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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09
LIGHT AND BRIGHT.


DANCE music Is usually sole stirring.
An apron trust is threatened, and
all the young men want to sit down
On it.
A MAN who owns goat has only to
earn his bread; he has his butter for
nothing.
WHEN yourg married couple go out
boating the baby sometimes furnishes
the yawl.
WHEN man gets TO be n grand
father he sighs a he thinks how old
his wife is.
DR.. SAMrEL Johnson must have
been New York policeman at some
period in his life lie used to say he
liked 'clubable" man.
DCmY-You say Miss Periodic look
ed beautiful in her bathing suit. What
sort of bathing suit was it! Mum.
ley Stockings and style.
"MAMuA, I'm afraid our dog is going
TO have the liyes?" What makes YOU
Think so, All ida?7 why, I saw him
eat two bees his afternoon
A PoCKRT-EooK made of rattlesnak,
hide, vi ich is so repulsive to ladies
that they won't touch it, is having
quite sale among married men.
Mr.. TAXpEND great statesmanl-
Your old ncighbor, Grnball, is high up
in political circles now. Mr. Taxpai-
Yes, l have heard lie belongs to the
rings.
Il like to wait on that man he never
asks the price of anything, but just
takes what he fancies without any
clubbing" oh price is 70 object to
him; he never settles his bills"
EASTERN Mani do business in
New York, but | live in the suburbs.
DO You live in the suburbs too? Chi,
cago mantle suburbs of Chicago
Great snakes! Do you take me for .
frontiersman
"1oU can't think how smart TINT dog
Is. You can say everything to him
exactly as You would to n man" But
viii he understands" "Oh, | did not
say that. You mustn't ask too much Of
u dog. You know"
ARTISTIC FRIEND-And so you are to
lie married? Miss Marie Bilkins
struggling artist)-Yes; it is simply
impossible to sell a picture with such a
name as Bilkins on it, and so | have ac-
cepted the heart and hand of grocery
clerk named De La Croix.
"HANs," said one German 10 another
in the streets of Frankfort, what are
YOU crying about" # am crying be,
cause the great Rothschild is dead"
wos the reply. and why should You
cry about that" was the further
query. lie was no relation of yours,
was he?' NO" was the answer half
smothered in snbs, no relation at all,
md that's just what l am crying for. "
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to the fact that he is walking Oh a floor
ing consisting of movable iron gratinss
about eight inches square. Inquiry leads
10 the explanation tina: with all precau-
hons to prevent waste, such as greasing
the gold with beeswax and the silver with
tallow, a considerable amount of dust is
carried about the operating-room and a
periodical sweeping is resorted to with
surprising results. The guide intimates
In matter-of-fact way that the sweep
ings of the Mint are worth from $50 to
$40 day, and that in carpeted rooms
enough gold dust is entangled in the
tibres of the old carpet TO more than paw
for new one. The sweepings contain
Of course silver and copper as we'll az
gold, the copper by cupellation and the
silver by the action of the nitric acic, in
which gold is insoluble. The nitrate of
silver is subsequently converted into
chloride by tbe action Of common salt
and the chloride into pure silver by an
easy chemical process.
After the bars have been annealed to
get rid of the hardness and brittleness,
the strips of gold with their coating of
beeswax are passed through the cutting
machine and then punched into blank
coins or ''planchets, which exactly re.
semble the future coin without the de-
sign and the milling at the edges. The
strips, after the blanks have been punched
put at the rate oil $50 minute, are sem
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09

