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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
A BATTLE IN THE SURF.
Terrific Combat Between . Porpoise an
Shark.

Terrific Combat Between y POrpoise and
. Shark.
While the bathers were enjoying a
bath in the surf at Avalon, N. j., says
the Philadelphia Times, large school of
porpoises made dash up the coast just
behind the breakers There were over
100 Of these slippery monsters so hard to
catch in a net, and they never bite at
any known bait. A good sized porpoise
will devour bushel of moss bunkers or
young drum fish at single meal; and
just now the surf is filled with small
drum fish feeding at food tide.
The man eating shark likes the same
kind of diet, and many bloody conflict
ensues between these robbers of the
great deep when they meet on common
feeding ground. In front of the hotel
there is considerable depth of water and
the porpoises came so near that many of
them could have been reached with a
fishing rod. Suddenly, as the school of
porpoises were tumbling over each other
in play, four foot shark made dash
out of water, pursued by ten foot por-
poise. The porpoise succeeded in biting
piece OUT Oh tIle IIlau edIcE duu ulduc d
vicious plunge at the shark in mid air,
while the sea became red with blood.
Both fish were in duel to the death.
Neither tried to escape. The shark was
the swiftest in motion, but was an un-
equal antagonist. The porpoise would
dive under him and strike him in the
belly under water, to the great discom-
fort If tho man aatar Ubose iayys were
not big enough to make much impression
on the tough hide of the slippery sea
hog.
Three times they met in mid air and
struck each other as two bull elks would
butt each other with their antlers. The
porpoise slowly retired ten feet and with
the swiftness of lightning struck the
shark in the middle and ripped him open.
The man eater soon hoated, dead, out on
the sea, while the porpoise, badly hurt,
followed his companions up Townsend
Inlet.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
GENERAL NEWS,
Excursions to Historic BattIefields.

Excursions to Historic BattIefields.
a series Of special excursions to the
battletields Of Cedar Greek, middle
town. Winchester and Harper's
Ferry, under the auspices of the
Grand Army of the Republic are
announced for September 16 and
October l6, 1890, affording rare
opportunity to visit the historic
ground where the contending hosts
struggled for victory. Tickets for
these excursions will be sold from all
ticket stations ON the Baltimore and
Ohio r. r. east of the Ohio river at
one fare for the round trip on
Sept. 10 and 16, and Oct. Is and l6,
valid for return journey ten days, in
GLIDING day Of sale.
For the accommodation of those de-
string to visit the battlefelds, the
Baltimore and Ohio r. r. Co. will
place on sale excursion tickets at one
fare for round trip to those points at
Harper's Ferry and Weyerton, to be
sold Sept. l6 to "a, inclusive, good to re-
turn until Sept. % inclusive. Oct. IS to
"A inclusive good to return until Oct.
18th inclusive. For rates and time of
trains call on or address Agents B. q
0. r.. r.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
Creek Met Greek.

Await of boy was eating stale half
loaf on the street corner yesterday with
the air of starveling, when a stray
dog came along and crouched at his feet
The hungry look remained in the boy
eyes, but he glanced down at the vaga-
bond dog, and said in friendly way:
"Wot you want? This amt no bone
Git!"
The dog moved off little, and again
it crouched and looked wistfully at the
food.
"Say, do yer want this wuss nor dor"
asked the waif. Speak, can't yer?"
The dog gave quick bark, and the
boy threw him the rest of the loaf.
"Nuff said," he remarked, as he
watched him eat ravenously; II amt
the Teller to see pard in trouble.
And the boy went one way and the
dog he had befriended another, both the
better for the encounter.-[Detroit Free
Press
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
An Old Hoax.

