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Frostburg mining journal., 1890-06-28
BIG THINGS EUROPE HAS.
AMERICA CAN'T BOAST or BEAT
ING IN EYER YTHING.

The 61,OOOTon Ship France--Krupp's
Monster Gun Factory at Essen-A 22-
Pound Flower-Russia's Royal Ruby
Telescope Larger than the Lick.
Liverpool must be awarded the some-
what doubtful distinction of having the
biggest workhouse in the world, says
Chatter. This huge institution has
ample accommodation for ., 600 inmates,
which, happily, is scarcely ever needed
at one time.
The biggest workshop in the world is
said to be that of Herr Krupp, the fam
Gus gunmaker of Essen. The growth of
this vast establishment has been Won
derful. In 1888 it employed nine work
men; in 1S4S, seventy -four; in July,
1888, 20, 960 men were employed, and
the families of the workmen numbered
73,769 souls. OF these "a, 1913 reside in
dwellings provided by the firm.
There are at Essen 1, 1875 furnaces of
various constructions, 2S6 boilers, 80
steam-hammers of from 200 to 1000
pounds, $40 steam engines, with a total
of $4,000 horsepower, 1924 different
machines, and 361 cranes. Of coal and
5 coke 2,735 tons are used daily, and II
high furnaces of the latest construction
produce 600 tons of iron every day.
The largest sailing-ship in the world is
said to be in the possession of France.
Her name is the France. " She is vessel
with five masts, on four of which square
sail is carried. The length is 344 feet,
with beam of 40 feet. The cargo which
the France could carry is no less than
$1,000 tons. The ship is built of steel,
her masts and yards being of the same
material. She is at present trading be-
tween France and the Pacific.
The biggest ruby in the world is found
in the Gar of Russas crown, which has
the distinction of being the finest ever
worn by any sovereign. In shape it re.
sembles bishops miter, and on its crest
is cross composed of five superb dia-
monds, which support the biggest"
ruby. A folated arch, composed of
eleven magnificent diamonds, supports
this cross, and on each side of the arch
is hoop of thirty eight pearls, than
which there are none handsomer in the
world.
The biggest flower in the world was
recently ulSCOVereu ny Ii. AieAduuoI
Schadenberg. 1t was found on Mount
Parag, which is situated on one of the
southeastern Philippine islands. The
native who accompanied DIR. Schaden-
berg called the flower bolo.
The bolo, in bloom, is five petaled
flower, nearly yard in diameter-as
large as a carriage wheel. A single
flower weighed over % pounds. The
five petals of the immense flower are
oval and creamy white, and grow around
center filled with countless long violet
hued stamens
The biggest telescope in the world,
erected at Ealing, in England, has just
been made single-handed by Mr.. Com
mon, the astronomer. Its whole mass
weighs nearly twenty tons. The enor-
nous iron cylinder which forms the tube
is 20 feet long and feet in diameter, re-
sembling the ordinary boiler of station
ary engine.
Inside this is delicately distributed
some ten tons of pig iron, the whole in
strument going to form the most wonder
full machine which the planet possesses
Through Mr.. Commons telescope it will
be easy to see no fewer than $4,000, 900
stars
Frostburg mining journal., 1890-06-28
Happy Men.

The old Persians, who had many au-
thors of singular penetration, gave the
world the following proverb:
There are two men in the world who
are perfectly happy; two men whose
minds may be at rest. The first is the
wholly ignorant man, who is happy be-
cause he thinks that he knows every
thing.
"The second is the really learned man,
who is happy because he knows that
there will always be something for him
to learn"
This proverb suggests certain maxims
which were the favorites of Massachu-
setts clergyman, now dead, and which
were as follows:
When a man knows not and knows
not that he knows not, he is fool; shun
him.
When man knows not and knows that
he knows not, he is simple; teach him.
When a man knows and knows not
that he knows, he is asleep; wake him.
When man knows and knows that he
knows, he is wise; follow him.
Frostburg mining journal., 1890-06-28

are sold SO low as to enable merchants to
send them to Cuba and South America.
Very little broom corn is ordinarily sent
to Europe, the fields of southern France
and of Italy supplying the European
market.
Frostburg mining journal., 1890-06-28

1t is said another daughter of tho
Prince Of Wales is to marry outside Of
royalty.
Frostburg mining journal., 1890-06-28

In a driving storm the clouds do not
hold the rains. Exchange.
Dodge City times., 1890-10-17
Scenes in Coal ReSions,