Several years ago when John >.
Thurston, the well known Republican
leader of Nebraska, was stamping the
State in an important campaign, says
the New York Tribune, he included
its extreme western part, then decid-
edly wild region, in his circuit. He
was proceeding by stage to Sidney one
day when they stopped at a little sta
ton to change horses. While this i'm
portant operation was going on, a large,
Accommodating man, whose most
conspicuous article of clothing was q
big revolver, approached the stage
cautiously, and, while occasionally
glaneing nervouslv at small building,
some hundred yards away, with large
sign of "postoifice" on it, he inquired
for Mr.. Thurston. That gentleman
made himself known, and the stranger
said:
You speak down at Sidney tonight
l hear"
Yes, expect to-"
IL reckon I'll come down with my
partition and do little work"
What is your petition for?" in
quired the Judge.
THE postotfice up there" and the
man pointed at it with his thumb.
as there good prospect that you
will get 2"
You bet-Pm sure of it, but | lowed
few more names wouldn't do no hurt.
When | get il there's goin' to be dog
gondest biggest change you ever seen
in small place"
SLOWS that? ~
"Why, l amt had a letter out o that
air Office for over two years"
why not?"
The dinged critter that has it now
says he will shoot me on sight, and you
bet he'd do it, too, so | lay mighty low.
When letter comes fer me he nails it
to the door, shoots it full of holes, sends
word fer me to come and get it, and
watches fer me ont o the winder."
How comes he TO have such dis.
like for you?"
Claims l stole one of his steers.
didn't touch none of his steers till he
hooked two o my calves, and / can
prove it. But Jess you wait till nv
commission gets here and get hold of
that Office. I'll wad the first letter
that comes fer him into my shotgun and
fire it down the well. just wait a lit
tie, jedge; he'll find that can pound
stamps with one hand and cover the
front door with a six-shooter with the
other jess as well as he can. My name
is old Jim White, and you bet when
I've got my boots on | can tie up the
Eastern mail with teeth and hold gun
IN the gen'ral deliv'ry and money
order winder both at the same time.
Old Jim White ant no rabbit when it
comes to hoidin' government position
IN looking out fer his rights.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09

1t is not surprising to find that when the
latter are fed into the presses and
ciasped by the upper and lower die, they
receive infinitely exact impression,
while tootheI collar c!asping them at
the same moment, produces the reeded
edge. After being once more indi-
vldually weighed the coins are pied up
in trays by an ingenious method which
does the work almost automatically. The
workman plunges his arm into the heap
Of coins, gives the tray shake, and
They, presto.' in less than minute the
bright gold "twenties' are neatly piled
away in rows, ready for circulation.
BY this time the party is on the way
out, and the conductor begins to count
noses in the visitors waitin@-IoOm. to
see if the arrivals are numerous enou@h to
form new party The survey thus de-
scribed and concluded is that which fails
TO the lot of the routine visitor, but It
cannot be said to be i'll any SENSE 4 COM
plete inspection of the multifariolls opera
tons in progress ut the Mint. Pre-
sumably the complete calculation OF the
processes would merely weary the average
curiosity seeker, besides consuming 50
much time that but one batch OF visitors
could be taken through in the brief two
houls and half allowed for daiy IL
spection by the outside world.
Among the departments not usually
shown is that devoted 10 refining. Cali
fornia gold contrins from three to twelve
per cent. of silver and thus has to be sep
arsted. For this purpose the crude pro-
,.uct is melted more silver is added so as
to enable acid to act on the alloy, and the
metal is 'granulated'' by being poured
into cold water while still in a fluid state.
The effect of this granulation is to con-
vert the metal into a condition reSera-
bling popcorn or pumicestonc, 50 that a
large surface is exposed to the action OF
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09

back to be remelted into ingots. The
sight of these bars never fails to make the
visitors eyes flash with cupidity.
The next operation is the washing Of
the planchets in hot water and soap to get
rid of the bceswax, after which they are
sent to the adjusting-rpcm TO be weighed.
Each blank or plauchet is passed upon
most carefully in this particular; II TOT
heavy 1t is filed down 10 standard weight,
If too light it is remelted and recoined.
When the machines are in active opera.
ton gold coin can he turned out at the
rate of S4he, GOO an hour. The milling
Of Tie coins is effected by raising an edge
IN them, with q suitable machine, for the
purpose of protecting the face Of the coin,
fo7 in well-wofn specimen it will be
noticed that the milling disappears first,
and when this has happened the inscrip-
hon, ciiigy and date quickly follow suit.
When the milling has been completed,
the blanks 90 through another aunealiug
process to soften them for the final i'm
preston which is to convert them into
Uncle Sans currency. The stamping is
an operation requiring pressure equal to
$50 tons on every part of the blanks, and
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09
MONEY MAKERS.
THE MEN WHO COIN UNCLE SANS
GOLD AND SILVER.
n visit to the Largest Mint in tho
"orIi-Tite Processes of Turning
Gold and Silver Into Coin
How IL Is MiIled.