Occasionally correspondent seeks in
formation concerning the 1000, 600 post
age stamp hoax. 1t is firmly believed
and forwarded to given address some
benefit will accrue to the sender. A
sublimated form of this swindle has
originated in the fertile brain of a post
age stamp collector at Stettin, Germany.
He desired to get vast collections to sort
out and sell again, and hit upon plan
to set the whole civilized world to work
for him free of charge. He preyed on
the sympathies of people by announcing
private asylum for every million stamps
sent to him. This worked well; and the
next dodge was the starting of a myth
cal mission in China, the holy sisters of
which agreed for every million stamps
sent to save from the jaws of the croco-
diles of the Yellow River at least one
Chinese baby, and then educate and
Christianize it. The stamps were to be
sent, not to Jerusalem or China, but to
Munich or Stettin. The last claim on
the sympathy of the world that has been
made by this German is, that for one
million stamps home for an old lady or
an old gentleman will be provided in
one of three homes-one in London, an
other in New York, and the third in
Cincinnati. For five hundred thousand
stamps bed will be endowed in hos
pital, and for one hundred thousand a
home will be found for an orphan for
one year. There are agencies in various
cities to forw a d stamps to Stettin. 1t
is estimated that this swindler has col
lected over one hundred million stamps
in the United States alone.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
Curious Marriage Custom

The marriage customs in some parts of
Brittany are very curious. In Cornou-
allie, for instance, the village tailor is
the important parsonage to whom the
candidate for matrimony applies for a
list of eligible girls. Having selected
one, the tailor at once proceeds to the
maiden's father, carrying a wand of
broom-which gives him the title of Baz
valan, the name of the plant. While
the family chiefs are making their az
rangements the lovers retire to the other
end of the house and discourse their own
sweet music" 1t is necessary that the
engaged pair themselves should put an
end to the term of the negotiation. They
approach, holding each other by the
hand, to the table where their respective
parents or relatives are seated, when
bread, wine, and brandy are brought in.
The young man and the maiden eat with
the same knife and drink out of the same
cup; and the day for union is then agreed
unOn
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
For and Against the Weed.

The fact that in single cigar is con-
tanned sufficient nicotine to kill two
strong men is not so terrifying when it
Is remembered that the other substances
which go to make it up have neutral
izing effect, though the school boys ex-
periences after his first pipe show the
dire results of the drug when taken in
unaccustomed doses, whether large or
small. 1t is no argument in its favor to
say that strong men, clever men-aye,
great men-have smoked and owned no
i'll effects from it. Those strong men
might have been stronger; those great
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20

men greater. 1t is not rational to argue,
as the President of the United States did
when certain officers of the Army COM
planned to him that General Grant was
an immoderate drinker of whisky, and
he replied, LET me know where Grant
gets his whisky, that l may send bar
relful to every general in the Army. A
Bismarck may smoke, but no amount OF
smoking will create a Bismarck; rather
will it, in nine cases out of ten, destroy
the embryo chancellor or statesman.
Neither are the facts that wounded sol
diers on the battle field cry out for to-
bacco, that the Indians gof for days with
out food, substituting only the stimulus
of the pipe, that lunatics are allowed to
smoke to allay the frenzy of their dis
eased brains, and that by putting at big
cigar the white man preserves himself III
tropical climates from insect pests
Though he destroys the insects, any
proof that tobacco is the health elixir
some people would have us to believe it
so be; abnormal suffering, whether of
mind or body, requires a narcotic, I'M
wonted situations demand unaccustomed
habits. The chief harm of tobacco lies
in the fact that the nicotic poison acts by
system of accumulation; its toxic in
fluences are not transtory as those of al
cohol. Moderate quantities habitually
taken result in chronic nicotism of the
system. The process somewhat re-
sembles that of tanning; it is slow, but
permanent. Cannibals are said to turn
up their noses at the nicotized flesh of
smokers Il National Review.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
Homc-Seckcrs' Excursion at Half
Rates, via the Wabash r. r.