The homes of many coal-miners in
Pennsylvania are said to be dirty, and
no larger than ordinary goat-sheds, 50
poverty-stricken are the laborers.
Most miners in Pennsylvania coal
regions are foreigners, and are pro-
nounced to be specimens of the lowest
types of humanity. Women and chill
dren are subjected to barbsrous cruelty
by those scquaintances whom they
number as friends.
The children born in the mining re-
gions either grow up to be criminals
and assassins or are killed before they
grow up by their drunken fathers and
brothers. The Pennsylvsnis laws pro-
vide fair schools for them, but their
parents are so poor that they can't send
their offspring to them.
Miners are never paid for their serv-
ices in cash. The companies they work
for own all the stores and houses, and
their employees are compelled to buy at
the prices the capitalists fix. These
estimates are usually extortionate. The
food furnished is the poorest, but the
poor miners are unable to remove to
another place, rs the checks in which
they are paid are good only at their
employers stores.
Dodge City times., 1890-10-17
Such ID Fame!

There are still few Of the settlers
at Florida, Monroe county, Mo-, who
were there when Mark Twain was boy
going to . small country school at that
place. Florida is q wee backwoods
settlement with nothing to recommend
IL but the humorist it turned out and
the great catfish that are caught there
in Salt River. Some of the old timers
remember the lsnk, good-fcT-nothing
Sam Clemens, who used to fsh day in
and day out the summer through, and
spend the winter telling stories at ths
grocery. There is one old fellow there
at least, however, to whom the fame Of
Americas greatest humorist has never
come. A stranger was stopping at
Florida recently and the old man was
point ted out to him as one of the pio7
neers.
sWhere was Mark Twain born2" he
asked the old fellow, after chatting
with him awhile.
Mark Twain ?" he queried, in aston
ishment, who's he?"
"Why, the kumorist," " explained the
gentlemen. amused at the density of
the old fellows ignorance.
~Youmerist, eh? Never heerd O. him
an I guess ef he'd ever lived nigh here
I'd knowd It.
His name was Samuel Clemens;
don't you remember him ?"
The old fellow scratched his head
thoughtfully, and in moment his mem
ory helped him out.
"Sam Clemens" he said: "Oh, yes,
I remember Sam. He left here young
though, an everybody said that he was
the good-fer-nothinest boy they ever
seed. Sam was . slong-spiadle-shanked
Teller, an I never seed him do lick q
work in al his days. But. ez I said,
he left here young, an I never heerd
what become O him. Penitentery
mos prob1y."
Dodge City times., 1890-10-17
A Word Of Praise for the Much -Malignod
Cucumbors.


Cucumbers.
The soporific quality of the cucum-
Der is not appreciated because it is not
understood, says the New York Trtb-
l7ae. The cucumber is much maigned.
No relish is more mistrusted, none pro-
duces so alarming an effect upon the
imagination. The cucumber in COM
'bination with milk is commonly re-
garded as sure death, yet the cucumbers
personal record is an honorable one. The
writer, who has been characterized -
% cucumber "fiend, believes there does
mot exist sufficient evidence to convict
the most dimutive cucumber that ever
grew On q vine of the undoingo or doing
up of any person in good or Ill health.
II you cannot sleep these hot nights,
try Q cucumber. II insomnia il the
malady that wrinkles the little pouch
under your eye, try cucumber. Have
It sliced thin and put on ioe, spply .
pinch of salt, some black pepper. and
. drop or two of vinegar. Let the
process of deglutition begin half an
hour before your usual bedtime, and
keep it up till the lights are out. A
glass of lemonade and Q cut Of cold
chicken go well with it. Sleep comes
with An overpowering rush, and claims
you before you recognize its presence.
II you cannot rest otter such . supper
It is the cold chicken, or the lemonade,
or bad conscience. II you sleep the
Gleep Of . Just man made perfect II q
the cucumber.
Dodge City times., 1890-10-17
Natural Scent Of Flowers,