The handsome structure at Fifth and
Mission streets in which Uncle Sans cur
rent coins are turned out in co-opera.
zion with The establishments at New Or.
leans and Philadelphia, Iss attracted re.
newed interest since the appointment of
General Dimond as Superintendent in.
auguratcd Il new regime by which
slumber of patriotic San Franciscans hope
20 he furnished with an Office at the earl.
TEST possible date. TO these and to the
public generally Il will he matter of
profit and useful information to repair to
the mint about $50 A. NJ. The waiting
Toom is by this time pretty well filled and
che carly visitors have fully satisfied their
curiosity in regard to the collection of
CONS and metals belonging to the State
of California pioneers, and formerly
Known as DIR. Spiers's collection. Among
the contents of tEe eases is a complete
set of United States dollars, fifty
two in number, One for every year in
which they were coined.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09

Gold requires tolerably intense heat
Tor fusion, though not nearly so great as
in the case of iron or steel. Yet the WIS.,
itor is able to convince himself by Il pass
sng glance ut the cruciblcs i'll the furnace
thst the temperature approaches a white
neat. When perfectly fluid the metal is
sun iLto steel molds, whence il comes
iorth as bars or ingots. A fragment of
each ihgot is removed and seat TO the as
saying department, where the percent
age of pure gold is determined by cupel-
lation. The value of each ingot is about
$1,000, and it should be mentioned that
ten per cent. of copper alloy enters into
the composition of both silver and gold
pngots that are to be used for currency.
The ingots are taken to the rolling mill,
where they are repeatedly put through
steel rollers until the original short bar
becomes long strip of the width of the
desired coin, and by reason of the rolling
assumes a very dense, hard and brittle
condition. Daring these operations the
visitors attention is drawn very strongly
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09
ROLLING THE BARS.

tho acid. After being boiled for soma
hours in porcelain pots the silver and
baser metals are taken up by the acid,
while the gold remains as dark powder
at the bottom of the vessels. 1t is col
lccted and taken to the me!ting-room,
while the silver is easily recovered from
the acid solution.
The gold having been tested for purity
in the asSsying room, is melted with suf-
ficient copper to reduce the standard
from 1000 to 903, the precise standard
of ten per cent. being obtained by sub
sequent addition of copper, according to
the proportion indicated by the assay.
There are usually from thirty-six to forty
ingots of gold, weighing sixty ounces
each, in one melt.
A question which hovers on the lips of
every visitor to the Mint, but which is,
for obvious reasons of courtesy and pro-
priety, rarely asked, is this: Where so
valuable q substance as gold is freely
handled by so many persons, how is it
possible to prevent peculation and loss2
The answer is found in the fact that
gold is so heavy metal that it is easy
to keep check or tally on all who
handle it by the simple expedient of
weighing, as it passes from hand to hand
and from department TO department.
Gold is nineteen times heavier than water.
No other metal, except platinum, could
be used effectively as a substitute or imi-
tation for it; and it so happens that pla-
tiIum is itself very scarce, very valuable,
and fromits extremely high melting point,
altogether useless for the purpose of
fraudulent substitution of alloys for gold.
The weight test is therefore an cffectual
check, and rs each employe is interested
in conserving his own reputation for in
tegrity, he cannot afford TO overlook any
shortcomings on the part of the gold re-
ceived from his neighbor. Whenever a
bar or o!her portion of uncoined gold
passes from one department to another it
is checked and receipted for. Thus after
the annealing process is completed the
ingots or bars are delivered to the melter
and reiner, and in turn to the treasurer,
who weighs them accurately and then
delivers them TO the coiner. Ingots thus
delivered for $50 pieces are about twelve
inches long, one and seven-sixteenths
wide, and nearly half an inch thick.
The work OF adjusting the planehets
is done by females, each of whom sits in
front of little pair of scales and weighs
every planchet without fear or favor. In
consequence of the great specific gravity
OF gold, difference altogether inapprs.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09