Will be run on Tuesdays, Septem-
Der 9th and 23rd, and October 18th to
points in southeast Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska, Arkansas, Indian Terri
tory, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado,
New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho,
Montana, South and North Dakota,
Iowa and Minnesota.
Rote-one fare for round trip-tickets
good thirty days. For time of trains,
rates ETC., apply to your ticket agent
or address F. H. Tristram, Central
passenger agent, Pittsburg, Pa.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
A woMAN,s PRAISE

They sat upon the rocks beside the sea;
He still q youth, while gray had touched her
hair;
She praised him, as a woman may, who, fair.
And strong, and kind, with gentle ministry,
Knows well how great her influence may be.
IL watched your thoughtfulness and tender
OF young stranger. In my heart you bear
Tho name of gentleman, for courtesy"
Years passed, and years divided, as they s9bl
Tho boy and woman yet, from that glad
hour,
Sweet deeds Of goodness came his life to fill.
All, who shall estimate the wondrous power
OF woman's praise-her words Of good or i'll!
She sowed the seed-eternal blooms the
flower.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
To Write Well.

To write well is to think we'll there
is no art of style distinct from the cul-
ture of the mind the good writer is a
complete mind, gifted with judgment,
passion imagination, and at the same
time well-trained good training of
the mind is the only school Of good
style F.; wanting that, you have merely
rhetoric and bad taste.-E1nest Renan
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
ORIGINAL POETRY.
LINES

Dedicated to the memory of PATRICK JOSEPH
DYER, by his father, j. j. Dyer.
loved a pretty baby once,
As fair as fair could be;
But, ah! that love has misery wrought
These five long months to me.
Just like the frost in early spring
That nips the bud in bloom,
Grim Death has snatched my boy from me
Into a silent tomb
knelt beside his deathbed;
| watched his last repose,
And when in the cold embrace of Death
His eyes We're sadly closed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
The First of Hor Kind.

The first Protestant teacher to be en-
ployed by the Brazilian government is
Miss Marcia P. Browne, recently princi-
pal of the Maplewood grammar school,
in Boston. She will direct the training
of teachers in the state normal school in
that Southern republic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
victoriA's Crown.

The English crown is made up of dia-
monds, rubies, sapphires, pearls, and en-
aids, set in silver and gold bands. It
weighs 80 ounces and s pennyweights.
troy. In it there are 8, 452 diamonds, 273
pearls, rubies, II sapphires, and II en-
eralds
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
Leave En- at Home.

The battle-cry IN Pennsylvania this
year is "Elect no lawyer to the legis-
lature ~ Pennsylvania has the best
liquor law in the country. The law
members who drafted it left loophole
by which it could be beaten, and now
the majority of the people propose to
keep the lawyers out of all future legis-
lative bodies.-Detroit Free Press.
How to Destroy Il Superstition.
Place a S mark before the figure ID
and send the amount to the JOURNAL
for 81 years subscription.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20

The world is unjust in its judgments,
SO it is in its requitals. 1t speedily eff
faces the memory of the greatestservices.
and, when we can repeat them no more.
we are neglected and thrown aside.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
A woman's Reason.

Celestine-Why didn't you take that
seat that gentleman offered you?
Ernestne-BecauseI would have had
to sit next to that woman whose dress
does not harmonic with mine
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20

DR. Meredith, who is hardly less pop
ular as Brooklyn preacher than Tai.
mage, has established second reading
room for workingmen on Fulton street,
where no restriction is placed on smok.
ing cigars and pipes He says he would
not object to the church furnishing bill
lard tables and bowling alleys. 1t is
not likely that the boys would object to
it, either.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
Trunk Department.

The immense used for the display of trunks filled
with grade and style of trunk known the trade Here
you will find from the cheapest dollar trunk the best sole
leather All the visitor to this department need TODD to walk
through the long of trunks and make his selection
the price of trunk marked in plain figures way down lower
than any of wouldbe competitors dare offer them visit
to this department alone is worth journey of fifty miles.
cordial invitation is hereby extended everybody visit
great establishment, whether you want to buy not
Gentemanly statesmen will take pleasure in showing you
through Remember that examination of goods inclrs
obligation to buy
Sole AGENT for
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-20
Settling the Bill Made Difference