The modest looking mignonette
flower, IS is we'll known, is one of the
most delciously fragrant, with a fra
GRANGE of that class that is not over
powering, and that few can be found
to object to. The same is true of the
sweet briar, lemon-verbena and its
class. With the old white lily, lily of
the valley, and Cape jasmine this is
not so. Too much of either of these
easily becomes nausesting, and in
some cases causes sickness, but the
former class probably rarely. It may
not be known Of the three former that
the fragrance is So persistent and con-
tinuous that sprig plucked and put
in the pocket with q handkerchief, or
among the clothes. like the lavender of
our grandmother days, will leave .
pleasant fragrance behind for several
days. The next time you pass bed
of mignonette try it, Pluck half .
dozen heads and put in the pocket b.
low the handkerchief, and, our word
for 1.-THE delightful scent will bs there
for some time.
Dodge City times., 1890-10-17
We DOOR men strive in vain, sometimes,

we poor men strive in vain, sometimes,
to understand.
why do you exact this promise from
mef" asked. gently, and stood still. We
had reached the lodge gates, as I saw by
the faint glimmer of the lamps sbove
them. Am to believe that at last you
care whether I am happy or miserable?'
Believe what you like; but wait.
And with her hand on mine, standing
out there in the fog and darkness Of that
cold November night, promised what
she asked-that I would do nothing
rashly, that would take time to consider
things. and wait. Her face could not see,
but her hand trembled, and know she
was strangely moved. We separated
within the gates. There was . sob in
her voice as she said goodnight.
1 walked very slowly up the svenue
should she concern herself in my Affairs?
Was it possible she knew anything
against-No. no! That was entirely
out of the question to be thought of.
George Hargreave was all the world to
me-my love, my ideal, my inc6mparable
queen! I almost wished this encounter
with Edna had not taken place.
1t revived past which Was best-far
best-forgotten. Even now, when I
believed the old love not only dead but
supplanted, the mere sound OF her voice,
the touch of her hand, her apparently
newly awakened interest in my welfare,
brought back host of old memories, Of
tender recollections, that
But pshaw! Why waste time to write OF
them? They all vanished like mists be-
fore the sun when saw Georgie-when
she came forward to meet me in the
splendor Of her magnificent beauty.
We were alone. l took her in my arms,
and, giving myself over to the force Of .
passion that overwhelmed every other
feeling, swore to her loved her rs
never woman had been loved.
Some days went by. One evening on
my return from town George inquired
archly, You must be growing tired Of be-
ing my lover. How much longer do you
think you can play the part-s week3'
Till I become your husband, too.
George. am afraid. however, that will
scarcely be-in week, I answered, with
a sigh.
Il am not so sure of that. she said,
with playful mock occurrences. But
here comes mother. I will leave you
for few minutes together while she ex-
plains"
George disappeared beneath the por.
tiere as her mother entered.
ITO BE CONTINUED
Dodge City times., 1890-10-17
Moro Advice 70 Smokers.

s:Lots Of advice has been given to
smokers. but I'll tell you something
which has never been written up and
ought to be known"
This was told . reporter in the
Grand Pacific last evening by one Of
the biggest tobacco dealers in New
York.
Come into the cigar store" he went
on" land you will notice that two out
of three men will cough while lighting
cigars"
The first person who set fire to .
cigar coughed quite violently.
s.Didn't I tell youe" exclaimed the
lecturer. Two out Of three will do
that"
Its caused by the smoke"
"Never. When you are about to
smoke cut of the mouth end of the
cigar, put the smoke end in the mouth,
and then blow. This expels all the
fine particles of tobacco and dust inside
the cigar. When you have done this
reverse the torch and you won't
cough when lighting it. Those little
bits of tobacco get down your throat.
and are injurious. More people have
been injured by swallowing these little
specks than you have any idea of, yet
they think they were hurt by inhaling
De smoke. e."-Chicag0 Tribune.
Dodge City times., 1890-10-17

Thieves Migrated to Canada in Colonial
Times.
The migration of thieves and swim
dlers to Canada is by no means . new
thing nor yet Yankee idea. The
credit for starting the exodus belongs
to the New-Yorkers of colonial days,
and is an English suggestion, you
know. The New York Gazette for
September 9, 1851, says editorially
that it has received advices from Hall
fax, in Nova Scotia, that @there is such
> number of New-Yorkers got to that
place as will nearly fill one Of the
largest streets in the town. These
gentlemen had agreed to enter
into q trust under the name of the
Free New York Fishery Company Of
Nova Scotia" The gist of the an
nouncement lies in the very candid
postscript, that "all that shall here
after come here from New York, pro-
vided they come as one of King Da-
vid's soldiers (see I. Sam. xii. p,
shall be permitted to join them"
Reference to the Bible shows that
the verse speaks of David's fight to
the cave of Adullam, where he gath
cred under his banner everyone that
was distressed and everyone that was
in debt and everyone that was discon-
tented"-a precious set of soreheads
and pirates. The boodlers, default
ers, and embezzlers of New York
seem to have been as welcome guests
in Halifax in 1851 as in the present
year of grace.
Dodge City times., 1890-10-17