A new schoolmastcr had Just been
posted to the regiment, and he had the
reputation of being father a scientific
man, we'll up in some branches OF
study which army scboolmasters do
not always, take u. In the orderly
room. The Colonel was seated at
the table with the Adjutant standing
by.
Adiutant-The new schoolmaster's
come to report arrival, Colonel. EN-
ter schoolmaster.
Colonel-Well, sir, come to Join, eh
That's right. | hear that you under
stand all about plane trigonometry, eh i?
Schoolmaster very unsteady on his
legs)-Yeshr-got fushclash 'tificate
Tor it.
Colonel (unobservant)-And you've
studied military surveying, too, be-
lieve.
Schoolmaster - Yeshr - got flush
slash shtiffcate fort.
Colonel docks up qulckly)--I think
you've been drinking, sir
misunderstanding got fushclash
shtiticate for it!-Lonaon Figaro.
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The conductor having satisfied himself
that he has as large a party as he can
conveniently take in charge, gives the
signal and descends to the basement with
inc preliminary remark for the visitor:
LYON are now in the largest mint in the
world There is heavy sound of roll
Hing wheels as the engine room is en-
tered. The motive power for the i'm
mense wheels and machinery is furnished
by two engines, one for the coming
presses, the other for the rollers. There
isalso smaller engine for general pur,
poses, which is constantly working. At
ter brief glance at the fires and huge
boilers, the visitors pass ON to the deposit
and melting room. In this department
thc uncoined gold brought by private
holders is taken in and rcceipted for.
Each deposit is melted separately and on
She following day the value in coin is paid
by the Treasurer.
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IL Was CAPITAL, Sure Enough.

~There has been great deal of dis.
cussion, and indeed there is still, con-
corning the relations of capital and
labor" said beautiful young woman,
as she strolled with her lover through
the leafy, scented lane, under the light
of the rising moon, leaning affection
ately on his arm; pray give me Q
definition of the word capital"
WELL" he said, as he encircled her
slender waist with his arm and i'm
printed lovers kiss on her cherry
lips, this, l think, is capital. Cope
Cod ITEM.
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cable to the eye is readily detected by
the scales, and, as before explained, in
those planchets which are too heavy, the
superfuous gold is fled of, while the light
ones are set aside to be remelted. Not only
Is a careful tally kept OF everything which
passes through the hands of the ''scales-
ladies" but there is periodical house,
cleaning, in the course of which the car
pets and the gloves worn by the operators
are burned to ashes for the sake of the
precious dust which clings to them
San Francisco Chronicle.
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An Unfinished Appearance.

A little girl was walking the other day
with her governess. They met man with
q club foot, at whom the child looked
little wondering'y as he passed and then
laughed.
You must not laugh at him." said the
goyerness.
"Why not?"
God made that man."
-Humph!" said the child, lit must hav>
been the first man he made!"-Boston
Transcript.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09

Col. Tomline, the rich and eccentric
Englishman who di' the other Gay,
was q great lover of books and pictures,
and possessed very fine taste. But his
valuable library was limited 10 two di-
rections. The owner would not allow a
book in it over certain size, and abso.
lately excluded anything written either
by clergyman or woman. They had
no business with literature. in his opins
ion, and wer, incapable of achieving
success in it. Col. Tomline inherited
Sis wealth from Bishop.
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His First Day Mt the Beach.

