
acid and some apiline dye for coloring.
After stirring with p stick until it is dis
solved add a quantity Of orriS root, cut with
q pint of alcohol. 10 give the flavor of rasr-
berry wine This stuff had been sold 70,
more than year as wine.-Boston Herald.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03
usSAlLlA~
Daily - EAGLE
LAUGHTER.

As leap the crystal waters from the hills,
With nodding flowers along the margins cool,
To make the summer fresh and beautiful,
SO laughter runs along our life, and trilis
The melodies We love, the sweet good Wills
That help the heart to work the golden rule.
The wise and good laugh most, and not the fool,
Upon the empty hear no JOY distills;
Laughter is freedom, launch myself away.
Fly Ger the waves, where gales are fresh and
free
For laughter is thy MODEST self in play,
AS ripples of stream chat seeks the sea,
Or pillows breaking into rainbow spray.
Thy hearts untrammeled art Of melody.
Dwight Williams in Home Journal