Slowgo-Well, doctor, how did you
find my wife? Is her condition serious
Doctor am afraid can do nothing
for her.
"Merciful heaven! Must l lose herr"
Excuse me; was about to say can
do nothing for her until you settle my
last bill. - America.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-08-20

by local applications, as they can not
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure Deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an infamed con-
dtion of the mucous lining of the Eus-
tachian Tube. When this tube gets in
famed you have a rumbing sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is entire.
ly closed Deafness is the result, and I'M
less the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to it's normal con-
dition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases out of ten are caused by ca
tarrh, which is nothing but an infamed
condition Cf the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness Caused by Ca
tarrh) that we can not cure by taking
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars
free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
90 Sold by Druggists, Is cents.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-08-20

At night he had around him lights and
sounds as of great city, while in truth
there was only unbroken lonesomeness
on every hand. He thought upon his
last end and the brevity Of life, as one
could hardly help doing amid such sur
roundings Still, he was not often
gloomy. He was full Of aspiration for
love, power, display, for all those things
that an ardent young man may desire,
and for which his desire seemed now to
stand no small chance of qualification.
'My apprehension, he related, among
other things, "has led me to take lesson
out of the book of nature, and initiate
certain animals whose safety lies in being
Of the same color as the objects around
them. 1 have easily reduced my cloth
ing to the general dusty hue Of the Bar
ranca, and thus glide about very little
distinguished from my background.
There is steam generally floating in the
air, and this is, perhaps, an efficient pro-
lection against being seen from above;
but have often fancied l saw troops of
animals and men peering down from
there"
It was vagaries Of the crags and firing
ing bushes for the most part that pro-
duced these illusions, but occasionally
he may have been right, for some of the
lonely charcoal burners who inhabited
the district may have stopped a moment
to gaze downward in passing by. How
ever, there was never any Indication
that he was seen, and no harm came to
him from this source.
He had a quick eye for natural seem
cry, and did not soon lose his interest in
the striking original effects offered him
in the Barranca. From his hut he saw
the sun rise and set like flaming bea-
con on the towering cliffs. These cliffs,
broken into a thousand fantastic or cas-
tellated shapes, were at some places
sheer uncompromising, terrible, leav-
ing no rest for the eye as it scaled their
heights in search Of Judgment. Else
where they showed basaltic columns,
some tossed at random by eccentric
force, others standing upright, and many
broken off as if for pedestals for gigantic
statuary. Small lateral canyons, too,
opened from the cliffs-curious nooks
of sharp fracture, forever hidden from
the sun.
If Walter found any beautiful thing
he laid it aside in his cabinet, hoping
some day it might delight the eyes of
Amy. He put away for her amygdaloids.
almond shaped crystals formed in air
cavities Of the lava, specimens of scoriB
and punice filled with crystalline de-
posit, and fossils that had once been I'M
der the sea. And how many bulky
mass of pudding stone he broke asunder
with his hammer to search in this prom
ising matrix for diamonds!
''Such Il laboratory affords all the con-
ditions for the formation of precious
stones" he argued. 1.-THE diamond is
only carbon, the amethyst silica and the
ruby and sapphire alumina, all crystal
ized slowly under enormous pressure.
Why should not find some of them?"
Nevertheless his efforts in this direc-
ton did not meet with success.
TO BE CONTINUED.
AA\-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-08-20
IN THE BARRANCA OF CIMARRON