30, Uncle George!" cried tender,
hearted little Rollo, his eyes filling
with tears, "let us give some money to
that poor woman over there on the
sand; see, she has hardly any clothes
on"
Sure enough" said Mr.. George
"why in thunder didn't You point her
out before ?"-LJe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09
A Strong Man,

A man who hal no feet was standing
on the sidewalk with bar OF iron ON
his shoulder. An old negro who saw
him excitedly exclaimed:
"'Fo' greshus, look at dat mani Got
sich er heaby load on his shoulder dat
his feet dun sunk down in de rock.
Neber seed sich er strong man in my
life. Huh, hate mighty bad fur dat
man ter tramp on me. "-ArkaHSalc
lTaUeler.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09

A sharp fakir is making good IN,
come by advertising sure metho OF
killing all insects. When you send him
SO cents you will receive printed card
on which are these words: Get your in-
sects to smoke cigarettes, and they will
uie within an hour
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09

Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, IS ca d
to be the finest scholar in the United
S,aes Senate. He is thoroughly ground.
ed in the classics, reads aud speaks
German and French and has a smattering
of Spanish. His library is Que OF the
finest private collections at the capital
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09

From ordinary business methods is made by
tho manufacturers of Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, in guaranteeing this
worid-faned remedy to cur c all diseases aris-
Ing from arrangements OF the liver or stom-
sch, a indigestion, or dyspepsia biiiousness
or liver complaint" or from impure blood, as
boils, blotches, pimples eruptions, scalp dis
ing and kindred ailments. Money paid for
discovery PROM tly returned II, on fair
trial, II don't cure
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09
Ceu.umption. Wasting Diseases,

And General Debility. Doctors disagree IS to
the relative value of Cod Liver OIL and Hypo-
phosphites; the one supplying strength and
flesh, the other giving nerve power, and acting
as Toni to the Dig stive and entire systela.
But in SCOTS EMULSION Of tod Liver on
with Hypophosphit tho two are combined
IA the Get Is wonderful. Thousands who
have derived no permanent benefit from other
Z operations have been cured by this. Scotia
Emulsion is perfectly palatable and is easily
Cod Liver Oil.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09

owe to themselves duty to take Hoods sarsapa-
RIA In view OF the great relief It has given those
who suffer from ailments peculiar to the sex. BY
purifying tho blood, regulating important organs,
strengthening the nerves and tonlng the whole
system, It restores to health.
Il have been for years trying to get holp for that
terrible general debility and weakness common
20 women. Within year have taken ten to
Twelve bottles Of hoods sarsaparilla and the bene-
Ut derived from its u-e has been very great I am
now feeling Ike a new creature. "-ARs f. B. Ross.
Marlin, Texas.
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Fold by all druggists. e. six for S. Prepared only
by c. HOOD & CO, Apothecaries, Lowell, Mas.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09

The month with an m in it is here, and
oysters are now ripe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09

An that Ue can say as to the merits of Dob.
bins's Electric Soap, pales into noihfngnsss be-
Ys.>,a qualify, II you will givo It ons trial.
Don't take imitation. There are lots OF them
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09
SWlft'S Latin Pms.

Among the Latin puns of the famous
Dean Swift is the following, which, by
allowing for false spelling, and rum ng
the words into each other, makes good
sense in English
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09

w. X. Vanderbilt has discharged his SI0,-
600 chef
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09

prof" Wiggins. Of Ottawa. predicts ~
open winter. SC
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Oregon, the Paradise Of Farmers.
Mild, eQuable climate, certain and abundant
crops. Best fruit, grain, grass and stock coun-
Try In the world. Full information free Ad-
dress Oregon lm'igrat'n Board Portland, Ore.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-11-09

II afflicted with core eyes use Dr. Isaac
Thompson's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c,
per bottle.
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Weak Women

Old smoker prefeg .,Tansill,s Punch0 Cicnr.