spot than lovely Monterey and Topo
Chico, and the day is not far distant
when it will be the recognized health
and pleasure resort of America.
Monterey is beyond comparison the
queen city of North Mexico. Two
thousand feet above the level Of the
sea. it nestles like a flower garden ct
the base of the towering Sierra Mad
res, in o valley as lovely as the Vale of
Cashmere-richi in verdure and opulent
in its wealth of tropical fruits, grapes,
oranges, lemons, bananas, figs, pome-
granstes, mangoes and score of others
unknown to our more northern climate.
The graceful palm tree, straight -
the lines of Lavater, lifts its shapely
head into the blne skies, and the oleati-
der mingles its soft beauty with the
delicate fragrance of the Cape jasmine
until one almost feels that he Is in the
portals of the garden of Hesperides.
Monterey contains a population Of
$4,000, is compactly built, has we'll
equipped railroads running north,
south, east and west, commodious
opera house, two cotton factories, ono
woolen factory, three hat factories,
candle, match, starch and soap facto-
ries, three admirably equipped street
car lines extending about sixteen
miles, numerous excellent hotels, sew
eral Touring mills, door. sash and
funiture factories, electric light plant,
sugar refinery, distillery, brewery and
ice factories, foundry and machine
shops, knitting works, two large smelt-
ing works of 500 tons daily capacity
now being erected, with still another
in prospect, which will make of Mon
terey the smelling center of all
North Mexico, and will draw
Of several rich States. Nearly
all Of this has been accomplished
within the past few months, during
which brief period I am told that
more than SO, 600, 900 has been invested
in Monterey. More than 1000 new
rooms have been added to the city in
the same period, Gov. Reyes, military
commandant, having signed q decree
having the sanctity of the law that all
buildings erected in Monterey at .
cost exceeding $1,000 shall be exempt
from taxation for a period of five
years.
The city has one of the strongest
banks in the republic, that of Don
Patricio Milmo, grand old csthedra1s,
beautiful plazas with fountains and
delightful alamedas, and a splendid
new club house on the charming plaza
of Zaragosa, with ballroom on the
second floor, which, for size, ventils-
ton, beauty of design and Oriental
magnifcence of decoration, has no su-
perior, so far as 1 have seen, either on
this continent or in Europe; and last
but not least, the best medicinal sui
phur and hot baths on the whole Amer
lean continent, if not in the world.
GEO. F. AFFORD.
Dodge City times., 1890-10-17
ANOTHER NEW STORY OF LINCOLN.
He Played Ball the Day Before He Was
Nominated.

One among many memories Of
prominent public characters stored
away by Mr.. Edward w. Cox of the
Dennison House is q recollection of
having played hand-ball at Springfield.
ILL.,, with Abraham Lincoln the day be-
fore the latter was nominated for tho
Presidency.
Before the nomination of Mr.. Lin
coin. Mr.. Cox was travelling in the
West for an oil house. During his
travels he for several days used trains
which were full of people bound for
the Chicago convention. Mr.. Cox and
. fellow drummer, who was out for q
GAINESVILLE ink house, polled all the
travellers they could reach and found
the utmost enthusiasm for the Illinois
lawyer.
Thoroughly convinced that Lincoln
drummers took q run down to Spring.
field to see the coming man. They
found no excitement there. and on ask
ing to see Mr.. Lincoln were told ho|
could be found the next day, which was,
the one before the couvention. down at
the ball park playing hand-ball, q game
of which Mr.. Lincoln was passionately
fond. Next day they visited the park
and there they found the man of destiny
busily engaged in batting a ball against
. blank brick wall and endeavering to-
strike 1t in such . way that it would re-
bound out Of reach of his opponent.
There was quite . crowd sitting about
watching the game.
Mr.. Lincoln weFe. among other gar.
ments. q long-tailed, black coat and an
old felt hat. which tended to magnify
his tall, ungainly form and prominent
features and he looked quantity pictur-
ssque as he danced about. now hitting
the sphere . hard blow and again
"babying it'' % easily that it barely
reached his antagonists. When Mr..
Lincoln sat down On the players bench,
having finished q triumphant turn, Mr..
Cox was introduced to him. Mr.. Lin
coin received him cordially, asked if he
ever played tho game, eommiserated
with him when Mr.. Cox said he didn't
understand it and offered to teach him.
Mr.. Cox. however. was thinking of the
convention and said:
Dodge City times., 1890-10-17
Heavy Hair and Hard Cheek.