Snl0U derrick.
Don Walter utilized bright night of the
tropics for his final march to the canyon.
A radiant moonlight still whitened all its
strange features when, in the small hours
of the morning, he arrived there.
He had already conveyed thither many
things that would be useful to him, and
his first care was to make something like
q permanent home in one Of the lava
huts he had used temporarily. These
were in reality q kind of rude glass, the
effect of imprisoned steam forcing its
way through the vitreous mass. They
varied in size from Il beehive to a cottage.
Many were of snow white pumice, and
they looked like tents, from his doorway.
He took up his own abode in an incon-
spicuous, mud colored one, near the
place where the treasure flowed forth,
yet not SO near as to establish any direct
connection with it. 1t needed only an
enlargement of the natural opening near
the bottom and the cutting out of q port
hOle-likc window or two, to make it hab-
liable. He spread some petates-mats Of
the maguey Theron the floor, and con-
structed rude table and shelves for his
scientific apparatus. Then. finding il
gloomy, as he lay on his camp bed, to gaze
up into the Zimmerman darkness in the top
Of the tall cone, he made an opening for
light there also, and later placed cell.
ing, which divided the hut into two sto-
ries. Then he fitted rustic gratings to
his door and windows to keep out wild
birds Or, perchance, even wild beasts at
nights
He had q natural taste for the orna-
mental, with all his masculine habits,
and when this was done he set some
plants in his window openings, so that
there was certain hardy air of comfort
about it. Just as the edelweiss is found
in Alpine SHOWS, SO he brought back
from his explorations small flowers
symbols, perhaps, of headstrong passion
that throve as close as possible to the
burning heats.
But he did not complete this work of
installing himself till he had put the sig
nal of communication with Amy upon
more stable footing.
'It had been my habit" he said in his
journal, ''to throw into the basin large
stones and pieces of stalaglnite broken
off around its own borders. These anger
it and thus cause a disturbance in some
central chamber that finally reaches to
YOU But the ebullition seemed daily to
decrease, and | feared there might be
danger of choking up the tube and put
ting an end to it altogether. So | cast
about for some less hurtful means, and
| found it by rigging up a long bearu
rested on fulcrum, and with another
short, heavily weighted beam, hung OF
like fail at one end" The sketch he
drew of this device showed it not unlike
an old fashioned well sweep of rural New
England. Il can let down this fail END
into the water and stir up more or les;
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-08-20
The Yellow Spring.
A ROMANTIC MEXICAN STORY.
BY WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP.

Copyrighted by j. P. LippincottCompany, en-
published by special arrangement with them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12

longs without question to John Hanson
Craig, of Danville, Ind Mr.. Craig, when
he first saw the light in Iowa thirty-6ve
years ago, weighed eleven pounds. He
crawled up to 206 pounds at 2 years of age,
and then took first prize of 81, 900 in Bar
NUNS baby show. Now he owns to a
weight of 907 pounds, and is still putting
on flesh. Yet, despite this apparent in
cumbrance, he danced joyfully the other
day on the safe arrival of his first born
daughter.
The mother, by the by, looks like mid
get beside her giant spouse, who is 6 feet
S inches tall. She is but little more than
feet in stature and weighs less than l3o
pounds. Strange to say, Mr.. Craig is a
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12
AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR.
The Ninth Call for IS90-Condition OF
the Order at the Present Time.

The Ninth Call for 1S90-Condition OF
the Order at the Present Time.
The ninth call for 1890 American Legion
of Honor contains 20 deaths-21 in New
York, 5 each in Texas and California. 4
each in Louisiana, Mississippi and New
Jersey, 3 each in Missouri, Ohio and
Maryland, 2 each in Arkansas, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois, Penn
sylvania and Virginia, and l each in Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island, Wisconsin,
Georgia, Alabama and Hawaiian islands.
The largest amount contributed by a de.
ceased companion was g, 4S7 %, by John {.
Stoddard. sixth degree member of Coun-
Gil 9, of Newport, r. l.; admitted to the
order March 2, 1881, at 81 years of age, died
July g. 1890. The smallest amount con-
tributed was $780, by Nellie BASKERVILLE, a
first degree member of Council l.0l2. of
New York city; admitted &c the order April
IL, 1890, at "A years OF age, died July q,
1890.
Amount received in benefit fund from
Assessments and all other sources up to
July l6, 1890, was SIG, So, 026 a; received
since on assessments Sl94, 1855: relief adj
vanced and returned to benefit fund since
last report, $519. Total. 81, O46. 694 45.
Total payments from organization to
July Is, 1890. sic. 799 l76.21; paid on 81
deaths, sl4S, 500: paid on 10 delayed claims.
$40, 200; paid for relief benefits SO. $50; bal
ance on hand Aug. 10, 1890, $50, 1884
Massachusetts had but one death on
the September call, that of Elizabeth b.
Brown, charter member of Star of the
East, Of South Boston. This council has
also lost its organizer, F. A Gilbert.