Opie P. Read, the editor of the Ar-
kdnsa,D Trdueler, is big man with .
tremendously heavy head Of long, black,
unkempt hair. One day he was pass
ing the Office of q well-known hair re-
stOrative establishment on State street,
Chicago. His partner, Mr.. Benham,
was with him and said:
"We ought to get an advertisement
out of this establishment"
Opie looked in and saw . family OF
country people inside.
"I'll get it for you right now," said
he, and in he walked.
The countryman had Just taken off
his hat and was showing the manager
how bald he was and asking if he
thought the hair would ever grow again
on his head. Opie walked up to the
manager, and putting out his hand,
warmly said:
"My dear sir, have come q long way
to thank you In person and to show
you what your restorative has done for
me-"
Here he took off his old black slouch
hat and shook out his long and wonder
fully thick, fine hair.
"There, sir" said he gratefully,
"look at that. Four months ago, you
remember, was as bald as that cleo
trio lamp up there"
what did you do for it ?" put in the
interested countryman.
used this restorer-four dozen bot
ties of it-according to directions"
The upshot of it was the countryman
took two dozen bottles and went his
way.
"There, " said Opie to his partner,
"now you talk business with this man,
and I guess you'll get q pretty good ad
vertisement out of him."
When the manager learned who Opie
was he said:
"You can put me down for the big
gest ad in your paper and send in your
bill when you please. -Washiugton
Post.
Dodge City times., 1890-10-17
LINooLNs MELANCHOLY.


Nns oynpatAstio Nature ana Ab 1axiy
llisfortunoe.
Those who sawm much Of Abraham Lincoln
during the later years Of his life, were great
ly impressed with the expression Of pro.
found melancholy his face always wore 10
tepose
Mr.. Lincoln waso Of speculiarly sympathet-;
fc and kindly nature. These strong characi
teristics influenced, very happily, as IL
proved, his entire political career. They
would not seem, at first glance, to be END
cient aids to political success; but in tho
peculiar emergency which Lincoln, in the
providence Of God, was called to meet no
vessel Of common clay could possibly hsvo
become the schosen Of the Lord
Those acquainted with him from boyhood
knew that early griefs tinged his whole
life with sadness. His partner In the
grocery business at Salem, was 'sUncle''
Billy Green, Of Tallula, NJ, who used at
night, when the customers were few, to
hold the grammar while Lincoln recited his
lessons.
1t was to his sympathetic ear Lincoln told
the story of his love for sweet Ann Rut-
ledge; and he, in return, offered what COM
fort he could when poor Ann died, and Lin.
coins great heart nearly broke.
after Ann died." says ''Uncle'' Billy,
ION stormy nights, when the wind blew the
rain against the roof, Abe would set thar in
the grocery, his elbows on his knees, his
face in his hands, and the tears runnin'
through his fingers. lhated to see him feel
bad, an I'd say, Abe don't cry;' an he'd
look up an say I can't help it, Bill, the
rains q fallin' on her,"
There are many who can sympathize with
this overpowering grief, As they think Of q
lost loved one, when ''the rains fallin' on
her." What adds poignancy to the grief
some times is the thought that the lost one
might have been saved.
Fortunate, indeed, Is William johnson, OF
Corona, L. l., builder, who writes June q,
1890: LAST February, ON returning from
church one night, my daughter complained
Of having Q pain in her ankle The pain
gradually extended until her entire limb
was swollen and very painful to the touch.
We called physician, who after careful ex-
animation, pronounced it disease of the kid
neys Of long standing. All we could do. did
not seem to benefit her until we tried War
ner's Safe Cure; from the first she COM
menced to improve. When she commenced
taking it she could not turn over in bed,
and could just move her hands little, but
to-day she is as well as she ever was Ibe-
lieve owe the recovery Of my daughter to
its usa"
Dodge City times., 1890-10-17

A woman who appeared to be sn sz-
curzionist WAS walking mp and down
Woodward avenue yesterday With .
mans hat in one hand and largo eaH-
skin wallet in the other, and IN o1ess
finally approached her and aaked:
Madam, are You looking iae a.y
one?"
@Oh, no" she replied, Il know right
where he is.
Are you in any troublef
~No, sir. Inever allow anything -
%rouble me-"
+. "But you-you-
Its just this way, Gr. Ne and NJ
husband came in on the eGe1zkDl.
After We got here he began 70 ~
and cut up, and I proceeded - nip LIN
IN tie bod. Hes over thsre q =
City Han steps, bsrshesdsd sna vith-
out Q cent, While I hold The ksy q -
poGitioo. Detroit Free hses.